I think Shapez levels become procedural after a certain number of predetermined ones?

Yeah, the “magic” elevators were a bit disappointing in highrise, and Sim Tower was the one mentioned in Howard Payne’s DEFCON22 talk on elevator optimisation strategy.

(Project Highrise is a newer game in this same style)

Tables like https://www.generatorsource.com/Diesel_Fuel_Consumption.aspx suggest that even just a 2.2MW generator would use that fuel up in about 30 minutes.

Generator fuel consumption tables give an even worse answer, about half of that theoretical value.

Tuvalu is of course part of the commonwealth. Meanwhile the Marshall Islanders are moving to Salem, Oregon.

Wendover’s description of how complex the company structures are and why inheritance is so complicated: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oL0umpPPe-8

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/israel

They trying to [re]create https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus

could also make them a available as asset libraries for other people to make into games - it seems hard to find consistent sets of 3d models for games

direct link: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/11/02/secure-future-initiative-sfi-cybersecurity-cyberattacks/

Another more successful operation in Rwanda and Ghana is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipline_(drone_delivery_company) delivering 1.8kg over 300km and dropped by parachute.

It tends to go up in value during chaotic times as people use it to insulate their savings from the economy when they are expecting regular currencies or economies to crash.

(“The best country in the world for drivers”)

MIL-DTL-38999 for everything, including steampunk casettefuturism phones!

there’s a firefox extension which converts all links to old.

Why would you use packs of string? Just leave the manufacturing machine running and don’t cut it into packs.

Standardized open format for documents might have been the only ISO meeting where people were protesting in the streets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML

So now ISO officially has two standard formats for the exact same thing!

Avoid using sudo and setuid by writing your own sudo program using setuid?

‘Top Gear racer Sir Michael Gambon, after whom a corner was named’