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Homelessness wasn’t ignored in Sim City 2013, it was an integral part of managing housing supply and employment. Until I figured out how to balance things my parks were filled with homeless camps, inverting the land value effect of the park.

I’m deeply autistic about city builders and figure out the systems behind them and build metropolises. I’ve spent well over 35k hours playing city simulators since sim city on SNES and most of that with Sim City.

I haven’t given Cities 2 a try because they think cars should be free from a parking standpoint and while I can design around that to minimize the number of cars overall, it doesn’t feel real.

Parking is something every city builder tries to pretend isn’t real so I hope this game considers that a problem to solve by city designers, not the game designers…

This is really exciting, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.


Parking is a constraint in microlandia :) and parking issues have impact on company productivity and employment. however, there’s a lot of things I’m still missing, like different types of lanes (bike-proprity, bus-priority, highways, etc) so it’s one of the things i will work hard on the next month or two.

Yes. When I dipped my toes into the front end ecosystem in 2021 to build a portfolio site, the month old tutorial video I followed, was already out of date. React had released an update to routers and I could not find any documentation on it. Googling for the router brought me to pages that said to do what I had done, which disagreed with the error message that I was getting from react.

React had just updated and documentation hadn’t.

I then discovered that Meta owns React so I got frustrated as hell with their obfuscation and ripped out all of the React and turned what was left into vanilla html+js.


React-router is it's own separate project not affiliated with Meta. React library doesn't ship a router.


Yet at the time it seemed to need one. Glad I never looked back at that fragmented mess.

I also don’t ‘KTH-Trust’ Meta of all corporations to have a compile step for a web technology.


Nope, that would be velocity changing sign, which means acceleration would increase.


I hate to tell you, but Siri and other voice assistance are not good at controlling music playback. I have been waiting for that specific feature to get “good” for over a decade now.

The closest one came to handling controlling music playback well in anyway was Cortana but even Cortana didn’t do the things that I needed to do with my voice while controlling music play.

The biggest Used case for me was always hey Cortana hey Siri add a specific song to now playing and play it next. No matter what on any operating system. The voice assistant delete the entire queue and then probably plays the wrong song. Not only will they play the wrong song, but they will play the entire album from the wrong song if it is available so now I’ve gone from a playlist that I was building and listening to on loop for potentially days to some album that I don’t wanna listen to because it could not just add a song next.


Oh cool, physical spyware so children can tell you directly what toy companies to invest in and what ad spots to buy.

How many marketing companies and toy manufacturers are you sending all these children’s data to?


The term for the sort in the article is called lexical, but the problem is the people are stupid.

The average user does not know the difference between lexical and alphabetic sort


this is an ID-10T PEBKAC ERR.

Not this keyboard not this chair, but the problem is with idiots between keyboards and chairs.

The author is not the ID10T it’s the other general users.

The author is intelligent enough to recognize that this is not alphabetical sort, but the term that they are looking for to describe the sort that they see in dolphin windows, google etc. is *lexical* sort, not alphabetical.

The engineering problem is ID10Tic not technical. How do you educate an illiterate public on what the difference between alphabetical and lexical sort is in practice?

You can’t, so you engineer around it and call lexical sort alphabetical.


Yeah, half of what you’ve put here isn’t in the article. As a deep fan of Rick and Morty these are the very base level gags.

This is why we call this shit slop. Sure you’ve written an article but it’s missing half of the information that you claim is in the article, and it’s information that you’re not even familiar with anyway.

Anyone who actually knows what’s up looks at this and can tell.

I hope this article ends up being a black stain on your career.


You don’t know that because the regulations have never existed. Please try to refrain from unscientific thinking such that there are things you think you can know without experimental verification. This is the thinking of a technological dark age.


>You don’t know that because the regulations have never existed. Please try to refrain from unscientific thinking

You're accusing me of "unscientific thinking", but you're basically making an argument from ignorance? You haven't provided any rebuttals to my argument, and you're basically arguing "we haven't tried so if you try to argue against it you're WRONG".


I've been messing with this and you can get a very detailed view of another highly self-similar structure by changing the packsize to 1, the cellsize to 2, and then adding packSize++; to the end of the drawRow function.


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