Same for me, although I would also say that the level of polish a game can attain helps a lot. Red Dead Redemption 2 and Baldurs Gate 3 come to mind as games that were meticulously worked on to the smallest detail.
This reminds me about a couple of famous fics that each have their own fics inspired by them: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality [0], and The Arithmancer [1].
The first has it own wikipedia page and its from the creator of LessWrong. From Wikipedia:
> It adapts the story of Harry Potter to explain complex concepts in cognitive science, philosophy, and the scientific method.
I read it almost 10 years ago but remember it getting tiresome after a while, but it does teach a ton about logical thinking.
The second is a less famous fic where someone who must have at least a masters in mathematics wrote Hermione as using math to create her own spells, theories and gradually becoming better at magic as she turned into a better arithmancer, and everything is based in real world theory.
I don't think Uber Eats is the default delivery app in any Latin American country (maybe excluding Mexico). Most used on average are Rappi, Didi Foods and PedidosYa [0].
I have about 150 games in the backlog that I buy in sales to play later, when I don't like them after 30 minutes I just refund them. Steam has been pretty good with this, doesn't matter if I bought it months before, they will still refund them.
I guess the demos would be better for Steam as they don't lose credit card fees.
Some of those jobs are already in lower cost countries but some can't be outsourced because they rely on military contracts (can only be worked on by US employees).
I once worked on an offshore company that did staff augmentation for american robotics companies, we did mostly software because the hardware was illegal to export.
> I promise it is quite possible for a nation to banish unemployment but still have a majority of people struggling to get by.
You can always end up having a bunch of low paying jobs that don't allow for a good standard of living. Everyone will be employed but I'm sure no one will end up enjoying that.
I usually dream when I have slept really well for a few days. At least for me when my mind is tired I fall into dreamless sleep in a few seconds, instead of several minutes with a soft transition to dreaming.
QA normally do everything manually, with 0 automation I can see some games taking more than 500 testers to go through all possible paths. Especially in live service games like Apex.
I worked briefly on a AAA game and my team had 2 dedicated american QAs for the feature that knew everything there was to know and tested happy paths/made docs, and there also was a building of testers in Ukraine that tried to break the game in a myriad of ways and filled general bugs.
At some point in alpha we had around 500 bugs filled in jira, and this was only one game mode.
Putting aside some time to do non-tech stuff is a good idea, things like going to the gym, reading books, going out and walking around, etc.
Also as an experiment I deleted Twitter which I used to mindlessly scroll, put HN on no procrastination mode and stopped reading digital news except for two sites that I trust and read sporadically about two years ago. It might sound strange but I ended up feeling a lot happier on the regular as a result.
Spending some time curating what you consume or limiting the amount of time a day could also be a good idea.
Sorry I don't have a recommendation but this seems hard, symbols in math can mean different things depending on the context (the field you are looking in) and at least while I was in undergrad they seemed to change between professors all the time while meaning the same thing.
Hopefully I am wrong and there is a way to learn with a game as with Seterra.
I hope they start distributing it to more countries at some point, I really want to get my hands on one.
For people with big steam libraries it's a no brainer, lately most games come with controller support out of the box, and for everything else the community patches it in.
Where I work we just had a round of layoffs and it was almost all middle level managers. I guess now it's the time where individual contributors that directly create value are more important than people who mostly organize and communicate.
Wonder what this will do to what is left of middle management.
> ...He wanted to wean Italy off of foreign wheat imports, which were becoming increasingly difficult to acquire amidst international sanctions and a suffering domestic economy. Rice grew well in Northern Italy, so Mussolini sent free rice samples throughout the country and bombarded Italians with pro-rice propaganda.
How did pasta get so popular if they had to import the wheat? Seems they cannot produce enough for the whole population without imports even now, I would think that would make it expensive over staples thay they can grow themselves.
I was just going to post this, AR glasses are getting really impressive, although I tried to get a pair and almost all companies are either in the "Coming Soon" stage or perpetually out of stock.
Also tried getting the enterprise Google Glasses but it's difficult getting them as a hobbyist.
Regarding the Venezuelan comment: In 2009 the country was also entering economic turmoil, and it never recovered.
I couldn't find anything in English, but this wikipedia page also mentions that propane gas has been in shortage since 2014 domestically for Venezuelans (years before the first sanctions were established): https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escasez_de_combustible_en_Ve....
PDVSA (government company responsible for gas and fuel extraction and processing) has been mismanaged for more than 20 years, the "free" propane was never going to last, and it was extensively used to gain political allies while it was given away.