I'd like to say something.

But now that they are rounding people up, and Hacker News can be scraped and User Id's crosschecked with AI surveillance to dox.

I'm actually fearful, the war on free speech is working.

not 'just'.

but someone being jailed for having a 'zine', is really a new level. nobody is safe.

Pretty spot on. Nice summary.

I really hope this thread is wrong.

In 5 years, the Junior pipeline will be completely dry.

Seniors will be retiring.

Companies will be floundering.

We'll see a great correction where we need workers again.

Programmers/SE/etc... will be needed again. Always were needed, but at least managers will realize it again.

The companies seem to truly believe they will just have a handful of devs at that point manning large pools of AI agents. I doubt it though!

Everyone says Adapt.

Like, go be a farmer, Adapt? Reinvent yourself as a performance artist? Because, learn Java in 21 days, is kind of gone.

Not sure the technology is the issue here. He isn't debating using Java v C#, and one is a betrayal of all that is holy, so he refuses to use it.

I think everyone kind of feels that AI is sucking up all the content that we have all created collectively, and we all know that the bell is tolling for thee, no matter how much you adapt. So if you see friends being fed into a meat grinder, you can have a 'culture war' take on it. He's posting on line to vent, something everyone is venting about.

Of course, for a job, to get a paycheck, we'd use any technology, even if we are the ones running the meat grinder.

You aren't wrong.

But it is a sad state of affairs if you have to self-suppress you're freedoms to work. That is how freedom dies isn't it? Everyone fearful to speak or lose a job.

"Just shut up and code, have to get those gas chambers up and running themselves, so we can stick the rest of you lot into them."

You don’t have to at all. They are actually wrong, you can express yourself, share your pronouns, and find a job

> I guess even an off hand example, now must be completely 100% technically correct , or you aren't worth a job?

It's a litmus test, and not a terribly challenging one. It's solved by spending a week doing simple coding challenges.

Just use python for all practical programming problems. Lists, sets, and dicts are all you need for most leetcode problems; dynamic typing is convenient; there's good ergonomics for http and other random utility tasks; and pretty much every company is cool with python in an interview. You'll probably only see language trivia questions for languages you claim a specialty in (there's a huge market for C++ specialists, for instance).

Leetcode/hackerrank problems aren't that high variance, dedicate a weekend studying and you should be good.

"Bedrock is basically an extension of Minecraft Pocket Edition "

This seems crazy. When MS bought Mojang, why didn't they start with the console port for Bedrock? Even if some other contractor, it would be a starting point better than the phone version?

because the legacy console ports where very tied to the platforms they ran on

This isn't really true, the code works like most cross platform codebases where most of the code is common and then there's a bunch of platform-specific backends that handle graphics, sound, input, etc. They used the same gameplay code for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation Vita, Xbox One, Playstation 4, Wii U, and Switch, so clearly there's not really much keeping it stuck to a single platform. A recent leak of the legacy console source code revealed that they also had an internal Windows port to make development easier, although you still need a controller to play.

Ah, okay. I didn't know that

As for the internal windows port, that's how most console development is done nowadays. Gamefreak (the pokemon people) does build of their games for PC which is neat considering how different the switch is compared to the differences between playstation/xbox and pc (those are just amd cpus and gpus on the inside, whereas the switch uses some nvidia soc)

It's like the old saying "only 10% of my marketing budget is making a difference, I just don't know which 10%"

You don't know ahead of time, where the breakthrough will come from.

There is ton of research that sits on the shelf, and then years later, it gets re-combined with some other useless research, and boom, some big breakthrough.

This current attitude of all research is worthless, so it should be cancelled, is shooting our future selves in the face.

Is power consumption really the issue. Or just more consistent flavor?

For industrial production, power use.

For home use I'm much more interested in being able to add it to cold drinks and desserts.