Handheld Zelda link’s awakening for the Gameboy hits me the hardest as it was the first I owned myself bought with my first jobs mowing lawns and delivering papers.

Console, NES contra watching my older brothers get way further than I could at the time & teach me the Konami code

PC xwing, I had a f16 flight stick and my siblings would play splitting weapons/shield/engines distribution to a copilot and the pilot flying and aiming. That mission where you have to fly back and forth protecting the Corvette from imperial attacks from both sides jumping in and out of the area was peak retro space combat gaming.

More libraries for more things, physical and digital. Some traditional libraries have expanded to other media, tools, etc but it’s really just scratching the surface on community sharing of reusable resources, mostly limited by funding for staff and space for public libraries.

Access to resources for scientific reproducibility studies. Publish or perish models are based around publishing novel research in for profit journals. Peer reviews generally do not reproduce the study or experiment as they are not paid for that work and can only review the paper on it’s merits itself. This leads to bad actors who submit research that can get past review and remain cited for potential years before someone attempts to and fails to reproduce their work, and it’s getting worse with for example comp sci research not including publishing code or software projects with their research. If there were a way to fund reproducibility studies you could open a new path for a scientifically trained workforce and improve the quality of available research in general.

And on scientific research for profit peer review journals themselves. They could be replaced by nonprofit organizations relying on more digital spaces like arXive.org or sci-hub to add credential and public review on top of available research, but nothing has been reputable enough to really break past mass adoption in most scientific fields.

If you want examples of what people work on check out the public github repositories, they range from big open source projects with multiple developers, testers, etc to small projects only one person has worked on.

Many languages/build chains will provide template projects these days to give you some baseline to build from instead of an empty directory. Maven archetypes for example in Java or https://start.spring.io/ for spring projects in Java/kotlin/groovy. But that’s just to give you some structure and frameworks so you’re not starting with a blank canvas.

Different languages will appeal to different practices too, like a compiled language you’ll want to leverage debuggers and logging, but an interactive language, or one that offers both compiled and interactive, may have a REPL or command line prompt to work against to try out ideas before saving them in a script or class file.

One universe across, depending on your frame of reference

Where does ICE fall in this paradigm?

Voyager, used to use & prefer Sync but it didn’t keep up with instance upgrades

1947 marked a major turning point for workers rights in the US when they outlawed solidarity between unions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft–Hartley_Act

The US and France currently both have around 10% union workforce, France is a million times more effective at striking because unions strike together & nonunion workers don’t cross strike lines, coordinated and targeted.

Midwest US at a large nonprofit with ~10% union workers, ~7 hours PTO accrued per 2 week pay period adds up to just over 184 hours or 23 days, and another 14 holidays. PTO accrued was tiny until 5 years seniority, currently at 13 years and I think it caps at 8@20.

I usually take off as much as I can, about a month per year spread out by 1-2 week stretches for a vacation or just to take care of personal work or projects, moves, family stuff, etc.

Depends on the circumstances. If I’m walking on a street or neighborhood someone told me they got mugged on I’ll be way more aware and observant than otherwise. Same if I’m walking in nature it’s good to look behind regularly to be familiar with how the trail looks both ways so you don’t get turned around on the way back or if there are large predators in the area. If I’m walking around my neighborhood I’ll be much more selective about when I’m more observant because I know where the poorly lit areas and blind corners are, and more so at 2am than 2pm.

It’s buggy but it’s mine, pillars of eternity 2 deadfire

I never really got into the one character party hardest mode min/maxing, but everything else about it is pretty much what I want from an RPG

Civvie has some great stuff if you’re into arena/arcade style shooters. His Blood review is classic

Currently just Jeff Gerstmann, my favorite video games journalist

A clone and an android doppelganger and none of us know who is which

I can tell the time at night, most of human history needed the sun to have any chance at accuracy

Do what you think is right, but spend some time considering if it’s right or not first.

Recognizing when you’re not considering and just going by intuition or emotional response would probably already put you ahead of most of us.

Empathy seems to be necessary (but I’m not sure if sufficient) for logical moral consideration because you cannot justify your position if you purposefully ignore another’s, and considering someone else’s perspective without prejudice is empathy.

My state has 10 million people and made over $300 million in tax last year distributed around $100 million each divided between roads, schools, and local municipalities/community organizations.

Referring to people, staff as resources. Nice and dehumanizing.

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Boards of Canada for some lofi nostalgia

Streets of Rage soundtrack, Sonic 1-3, donkey Kong country aquatic something is a killer

Commix - call to mind is some classic dnb, some lyrics but often looped and mixed to be more of just another instrument

Sasha - airdrawndagger, more ambient slower melodies

Tycho - dive

Anything by Philip Glass or John Williams

Cloudkicker - Beacons, progressive metal band instrumentation kinda like animals as leaders

2010 Toyota Corolla - 2003 Toyota Corolla is the new national anthem

Bohren & der club of gore for some slow noir jazz

My favorite is probably Russell’s teapot, but Daniel Dennett had some good ones in the intuition pump book too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell’s_teapot

It demonstrates the burden of proof is on the person making claims, including if the claim is unfalsifiable.