The trend we see in programming is the same trend we see in many sectors. There is a spectrum of skills, and unfortunately, we only talk about the bad programmers and not the good ones.

The reality is that your company probably don’t pay for top skills, so they get what they pay for. The pool of worker is spread thin, so the only thing left is the bad programmer.

So diploma mills churn out a maximum of workers to cash in on the situation.

I am not in the US, so I cannot compare, but people here that go to college equivalent explicitly learn to code.

When people go into computer science at University, they are decent coders and can do a lot of things out of school.

Scientists write code that works for them, so that’s fine if the code isn’t optimized.

When your software is your product, then it needs to be much more optimized.

The main issue is that not a lot of companies want and do take the time to train less experienced devs. Every company is expecting new hires to be trained already.

So many new devs need to scrape by with whatever means they have. And it is true is a lot of industries.

I haven’t played for almost two years. Are they making more PvE friendly?

They have one of the biggest franchise in the world and they still produce the same uninspiring game time after time.

You have all these crazy pokemons, and all these adventures in the anime, and yet the games are bland.

Unless you are at the edge of the firmware and software, this isn’t something you work with a lot.

When you transfer files or data to a memory space, you can’t drop the whole file/data to memory directly because the resources are limited on the cpu/mcu. It wouldn’t make sense to have a page as big as your biggest theorical data size.

Page size determine how much data at a time can be transferred into memory.

In term of performance, writing the page to memory is usually the bottle neck. So 4k vs 64k means you need to write to memory 16 times more and thus making the performance better on 64k page size.

Console should stop running a proprietary OS that needs a special SDK to develop on.

Take the Steam route : use Linux with their flavor on it. Makes life easier for devs, more games can run on your console and we get (hopefully) better optimized games

I haven’t played DF, but I imagine it’s a bit like Rim World where your citizen gain traits, develop relationships with other citizens and have varied skills.

It doesn’t have to be deep. Palworld has a pretty basic system where Pals can have traits, they have skills and they move around the encampment somewhat organically. It isn’t complex, but at least it feels like my choices makes my camp different and I want to find the Pal that has the skills I require with good traits.

People build crazy things in Minecraft, but no matter what you do, buildings feel empty.

Dogfights in VR Elite Dangerous is probably my best VR experience. It was just so fun even if the fights themselves weren’t that deep.

I just want a sandbox with meaningful town NPCs, not just a placeholder for a menu.

Most of the time, even high end computers don’t cut it because the optimization is dog shit.

Dependant is not the same thing as addicted.

Do you feel an uncontrollable urge to look at your phone, even when you do something else or when it isn’t appropriate? That would be addiction.

This is why I prefaced my comment with the old man bit. There is a lot of exaggeration in my comment.

My experiences has been that meat substitutes marketed as such are usually chuck full of spices, ultra-processed and just taste bad on their own. 95% of the recipes I make with meat, I often replace with a vegan alternative protein.

I do think that vegan brands try to appeal to a lot of meat eater and lean hard on the green/healthy marketing, but it has been played out and abused by marketing and doesn’t mean much anymore. Just market the products on their own merits.

There is so much good vegan food out there, but it’s often branded as the X alternative. IMO, it hurts the product because it pidgeon hole it in that comparison.

But your points are entirely valid, and my point are really just an uneducated opinion without backing data. I just know that I avoid vegan products marketed as meat alternative to X because they taste terrible 99% of the time.

Someone will come along and say “You fuck dudes?”. To which I respond : Yes. I fuck my dude.

My old man yelling at cloud rant :

1. i hate vegan products that try to position themselves as the vegan replacement to a non vegan product. They have their own qualities, and it hurts the product that it is compared to the meat alternative. If someone wants to eat chicken, no amount of marketing and spices will make it taste like chicken and will always be inferior to their meat counterparts for the meat eater.

2. Vegan recipes on internet are 95% terrible. They try to put 100 flavors in one meal. Take whatever recipe your normally eat with meat and simply replace the protein for a vegan protein of your choice (pvt, tofu, bean curds, etc). Grill your tofu to your heart content, make that bean curd extra delicious by dunking it in soy sauce and eat with vegetables and rice or make a simple rice and bean with a side of fresh avocado.

3. There are so many good vegan products with fucking terrible marketing. Meat eaters will not change their habits because you green wash your marketing. Go balls to the wall with that shit.

I kinda disagree with you. Why would it be different from now? We know that people will die.

I’ve had good friends pass away at different times, and it hurts but eventually, I move on.

My only exception, with the knowledge I have today, is that I wouldn’t have any kids. That attachment is straight up reptilian brain and that would be way too hard. Otherwise, it would be okay.

It’s like recreating the vacuum of space with words.

PR talk needs to die a fiery death.

Even though Facebook is a terrible inhumane corporation, they have the best product because it is lightweight, can be used without any base station and can be used without a pc-link.

The fact that a VR set requires at minimum a 5x5 feets space with a computer within the vicinity is definitely hurting the VR market.

So I just hope that we get something akin to the Quest but without the evil corporation bit.

When I played Elite Dangerous with a VR headset, man was it magical. But I won’t dedicate a small room and a PC just for that experience.

You got some serious reading comprehension issues. I am talking about you.