ryan-allen

I enjoyed the humor and the ending, it reminds me of some DOS games I grew up with. Nice work Neal :)

Clicker games can be considered banal, but when there is an interesting unexpected story or comedy behind the progressions, they are fun little pieces of art.

Two games I have played in the past of this ilk are Spaceplan [0] and Nodebuster [1], both of which only take around an hour or so to progress through. Fun and interesting like Neal's game.

[0] http://www.spaceplan.click/ [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3107330/Nodebuster/

There are limitations depending on the state, the workaround is to 'no fault evict' tenants, have the property vacant and re-advertise.

At least one state has banned 'no fault evictions', though there are workarounds.

Our rental market is very tight at the moment, many people have been priced out in regional areas since work from home provisions due to the pandemic.

The maintenance costs on this would be enormous! I sail regular old boring wind powered boats, and I have to admit, if I could afford this I'd probably buy it!

Saying that though, I have no idea how it would work legally in ports. I'm guessing you'd have to stay on surface in most territorial waters without some kind of crazy custom private clearance.

I live in Australia and I don't reckon authorities would be very happy if you decided to submerge in the middle of Sydney Harbour!

Why is the CIA telling us _now_ is a much more interesting question.

I tried to hit the 600 post limit by scrolling through my feed quickly, after about 2.5 minutes the tweets I was being shown were mostly the same ones but on a loop. I kept scrolling for another 3 minutes and yeah, it's like the last 100 odd tweets shown over and over and over.

Which honestly is an ironic metaphor for the platform as a whole.

The yachts they can disable are the smaller, wind powered ones. Probably not the kind of boat you had in mind.

A sinking yacht it a serious threat to life but, hey, it's pretty neat, right?

What country are you in? I have YouTube Premium and I don't get _any_ ads at all from YouTube, only the sponsored segments from creators directly (and no, NordVPN, I don't need a VPN, yes I know you exist).

The sponsored segments as in advertising that creators have negotiated directly? I have YouTube Premium and that's the only type of ad I get, I don't get anything else.

The warning screenshot posted in the article says that you can enjoy YouTube without ads if you sign up for Premium.

Templated output means you could build flexible user interfaces to interact in novel ways beyond a mere text input. What I find absolutely incredible right now is that any novel idea I have about "it would be nice if you could do X" is only taking a few days to reach any mainstream tech news source. I used to think the same thing about RubyGem ideas in the late 2000s, and within 6 months a useful package would come out. I put it down to many people consuming the same information at the same time coming up with the same ideas. It's happening much faster this time. 12 months from now who knows what's going to happen!

I've wondered if despite instruction it forgets due to a context limit. There's a lot I still don't understand. I found if it forgot to format in a certain way you could 'remind it', and it would get back on track, but it's an odd way to think of writing software. Kind of like 'turning it off and on again'.

Induction is the best of both worlds, but you do have to have induction pans. Stainless steel last a lifetime, and are not _that_ expensive, and you can also use cast iron!

My fridge has touch buttons, and they often go haywire and reprogram the desired temperature! They at least beep while the ghost is interacting with them, so I can go and make sure my drinks don't end up frozen.

My top of the line Android Auto compatable head unit is pretty ordinary. A RAM mount on the windscreen holding my phone is significantly more responsive!

It's often of poor quality and not in 4k. I rented a movie from YouTube the other day and the stream supported HDR, and if I had a 5.1 surround that would have worked, too!

If you're not watching 4 hours of TV per day it's not that expensive to rent content, but I'm saying this from the point of a westerner. For other parts of the world a $5 USD for a movie for 48 hours doesn't make any sense over straight up piracy.

I've been a subscriber to basically everything for years. The only reason I haven't cancelled 90% of them is because my retired parents use my accounts. I almost never use the streaming services they use (I use YouTube Premium _a lot_, but I don't share that).

Given our combined minor usage, the day they lock one of us out it's all over, I'm cancelling them all!

