For me, that was the thing that made the game feel real. The feelings of actual dread and anger when losing a a ship made for some of my best and most intense gaming moments ever. The times I managed to come out on top were amazing.
Participating in the big corporation wars was boring in comparison to small scale stuff. In the big wars, I was just a pawn for the commanders that actually made decisions and could play a giant strategy game.
I'm able. I have no idea or wish to go cosplay as my mental model of someone having to use tools to access my website. I use accessibility tests that make sure content has readable colors. I set a content anchor so people can navigate without sight. I would really like to learn about any frameworks that can help me make my websites accesible to everyone. If there a gold standard?
You are right to push back— Sorry, couldn't resist ;) I agree that this is not what we normally come here for, but this thread made me chuckle. I think we are just venting our shared frustrations a bit.
This is very inspiring. I have the old Kindle Keyboard that was recently discontinued. There are trivial workarounds and existing alternative OSes to get new books on it already, but it might be fun to ask Deepseek if it can help me make something bespoke.
My apps are free or freemium with a one time payment. I just started publishing, and my main drive is resentment towards the current state of surveillance in software. It doesn't have to be filled with ads and trackers on top of a subscription.
I’ve also started publishing a small collection of what I call “spite apps” (a reference to Larry David’s spite store when he makes his own coffee shop to go against mocha joe).
These apps are super simple in terms of privacy policy:
- we don’t track you (no telemetry)
- we don’t show you ads
- no account
- free with optional tip
Sure I don’t make much money with them but I feel like I’m pushing back on making humanity worse.
I found the perfect sweet spot for my hobby development. I pay 7 euros for Gemini plus and use it for creating the architecture and technical specs. Those are fed to Sonnet on Pro that just implements the instructions. This gives plenty of space to do long sessions several times a week.
I am one of those lazy IT guys that is very content working in support and ops. I understand a lot of programming concepts and do a bit of automation scripting but never really bothered to learn any proper language fully. Vibe coding was made for people like me. I just need something that works, but I can still ask for code that can be maintained and expanded if needed.
It finally clicked for me when I tried Gemini and ChatGPT side by side. I found that my style of working is more iterative than starting with a fully formed plan. Gemini did well on oneshots, but my lack of experience made the output messy. This made it clear to me that the more chatty ChatGPT was working for me since it seems to incorporate new stuff better. Great for those "Oh, crap I didn't think of that" moments that come up for inexperienced devs like me.
With ChatGPT I use a modular approach. I first plan a high level concept with 03, then we consider best practices for each. After that I get best results with 4o and Canvas since that model doesn't seem to overthink and change direction as much. Granted, my creations are not pushing up against the limits of human knowledge, but I consistently get clean maintainable results this way.
Recently I made a browser extension to show me local times when I hover over text on a website that shows an international time. It uses regex to find the text, and I would never have been able to crank this out myself without spending considerable time learning it.
This weekend I made a Linux app to help rice a spare monitor so it shows scrolling cheat sheets to help me memorize stuff. This turned out so well, that I might put it up on GitHub.
For dilettantes like me this opens up a whole new world of fun and possibilities.
This is a thing. Going to the races and watching horses warming up in a paddock is very informative to those in the know. The first time i went, my girlfriend's father pointed out a horse that none if the others would run past, and that horse won it's heat.
Thankfully, international shipping safety standards aren’t left up to individual manufacturers. Having worked on ships worldwide for several years, I’ve seen how each major incident drives tighter, more effective regulations.
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), established in 1974, is continually updated based on lessons from past accidents, mandating strict requirements for all ships over a certain size. Parts of SOLAS even apply universally to all ships on any voyage, regardless of size. https://www.imo.org/en/About/Conventions/Pages/International...
Was there any regulation limiting the placement of external vents beyond a certain threshold? Or was it just a gentleman’s agreement between designers?
I don't work in the maritime industry so I might easily be wrong, but my understanding is that these rules are generally enforced not via national laws directly but via insurance. You can build any kind of ship you like, but then you have these classification societies that verify whether a ship has been built to standards, and if not they won't certify it and you'll have a very hard time getting insurance for your vessel. And in the end national laws tend to say things like your ship needs to be insured etc., not directly how it must be constructed.
The issue with maritime insurance, is that ocean going vessels spend a great deal of time in other countries from where the owner registers the ship, and also time in international waters, which are not governed by the laws of any country.
So you average insurance company is not interested in providing insurance.
If you want to read more about the history of martime insurance, you could start with the history of Lloyds of London.
Participating in the big corporation wars was boring in comparison to small scale stuff. In the big wars, I was just a pawn for the commanders that actually made decisions and could play a giant strategy game.