There was something in the manual if I remember correctly. Which you wouldn’t necessarily have if you rented the game.

I used to be an avid reader but as I got older and busier I just couldn’t find the time.

Then when I did have time there was always distractions, or other things I could be doing.

So now I read primarily via audiobooks through Libby and my library.

I read 130 books or so last year that way.

Mowing the yard? Audiobook.

Long drive? Audiobook.

Waiting at the doctors? Audiobook.

Dishes? Audiobook.

And then when I’m really invested I’ll relax by playing some mindless game while I listen. Think match 3 or bejeweled.

Just engaging enough to keep me from getting bored while listening but not so much that I can’t do both.

Balatro, BABA is you? Bad candidates for playing and listening.

The last couple of years I burned through the wheel of time series, all of Brandon Sanderson’s books (except skyward which I haven’t gotten to), a lot of Adrian Tchaikovsky, and others.

Considering how we use it. It is absolutely fascinating. Same for magnetism

Journey is good.

Rime is a good (but emotional) story.

Right. And if you’re going to do it at least do it right.

At least make his tie grumpy cat, or Harambe.

One thing to consider. When the stocks that are part of a mutual fund drop… then your retirement contributions will be buying them on sale.

Assuming the mutual funds are spread out to minimize risk (1 of the funds companies folds, etc) overall you’ll be better off long term.

As you age you’ll start moving your investments to more stable options (talk to a financial adviser on the specifics for your plans). This way they that won’t benefit from huge gains but also are a lot less likely to be wiped out by massive drops.

In the meantime look at how your funds are doing over time. Not even year to year but maybe every 2 or 3 years.

And the rest is standard UI conventions. Some of which have been in place since the 90’s.

Old Windows UX guideline documents for those who may be curious.

https://ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Microsoft_WindowsGuidelines.pdf

Or the end key which goes to the end of a any line in any text editor in windows

Or the router, in another state, and the person with access to the closet/server room knows how to push a few buttons at best.

That happens once… and you get misconfigophobia for life.

The Speed of Light is NOT About Light

It may be easier to supply DC power directly to the soldering joints (at the right values after the converter) or even replacing that one component as using the jack itself.

The hassle and delay is part of how it works. If there was a seamless catch all then it wouldn’t be feasible to make it secure.

Having a second physical factor, as much as it can be a hassle, is much better than any single factor.

Your password can be breached, brute forced, bypassed if there’s an issue somewhere.

Your biometrics can’t be changed so anything that breaks them (such as the breach of finger prints in databases, etc) makes them moot.

A single physical token can be stolen and/or potentially cloned by some attack in physical proximity (or breach of an upstream certificate authority)

But doing multiple of those at the same time. That’s inordinately much harder to do.

I will say the point/gist of the article is a good one. The variety of types some used here and others used there does make it a hassle to try to wrangle all the various accounts/logins. Especially in their corporate and managed deployment which isn’t saving passwords and has a explicit expiration of credential cache (all good things)

A bunch of tiny lightbulbs that use twisted light and quantum mechanics to turn on or off.

And if you want to tank it without overtly tanking it.

“We will need to establish a review and governance board to establish standard data structures and reporting that can be used to drive the initiative.

It will need to be cross team and cross specialty so we should start by establishing a group to identify those people so we can proceed”

A year later and you’ll be lucky if they’ve even picked out who can be part of the review process let alone agree on some convention and adjusting their tooling and processes to make that work.

I was thinking of the term salinity.

There’s also heat exchange so you’ll have deep sea vents where there could be all kinds of caustic stuff and/or minerals.

So it wouldn’t necessarily be fresh even if that stuff wasn’t saline

I don’t write games but a lot of people that do often say something similar. Do play tests for the concept/mechanics.

This way you don’t spend time/energy and resources on art and assets that won’t be used, etc.

Similar to a minimal viable product in regular dev or, perhaps a better analogy, technical demos.

You want to write a site or app that fetches API data for GPS, calendar and Weather and show them together? You don’t start with the UI. You start with:

• Can I get the GPS coordinates
• Can I call another API and get the weather for those coordinates?
• Can I get the coordinates or other info for some future location?
• Can I send that to get the weather?

Once you know you can and that it “works” you build around it.

So like you said. I have boxes, and this other box (or static PNG of a cat) moves around them and when I move this way it drops the box down on another box.

Does that work? Does it feel “fun” to arrange them? No, it feels tedious or can’t get the collision right? Then let’s try a different angle or taking the part that did work and iterating on it.

This also leaves you open to random bugs that end up being “fun” when you lean into them.

Game Makers Toolkit has some good videos on his journey making “Mind over Magnet”. Here’s the playlist.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc38fcMFcV_uH3OK4sTa4bf-UXGk2NW2n

There’s also PirateSoftware whose entire stream is devoted to “go and make games”

Why’s he breaking down the door?

She’s been in there for hours. How else is he supposed to get her out the door for dinner.

[More laughter]

Windows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.