The only use case I have ever used Wordpad for was to open text files with Linux End-of-Lines on a Windows computer with only Wordpad and Notepad (that do not see LF as proper and of lines and just displays one line of mess).
> AI isn't a bubble [because] AI will deliver just like the internet.
And everyone knows there was no internet bubble. No period of proliferation of available venture capital, rapid growth of valuations followed by all gains being lost.
By Japanese standards, having a boyfriend can be considered a scandal for a spokeswoman* if your fan base is infatuated with her and the realization she has a life alienates them.
In this case, a fictional photorealistic woman is a good alternative: she can maintain a "perfect" physical appearance, never change and never have a life.
* Or idol, or weather woman (look for Hiyama Saya).
I had forgotten about CruiseControl. Long ago, I had a gig for an avionics developer in a team whose technical lead had gotten deep into agile and had mostly sane practices (sources control, build scripts and automated tests were not a given back them).
Still, we had a colleague that was often a bit to quick to commit broken builds or failed tests to the trunk. One day, I stumbled upon this program - CruiseControl - designed to automate build and test tasks. I had no notion that continuous integration was a thing.
As a practical joke, I setup a VM, installed Cruise Control, gave access to our subversion server and created some jobs using existing Ant tasks, just to email blast the team when a broken build was committed.
It got positive results way beyond the initial intent (mainly by eliminating "build worked on my machine"). Two years later, all SW projects of the company had been moved to Hudson.
In France a non-compete clause is only valid if it is bounded in time, geographically, for a specific type of job and with financial compensation while it is enforced (not necessarily full pay but has to be proportionate to the constraint).
As an engineer, I have seen a lot of contracts with bogus non-compete clauses and never seen one that would hold in court. So the employees are technically protected but still subject to psychological warfare (threats when you plan to ignore an illegal clause).