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I was looking for this and thought I was doing something wrong not finding anything... Great job! I do think though a "clean" development mode not needing this would be to work wit…

Wow what an honor! VB really got me of the ground (after a short endeavor with QBASIC) and I loved it! I have to say though that in terms of creating an UI it kind of messed me up:…

Increasing max/avg/median lifespan without major improvements in battling dementia it is a rather dystopian vision. And even if we are not talking full blown Alzheimers, declining …

Reading Hagakure (Japan, 1716) really helps putting things into perspective here: Even back then the author complained about moral decline. And in the author`s eyes the sad low poi…

What a lot of people don't know: the standard NATO barbedwire - correctly deployed - is highly effective against tanks: It messes up the chains and is a nightmare to remove (eg blo…

I prefer Andrew D. Huberman's idea: Dopamine is the real currency

This ain't new it's just the background image of beloved pc game "master of orion II" :)

I think this is an even bigger issue: A cultural one. We live in a (western) society where NOT getting shit done has become the norm. Often things don't get finished at all and if …

I love You mentioning moon patrol. It was one of my first games back in the days on Atari 1024St. Spend hours in front of it, just a me a friend and a joystick...

I get your point. But with all due respect, the comparison is unfortunately off by a substantial magnitude: overall VR devices sold world wide in 2019: https://www.statista.com/sta…

The saddest thing about these VR companies (or any other hyped yet insubstantial new thing for that matter) to me is the fact that they got acquired too quickly that one cannot sho…

We have recently finished planning a prefab home in Germany and hopefully soon the actual building process will start. Just a couple of insights: * roughly a third of private homes…

Love these kind of micro simulations! They really help to discover non intuitive behaviour of complex systems just by playing around. Great job!

Love it! I started out by manipulating simple games in qbasic. Then switched to Visual Basic and made my first serious yet small projects. In the meantime got into web design and a…

I think the story goes that there were less than 10 people in medieval Europe that could do a division on paper at the time the great gothic cathedrals were build. Gets you thinkin…

Intro of the movie "Idiocracy" sums it up pretty good ;)

Be somewhere you don't want to be and where it is not much (work) to be done. Seriously: Few years back, we had the draft in Germany and these were the longest 9 months of my life.…

Study from Marseille seems well founded, although (of course) based on a small sample. Why isn't this higher up?

Its important to think in multiple layers: For example carrots and salad on the ground, tomatoes on top and way above beans. One thing I would always recommend: potatoes - one of t…