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Not to mention extra wear and tear to roads from their delivery trucks, the air traffic controllers handling their planes, etc.

That's not what karma means. Also, everyone dies eventually.

The problem I'm having with Lisp isn't the syntax or the language, but the ecosystem. Or rather learning about the ecosystem. There's not much information, from what I've found, about best practices for creating a production ready application. A lot of Lisp tutorials and books extoll the virtues of the language and REPL based development but stop there. For example, I want to figure out how to use Lisp in a CI/CD environment to deploy binaries. Or learn the best practices for creating a project with multiple modules with dependencies.

Edit: Is this being downvoted because I'm hijacking the thread?

What sort of mathematics ought one to study if interested in designing programming languages?

This assumes that consumer use of automobiles contributes in a significant way to global warming. Supply chain use of automobiles (trucks, trains, planes, ships, etc.) continued throughout lockdown as goods still needed to be delivered to consumers.

Read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art.

You seem to have answered your own question.

I wonder if this game will ever stop captivating those of us who played it when it first came out.

Being born.

Minneapolis

I've been spending time learning AVR microcontrollers. Are you saying that learning ARM would be a better use of my time?

Work outside the house. Go to coffee shops or co-working spaces. Shower daily. Self-care slips easily when you don't have to leave the house every day.

Pong wasn't the point...

If it's anything like "Learn to Program with Minecraft" then it's a waste of time. "Learn to Program with Minecraft" is too simple to be fun or useful.

That's a good point. I also spent a lot of time playing King's Quest II, which was simple enough that I could have created something similar (though much less sophisticated) at the same time.

This is perhaps why kids are learning to program later in life than our generation.

I bought this for my kids about a year ago. The novelty wore off quickly, and they ended up only playing the demo game included with the app. The process of creating an image with the blox takes so long that the effort doesn't seem worth it. I've purchased a lot of these "get kids into tech" type toys over the years. I find that none of them have kept my kids interest nor have they really actually taught anything technical. Some were downright patronizing (I'm looking at you GoldieBlox).

If we want to get kids interested in technology, we should be teaching them about technology, not creating abstractions on top technology and then teaching them the abstractions. I learned about computers with Murphy's Laws of Dos and Dos 4 on a monochrome screen. I knew that what I was doing was the same thing that professionals did, and I knew that the knowledge I was acquiring would be applicable in many settings. Later I learned Basic and HTML, and again these were tools used by professionals.

We should stop lying to ourselves that these toys teach technology, and sit down with our kids and teach them how to build Pong with Pygame.

Time.

You can do this by using the environments feature. Create an environment and add a key to that environment to represent the base URL. Then in the the URL line replace your base URL with the reference to the key. For example http://{{base-url}}/api/