i think there's a balance, where you know where you want to get to and strive to course-correct towards it over time, but allow your present circumstances to choose which one of the infinite ways is going there today
in a few thousand years someone will figure out how to undo all the reddit comment scrambling scripts people ran during the apipocalypse and have a similar renaissance
my theory is that restaurants used to just close when the owner / chef / patrons ran out of steam to keep an excellent place afloat
it seems to be more popular now to buy a struggling business that seemed highend, give it a new coat of paint, swap the menu for something from a university cafeteria, and keep it making money for a couple decades
> the restaurant was fully booked. No warmth. No conversation. Just a long wait and a closed door.
> Here’s where most stories would end with “so they moved everything online and fired the reservation staff.” That’s not what happened. They did move to online booking, but they kept the entire reservation team and repurposed them.
wait, so the restaurant owner's answer to a fully booked schedule is to... change everything?
i live in the US and cant get something sent here to save my life
i used to get weekly packages from indie european stores and samples from asia
since tarrifs, that has dropped to zero, with 90% of my shipments being returned for cryptic reasons (like 'incomplete address' when the full address is correct and visible) or outright 'No' from sellers
its starting to feel less like random failure and more like "system working as designed" :(
whenever i want to play a video game with someone, theres no way to just pick up a couple of controllers and jump into a game without waiting for something to start, or update, or sync, or...
im building a tiny handheld video game (think GBA) where simply turning it on starts the game and you can immediately start playing. no os to boot, bios checksum screen to wait through, or scripts between you and the game. if another person turns their handheld on, they join your game and it becomes multiplayer seamlessly
esp32-s3 based for dual cores (screen updates / game loop) and bluetooth for "local" wireless multiplayer matchmaking, currently making the game itself be like a cross between puyo pop and tetris (an actual mashup of the rules, not just two games in one cartridge)
> The Hippocratic License is an ethical software license created to ensure that open source software is not used for harmful purposes, aligning with human rights principles
> Maybe if the airline notices that all the passengers are sitting on the left (for some strange reason) or something like that, they would reseat people.
I was on a turboprop plane when they made a few people switch seats to balance the weight: the seats were arranged Seat - Aisle - Seat - Seat , and all the singles on the left side were filled to the back, with only a few seats on the right side taken.