I can't argue that HL2 has 100x the story as HL1.

You're right. I liked Portal but then was just, "eh, I finished this concept, I'm good on not playing Portal 2." A friend strongly recommended it so I finally tried it, but it's like nonstop yammering.

HL1 is better than HL2 and its derivatives, which are just variations of the same theme for 20 years: wandering around a post-apocalyptic eastern European hellscape and interacting with vehicles.

I loved HL1 for the fantastical science facility you got to navigate. Such a much more interesting setting to inhabit. Alyx was the worst of them too, as you had to wander that post-apocalyptic eastern Euorpean apocalyptic hellscape while a millennial-written oh-so-quirky character yammered in your ear the entire time.

FDE

Why would someone who lived in a communist country not understand voting against communists?

Good summary. Imagine getting $3B from your main competitor and then crying like you're the victim.

Slashdot bitches and moans about the power consumption needed to run LLMs that people actually use in their daily lives, but 6 years of computation to find a number solely because it tickles mathematicians' fancies and they don't say peep.

With anger like that you're probably right to fear being replaced by younger, better programmers who are more able to use the tools available to them.

>T-t-the tests are broken!

When you don't like the results just claim the tests are wrong. Like any social "scientist" does.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.120...

>If you are a good engineer, you do the work yourself.

Wrong these days. If you're a good engineer you use the tools available to you to get the task done well, and fast.

> You don't rely on software, designed to discard information and recall what's left imprecisely, to do your engineering work for you.

Do what you want and get left behind, then be left confused as to why it happened.

>Now, we all know that you use these "hallucinating" tools because you brag about it.

A moment ago you said it can only generate boilerplate and leetcode. Are you admitting you can't detect mistakes in boilerplate code or are you changing your argument simply to try and win, without actually accurately stating what you believe?

>On the other hand, no one says you're a good engineer but you.

Are you familiar with a thing called a job?

>google search in 2001 gave you real results

The Web of 2024 is nothing like the web of 2001. Now we need knowledge engines, and Google fails there because it can't deal with SEO. No one's making a bunch of webring-indexed personal homepages.

>data structures and algorithms

Tell me you don't do professional engineering without telling me you don't do professional engineering.

If you're not able to articulate specific tasks, the exact inputs and outputs that are provided and what you desire, and give it enough context to understand the interoperability with your existing system, then you're not a good engineer anyway. Without that all you can expect is boilerplate or leetcode copy-paste, which is obviously not useful to a competent engineer.

Water used for cooling is 100% recyclable and energy comes for free from the sky and atoms.

Why would we need a new generation of researchers for that? That's baseless