you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
If you don’t mind a classic chess. Blitz/bullet/rapid/horde are different styles that don’t take as long to learn enough to have fun. Chess puzzles or against the computer are available if you want to keep it strictly single player. Lichess for multiplayer or I like chess tactics pro for puzzles.
Crosswords, there are programs like alphacross that aggregate from other sources to try different puzzles to find ones that aren’t too easy or hard.
As someone who conferenced some basic ML research in early 2000s and then left academia for a boring/stable software engineering gig in a non IT org to escape the hype bubble only to end up having to talk to people about ML/AI frequently this article speaks to me.
I don’t have anything against Rust, I’m just not very familiar with it
Pretty much all of the command line coreutils programs I use daily are in C; cd, ls, pwd, touch, rm, etc. If I want to write some small utility I’ll usually reach for a scripting language first like bash python ruby etc, but if it needs to be small and fast I’ll use C instead.
I’m usually pretty good with Tuesdays
Crime rates dropping in US, multiple companies working with NASA for ISS access, direct observation of gravitational waves, left reddit for Lemmy, multiple COVID vaccines in like a year from outbreak, more usage of renewable energy sources, etc. There are some obvious problems we need to get together and address as communities, countries, and species, but there are a bunch of improvements and advancements being made too.
Probably take a break for a month or two then look for some oss project or activism to participate in, play more music and video games, etc.
No love for paleolithic design?
I like adding a backup function to .profile that can take a file or list of files as an argument and make a copy with a date suffix on the file name, and same date additional backups just add a character like ~ at the end. It’s in version control, but if I’m testing a change it’s just faster to restore the file from a copy in the same place.
It also doesn’t help that a bunch of games have an upgrade charge, I mostly just use it for Blu-ray lately.
I’m a 30 foot tall lumberjack from Antarctica
If you find yourself in a hole, first step is to stop digging.
I think so, there was a spammer a few weeks ago and after mods removed the spam it still showed up for a few days. Here’s what it looks like in sync:
It’s more of an idea that’s like that than a place always being like that I think. Pirates, wild west, etc.
Where I’m from we call that Laissez-faire IT
Meanwhile at Apple:
Duck Soup, a comedy from about 100 years ago about a selfish clown who fails upward to political leader and ruins the country.
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Don’t play rigged games
Try to do the right thing, but actually take some time to try to figure out if it’s right or just feels right.
Being right and being wrong feels the exact same until challenged with facts.
ScummVM is my emulator of choice, like ePSXe it runs on phones and opens it up to a bunch of classics