Desktop Dungeons isn't this game at all. While a similar style of resource management, and a great game in it's own right, it's lacking the "minesweeper-y" exploration tactics.
The book and the movie are quite rough, raw and extradry - i don’t mean this in a bad way. The mood reminds me more of eastern productions like tarkowsky (stalker) and the like.
Also called "stale beer" spy fiction to emphasize its lack of glamour and that settings like dive bars are more common in it than fancy casinos and cocktail parties.
Not having listened to it, I'd guess he's referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richat_Structure, a very large circular rock structure in Africa. And also one where the archaeological evidence shows nothing more than periodic visitation by nomadic peoples, nothing like the supposed state society Atlantis would have been.
A rich civilisation (possibly in the millions), leaving absolutely no trace in any shape or form? Maybe time to apply Occam's Razor.
On the other hand, a green north Africa is well established. And it turns out that the Ancient Egyptians might have descended from hunter-gatherers who were driven towards the nile as the grasslands gave way to desert. For all of which there is archaeological evidence.
I can imagine a green Sahara, as I could imagine a civilization. What I can't imagine is a civilization that exists without leaving any archaeological trace of itself.
What about catastrophic tsunami induced by asteroid impact? That's one of the theories in the context of that structure as Atlantis. There are people who think some of the geologic features surrounding that place lead to that conclusion. Comparable to the things found in North-America, where there is no doubt at all that these are traces of catastrophic flooding at laaarge scale.
Anyways, theory is that giant masses of water rushed from somewhere of what is now the southern or southwestern cost of the mediterran sea(Lybia, Algeria), downwards and westwards, until reaching the Atlantic. Not gently at all.
What do you expect to find there, especially after so much time passed?
The hardened pyramid defence bunkers of the Kinks of Koulou?
> What about catastrophic tsunami induced by asteroid impact? That's one of the theories in the context of that structure as Atlantis. There are people who think some of the geologic features surrounding that place lead to that conclusion. Comparable to the things found in North-America, where there is no doubt at all that these are traces of catastrophic flooding at laaarge scale.
It's ~400m in altitude, approximately 500-600km inland, and not along a major watercourse like the Mississippi river that might funnel tsunamis inland. So... no, it's not plausible for this structure.
Yes, I'm aware of their other activities, that it could be considered clickbait, scamming naive people into subscribing to their premium content elsewhere, or whatever.
While I don't believe in much other stuff they are propagating, this seems to be at least usable as 'work(ing) hypothesis' in the sense and meaning that it isn't more absurd, than so much else we subscribed to by 'tradition'.
I won't go further into that now, because I had my fun/enlightening/scam/brain wash/whatever with that a few years ago, and won't budge an inch into my acceptance of the possibilty that it could have been.
At 10:45: Somebody who jumps from “A city that was busy all day, all night” to “it must be millions of people like New York” can only be described as daft.
There is scholarly work on Atlantis. And this clown mentions none of it.
My current understanding is that it's similar to Emacs, but in this case it uses Smalltalk instead of Elisp.
It's an IDE who's selling point is that you should extend while coding.
If my day job uses Python, for example, is it pragmatic to use Glamorous Toolkit?
Yes, it has a few functions for editing code in some language .. but you get a lot more Python power from Intellij or Pycharm. I don't use Smalltalk but if I were, I would consider it, alongside Pharo or instead of Pharo.
If my day job used Rust, I’d be very interested in trying this. Live development with your code loaded gives you a lot of power that you don’t know you’re missing until you try it with a Common Lisp, Clojure or Smalltalk environment.
I fiddled with its python interop a bit. It's OK, but could use some expanding: it runs python code in a single venv that you'd need to populate with the packages you need. I couldn't find any support for switching venvs based on project directories, etc.
I could imagine using GT as a more hackable way to interact with code. You don't get the nice automatic features of a python IDE, but you could define graphical views for your objects, drill-down into sub-objects, and the like. But to do that, you'd also have to know some Smalltalk.
Just tried this and it did temporarily stop the tone for a moment. Easy to do, instant relief. Simple massage to the muscles near the base of the skull.
A physical therapist commented that tight muscles contribute. Hopefully practicing this regularly will prolong the effects.
Curse of knowledge applies here unfortunately, in that it was so long ago I can’t be a reliable source on how to learn now. I recall being recommended “never split the difference” at some point and reading it and finding it useful (again, so long ago I can’t remember what’s actually in the book now).
I’d also try to hunt down a peer or someone just slightly more senior than you who you suspect is better at this than you and ask them for advice. Consider treating it a little bit like a behavioural job interview though. Questions like “so for your last promotion cycle, when did you start the conversation with your boss? What did you present to them? What format/medium? How often? What was the result? What did you expect? Did you have a Plan B? How often are you exploring other options just in case?” not so much “what would you do in this situation?”. If they’re successful you’ve more to learn from what is actually working from them rather than their hypothetical ideal.
It's different in that you'll probably look at more than one source if you're searching the web. The sites with bad info become pretty obvious when you've looked at more than a few different sites on the topic.
Right. Depending on the take, your aligns with the utilitarian perspective as well. You don't need to make everyone happy, as long as it leads to the "greatest good" (rule utilitarianism) or the "highest average happiness" (average utilitarianism). My point is that this perspective is not devoid of philosophical problems.
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