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The answer to that depends on when the VC bubble bursts- if it lasts long enough costs will eventually drop far enough. Pets.com was a .com-boom era joke but today I actually buy my pet-food online and I'm pretty sure nobody is subsidising me doing that.

Even at 100x the cost (currently $20/month for most of these via subscriptions) it’s still cheaper than an intern, let alone a senior dev.

> Don't apologize for what was none of your doing.

This is veering on off topic, but when people say they are "sorry" for something that happened to you they're not apologizing - it's an expression of empathy, not guilt.

Did any conflict driven by a lack of employment ever lead to the end of a new technology?

It’s more a dishwasher level of automation than 3CPO- when you order they enter your table number and the kitchen staff puts the prepared dishes in the shelves in the robot, which the drives to your table. Once it gets there you take the dishes from the robot.

Tech-wise this could have existed 30 years ago (maybe going around the restaurant would have been more challenging than today but it’s a fixed path and the robots don’t leave the restaurant).

You're right! I was thinking of the Timex Sinclair 2068. It was preceded by the 1000 and 1500 (ZX80 & ZX81 respectively as you say).

To save the curious a search: the Timex Sinclair is the American variant of the ZX Spectrum.

    Maybe the best universities are in the U.S.

For undergraduate I don't think it matters that much as you're far enough removed from the state of the art at that point anyway- you'll probably get about the same level of bachelor-level CS education at any decent university in the developed world as you would in the top US institutions like Stanford and MIT (and most Americans don't go to these elite institutions anyway)?

For graduate/research it's of course a different case altogether, these elite institution seem to mostly be elite in research, not pedagogy. What probably does matter is that the base level of tertiary education is good enough (which seems like it's the case in western Europe, but maybe not in a lot of the developing world).

I agree my reply was flippant because I was annoyed by the original comment, and I apologise for that.

The US provides and provided a ton of assistance to Israel but there’s a tendency online for people (probably mostly Americans?) to assign credit to literally everything that happens in Israel to US aid.

Israel exists outside of US-Israel politics and not everything (like birthrates) that happens there is because of the US. The US also supported/aided a lot of other countries that didn’t experience the same economic/industrial/technological development that Israel has in the last 30-40 years - some of it really is because of Israelis’ efforts and not just because of Americans’.

And how does this explain Israel's abnormal birth rate (what ImHereToVote suggested in the parent comment)? I claim it's unrelated and is mostly to do with cultural and religious norms.

If the US starts sending proportional military aid to South Korea (fertility rate of 0.75 vs Israel's 2.83) it will not "fix it".

US economic aid to Israel ended in 2007 (18 years ago).

The US since then only provides Israel with military aid (most of which is only allowed to be spent buying US-made goods). It’s more of a subsidy for the US military-industrial complex.

Also despite the military aid Israel still spends a much greater share of GDP on its military than most or all other developed countries (so the US isn't subsidising Israel’s unusually high birth rate).

Lots of things I don’t know how to do and can spend time learning, many will be better use of that time and effort than reimplementing a game engine from scratch vs using middleware.

I'm in the same demographic (less successful than Noel, but I have made my living from game dev for the last 15 years, a lot if from my own indie games). I've used multiple engines throughout that time as they seem to have a lifespan before either tech or business reasons obsolete them (e.g. my first commercial release was made with Flash).

My only regret were the times I tried to roll my own, I would have saved a lot of time and effort focusing on picking the best tool for the job that saved me as much work as possible.

At the end I want to make games and not engines, and only do as much programming as I have to. All those person-millennia spent at epic/unity/etc actually spent doing a lot of stuff (even if you don't need 90% of it, 10% 1000s of people working for decades is still a lot).

These days also directly connecting two computers to each other with a network cable (not via a network, directly plugging each end of the same cable to each computer) will establish a connection (I’m pretty sure it also works with USB cables but the “automatic” might then only work between specific operating systems- it’s been a while since I tried).

IIRC last I tried direct Ethernet connecting between a Mac and a Windows pc the other computer appeared as a shared drive and I could simply copy files from it (I probably enabled some sharing option but it was easy to do either way).

Between 1985 and 2025 we went from programming in 8086 assembly language to high level languages like python, typescript and go. These automate a lot of the drudgery of programming in asm, so why has the overall demand for programmers not diminish (in fact it increased massively)?

The jokes were mostly about startup time for the JVM (only happens once as when its in RAM it stays there and the loading time doesn't repeat for the next java program you run). It was also a lot more notable in the 90s when java was a browser plugin to run applets and browsers were single threaded (so the browser froze for a few seconds while the JVM loaded).

I think it's been out of date for a long time with modern computers having much more RAM and speedy SSDs (and also JVM optimizations). For actual run time performance once its loaded the JVM has had great performance in the early 00s already and improved since. And for server side it was never an issue as you don't restart the server very often (so the JVM is always already loaded).

Or non-combustible robots

the principle engineer may have a lot of money but also still has a job with a boss and thus probably still hears (or know they can potentially hear) "no".

I would guess it's not so much that they "want to see this change" as much as "they want to make as much money as possible and don't care about these consequences"

It doesn't take much to get the price up to low 5-figure USD (inflation UN-adjusted similar to lower end SUN workstation prices)...Max CPU and max RAM already bring you to $10k without a monitor.

The aforementioned mac is Unix on RISC!

Where did mrtksn wrote that you should drink yourself to death? They explicitly stated they only mean drinking socially and not in order to "get smashed".

wouldn't the more logical course of action be to pay for mirc? the devs do not benefit from you "no longer pirating" by switching to another client.

That AI is dangerous and the closer we get to the danger zone the better it would be if the companies developing these technologies understand it might be better to slow down and make sure it's safe vs pushing ahead at maximum speed.

The argument is war. If china and the us go to war tomorrow, the us is at an industrial disadvantage.

Does this mean you need to build “everything”? No, that would be inefficient (and probably unrealistic). But the more critical something is the “closer to home” (geopolitically speaking) it should be able to be sourced.

Buying semiconductor manufacturing equipment from Germany and the Netherlands? Fine (same for the rest of the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, etc).

Buying it from Taiwan? Probably ok but riskier cause China can impact it in the future (either by conquest, destruction or blocking access).

Buying essential equipment or resources from China, Russia or Iran? That’s a risk, long term at least. You don’t want to depend on them.

I run a small (software) startup in Berlin, the administrative cost is more like €1000/year (of course increasing the bigger your business gets) .

What are the newer searching techniques that make more sense?

E-bikes are actually better for you than not cycling at all (you still need to push the pedals with a pedelec, and altho that's less strenuous than a non-electric bike it's more than most other forms of transit people otherwise use): https://www.peopleforbikes.org/news/the-health-benefits-of-e...

you also can't eat more than so much meat anyway and it spoils at some point (especially in a society without electricity/refrigeration).

Or Blade Runner.