They are talking like they want to / believe they have an Elective Monarchy:

• The Elected Leader is the State and can not be restrained by any officials, government branch, or law
• The Elected Leader’s actions are legitimate because the elected leader made them

If I die of a stroke in front of Microsoft Word, I hope my family also prints out my document and laminates it in my memory.

We have several Community Market arrangements in my town. People who make homemade stuff, like decorations, knitwear, art, crafts, jam, soap etc can book a stand for a day or several. It’s extremely exhausting to sit on a shitty chair for 8 hours straight in a crowded place, and especially in the Christmas market when you are half outside and temperatures are close to freezing, so most people book two days in a row at most.

This one group of people just books end-to-end for the entire market duration. Like, weeks. They show up, fill their stand with TEMU crap, and take turns to sit at the stand and consistently sell nothing to nobody.

The quality of a work lies not in how it makes you feel, but in how many polysyllabic words it allows you to use when talking about it.

In order:

• Overscoped
• Wrong people in charge on all levels
• Unfocused
• This turned out ok?

When did I say I was talking about the definition of a woman?

At what point did I say you as a centrist am saying that trans people don’t exist?

The centrism fallacy:

A: I want B to be erased.

B: I want to exist. Fuck off.

Centrist: Now now don’t be rude. Let’s find some middle ground. A wants B to stop existing and we must respect all opinions. B, do you have a compelling and reasobable counter-argument for your right to exist? Be civil.

As a computer dothings maker, absolutely! I’d request a sketch or make one and ask if it fits the client’s intention as the first step of any such project.

That should be enough to get started. It can be easier if you clarify a few things:

• remove “Very simple user experience”. It means nothing.
• Mobile-friendly is fine, but you may intend “mobile first”? See it that feels right to you.
• Draw sketches of the customer’s UI, your UI, and the cleaners’ UI. It may feel like a lot of work but trust me it’s going to save ten times the effort in communication total.

Be prepared to spend at least 3000-5000 USD on this. Anyone offering less is not able to do the job.

I’m still too afraid to try deathworld, haha. What sort of strategies do you use to manage it?

That’s interesting! I normally play the opposite, and rush to get cliff explosives and all the landfills before scaling up. In this playthrough I was forced to scale up without any of that, and mostly with yellow belts, so this was a fun opportunity to play along with the landscape.

Oh wow, “neat” was the last word I thought would come to mind. :D Walls pushed out as far as I was able, and everything else just placed wherever there was space, connected by train.

“Waterfall process” is a curseword in software development for a reason.

To me it proves the person is thinks that a game can be created without prototyping and iteration. In addition to only doing 10% of the work, they are under the illusion that they have done 80% and completing it is just a rote exercise. They have also overdesigned untested features and mechanics which makes any iteration harder. I’d have to break their thing down and iterate over the parts with them while also explaining this to them.

It’s just double worst.

No. Learning anything is hard. It is important to accept this. There is no special explanation or trick that gives a shortcut to learning.

When people say “learning to code isn’t hard” they are also correct, but they are speaking relatively. Learning to code isn’t hard as learning things go. Compared to playing piano, guitar, doing skateboard tricks, juggling, etc… it’s just practice and focus and reading and watching and practice and time.

I have even bigger aversions to anyone coming with “I have this fully specced Game Design Document”

Things that can affect it, with some wild estimates on how it reduces the 800kh:

• Processors are 10-100 times faster. Divide by 100ish.
• A common laptop CPU has 16 cores. Divide by 16.
• GPUs and CPUs have more and faster math operations for numbers. Divide by 10.
• RAM speeds and processor cache lines are larger and faster. Divide by 10.
• Modern processors have more and stronger SIMD instructions. Divide by 10.
• Ray tracing algorithms may be replaced with more efficient ones. Divide by 2.

That brings it down to 3-4 hours I think, which can be brought to realtime by tweaking resolution.

So it looks plausible!

They look angelic compared to democratically elected americans /shrug

There is a viable strategy with it, but it requires a specific infrastructure from the start: Build a huge science platform with 40 grabbers to get going, and ship water up via launches. After Vulcanus for carbon, all fuel can be shipped up.

Not fractions, but a series yes. It’s an obfuscation of a famous unsolvable problem in math.