But professors are busy doing research. They don’t have time for that.

Like the Apple Lisa?

63% of workers unable to pay a $500 emergency expense, survey finds. How employers may help change that

They will make it 83%

SD card slot and headphones jack. And an affordable price.

I feel the same way, but about fantasy RPGs in general. So many great games like Witcher series, Dragons Age, Baldur’s Gate, Elder Scrolls etc. I’m just put off by medieval fantasy in general. I really enjoyed other RPGs like Fallout or Mass Effect, and I wish there were more similar games I could play.

They simply need to change the way relevancy is measured. They need to implement some mechanism that can evaluate the quality of the page. The algorithm should penalize sites that have content very similar to other sites (like those that scrape github or stackoverflow), low effort sites, or sites that are infested with too many ads.

And since so much quality information is in youtube videos, and they already generate transcripts, why can’t you search through those?

Yeah, but monitors don’t typically have a remote control or TV tuner embedded. But if that’s not an issue, sure, a monitor would work.

Dumb TVs have gotten hard to find these days. Your options are to either avoid connecting the tv to the internet, or to get digital signage display (but they are pricier).

Carmaggedon

It’s not worth it. Ram is dirt cheap, you can get 8gb for like $30. For $150-$200, you can find an used Thinkpad that will perform 1000x better.

I would only use such a machine for playing with old software like Windows 2000 or XP, old Linux distros.

On programming topics, your top search results will be stack overflow followed github followed by sites that scrape stack overflow and then the sites that scrape github. It’s great.

As a developer, it’s easy to get lost implementing things that “you might need”, and waste time on countless refactorings. This is why project management is very important, and to have capable people in the leadership that can give a direction.

I’ve seen some interviews with developers, and they definitely are building cool tech, for example procedural generators that can do very detailed models of buildings and interiors, but it takes time away from actually making the game.

Check my other comment, I found a quote saying they have about 1000 employees. At $100k/yr average salary, that’s about $100M/yr just to pay the salaries. Even if they underpay at $50k/yr, thats $50M/yr. That money is simply being burned. This whole project is a classic example of feature creep and sunk cost fallacy.

I can’t answer the first question, but developers and artists are expensive. Here is a quote I found online

As of 2020-12, CIG has a total of 695 staff. 512 of whom are developers. As of July 2023, 1100 CIG staff are working on Star Citizen, not counting third party …

At an $100000/yr salary, a team of 1100 people will cost $110mil/year. That excludes other business costs or any third party company they may contract for various assets, for example music.

I am terrible at it too, but slowly getting better. I have recently set up restic to automatically run daily backups from a digital ocean droplet where I’m hosting my website to my home NAS. It’s a great tool, it can encrypt data, send it to a remote location and it does incremental backups so it doesn’t take up that much space.

Long term, my plan is to do a similar setup to back up important data to a cloud (probably a separate digital ocean server). Of course, I won’t be backing up my Linux distros, only the important stuff like documents, photos, personal projects.

I’m also considering using blu-ray discs. They are convenient, can store large amounts of data (well… for me 25GB is a lot), are offline physical discs that don’t degrade that easily if properly stored. Also, once burned they are read only which is great for backups.

What I don’t like about buying things from abroad is that RMA-ing gets difficult and expensive.

Because these are small shops that have limited availability outside North America, and are fairly expensive compared to Thinkpads which are widely used by corporations, and can be found pretty cheaply.

Ultimately, change will only happen when the institutions start listening to the people. But we know that won’t happen as long as corporations can buy out and bribe the institutions meant to regulate them.

There are 2 big obstacles we need to overcome. The first is corporate ownership of residential property. This needs to go away.

The second big issue, we need to build higher density housing, and get rid of the enormous parking spaces that take up our downtowns. Not everyone needs a house. And you can absolutely build medium density housing that doesn’t feel cramped. Sure, living in an apartment is not perfect, but you are closer to the places you want to go, and public transportation is more feasible. It’s a win-win for everyone.

But you will need to fight other survivors to stay there. Better prep.