Quest 371 - How do you start programming in 2025?

Things get nerdy when the cast geeks out about programming languages, video games for the kids, and programming languages in video games for the kids. If you stick around long enough, they'll even talk about IDEs! Wait, where are you going?

Programming

  • Kotlin vs Rust

  • Minecraft vs Roblox

  • Stack Overflow vs ChatGPT

News

  • Resident Alien Canceled After 4 Seasons

  • Itch.io Is Returning Free NSFW Games To Its Store

Trailers

  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 3 Trailer

  • Zootopia 2 | Trailer

Quest 369 - What do programmers think about AI?

A panel of professional software engineers discuss their thoughts on the current state of AI; its emergence into the workforce, and the potential effects it may have on humanity going forward.

Discussions

  • What is AI remarkably good at, and unintuitively bad at?

  • Will AI augment engineering jobs, or replace them?

  • Can AI be used to stop spread of propaganda and misinformation?

  • How will the perception of AI will shift in the coming years?

Quest 354 - What's on your tier list?

Fries vs McNuggets, Rust vs C, Kill Bill Vol 1 vs Kill Bill Vol 2, and Johnny Cage vs Gremlins... Let's get this party started!

Tier Lists

  • Fast Food

  • Tarantino Movies

  • Spider men

  • C vs Rust

News

  • Valve Bans Forced In-Game Ads From All Steam Titles

  • First Look at Karl Urban's Johnny Cage

  • Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books

Trailer

  • Devil May Cry

Quest 334 - You call that an outage?

There was giant computer outage, but who was responsible? Crowd flare? Cloud strike? Crowd strife? Cloud Strife: Stop meteors. Drive PlayStation sales.

Outages

  • The CrowdStrike Incident

  • The Dyn DDoS Attack

  • A Facebook Outage

News

  • Southwest Airlines is getting rid of open seating

Trailer

  • REBEL MOON - CHAPTER ONE: CHALICE OF BLOOD

  • REBEL MOON – CHAPTER TWO: CURSE OF FORGIVENESS

Quest 99 - Is there dogmatism in software?

The short answer, is yes. The long answer, is also yes. I am shocked, shocked I tell you! ...okay, not that shocked.

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Questions

  • How many vape batteries does it take to power your car?

  • Do you need Nginx in front of your node service?

  • Without data, is it just a rumor?

  • Is perfect the enemy of good?

  • Can you balance generalization and specialization?

Music