Indeed, and I'm generally not even logged, just go through the headers to see if there's anything remotely interesting, sometimes go in the thread, never comment. I do that may-be twice a week, it gets in my "tech news roll", with The Register, AnandTech, TomsHardware, Phoronix, etc... And yes, the ratio of interesting vs "don't care" is not going any better over time, the click baits summaries count is going up, etc... but that's not really specific to /. probably has more to do with the way communication works these days. Heck, even Tweets are considered too long to read by some people :D

Well, both of you are correct imo. Yes I prefer having to double click on the error in the IDE and have the cursor positioned on the correct line on the correct source code... except sometimes the indicated error has nothing to do with the actual problem. In practice, on non trivial projects involving many developers, libraries, inherited property sheets and complicated solution files, it is quite common that the error is due to something included before something else, or somebody changing an inherited parameter somewhere else in the code base. So yes in the end you have an error somewhere, but the cause of the error is not necessarily located there and may be very difficult to find.

That's simple. If you compare today's game with games of the past that were using sprites, we have now less interactive things than before. Take CRPG's for example. In Might&Magic, where the opponents were sprites, you can have to fight with sometimes a hundred of evil creatures. Now in most modern games, you have at most 10 polygonized meshes. Is it progress ? We definitively need more processing power.