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Having a data science degree doesn't really mean much by itself. There's a lot of graduates that come out of it with no marketable skills.

And no, coding is not the new poetry. I wish people would stop spamming this website with doomer nonsense like this.

I don't think so

Sorry to be the one breaking the news to you, but I don't think this site has been a "hacker forum" since at least a decade.

No, Google was 10x better than any competitor until they started actively sabotaging their search product in the past 5 years or so.

ChatGPT feels like an inferior product when compared to Claude or Qwen.

The Netherlands has its own semi supply chain, from photolithographs to chip design to printing the actual chips.

Yeah, LLMs are absolutely terrible for GDscript and anything gamedev related really. It's mostly because games are typically not open source.

If you were an actual "greybeard" your references would be Pets.com and Worldcom. Those didn't end the same way as Uber/Tesla.

If the US government has to find 1T$ somewhere, it isn't very good for US treasuries you know.

Glad I'm not american!

I am waiting for the author to lead the way.

We've witnessed someone repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot a few months ago. It is indeed a guess that it may cause their current foot pain, but it is a rather safe one.

I have to admit that discovering that ProtonVPN was actually just owned by Proton Technologies feels underwhelming.

Those two are pretty big already to be honest. I guess a third one would be avoiding eavesdropping on public wi-fis.

That's literally what I ended up doing in the article tho?

Getting hired by Google isn't the end-goal of learning programming.

There's quite a few F2P games requiring high spec machines, Throne & Liberty for example.

There used to be a series of book called "Learn code the hard way". It was basically exactly this, you would have a bunch of code, and you were expected to retype it. The examples would progressively increase in complexity.

It helped me learn C 10 years ago when I was a student. Sadly, I doubt it's still relevant nowadays.

I can't tell if this is a joke or not anymore.

For me, I think one of the biggest issue is how incredibly boring the startup landscape has become. Who here is seriously passionate about doing SaaS #9001 which will contain a chatgpt wrapper and yet another series of buzzword to attract VC funding instead of actual users?

There's a ton of big, real problems with our world at the moment, and I don't see the startup scene attacking any of those.

No exit in view.

Apparently, this is not a parody.

Archive link in case it gets paywalled: https://archive.ph/h1GOf

That's called a coping mechanism.

Watching tutorials is exactly what I would consider "not fun", and I'm not surprised it wasn't successful. On my side I had no problem getting into a software engineering career, so my point stands.

This is complete bs.

I've learned 2 languages to fluency by mostly watching movies. I've learned the linux cli by setting up a minecraft server for my friends in high school. I've learned programming by making IRC (and later Discord) bots for communities I was part of.

All of this was fun, and it worked better than staring at a textbook and hoping that my "effort" pays off.

It's a good thing basically it means that diversification removes risk and makes you money.

I've written a (simpler) article on the subject, which can serve as an introduction to this topic: https://alicegg.tech/2023/03/09/shannon-demon

The progress since GPT-3 hasn't been spectacularly fast.

I don't have ADD, but I have clearly observed that listening to a YouTube video of people talking while I work increases my productivity.

I think it's because when I lose focus of my code, I will just end up listening to the video for like a minute, without having to even switch to my browser window. Without that, I would have the tendency to open Reddit/Twitter/this site whenever I get slightly distracted.

This of course requires picking videos that are both very long (don't want to go looking for a new one every 20min) and very casual (I don't want to have to actively listen to it).

Very sad, Wizardry is probably the most influent RPG ever made, alongside Ultima.

Currently working on game development in Godot. We're making Dice'n Goblins, a dungeon-crawler RPG inspired by classics like Etrian Odissey and Wizardry VII, with a cartoon aesthetic similar to Paper Mario. The twist is that you have to collect and use dice to beat the monsters that crawl inside the dungeon.

A demo should be available very soon, meanwhile you can wishlist it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2945950/Dice_n_Goblins/

Cults sometimes don't allow returnees.