I don't invest in streaming produced series any more as they have a tendency to want to eat their cake and have it too. They won't tie up a series but don't commit to producing a second one to tie it up, then arbitrary cancel them. It's like reading The Hobbit and the last two chapters are missing, never to be written, and there are plenty of actually finished books out there!

And for some reason half of the world have port and starboard channel markers as red and green, and the other are green and red. I don't know who's fault that is!

Is this available as a feature in xmind or is this an idea postured to potential competitors?

There's also what society values. While I'm no art historian, it looks that after the invention of the camera, painters shifted to different styles that were not replicable by cameras (e.g. landscapes and portraits to abstract), and high society began valuing the new art, while continuing to value the old, the new shifted aesthetics.

I think that as we're progressing into a world where anyone can press a few buttons and get a dubstep banger in 30 seconds, culture will place higher value on different types of expression and experiences.

"We went to see a band play an entirely improvised performance, capacity was limited to 20 people and all recording devices were confiscated upon entry."

Thanks for this! The compare feature is very cool, especially being able to play around with GPT4 settings (I'm still on the waiting list for GPT4 API so having access to this now is fantastic).

That is incredible! What hours on average do the contractors put in per week? That's such an interesting story, I'll have to read your book!

I got my first job at 19 after the dot com collapse, I was hired _because_ I had no work experience, no degree, and no expectations of salary (I was hired on minimum wage, though). They wanted a few people with no understanding of what it was like before the crash.

I hope you find something!

she thinks I might have a mild or high-functioning ADHD that essentially gives me perpetual mid-to-late 20s enthusiasm with sime mild drawbacks

That is interesting! I do have ADHD and I'm now in my low 40s. The enthusiasm never goes away. I met an old housemate, whom I had not seen in 20 years, and he said "You were eager, and unlike the other housemates you were much more open to things and not set in your ways."

I said mate, nothing has changed! It really is a pain when your peers don't want to try new things, but on the other hand, it's a good personality for leading a bunch of young guns with fire in their bellies!

Shaming others is and has been part of the Ruby on Rails culture since its inception.

Try to assume the best in people and their actions and your life will likely be better for it.

This is solid advice. After 20 years of (trying to) implementing it, it's made for much better professional and personal relationships.

You are correct, you cannot order a new 70 series in Australia at the moment (or a 200, or a 300 series I believe).

Right now dealer 'used' 78 series with 300kms on the clock are around 120k, or you can buy a 20 year old one for just under half of that!

Did you have an SSD on your PC ~3 years ago? I never found it to be that bad or for it to take that long!

I kicked off the Ventura update today on the M1 Pro, went out to get lunch, it had finished by the time I got back.

I've been on the 'insider preview' track on Windows 10 and 11 for around 18 months. You get big updates maybe 2-4 times per month and they do take around 20 minutes to install.

Stick on the regular updates track, make sure you get an SSD, and your new Windows 11 experience will be fine just fine :) Check out WSL too, it is pretty good. I'm split on Linux vs Windows vs MacOS for development, it's all a game of tradeoffs. The trick is to have a few computers!

Apple could probably build an iPhone/iPad with an M1 CPU and allow you to 'do it all' on the single device.

I really hope one day my phone can also be my day-to-day computer. That would be so cool!

I agree, build something. But I don't think it has to be anything too 'juicy', especially not at this stage.

At this point I think it's about building something that will be a bit of a stretch but nothing too big that it's too difficult, too long, as that will only demoralise the poor person.

In the past I've known people who found a little project for themselves, a couple of times I've had to provide make up project briefs because they were unable to come up with one of their own.

I can think back on my own trajectory and the real stepping stones were the ones I was able to finish.

The other advice is to try to join an IRL programming community like a local meet up, if they still exist in 2022.

I would like to know why the alleged hacker backed down, stating that they have withdrawn the ransom request and deleted the stolen data.

It sounds like a convenient caveat to an agreement to pay ransom to the hackers, and I wouldn't put it past a big company here in Australia to pull that kind of PR trick.

We live in the Lucky Country after all, I doubt we'll ever know the truth.