Interesting. I’d not heard of those before. Are they dateable?

Here in England, on the other side of the world, we have similar structures that have been dated back to the Bronze Age (3000 to 6000 years ago) These had a rock base, with mud/daub/wattle upper walls with thatch or turf roofs.

The similarity probably isn’t that surprising, people have needed shelter and use what’s available to make it. Even modern ruins from a few hundred years ago look pretty similar.

(One example below from Dartmoor, there’s thousands in this area)

Sharing filesystems could be useful, I can see that.

I do that with target dev platforms anyway, using things like NFS, samba and sftp, but I do see that it could work well for this.

I too do that, working from a windows vm and writing code for linux - but I push it to a linux vm for testing. Never occurred to me to use WSL and have another environment to configure and maintain for dev that’s different to the target one.

But fair play if that suits you! Each to their own, and I’m sure I do things that make no sense to others.

Thanks - I can kind of see that, as docker on windows is majorly broken. I think I’d just run it in a linux vm, as I do with most of my developing, but I can see some might not want that overhead.

I do know what it is, I just don’t know why you’d use it instead of proper linux, or a vm.

I still don’t know what WSL is for.

Good answer, and some good points.

My analogy is not perfect, but I think there are parralels. People are currently trying to shoe-horn AI into things where it’s never going to work well, and that’s resulting in a lot of stupid and a lot of justifiable anger towards it.

But alongside that, it is also finding genuinely useful places, and it is not going to go away. Give it a few more years and it’ll settle down into something we rely on daily. Just as we did with electronic calculators. The internet. Smartphones. Everything since the Spinning Jenny has had a huge pressure against it because it’s new and different and people are scared it’ll negatively affect them, but things change and new things get adopted into the everyday. Personally I find it exciting to be alive during such a time of genuine invention and improvement.

Fair enough - it’s not the most concrete of comparisons and those are good points, but I do feel there is an amplification of ludditism around AI just because it’s new.

Hah! I had a calculator watch too - and I’m certain it got me my first girlfriend when I was 11!

You’re right about that exact argument being used widely, I certainly was told I’d never have a calculator with me. Little did they know.

I went to school in the 1980s. That was the time that calculators were first used in class and there was a similar outcry about how children shouldn’t be allowed to use them, that they should use mental arithmetic or even abacuses.

Sounds pretty ridiculous now, and I think this current problem will sound just as silly in 10 or 20 years.

Some people are just shittier than others. What they look like on the outside has no bearing on their inner beauty.

Good write up, but Docker’s also useful beyond having the ability to scale, portability being one. With some websites having a huge variety of dependencies now, keeping that all together and knowing it will run on multiple hosts is a big benefit.

(Downside, because nothing is ever for free: You then have to maintain those dependencies and update the image, rather than letting the OS keep everything up to date)

We use docker a lot at work, but not for scaling and not with any cloud provider.

A perfect use for them - controlled environment, difficult conditions, repetitive and predictable workflow.

But I’m puzzled by the design - why have a cab? Wouldn’t a more efficient layout be a whole-bed platform with all systems underneath?

X, for all the reasons.

Play store is impossible to browse to see what’s worth trying for this reason.

I bought NMS when it was released, and hated it. Ok, it’s legendary as something that was released before it was ready and that undoubtedly spoiled it for me - endless running and nothing to do, and I’m sure it’s better now.

Elite Dangerous was quite fun for a while, but I got frustrated with the flying aspect quite a bit and after several deaths I gave up. I’m old enough to remember the first Elite, which was even more unforgiving.

Freelancer sounds interesting - I started searching and landed on the Amazon page for it, which told me " You last purchased this item on 29 Apr 2005". I have no recollection of the thing, but then I have played a lot of games. Still, worth a revisit - I’ll take a look. Thanks.

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Ok, but apart from that, it’s okay, right?

Seriously - what is a good space exploration/trading game that doesn’t require a huge learning curve? (I’m not a fan of flying stuff and too much trading is boring, but I do like exploring)

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