Hackers was also released exactly 30 years ago... HACK THE PLANET!!!

WATER IS WET!!! :-O

Although I try to consume as much water as possible and am a Ginger Beer addict as well, the bars I frequent are making their money off me in THC beverages and in that they are making a TON.

Prices vary a lot around here but for a can of a particular drink I like that can be purchased in any head shop for $7, I will be charged anywhere from $10-$15 for that can in a bar (and those numbers are absolutely higher in other major cities.. Minneapolis is nowhere near the upper echelon in bar pricing..)

Frankly I'll walk in with my own bottle of water and never get any flac (unless it's a big music venue or TSA that checks hard for such things) but will support the bar / by proxy the bands I'm there to see by buying their overpriced Weed Pop.

Similar... Since I've had 32GB in all of my *Laptops since 2012 why has it taken so long for gamers who typically build far more capable systems to catch up? Or is system memory just not a priority vs. VRAM?

"Japan Sets New Internet Speed Record, Surpassing Max Internet Trunk Speeds By 100 Times"

SMH

Not exactly on team litigious but why is this even a stretch? A bajillion websites worldwide had to spend a collective Billions to add notice/opt-out widgets to their websites years ago because that site was accessible in the EU. They're not alone (<cough>China</cough>) but, for better or worse, we've been in the internet world of "You do business here so you have to follow my laws" for a LONG time..

I, for one, welcome our new AI Coding overlords...

The vast majority of my career has been (cleaning up the mess)... I don't see a difference.

At some point I started calling "Green Field Development" as "Debugging a Blank Page" just sayin...

I wish the UK better luck in their battles but these are the same practices TB has been employing for years on every onsale and the best the US has attained so far is a lot of congressional tongue wagging and a BS class-action where the only people who got real remuneration were the lawyers.

"IT" and "coding" are already trades and we have a number of Technical Colleges that will teach you just that.
"Software Engineering" if done right is college-style. That's not to say these things couldn't be learned in a good Tech School or boot camp or on your own, etc but it's the philosophical difference between the typical styles of the institutions. Here's how I typically describe them:

A trade school focuses on the "What and How"..
A college/uni focuses on the "Why" and in-general how to learn.

I don't care what languages a school taught you. I've taught myself dozens over the course of my career. I need you know how to learn one and to understand why there are dozens of languages so you can choose the right one for the job at hand.
I definitely don't care what frameworks you've been taught to code with. There's going to be a new one out tomorrow anyway. I need you to understand what they are doing for you and why so you will be able to wield them appropriately and be able to handle their shortcomings.
Hopefully they taught you a collection of algorithms and data structures (*hopefully) but I don't necessarily care which ones you've learned.. I need to know you have the ability to evaluate their tradeoffs so you can wield them appropriately (or heaven forbid synthesize new ones for yourself!)
You found the answer to "How do I _____?" on Google/StackOverflow/AI/etc.. great! We ALL do that. But, do you have the ability to understand the answer that was fed to you enough to *know it's the answer you need and be able to cleanly integrate it into the existing code base?
You were taught a bunch of "stuff". That's great.. it'll be obsolete before you land your second job if not your first. I need you to be able to learn the next thing and the next and the next and the next because they just keep coming. That includes learning the systems/software created by others that you now need to support. That includes learning more about an ecosystem than those that created it because they screwed up (or the environment changed) and you need to figure out how to make it better, bigger, faster, etc.

There are self-taught engineers who are amazing. There are university-trained engineers who are a waste of space. That being said, on average, I tend to get more maintainable and far more performant code as well as better self-sufficiency out of a university educated engineer than from any other pipeline. YMMV

Where are any software engineers getting paid $12/hr? (At least inside the US?)

Where I live in the Midwest (far from a super high cost of living part of the country) the *average starting salary for a Software Engineer is > $100K. The low is in the mid $60sk range which is still >$30/hr.. ??

We have some overseas offices that can hire roughly 1/3 US rates but not domestically.

So much this... I don't go around randomly (or vengefully as some do) reporting content.. it's all blatant scams or fraud or bots and absolutely 0% of the time are any of the posts removed. Heck I'm in the beta testing group and I've reported as bugs either over-matching or easy-to-detect patterns they could add to the algo to prevent a lot of nefarious activity going on and... surprise: nothing.

Meanwhile: This article. AYFKM??? They can't seem to detect a single truly bad actor in their space but the most benign of content is getting flagged as problematic. People are getting suspended or booted for literally innocuous statements while the most vile of content goes without a scratch.. If I was this bad at my job I would have been fired long ago but.. I guess as I recall Meta went the other route and laid off all of the good engineers.

Pretty much all this but to add some corollary:

Moore's Law: Frequently misinterpreted to imply "computers get twice as fast every 2 years" when that's not the case.Those doubled transistors are benefiting us now with more cores, additional functional modules, more memory, etc instead of meaningfully increasing our individual CPU speed BUT that takes *work to redesign how we create software to make use of that additional hardware instead of "My thing runs fast now because its on faster hardware".

I think the authors of this article are basically making the same mistake in the gaming space. They got those fireworks for free just because the hardware was improving. Not saying they didn't have to update the code but there was a lot of the same "laziness" so-to-speak of relying on the improved hardware to do the heavy lifting in ways that didn't require massive evolution in the games themselves.

Not trying to denigrate the whole industry but the author of this article and probably the big studio people behind it don't understand that. Sorry we took your easy hardware wins away. Now you have to learn some new tricks to keep people buying your new products AND if you're only a hardware company then guess what: welcome to the PC world where sure a decade or 2 ago you could maintain a 3-year upgrade cycle because you needed the next generation to keep up. I now have a laptop from 11 years ago which does far more than like 95% of the population would ever need it to do and now the only reason I need to upgrade it is because I need a GD Thunderbolt Port that you can't "add" and TPM 2.0...

If our current hardware is limiting what games can do.. great. Better hardware is coming down the line.. OR maybe engineers can remember what it was like to squeeze every ounce of performance out of limiting hardware?? But as you say the next evolution in games is *better games* not higher tech specs.

It was worth publishing purely for the fact I got to read "fuck off" multiple times in a /. summary this morning which made me smile...

The rest of it? Yeah pure internet squabbling BS with absolutely no merit..

BUT dang since I've started typing: To those railing on this being woke censorship? Whatever.. they made it clear in the summary the title wasn't the issue. The crap article it was attached to along with the crap previous behavior of the author led to them being done with his crap. Period. If the author or his content were more worthwhile I'd be more inclined to get into a pissing match over something as benign as the title of the paper but as it is. No not worth dying or even working up the tiniest bit of perspiration on that hill.

Ya... I don't care if you're my partner, my boss, a cop or a judge.. you can have my password when you claw if from my cold dead hands (or hack it the old fashioned way!)