1. For those companies receiving taxpayer money, layoffs must be voluntary, not compulsory, as is already the case for many white-collar employees.

Companies can simply do a soft layoff by making working conditions worse (e.g. declaring a work-in-office mandate when working-from-home has been the norm)

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Yeah, I get you.

In my case, I just pointed out (politely, I hope) that they were the one who called me, and not the other way round.

And thankfully, they left it at that.

Help why is my password showing up as asterisks?

Cool; just like how human hunters would imitate mating calls / cries

Honestly, I thought the picture is showing that humans are apes, given that we share a common ape ancestor. (And if we go further back, we are all primates, mammals, animals, etc)

Thanks for pointing out the obvious on my behalf.

Any costume that a human wear is an ape costume.

So, fight club but on the internet.

Any context?

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Since we are on the topic of funny stuff in code, here’s one encounter I had earlier:

default variables to null or something

That is such a bad idea. Better to have the compiler warn you about it like in Rust, or have the linter / IDE highlight it.

Yeah, TIL too.

I just searched for an image of “pouring water on computer”.

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Why would he need to do so? We all know he lives at The White House.