If you've always wanted to pursue CS, do CS.

Honestly, there's a lot of hype around AI. Companies are trying to figure out how to incorporate LLMs into their workflows, but no one has meaningfully succeeded yet past using it as an automated StackOverflow (which is usually wrong or outdated, just like StackOverflow). Yeah, startups will claim that things like cursor have saved them hundreds or thousands of working hours, but then they get burned their AIs leave in their API keys and code security flaws into their services. In the best case, they've created a nightmare codebase that will raise the turnover rates for their software developers significantly.

If you are actually passionate about CS, get a CS degree and don't use AI for problem solving. Maybe debugging/concept explanations if it gets better, but don't let it solve problems for you. Designing solutions, to problems, critically thinking about their strengths/weaknesses, and working through them is exactly what a CS degree is supposed to teach you how to do, so don't throw that away by having AI do your work for you.

This is absolutely not true. Yes, the computer science field is constantly changing, which is exactly why having a strong grasp of fundamentals is incredibly beneficial. Any competent CS program will be teaching you how to approach programming in general (data structures, concepts, algorithms, protocol design, etc.) instead of focusing directly on specific languages. This is exactly because technology changes so frequently.

In my entire 4-year CS degree, I only took 1 class where the content in that class was specific to a certain programming language or technology. That class was called "Programming in C++" and it was an optional elective class. Sure, a lot (not all) of my classes were based on specific languages (Java, JS and frameworks, Lisp, C, C++, python, etc.) but the content in them was easily applicable to most general programming. In some of my classes we were free to use whichever language we wanted as long as we could get the compiler running on the submission server's docker environment.

Yes, you can probably still become a software developer if you are dedicated enough to learning on your own, but in the current job market getting a CS job is definitely not a given anymore, especially when you'll be competing against 1000s of other resumes with CS degrees on them. But a CS degree will make that learning process a lot easier, and will probably give you a more complete understanding of everything.

Why does that assembly code use a global variable for a loop value?? It's also ignoring register conventions (some registers need to be preserved before being modified by a function) which would probably break any codebase you use this in

Is it bad that I already knew what this would print the moment I read the meme?

There was a massive Game freak data leak a few months ago that leaked source assets and code from a bunch of the older games, and there were some lore-type folk stories about Pokemon. (I think based on Japanese folk legends?) There was a particularly weird one (putting it nicely) about a typhlosion that married a human woman

My bad I should've clarified on the half-serious part, I actually like chikorita and tepig :sigh:

Favorites from each gen:

Starting some flame wars with the half-serious takes tho

This better be tail call optimized

Random people who just want to get into a position of power don't pass.

Not sure about rural towns but I'm pretty sure this is the case in most cities/big towns in the US as well. It's just that police training in the US tends to systemically filter decent human beings out of its system. Not exactly random, more like maximally bad by design 🙃

Entertainment is not a necessity, it's not like people need it to survive. When it doesn't move with wages people find ways to make it affordable (e.g. piracy, 2nd hand markets, or sharing physical copies with friends), or they find something else (steam, indie games, etc.). Wages are directly responsible for game prices in a lot of ways, and there are pretty good Steam statistics on this as well (which is why a lot of Steam games aren't priced with 1:1 conversions in different regions, because doing so would basically price entire regions out of buying games).

Pricing fans out of games is exactly how AAA studios go under. A big AAA game flopping is basically a death sentence for a studio in the current landscape, and if Microsoft isn't immune to that then Nintendo definitely isn't.

It doesn't matter if a $60 game in 2008 is worth $88 now if wages haven't gone up to match that. Did you know that (at least in the US) food prices usually aren't included in inflation calculations because they fluctuate too much? People have other things to pay for with their wages that aren't video games, and those costs aren't going down either.

Now that I can get behind

You say that like Nintendo ever puts their games on sale

I think I'll pass on $80 for Mario kart ($90 for a cartridge) ngl, it can't be that much better 😭

I wouldn't be surprised if my town was the exception and not the norm (I'm from a relatively progressive town in a consistently blue state) but at my public high school I only knew of 1-2 people out of the 500 people in my grade that stood up during the pledge of allegiance and a good percentage of the grade hated them because they were high key homophobic.

Doesn't W3C already maintain the ActivityPub protocol?

Edit: nevermind I misunderstood this

Am I the only one who sees this as a sloth instead of a helmet?

Yes? Ok maybe I'm going crazy

This has to be bait... I refuse to believe someone would see this meme and think it's trying to say that people are literally being stabbed.

From the article

The first five implants took place last year in the US and all received donor hearts before being discharged from hospital, with the longest time in between implant and transplant 27 days.

Seems like the initial trials are using it as a temporary measure until a donor heart can be transplanted

Kitty has multiplexing built in so it can also replace a lot of what tmux does (unless you're using tmux over ssh)