🎶 Es fährt ein Zug, nach Nirgendwo…

(and that’s all I can remember from the song, which I heard on the 80’s Hit parade)

I pretty much stopped playing OpenTTD once I figured out that doing only air traffic got me more cash than I could spend. Maybe that old version was just broken in that way, I don’t know…

Desktop environment, it’s what makes your bottom panel and window title look like they do, such as KDE or Gnome or Enlightenment, … and they’re also asking which skin/theme you’re using.

What kind of comms do the wires allow? Sending guidance and simultaneously receiving video?

What was the physicality of wires back then (and do you know what they are today)? Would it feel like walking into a spider’s web, or how sturdy were/are those wires?

How often would a write break, and would that mean total loss of control or is there some form of fall-back?

Curious minds want to know! Thank you.

Imagine walking into a spider’s web, and you couldn’t just wipe it off your face.

It’s a minor concern when a nation’s existence is on the line, but I do wonder how all those wires will affect the fauna and environment.

Curiously, the first wired torpedoes, you’d propel the torpedo forward by pulling on the wire that came out the back of it.

I have never put it into words like that, more like “make zero assumptions”.

I suppose that being overly thorough can make documentation prone to becoming tedious (unless cares is taken to not talk down to the reader) or too tightly coupled (incurring the need to be updated more often as details of the process change).

How do you usually deal with that aspect? What I do is to make the documentation easily skimmable (for advanced readers) and just accept the need for rework.

You’re brutal. You’re not wrong tho.

Adams family doorbell.

I had this exact argument about Day of Defeat back before Counterstrike got assimilated by Valve. I had no respect for all the bunny hopping in CS, but enjoyed the slow(er) gameplay and strict limitations of DoD (such as running 40 meters and then panting, very realistic representation of my own fitness lmao).

Precrime wioll haven be here.

Perhaps this is all just highly refined British humour?

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

It would be hilarious to see random civilians being casually followed by a policeman (policeperson?), overtly and cheerfully “nah mate, you haven’t done a thing. I’m just here to watch. For now. Carry on.”

Reluctant upvote

I’m grateful to you for digging those up.

Good on corpo for allowing that. That was after I left (and in a different country) so I wasn’t aware.

Fun fact: it used to have 13 bars, but changed to the current 8 because 13 bars could not be made pretty on (8-pin) matrix printers.

Fun fact: exactly once, the team organising IBM’s participation in the Copenhagen Pride parade got away with wearing t-shirts with the bars printed in the rainbow colours. Immediately after, they were notified that such alterations to corporate branding was unacceptable.
^(I cherish the two shirts I still have.)

Ohhh! Thank you!

Huh, interesting. Thank you for educating me. 🙂

A light fluid exchange - are you referring to how one of the headlights was half full of seawater? 🥲😂

Two questions: those dark brown minifig hip pieces along the top of the tallest building, how are they affixed? Also, those little grey 1x1 “cars” (eg one atop the closest building, what piece is that?