Yes, yes they do. And they have high-pressure air wars and they short batteries through paper clips chains to see how hot they can get them. Kids still do stupid things, honest.
My description: Use code to direct wheeled, hover and flying bots to construct, combat and explore.
Description: Colobot (Colonize with Bots) is an educational, post apocalyptic real-time strategy video game featuring 3D graphics, created by Swiss developer Epsitec SA. The objective of the game is to find a planet for colonization by the human race by establishing a basic infrastructure on the surface and eliminating any alien life forms endangering the expedition. The game takes place on the Earth, Moon, and seven fictional planets. The main feature of the game, which makes it educational, is the possibility for players to program their robots using a programming language similar to C++ or Java.
"Back then", just being nearby and showing interest was often all that was needed. I remember wandering into the engineering computer lab my first day of college and being asked if I wanted an account by someone only a few years older than I. (I promptly locked up my shell, didn't know what to do and power cycled the machine under the desk. Got a quick reminder that multi-user machines didn't need to be the large rackmounted things I was used to. Oops.)
(My story about fathers and punchcards involves hanging out in the lab with my dad when he was doing his CS homework. I had great fun punching dirty words into the scrap cards and crashing while playing lunar lander on the greenbar printer.)
Or you can make it go away completely with: https://zoom.us/profile/setting and search for 'apps'. Turn off "Zoom Apps Quick Launch Button" and I believe that makes the dock go away, too.
Love that one! My first thought was “we’ve already got one, you see; it’s very nice.”
When I decided to start flying flags a few years back, I got one of these. Good conversation starter with the neighbors. (And my Kerbals always flew their missions under this flag, too!)
My daughter checked the existence of the tooth fairy by not telling us when she lost a tooth and putting it under her pillow. The pride on her face when she informed of of the results of her experiment the next morning made my heart sing.
It’s quite discouraging to stumble upon a well-written bug report that matches exactly an issue I’m having and see that it’s been “sent away”.
I’m not getting angry, per se, but more disappointed and concerned that the project might not have enough resources to make me feel comfortable using it in the way I intended. (The one I’m thinking of was a cross-cloud app that obviously got more love on AWS than GCP. I got the feeling from the staled bugs that GCP was the “red-headed stepchild”, so we phased that app out after the POC.)
I like the “bug reports are signals, not tasks” idea, though. As a user, I’ll keep that in mind and see if that helps change my gut reaction to the stalebot.
To be honest, I thought this was an “ask HN”, not an actual article. Thanks for saving me the click. I’d be interested to hear what other people here could come up with.
What’s the metric? Financial gain? Damage done? Most Clever? Most visible? Most lives improved?
(Just read TFA, and the author seems to be going with “most destructive”. Meh.)
Interesting. My third thought was “Huh, perhaps we’ll be eating less beef until the inevitable price shock and hoarding passes.”
(First thought was for the poor IT folks stuck in this mess and the second was remembering a sensitive machine that was open to all of AWS because the vendor’s servers “needed access to push frequent updates.” and “nobody has ever pushed back on that requirement before.”)
I remember a friend complaining that he had to work over the weekend when they hit 10,000. That 5th digit screwed up all their column formatting. Technical debit is ever present, unfortunately.
> During the COVID crisis, many Americans stated a desire to allocate healthcare according to a notion of value to society that elevates those with high social cachet.
All of the professions you mentioned (except, perhaps, “god knows what”) involve interacting with other people as part of their primary function.
I’m sure you can see the wisdom of allocating the initial tranche of vaccines to “people who do valuable work and are at higher risk of causing community spread while doing so” over “people who do valuable work but can do that valuable work while isolated, thus reducing the risk of community spread”?
Delightful writeup. Two bits that stood out for me:
- The incremental nature of exploration of this type. Often, the results are shown without the messy bits like "then I made it just teleport the piece to a specific spot to test". That matches how many of us operate, I'm sure.
- The use of a number of varied tools from the toolbox. Falling back to the trusty "sort | uniq" after talking about Rust and emulators with built-in memory peeking functionality? Nice!