due to the system’s large-capacity, low-performance storage structure, no external backups were maintained

Oh man, thats terrifying. Critical systems running without a backup

This is wonderful! I’ll have to look back through the last 35 years

I can speak to the value of a community fridge, I’ve been helping pick up food donations once a week for the past few years. Our town has a few locations downtown and a small network of people manage them (I’m only there to help with heavy boxes). The fridges are all posted outside of churches, which provide electricity and extra storage space, and it’s mostly retired folk who handle the logistics. Whenever we run into someone who’s there to pick up food, they’re always so thankful (if they want to talk, some people aren’t comfortable interacting). We often hear of medical issues putting people out of work, families having to take in kids from other places, and all manner of difficult situations.

Here’s a short impact assessment from 2019 with some numbers (not my town). But these places end up having hosts of network affects that benefit their communities.

Ohhhh I like the step by step compiler build, could be a good time! I’ve always wondered what makes a lisp a “lisp”, this would probably elucidate that pretty fully.

Tremors 1 seems like it set out to be a B movie creature-feature, but had such good dialogue and acting that it overshot the mark.

Ah that’s a classic! I haven’t read it in years, but if you enjoy it it, Gibson has a collection of short stories that you may like: Burning Chrome

When my partner was in med school, the solution was Anki flashcards. Often right before bed or first thing in the morning. It was just so many flashcards, because there are so many medical terms, but it worked!

Just look at all these r packages! https://github.com/cran?q=&type=&language=fortran&sort=

This was such a good idea, so many of these are fire.

then shall they call upon me, but I will not cause any information to be accumulated on the stack.

How much more are ye better than the ordered-list representation

evaluating the operator might modify env, which will be the hope of unjust men

I’m enamored at the level of data gathering. You could make some cool plots!

Honestly same, even this replay I hesitated before sending.

On the topic of fiction, I’ve been reading a book my partner recommended “A Psalm for the Wild Built”. They described it as “happy nature sci-fi, something called solarpunk. I think you’d like it” lol. It’s an easy read, a story set in the far future about a tea monk on an adventure with low stakes and pleasant wordbuilding. It’s very welcome comfort right now. I’ll check out !fiction!fiction@slrpnk.net, if anyone has suggestions for other relaxed-type solarpunk reads, I’m very eager to hear them!

I never thought about temperature/humidity sensors! I know some gardeners that use them in various greenhouses, but that’s interesting stuff. Is there anything yall’ve learned about the power efficiency of heating/cooling methods? Currently we’re making a lot of baked goods and stews to keep the house warmer and more humid, but I don’t have any data on actual power use changes.

If anyone is more interested in the review than the article, here’s the text below. It seems like he was also making mods and patches for the game.

REVIEW: Important disclosure here: Prior to the release of BZ98R (and still to this day), I have been a player of the original game up until it’s final unofficial patch version 1.5.2.27 U1. This game is entirely based on this community patch. People who have played 1.5 are going to feel differently about the game than people who last played it 20 years ago (1.3, 1.31, 1.4…). The same goes for people who had never played BZ98 in any form prior to purchasing this game. This review involves numerous statements of objective fact but it was still written by someone who was playing 1.5 for years prior to the release of this game. I understand that the release of this game was the first many many people heard of BZ98 being alive but the truth is that it never ceased living - it’s good that it brought many back into the fold but it also basically killed the existing community surrounding it. When I heard that this was being made, I instantly experienced fear of what would happen to my beloved game… my fears were well-founded. What follows is my original review:

I’ve been intending to do this for a LONG time…

In nearly every way, BZ98R is inferior to the final version of BZ98 1.5 (1.5.2.27 U1) that came before it. If 1.5 had things like HUD scaling so I could play at high res and still be able to read text, I’d probably play it instead and advocate that others do so as well.

The graphics “upgrade” is hardly an upgrade when the most interesting feature of BZ1 was lost - destroyed ships flying into several pieces. There is a massive laundry list of SEVERE bugs that did not exist in 1.5 and I am not aware of any meaningful bug in 1.5 that was fixed by BZ98R.

• jump sniping is bugged and exploitable
• satellite reveals everything regardless of radar coverage
• various DAMNING armory-related bugs
• bug related to “perceivedTeam” that has wide-reaching consequences including mildly messing up a campaign mission
• the porting of The Red Odyssey was sloppy and a few missions are meaningfully bugged — If you look on the workshop you will see several LUA patches made by me that deal with many of these problems; I strong encourage people who want to enjoy campaign to subscribe and activate them.
• no “all nations” switch
• no “cloak disabled” switch
• bugged map list in MP (in Steam version, not GOG version)
• very poor netcode performance compared to the old game — I also have a somewhat successful patch for this problem on the workshop as well
• no TCP/IP or LAN option for MP - once Rebellion closes down their BZRNET server, MP is no longer possible.
• random crashes, mostly segfaults, occur at a very high rate
• The mission type that is the backbone of class non-scripted Instant-Action missions is broken and the result is that the game WILL crash about 30% of the time when you try to load a save. I’ve found ways around this (reimplemented ‘Inst4XMission’ in LUA) but it requires missions to be patched.
• The CLI argument parser is broken
• heightmap smoothing that is enabled by default when porting old maps (and affects stock ported maps) is detrimental to the terrain in several ways though I know how to override it — still not feasible to repair the mistake with regard to stock maps …

If it weren’t for the fact that this game’s release AND Rebellion’s policies KILLED 1.5, I wouldn’t be likely to have played so many hours of this (I idle a lot, I swear!)

I’m going to stop right here for now. I mainly do not recommend this to people who care much about multiplayer.

It sounds like in the end, he still really likes the core gameplay, but the community has been destroyed some unliked updates to the game, and he’s pretty sure that the devs are inflating the steam numbers through private matches with all bots. It’s wild how many hours that is, but he probably thinks the game is no longer worth it, amd has sour feelings towards the devs.

I feel like I’m ranting but I just want to talk about this game so much. The game is basically linear, but if you find a random hidden path you’re rewarded with a tiny bit of environmental storytelling. If you work your way off the main path, you find entire sections of jump challenges that have no purpose to the game. It’s like the game is saying “Look at this thing I built! Come jump around for a while!”

Lorn’s Lure - This game absolutely enthralled me over the past 2 weeks. It’s a parkour/exploration game, one developer, and it’s just so well designed. Punches way over it’s price for $15.

The maps are these enormous sprawling runes of an ancient machine, and there so much to find and see in each level. Then after beating the game you can go back with all upgrades and there are so many new paths, new secrets. There’s this special feeling when a developer adds so much in just for their love of the game. Things that don’t unlock new content, don’t satisfy any goals, just more fun and interesting stuff to look at and play around in, if you want. Then you get to the last level and it’s such an emotional peak. It’s like the dev spent 7 chapters just teaching us, preparing the player for the final level, and then doesn’t hold anything back.

AND it relates to both Hatch and Kill the K.O.T.H., Hatch specifically could be a lesson in pacing, I recommend that as well for anyone interested.

Lazer guided seed bombs seems almost reasonable. And the impact creator tills the soil!

Oh, is it that time again? Time for warm tea, cozy blankets, and cowering from wolves in The Long Dark? This is the game that fully convinced me on the steam deck.