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In Canada they give new parents a book about that. Maybe ask around to see if your gov is doing the same thing?

When Trump ups everything from China by 100% I guess US would be able to make something with profit?

Can absolutely relate and understand.

I taught myself C++ by writing games with SDL2.

The first game -- snake took about a couple of hundred lines and I put everything in one .CPP file. And I felt pretty good.

The second game, well, I forgot what it is, not Tetris nor Breakout, but it was complex enough that I realized that I need to put code into header files and source files.

The last game of that project was a Ultima-spinoff. I even used the same sprite sheet. The complexity completely drowned me. I was constantly asking myself how should I arrange things properly so I don't need a lot of global variables that every file can see, because naturally the Game class needs to see and know all other classes, and the Renderer class needs to see and know many other classes too, etc.

Eventually I dropped the project. A few years ago I picked it up again and figured out something that is close to Entity - System (not ECS just ES). I didn't complete the project but then firmly believe that it was the right architecture, and I was simply too burnt out to complete it.

This year I learned about ECS from pikuma. I think it's over complicated for small-medium games. Anyway I'm trying to say that I agree that writing a 10,000 line project is way more complicated than 10 1,000 line projects.

Wow that's really a lot...do you happen to live in Florida and work in the defense industry? I saw someone with 5 kids posting hiring posts a couple of years ago and he also has a lot of kids, so just asking.

For me it's the kid. Kid doesn't really take a huge chunk of time, but he takes all the time between 5pm and 6:30pm, 50 mins between 6:30 and 8:00pm, 10 mins between 9:00 and 10:00, and many times 30 mins between 8:00pm and 9:00pm. So in reality I don't even have a large enough chunk of time for gaming, let alone studying and working on side projects. And occasionally work spills into the night.

I have to sacrifice sleep for anything I want.

You have my envy. Congratulations !

For whoever appreciates Dostoevsky, I recommend reading Lev Shestov.

I would love to know, how many paying customers, especially big spenders, are leaving.

Reminds me of the big blue disk and gamer's edge from which ID Software grew. We now have an abundance of software to enjoy but I wish I lived through the early days.

You have to love what you do, otherwise you won't care in the long term.

Once you figure out that the rest is trivial.

I think engineers should be more forceful to lead their own visions instead being led by accountants and lawyers.

After engineers have the power of implementation and de-implementstion. They need to step into dirty politics and bend other people's views.

It's either theirs or ours. Win-win is a fallacy.

Thanks, 2h is a bit too much for me, so what I do is about 3-4 10-12 mins walk-sprint walk reps. Basically half walk (3.5m/h) and half sprint-walk (4.4m/h). I wish I could do more but my joints are not really good.

Thanks, that's good enough. I have been going to weight loss for over 6 months but I'm stuck between 79 and 80kg. It's a bit difficult to add more weight lifting because I tended to hurt myself, so eat less is better.

Just curious, does your appetite come back whence you cut off the meds?

The only reason I want to lose weight is to eat more freely, won't be useful if I lose my appetite too.

Scrollbars seem to be the No. 1 enemy of UI designers.

On MacOS, even with scrollbars always turned on, app designers still try to hide it whenever possible. I think it's a mindset or some underlying library issue because I have seen some websites/apps hiding scrollbars.

And for apps/websites that do show scrollbars, sometimes they are barely useable. ChatGPT is one example.

Thanks, glad that you like what you are doing.

Thanks for sharing. Really interesting projects. I myself had some fascination about game dev but it's just too much of effort to create art assets. Nowadays it's a lot easier for artists to create games instead of programmers, unless I don't care about art, which makes it even harder.

A few years ago we got the same thing: a guy sent a email to finance showing his bonuses and somehow sent it to everyone. Then everyone knows his bonus and salary.

I think finding them has the most fun. I'll probably also collect some good trilobite fossils if I can find some. But I believe reading reports -> figuring out where the location is in modern map -> finding exactly the same spots -> finding some fossils mentioned in the reports is the best part.

What a tragedy. I hope the community projects go better.

Basically my No.1 rule about Ads is that I don't buy any brand in the Ads and I tell my family and friends about this too.

Of course occasionally it's a brand pretty tough to avoid and then I wonder why they need the Ads anyway...

One has to take care of his own mental issues. I don't think you should be blamed on anything. If I were in his shoes I'd find another gig quickly.

Check out Vlad the astrophysicist, it's interesting.

However, I find it difficult to believe that all other staffs, e.g. the retrieval teams, the scientists, can keep their mouths shut. Unless they live in a cave from birth to death.

I wish you good luck. It's tough (because we cannot lie to ourselves).

Still haven't figured out what I truly love at age 40+. Guess it's a life long mission. Maybe that's what I truly love to do -- to figure out what I truly love to do.

How pathetic.

Yeah, it's half money and time and half kid.

A more realistic option is to just buy a chalet in a relatively remote area so I have access to some sort of plumbing system. But then again it's tough to find a stable remote job and a good school for my kid. (Again money can probably solve both)

I wish I could do that in Canada. Not totally isolated but a few kms from a main road with a chalet and something. Solar for power, Starlink for network and I can die in that chalet.

But building and maintaining are going to be hell because I know exactly zero about those.

I actually think QT is not too bad for small applications too. I wrote a Quake launcher over a few days because I was so tired of finding my Quake executable and setting the same configurations every time I load a mod. I knew zero about QT back then so someone could write it in an afternoon. I think it definitely can be used equally easy for something bigger, e.g. a frontend of a lc-3 VM.

Tiktok? Culture might be different, but maybe test it out if possible.