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This was a class of tool I didn't even know existed until recently. After Windows 11 came out I switched to Linux Mint, discovered Warpinator, and now I have one less problem in my life.

> and miles driven

That may unfairly impact people who already cannot afford to live close to where the jobs are.

Very cool idea. I wonder if the design is a reference to the star-nosed mole. Appropriate for a blind camera!

I think it's the Tcl part that's more interesting. Like how Wings 3D is written in Erlang.

Is there a specific reason why Mac is particularly good for this?

One possible reason. I remember talking to a tech who worked for a company that made information kiosks. The kiosks ran Windows, but on a Mac Mini. He told me the reason was they had less hardware failures when they used them.

This feels like some Sapir–Whorf type thing. The software can do anything, yet you can’t help but act as if there is some constraint because it doesn’t cleanly map to language.

I don't really know how to go about asking this, so I'll just ask it. No disrespect intended. What do you mean when you say around eight? Are there like hidden or incomplete/developing selves?

Not much at home anymore but I use them extensively at work. They are the only way to maintain sanity while using SharePoint. I even export them and share them with colleagues because I got frustrated with how often meetings got stalled while everyone tries to find the document we need to continue.

You can remove any subset of packages. On any new Windows 10 install I typically do something like:

  Get-AppxPackage *alarm* | Remove-AppPackage
  Get-AppxPackage *help* | Remove-AppPackage
  Get-AppxPackage *xbox* | Remove-AppPackage
  Get-AppxPackage *zune* | Remove-AppPackage
  Get-AppxPackage *phone* | Remove-AppPackage
  ...
  etc

I am reading a book on fuzzy logic that was translated from Japanese. The translation is quite bad and difficult to read. At one point it was talking about calculus and mentioned Newton and "Ripunitz". It took me a minute to work out what I was reading:

Leibniz -> ライプニッツ (ripunittsu) -> Ripunitz

> I do think no one even remotely saw this coming.

This is just outside of your time range but Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty came out in 2001, and predicted much of this.

   The main example of this pertains to the plot and themes of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, released on November 13, 2001, which delved into ideas and concepts that would become culturally significant in the 2010s. Among these themes were post-truth politics, alternative facts, echo-chambers, fake news, AI-curated news feeds, information overload in the Information Age, and political correctness.[140] While the game received universal acclaim upon release for its gameplay and attention to detail, the plot became a divisive topic among critics, with some calling it "absurd" and "stupid".

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kojima#Legacy

Another good one is Super Kaiju Dunk City. [1]

[1] http://radmars.com/superkaijudunkcity/submission/

It was 13. I only remember because that was when I first started learning about computers, and I needed them many times. My Mom loved me.

PowerShell 7, 108 chars

  0..2e9|%{date(date 0).AddSeconds($_)-f 'yy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'}|?{$_-match'(.)(.)-(.)(.)-(.)(.) \6\5:\4\3:\2\1'}

I have to agree, this is a pointless battle. It doesn't matter what DA does or doesn't do. If your art is on the internet, it will be used to train AI. It's not even that it's an inevitable future, it's already the past. I do feel sorry for digital artists, but Pandora's box is open; A black ball has been drawn from the urn (in the world of digital art) and it's too late to do anything meaningful about it.

Despite what others have replied, you're right. Both of those techniques are used a lot. Still plenty of people doing it by hand, but you can achieve some really interesting results by "faking it".

This guy uses the technique a lot with fantastic results: https://youtu.be/KPoeNZZ6H4s?t=861

It solves so many problems for them. No piracy, no second-hand sales, no public libraries, no cheating, and perfect player stats. They can take the game away whenever they want, and make you pay for it again in the future.

I've created a bunch of flows that log information from forms into lists, track submissions, move files around, etc. It's been very useful. But I still struggle to understand SharePoint.

I've survived by maintaining a well-organized bookmarks folder. I'm never the person holding up a meeting while trying to find that important document in some SharePoint maze.

I still have my Firefox phones. I cannot bring myself to throw them away and let go of the dream.

  I [...] don't [...] like [...] helping a stranger.

That's not very nice. The world would be a better place if we helped strangers more.

A decent strategy is to use the results of the last click to choose your next click. Win money, click right, lose money, click left.

That might be specific to where you are from. I can only speak for Australia and New Zealand, but "Hi" is perfectly acceptable. Unnecessarily formal speech can come across as disingenuous, and maybe a little patronizing. Although the same is true for overly familiar speech as well.

For smaller (less than NZ$30,000) civil matters we have the Disputes Tribunal[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputes_Tribunal

The closest thing to this I know of is The Forgotten City. It has some fantasy elements and the city itself isn't a real one.

Premise:

"The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands."

Developer comment on historical authenticity:

"In terms of historical authenticity, we engaged two historical consultants: Dr. Philip Matyszak, who has a D.Phil from Oxford and teaches at Cambridge, and has written 17 books on the ancient world. And Dr. Sophie Hay, who has spent 20 years excavating the ruins of Pompeii. Dr Matyszak helped us to create a game world with historically authentic art, architecture, costumes and customs. And Dr Hay helped out with a comprehensive review, ensuring our architecture and art was consistent with her observations of Pompeii, which was preserved in a very similar time period. We spent over 20 months on this and exchanged 300+ emails and did video flythroughs."

> That's really hard to answer, because in practice there seems to be "indie" and AAA, and no words in between.

There are some. III and AA come to mind.

I was going to post something very similar. Japans relationship with technology feels quite different to me. It seems like if you look at any particular example, you'll see it was advanced until it was simple, reliable, and cheap and then slowed. There isn't a western obsession to relentlessly "upgrade", it's only done when needed.

Don't change color, kitty. Keep your color, kitty. Stay that pretty gray.

Sure. Of the three examples I gave, when you download them, you get a single executable file with no dependencies. After you've done some programming, you hit compile and they produce a single executable file with no dependencies. I'm not a professional programmer, but I assume this means everything is statically linked.

It looks like Red might not actually do this.