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I decided to finally do my masters in biotech after a decade in data engineering got me to have some savings, mostly because I did want to do one eventually.

Man, these kids don't know what's waiting for them. None of the companies in biotech are hiring, as in their career pages are empty. LinkedIn, Indeed and the usual suspects only throw up listings which are obviously just staffing orgs fishing for data to sell. I feel there is a similar break in the industry with the pandemic, nobody is hiring people just graduating, the barest minimum is 5-6 years of experience.

I'm seeing some of the best minds in Europe here, doing something that is both hard and useful science, I mean we just had a worldwide pandemic and this masters should be extremely relevant for that, and apparently the system will not let them work in their field.

Only way out is academics, on barely-decent, you-will-never-have-a-house-much-less-a-family wages. If they can get in to the limited number of exceptionally "well" paying PhD slots, for 40-45k gross. They may earn as much as me doing random bullshit internal tooling two years ago for a bank that went bankrupt since if they can get tenure as a full prof at a good uni in like 30 years of hard work.

This is bullshit.

"suka" is "bitch", "blyat" is "fuck"

I couldn't be assed to write cyrillic, but Russian is an interesting language, and so is the culture. Too bad the country is led by a bunch of psychopathic monkeys.

There is Paks II, a second reactor to the aging Paks complex in Hungary. It was built by the Russians, and predictably it's a mess of budget overruns, rife with corruption, and with the war it seems that the govt will have to still pay the Russians despite them not being able to deliver, since the contract was so intensely in Russia's favour most likely. Nobody really knows, since the contract itself is classified until at least around 2046.

I guess the truth got filtered out with the "pro-empire" propaganda

Judging by videos of Russian officers online, your translation is missing like ten instances of "suka" and "blyat"

Not surprising, since WP is owned by Bezos, who is at the forefront of the new US nazi movement.

Some random CEO got caught in an affair at a Coldplay concert on a kiss cam.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/astronomer-ceo-andy-byrons-affair-at-coldplay-concert

Software engineers, at least in my experience, tend to do things right as much as they can, and then quit when their work gets sabotaged, but they get rehired elsewhere because there are still jobs available, and that's how they become "job hoppers".

I worked in IT for a hospital subcontractor, and I got my team of engineers to cut down time for the main thing we did from a 4 day turnover to one where it could be done in 20 minutes, with much fewer problems and errors as well.

My team got laid off immediately after this, and our new systems canned, as the new CTO would rather outsource the existing error-prone 4 day process to India as he could take credit for that.

What I'm saying is that most of my peers feel our responsibility and try to act on it, but those of my peers that don't tend to have longer tenures and less stressful lives.

it’s how we end up here and now where no one can ever be held accountable for anything.

That's not true. If you want to know what's wrong with most of the products you buy, most of the services you use, most of the economy in general, it's Wall Street and the stock market. That is all there is to it.

I installed e/OS when Google made the button to turn my phone off give me an AI prompt.

As a Western engineer, it's not engineering, it's management culture you have a problem with. Most engineers I meet want to make their product the best they can, but management actively cracks down on and sabotages these efforts for various reasons, none of them having to do with engineers.

They think that making something worse always takes less time and effort, so if you made something that is more than the bare minimum, they think you've wasted their budget.

Also, they don't care about making a good product, they care about their careers, so if someone else had a good idea, they are incentivised to sabotage it because it either draws time and attention away from the things that would get them promoted. If you think that your new thing could make their work easier as well, and your interests are aligned, see my previous point.

Finally, with customer-facing products, there is also the fact that your better solution might make some bullshit monetisation strategy obsolete.

We're alienated as fuck from our work, don't point at us mate.

Did they ask Putin and Kim Jong Un as well?

Oh, I need to turn on sound then