It was actually pretty good. I remember having to pass an ingame training course to use the medic class. I still vaguely remember how to apply a tourniquet lol

I really wish we could focus on the actual causes of high government spending instead of this or that tax rate.

I tend to think it’s due to use it or lose it budgets. Same thing happens outside government too. You get a chunk of money to use, and if you don’t spend it all, you’ll probably get less next year. If you spend it all, you might be able to argue for more next year since you ran out.

There’s little incentive for the groups doing the spending to save a lot of money, especially if they know they only take a tiny piece of the enormous pie. But it collectively causes that pie to have to be enormous.

Is there any real world solution to this endemic behavioral incentives problem with some history of large scale long-term success? Naive solutions can easily backfire or lead to corruption. You don’t want to incentivize cutting so much that necessary spending is impacted either.

Yeah my house is almost 100 years old but it’s pretty close to a lot of stuff. The small bit of land is worth as much as the house.

Always irks me when articles and pundits talk about housing prices without distinguishing between land value and structure value. Like…the data is easily accessible. Just look at the parcel map, not Zillow or whatever.

They probably wanted to use Rust but got frustrated by its struct and impl paradigm.

They’re backtracking now that they need workers back. Sure, there was some very short quarterly profit increase. But at what cost?

And this will lead to games with more animations and better animations, not a loss of animation jobs. Might lower the skill ceiling a bit, but there are always going to be bespoke animations requiring much more manual work, especially for non-humanoids and objects. Animators will be able to focus their time more broadly.

Which is faster, getting a squiggle instantly or discovering a silly bug at runtime later? So happy I could write code in Typescript and be confident it would do what I expected when it ran without digging out the debugger.

The language and its standard libraries lead developers towards common patterns. Javascript’s standard library is pretty sparse excluding browser-only web apis, so there are tons of external libraries to fill the gap for better or worse.

I commit and squash before pushing the branch if I have to change what I’m working on. Keeps the changes on remote so I don’t lose progress. Not like a PR is open if the work I isn’t ready anyway.

If it’s a build artifact, put it in a registry. If it’s resource type files, Git LFS can be used if it’s not an absolute ton.

But did you PULL the string?!