Best: Tractor engine idling. It's a nice consistent low rumble that you can feel in the ground even when it's not that loud. Like being rocked to sleep.

Worst: Somebody building a deck or house nearby. Just when you think the random hammers and nail-guns might be over the racket starts up again. Impossible to sleep through.

Art without STEM is sentimental. STEM without Art is sterile.

The Cube.
Most people saw it as an average horror movie where a bunch of people try to get out of a giant torture box. But there was a pivotal scene that stuck with me where one of the prisoners realizes he helped build part of it. The whole thing wasn't some intentional torture device but just a bunch of people doing their day jobs that were lost in a bureaucracy not ever questioning what their work was creating.
A stark reflection of society and the systems we create and the dangers of not ever looking at the bigger picture.

Of course they proceeded to shit all over this idea in Cube2 where it ended up being just another evil government experiment.

I think it's pronounced "Madam President"

Hohndel agreed but added that the industry needs to support these smaller projects -- and not only with money. "Companies need to engage with these projects. Have your company adopt a couple of such projects and just participate. Read the code, review the patches, and provide moral support to the maintainers. It's as simple as that."

Really glad he said this, I keep seeing posts about how all these big companies could solve the problem by just throwing money at small projects and while that is better than nothing it would help way more to have their own developers helping to review and fix issues.

I had the exact same thought. I get the intent, it's a "hello fellow kids, we understand you!" but the fact that there are so many people in that situation to make it relatable is already depressing enough without making it sound like it's the normal everyone should just accept.

Yeah unfortunate. At least the first comments there corrected them.

Convenience.
Sadly it is something far fewer people are willing to give up than any of the above.

When a drug company in the 80s scaled up production they accidentally created seed crystals that spread around the entire Earth's atmosphere that prevented other companies from manufacturing a generic drug without it attaching to the seeds and converting to the patented drug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph#Paroxetine_hydrochloride

Yeah I guess you could argue that not encrypting or obfuscating the binary makes it a bit faster to create a pirated version but it doesn't really effect piracy rates beyond that.
I'm just happy to see a FOSS engine being noticed as important to the game's success.

yeah the headline is pretty bad clickbait but the interview (@11mins) was amusing and pretty high praise for the deck.

Often animations get stuck (until a timeout is hit after ~30 seconds).
Sometimes units can appear on a city that already has a unit and is blocked from moving away which prevents ending the turn.
Sometimes linked units don't move together properly until the next turn.
Capturing a builder or settler with a linked unit just deletes it.
Currently if you buy Gathering Storm DLC you cannot play it with anyone who doesn't also own Rise and Fall.

And those are just the issues I noticed personally this week.

We even have an app for it now: apt install hollywood

What that needs is a smoke animation that starts as soon as your core temps get too high.

Are you going to notice a decent performance improvement? Probably not unless your card or drivers are currently not working properly.

Will driver updates and configuration be a lot less of a hassle? Most likely yes!

Commercial yogurt. Yeah maybe it's just a tasty and healthy probiotic. Or maybe it's a way for food conglomerates to change our gut bacteria so that we crave even more foods with cheap sugar.

I misread that title as Humans and peanut butter are close relatives. Was starting to think I was nuts.

You know the "vibes" of different models - when to use

Would that be a vibe-rater?

everyone who owns their houses took a loan, then worked

my grandfather bought him a house

mhm.

While I don't think his father owes him a house I also don't think it's at all rude to ask if he'd be willing to help him get one.

If you have trouble going to sleep then try falling asleep instead.