Or the router, in another state, and the person with access to the closet/server room knows how to push a few buttons at best.

That happens once… and you get misconfigophobia for life.

I don’t write games but a lot of people that do often say something similar. Do play tests for the concept/mechanics.

This way you don’t spend time/energy and resources on art and assets that won’t be used, etc.

Similar to a minimal viable product in regular dev or, perhaps a better analogy, technical demos.

You want to write a site or app that fetches API data for GPS, calendar and Weather and show them together? You don’t start with the UI. You start with:

• Can I get the GPS coordinates
• Can I call another API and get the weather for those coordinates?
• Can I get the coordinates or other info for some future location?
• Can I send that to get the weather?

Once you know you can and that it “works” you build around it.

So like you said. I have boxes, and this other box (or static PNG of a cat) moves around them and when I move this way it drops the box down on another box.

Does that work? Does it feel “fun” to arrange them? No, it feels tedious or can’t get the collision right? Then let’s try a different angle or taking the part that did work and iterating on it.

This also leaves you open to random bugs that end up being “fun” when you lean into them.

Game Makers Toolkit has some good videos on his journey making “Mind over Magnet”. Here’s the playlist.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc38fcMFcV_uH3OK4sTa4bf-UXGk2NW2n

There’s also PirateSoftware whose entire stream is devoted to “go and make games”

Windows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.

Using iOS photo editing tools I take it?

That’s not an easy medium to work around, well done.

If I had to guess there would be, at the very least, some businesses that used their business continuity insurance.

Those companies, after paying those claims, will probably be expecting reimbursement or preparing to sue crowdstrike to recoup those costs.

Make sure to use this version of the song

Floppy Disks - Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

Ahh. The licorice jelly bean of music.

“Gross… here, try it”

Probably doesn’t help that they’re so popular that their music was licensed and became synonymous with commercials.

Same thing with the doors and all things Vietnam.

It’s true. And it’s worse since people worry about the security of the OS but download large batches of suspect apps and games.

Media and games. Only loaded and run when I’m using them.

Package dependencies? How much of that is loading at runtime? How many security holes and exploits is some sub, sub, sub package going to introduce?

That is utterly evil

Virtually…

You get a gateway, and you get a gateway.

Everybody gets a gateway!

What about good ole Big Top Beer at my local Raytown market

Not sure. Like any field I suspect there’s specialties including people who do research/modeling vs consuming that data and advising based on it.

Code and snippets to analyze data work well when you can send chunks of it to multiple servers (think analyzing the effect of weather patterns).

Since a lot of that stuff is running on Linux (similar to cloud computing) it makes sense that people that write function/scripts/utilities would already be comfortable in that environment and use it as their daily driver.

deleted by creator

Depends on what kind of detector it is but alot of them use small amounts of radiation and a detector that triggers when the number of particles detected drops below some level.

How smoke detectors work

That being the case any particulate large enough to interrupt the particles could cause it to go off.

For example high humidity misty water from a shower wafting over a detector placed over the bathroom door, etc.

Ha. I missed this. I guess today I’m one of the lucky 10000

I can’t speak to specifics but I can give you some ideas.

So the obd port might have some basic info such as acceleration and turns since and/or at least torque/thrust readings that you can poll since insurance companies and others have devices that use them to track your driving (often paired with GPS which you don’t need)

So some arduino project that lets you plug in and poll that data and to establish a trigger for some audio could be fun.

http://arduinodev.com/connect-arduino-to-a-car-through-obd-ii-port/

Pair that with something else that lets you connect via auxiliary or Bluetooth so you can play it over the speaker and you might have something.

https://github.com/pschatzmann/ESP32-A2DP

This might be easier since a pi would be better suited to playback of audio and might be easier to get everything connected and to tinker with the Python to respond to certain readings

https://www.instructables.com/OBD-Pi/