C64's BASIC was my first exposure to programming. I had to take a FORTRAN class in Aero Engineering school, and coded a computer model based on some old NASA code for my Master's Thesis. My first job was writing FORTRAN and C code for spacecraft flight software. Learning on the job ever since.

Very good question. I always managed to land douchey roommates in college when I didn't have a choice about it, and sometimes even when I did. Even if it's "curated" (is that even legal?), that's a lot of opportunity for Big Brother-type drama. Some people like micro living and I'm sure people will be attracted to that. Sort of an upscale intentional community of sorts.

When I read handheld it makes me think more along the lines of the Noisy Cricket ...

Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop, Ableton Live, Native Instruments Apps, anything using VST plugins; Sony Vegas Yes, there are Linux alternatives but they are just not as good.

I worked on both the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander, though not on software related to the failures. I did fry a $12k damper during testing though due to a misunderstanding with the thermal engineers on hardware placement (I didn't lose my job, I was fresh out of college). Due the fact that the capillary pumped loop heat pipe thermal system didn't work, they ended up cutting it off and adding extra heaters/sensors at the last minute. Looming launch deadlines make for crazy times ...

For an eye-opening documentary on Methamphetamine (understanding Adderall is low dose amphetamine): "National Geographic: World's Most Dangerous Drug" (available on Netflix) In Asia it goes by "ya ba" and is used by workers to work longer hours and more shifts, to make more money. "Some say the pressure to compete has created a generation of Thai meth addicts"

Mean Machine

Wait. You're trusting investors and stockholders, whose primary goal is to make money, to ensure that the company sticks to their profitibility-limiting "benefit corp" goals?

I suggest IronCrypt or something of the sort that projects strength and security.

Suddenly I think of banjos.

Monoliths even ....

Side-splittingly funny.

Just installed and tried it. I don't see the "Switch to Classic Menu Style" option on the Application Launcher. I probably won't use it just for that.

I thought the same thing at first. However, assuming that the simulation implements only the very fundamental building blocks of physics at it's core, it is interesting to see that they translate to match our observations on a macro scale. Given that, it's just a matter of what else we can glean from the simulation runs that we have yet to observe IRL. These new insights don't have to be taken as truth, but rather lead us to new observations.

from "may" and "could" to "can."