I use Ubuntu at work. No issues with it.

I went to a top rated engineering school in the US and found the CS program easy. It helped that I enjoyed most of my classes, and that had been teaching myself for years before I got there. I had plenty of free time to spend with friends or whatever else.

While I’ve certainly had jobs that demanded long hours, I’ve had others that are more reasonable, and with good pay. It’s more possible now to find a good paying job with good work/life balance than when I started working over 20 years ago.

Don’t let the negative people scare you away from school or the industry. Ultimately your experience will be your own. If you find that the path you’re on isn’t working for you, just do something else!

I was under the impression the company was moving to Unreal for future games. While it’s nice to do this for the community, it seems like there isn’t much of a future for these tools.

If C is so great, why do you have to hack in garbage collection?

This just blew my mind. I had always assumed Java was older. I started writing hobby projects in Java in the 90s. I don’t think I heard about Python until the early 2000s.

I find it difficult to believe that breaking down steel to be 3d printed into large structures for a bridge is faster or more energy efficient than casting the parts instead.

Why is half this article about population decline? The writing also seems weird in places. AI generated, maybe?

“why” is a perfectly valid question to ask

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

That’s not the point though. The point is that the human comedian and the AI both benefit from consuming creative works covered by copyright.

Further what do you think I meant with high end premium?

The base model X costs twice the base model Y. I’d consider the X expensive. I wouldn’t put the Y in the same category.

I wouldn’t consider the Tesla model Y a high end premium vehicle. It was the best selling vehicle in the world earlier this year, in spite of the higher price than gas-powered competitors:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23738581/tesla-model-y-ev-record-world-bestselling-car-electric

What is wrong with Google’s C++ guide?

Exactly. I use 10 at home and at work and have no issues with either. There’s no technical reason for anyone to upgrade.

C++ has had the same style of obtuse errors for decades. They can be a real pain to figure out even if you are used to seeing them.

Nobody reading about the contest in the linked page should have to rely on Google to fully understand the parameters of the contest. Whoever authored this page is lazy.

What do you mean by UTC only?

Why are they worse?

I was able to read the article without logging in

Check your employment contract. If that includes an NDA or a confidentiality agreement, the company may own your design as well as any code produced. Writing the program from scratch a second time may still end up being company property.

Given that they didn’t put your program into production, it’s unlikely they would pursue you legally for releasing a new version on your own.

Every significant organisation, government, big company probably had done something terrible at some point.

Yup, which is why it’s basically impossible to be an ethical consumer these days. “The Good Place” did a really entertaining exploration of this idea.