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It’s such a good distillation of what made Stronghold and the Impressions’s city building series so great. Please keep it going!

But it does. You see, these high level executives often have a goal in mind, but the best way to go about it is with this sort of ambiguity because it gives them room to inflate the expectations and plausible deniability when it goes wrong. If you look at the PowerPoint therapy know as consultant-driven product development, you will see the same language. Vague, ambiguous when documented.

It’s a great show, thought indeed it takes a few episodes to find its footing. If you can suspend your disbelief a little about the liberties taken for the sake of storytelling, you will find it a compelling drama.

It should be noted that it has a proper ending, it doesn’t simply come to an abrupt stop due to cancellation.

Mural is slow, and once the boards have have many elements they start to lag significantly.

The move away from a standard window bar/window chrome is a usability disaster in the making. I haven’t time to unpack what was shown yet but it did not leave me with a good impression.

We use Mural at work. It doesn’t have all features you’re outlining, but it’s widely used because it’s very simple to get started. We brought it in for UX work but the business side has embraced it. Unfortunately I don’t find it very performant.

Interesting. Where I come from in Brazil, “sobremesa” is used to describe a dessert, direct translation.

I’d also add the Portuguese word “saudade”, which is a sense of yearning or of missing someone/something - often hard to convey in English.

They’ve just announced a Season Pass that will give players content through next year, so it’s likely an attempt to increase the player base to maximize sales of that pass.

It’s an unfortunate sign that they may be moving away from paid, yet substantial expansions.

Wonderful. Now please open-source SimCity 2013 so we can fix it.

Maybe a specific iPad Pro version that’s not running at sub-native resolution and with lower graphic settings than the Nintendo Switch port. Civ6 on iPad was a very impressive port when released, but it hasn’t improved to take advantage of recent hardware.

Our national security is already compromised at the Commander-In-Chief level, this will probably go ignored until it is out of control much like the pandemic itself.

While they saw the value of the worm in economic and spiritual (maybe even political) aspects, they wanted to achieve a balance where the ecosystem would support both species. They trapped water underground because that was effective storage against evaporation, and to keep it secret from the ruling Houses.

Spoilers below:

Down the line, Arrakis does get terraformed and a vast planetary desert preserved for the continued existence of the spice cycle.

It opens on an iPad, and with yesterday’a release of iOS 13.4 and proper mouse support its almost completely usable. I had issues with the viewport, but managed to create a simple UI flow with interactions and run a prototype.

I’m a layman, so I’d like someone from the community to elaborate on Sony’s approach of constant power to the CPU/GPU while the clocks are variable. My interpretation is that the silicon will downclock based on load - if it is only running the UI dashboard, it will slow down appropriately; if running an intensive software title, it will clock up to theoretical max frequency.

This is a great answer, particularly the point about your environment and how much you value your own time. I’ve come to accept that if I want to work on impactful work, I have to do it on my own. At a corporate job, I’m perfectly fine doing 9-5 with excellence and leaving the mission-driven ladder climbing for others.

Survivorship bias is problem with startup stories. You will hear the great success stories of the few standing on the carcasses of the vast majority that burned out and crashed.

The rate of ecological collapse far outpaces most organisms ability to evolve.

That’s unfortunate. Which hardware version do you have? Apple has been supporting older devices fairly well from my perspective, often reaching back 5 years or more.

I think it was mishandled. There was a lack of compelling software, particularly when compared to Nintendo’s Wii output that also relied on motion controls.

Then the next revision was included with the Xbox One, increasing the overall price of the console while still lacking compelling software.

If Microsoft had positioned it as an entirely optional accessory with a great library of exclusive titles, maybe it would have found an audience.

I’m struggling to sympathize. The most popular creators (using the word loosely here) earn millions. They have an option to hire a production team, work less or simply go do something different. The model used to gain popularity - high frequency of new content produced with minimal resources - doesn’t scale against the expectations they themselves set with their audiences. And the algorithm just perpetuates it.

One important and increasingly proven aspect of employee wellness is to simply offer 100% remote working. Significantly cheaper, environmentally friendly and likely to provide more wellness benefits than any corporate facility.

Interesting, I was browsing something on the Wayback Machine today and shortly after stumbled on this collection. Made me wonder about the legality of it, and left me frustrated because TIE Fighter doesn’t work - gets stuck on an installation loop.

I worry about the precedents being created. There is little in the way of other companies or governments adding more to Earth’s orbit. Eventually there could be enough objects there that one single incident could cause a chain reaction and blanket Earth on debris making launches dangerous or impossible.

I just replaced the keyboard on a ThinkPad T440p, and it didn’t seem to add a significant bulk to the machine’s profile. It took me 2 minutes flat.

I don’t see Apple supporting this if end-to-end encryption isn’t in place, they’ve been more and more positioning privacy as a competitive advantage for their services.

Do you want to explain how one avoids being the oldest at their place of employment? Or how to accomplish early retirement at 40 for the average person?

I installed it last night on a ThinkPad T440p, coming from Pop_OS. My initial impressions were of polish, but it felt slow compared to the former distro.

I’m very grateful for all paying the license fees. Through the BBCs language education programs I was able to learn English and it changed the course of my life. So thank you!

This is poetry.

And all true.

I wonder why a Latin name wasn’t appropriate.

Serif’s Affinity suíte of products is by far the most credible competition and suitable replacement for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Anyone dissatisfied with Adobe (you should be) ought to consider these alternatives. They’re polished, well supported, have received a constant stream of quality feature enhancements, and are traditionally licensed.

They won’t work for everybody, but there is a large cohort of Adobe users out there that could instantly substitute their software with minimal effort and get out this absurd predicament.