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Ugh, just what I needed to discourage me away from game development again. No point in pouring all that effort if this is what an average profitable indie looks like.

Somehow every few years I get the delusion that it'd be fun to try and release a game.

> Well, guess what? Police also commit crime. The same justification applies. If Flock is justified, this is justified.

In fantasy land maybe, in reality power determines justification.

And much of the rest is spent sleeping. Should sleeping be a major part of my character?

Do you fucking idiots use even a bit of your apish mind before typing?

I wonder if it's the definition of "senior" that shifting. From someone well versed and experienced in software development to deep domain experts who happen to have development skills.

10-15 years ago, the advice for anyone was to apply for the job even if you don't fit 100% of the requirements. "It's a wishlist not a requirement list".

At some point in the past,few years this seemed to gave changed. Now you have to be an expert

Some years ago I applied to a government that I thought sounded interesting. It seemed to be a pretty damn good match for my skill and resume. It basically entailed developing a CRUD app to store and analyze fishery statistics. Everything about the job made it sound like it was mostly rub of the mill .NET work. Surely a good fit for me who has done that stuff for a variety of different government and private organization. I got rejected for not having enough domain experience

I'm not sure where they planned to find such a cross-domain expert who was willing to move to such remote, yet high CoL area for the already comparatively dismally salary, but hey, it didnt matter, the agency got gutted a year or two later.

In a similar way I'm reminded of when I first looked into "scientific programmer" jobs. HN swore up and down that they were desperate for developers, and that this was mostly a product of lower pay. The reality seemed a bit different. Nearly every job I saw in that area wanted a PhD scientist who could program, not the other way around.

> There is no one true people who can claim to own any land because of their race.

Its working out pretty well for the Israelis

> Though oddly, I’ve never seen an anti-fibre influencer

Ah-ha! At last, a niche I can squirm myself into in our brave new world.

I'll grant you the food dessert and going back arguments, but unless I'm buying particularly out of season or less common, foreign vegetables, produce is often one of the cheapest sections of the store.

> Normal people don’t play shooter games, sorry.

Sales numbers say otherwiss retard. Battlefield 6 was the top selling game of last year

Get yourself a time machine and go back 10 or so years when the market was hot enough for this it be feasible.

> You either supply nobody and then you get to play your neutrality card or you pick a side. If you supply both sides you're just a cynical war profiteer without a conscience.

Yes, and that helped turn the US into the global hegemony it is today. No wonder China wants a wack. Power doesn't need a conscience.

Now we only reward idiots. How sad.

Usually those are put in prisons or similar arrangements

> I can’t really think of anyone that has fit that bill over the last 75 years in Africa, the closest might be Paul Kagame in Rwanda.

Seemed to be at least a few in the immediate era of independence for certain African states. Unfortunately for them the cold war was raging and I think most of them were brutally murdered and replaced "strong men" who crippled their country with rampant corruption and cowardly paranoia.

I saw a video the other day advertising AI-powered a anti-air/drone gun. Seems to be part of a defense trade show, but also seemed to indicate that it was available to certain "qualified" citizens, but I'm not sure what that means exactly

Just popping, maybe snorting. A bunch of amphetamine addicts.

Yeah but those new grads are too uppity. We tried throwing money at them, but they're more interested in productivity destroying quality of life improvements.

The imported worker, on the other hand, is a more efficient and compliant machine. Maybe if we make those youths as poor as the workers we import, they'll eventually learn some gratitude.

> We need to experience and see how the world actually works, the pain people are actually experiencing. I deeply believe we build better software that way.

90% of the time when you really break down the "real" problems. You learned they aren't gon a be fixed by fucking software.

The man is in his 80s. He doesn't look too healthy. The mind rots. They spent a lot of time pointing at Biden about this, but tbh they both belong in a care home.

I still think they should have duked it out behind the bleachers or whatever it was those geezer were rambling about one election cycle. I'd have bought the PPV even.

> You are trying to solve a politics and people problem with non deterministic, unnecessary technology.

But blockchain will solve political corruption

> superintelligence

> AI

Same sentence even lmao

Is every retarded influencer botting their view counts to spread antisocial content in exchange for money liable like this?

If so, I think we can save America.

I'm shocked how bad they seem to be. The other day I was shopping around a prompt to all the AI models to compare and Gemini was by far the most disappointing and laziest

You never played PowerPoint jeopardy?

> average Flash games with a different coat of paint.

Flash games had some soul at least. Im not sure what if was, but after flash died and we got all these fancy web graphics technologies web games felt technically impressive, but sterile and empty.

> Who designed and built your house?

Designed? I'm not sure. An architect or engineer of some sort I suppose. Someone who has credentials that i can't afford to go back k and get at this point in my life.

Built? I live in a very old house right now. Not sure who may have built it then. Probably the same people often building houses now, poor immigrants who had some issue preventing them from working a better job or trade.

> Who designed and built your cars, planes, boats, etc?

Cheap workers in foreign countries? Maybe some of the plane ans boat stuff if done domestically and is a little more lucrative though. I'll give you that.

> Who fixes your HVAC or plumbing?

The guy my slumlord sent to fix my plumbing complained to me about the state of his government housing. But i suppose according to HN he must just be pocketing his six figure salary and scamming the government.

Is it? I knew a guy years ago who had a mechantronics degree. He was a coke dealer and worked at a grocery store. He seemed to indicate it was neat, but not very useful.

> As of today Ellison has an extraordinary amount of greenlight authority in an industry whose decision-makers are overwhelmingly a generation older.

Who do you think he has more in common with? An average consumer his own age, or adult members of any age from the elite class that hes likely spent most of his time around?

I've been looking for one of these for years. Dont think ive ever seen one for sale. Sadly my retrocimputing days (especially for such rare and likely expensive machines) is about over. I've met people willing to strike me good deals on lisp machines, but these are just a bit too obscure perhaps.

It's one big club

> Can this be undone in the future if folks realize it was too monopolistic and it was in fact an anti-trust violation?

I predict the democrats winning, shoving it all under that table and pushing for "reconciliation" and "moving forward" while continuing the rotten status quo that got Trump elected in the first place. Maybe a few token prosecutions of low level wage workers involved.