Have you played Antichamber?

I like strategy games that allow you to design your own units such as Warzone 2100 where you select different components to get different functionality or Endless Space 2 where you pick a ship hull type and then assign different modules to adjust the combat stats or add special abilities. The production cost of the unit changes with your selections in whatever the base game currency is and/or requirements for specific resources.

This gives the player the freedom to adjust their forces to fit their play style, their economic situation or to accomplish specific objectives or strategies. It also breaks the rock/paper/scissors aspects of unit combat in more simplistic games and creates far more complex unit interactions, and the potential to win with clever design rather than just numbers of units.

And if you’ll buy that, I have this really nice bridge on the south side of Manhattan that could be yours today!

Why are we talking about wiping out nuclear when we should be talking about wiping out coal?

And then cry when you land your first development job, knowing that you’ll never get to build anything so clean and effective that will actually get implemented in the real world.

Are… are the liberals in the room with us right now?

Barkley’s study found that the biggest predictors of shorter life expectancy in adults with ADHD were factors including lower incomes, fewer years of education, a greater likelihood of smoking, shorter sleep duration, less exercise, poorer nutrition and risky driving. He notes that most of these factors are linked to impulsivity — which can be treated.

“These factors – virtually all of them can be changed,” Barkley says. “Change the factor [and] you change the life expectancy. So none of this is cast in stone.”

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“It’s not the ADHD, it’s the impact of the ADHD on how you live,” says Wiznitzer, who is also co-chair of the professional advisory board for CHADD, a nonprofit education and advocacy group for people with ADHD. “Because you’re impulsive, you don’t make the best choices.”

So basically… diet, exercise and regular sleep… the bad news is, it’s advice you’ve heard all your life and you probably aren’t following… the good news is that the science on this is pretty definite, and a lot of it is stuff you can do for free (well, no financial cost - it will cost you time though).

The Internet is a fantastic example of building the airplane while you’re flying it. We can’t just put this thing on the ground and rebuild the engine, we’re in flight and there’s a lot riding on it.

IPv4 was drafted in 1981 and adopted by ARPANET in 1983. For all practical purposes, there was no “internet” yet - which is to say that IPv4 predates the Internet.

IPv6 was drafted in 1998, but wasn’t adopted as an official standard until 2017. The Internet had grown exponentionally long before any manufacturers were even considering implementing IPv6.

There is a mountain of telecom infrastructure built over the past 40 years that still has legacy hardware bits scattered through it. There is a jungle of interdependency tangled through firmware and low-level software that no one living has any real understanding of. There is an ocean of application software that was built on assumptions about the underlying infrastructure that no one ever planned to be updatable, and the creators are long retired.

Anyone want to take bets on how many pieces of slapdash web software out there use some hard-coded regex to pick IPv4 addresses out of strings? Good luck getting those things updated. IPv4 is going to be with us for a long time in the form of shared libraries, Nth-tier dependencies, and legacy hardware drivers.

“In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice…”

the tyranny of the default strikes again

A portable (pot)hole?

I’m not sure I’d take physical or mental health advice from a venture capitalist.

It’s related. Warming ocean temperatures are amplifying the hurricanes and destabilizing currents like the Gulf Stream - both symptoms of the same problem.

Yes. Ocean current changes are coming for us all.

I’m sure that you’re right, but I would love to have a list of references for this. Where do you find credible information on the labor sources of these companies?

The Laundromat (2019) attempts to describe the human impact of this kind of large-scale money laundering. It’s worth watching.

This projection of the 4-dimensional being into 3D space appears as the Mandelbrot set. Weirdly, it appears to be the Mandelbrot set no matter what angle you look at it from in 3D space.

“The first step to a successful revolution is destroying all competing revolutionaries!”