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This is so cool

As a history nerd and jaded software developer, I've been wondering a lot lately how I can use my tech skills for archeological research. Is there any way for someone with most of a bachelors to get into this kind of thing?

Thank you, this is just what I was looking for!

This sounds like super interesting and meaningful work. Are you hiring, or do you have any advice for your average software engineer on getting into this space?

I played the game in this picture at the pinball museum in vegas. One lever operates the rear fan and the other operates the bottom fan. It was a lot of fun for an analog arcade game.

I returned to the museum a few years ago and it was no longer working. I hope they fix it one day.

I went there around 8 years ago at their old location, then last year at their new location. Many more machines were disabled last year. I get the impression that the guy running it is very old and maybe is unable to keep up on maintenance.

It's a shame, the place has many old games beyond pinball and is truly a museum of gaming. If you get the chance, support them. I hope someone takes up the torch.

The limit in your examples is more time than language. Ample language could exist to describe a sunset. Language is extremely flexible and good poets constantly find ways to make words describe deeper and deeper concepts. The problem is that you could spend a hundred years expressing your thoughts of a sunset and only scratch the surface.

Your argument seems similar to saying that infinite numbers are "so ridiculous it verges on not even being worthy of being called unfalsifiable" because you can't count that high.

Related question, how's the SW contracting market right now? Been thinking about quitting my full time and picking up jobs here and there as my expenses are very low.

I've seen this asked on social media platforms and I'll admit ignorance on the matter, but this seems like a place to get better analysis.

What does it really mean when inflation is going crazy, but also many businesses are making really absurd, record profits? Is that a normal occurrence in periods of high inflation? It really feels more like price gouging than inflation to me, but like I said, I'm ignorant about economics.

How much inflation can be explained by the changes in the labor pool and government spending, compared to companies just charging more and hoarding more?

I guess it depends whether OP made their service as startup looking for a great exit, or a passion project based on their hobby that got extended to their friends.

I noticed something last night watching a live stream of Kyiv.

A lot of accounts were posting the comment '/cam2', with others implying something was happening on cam2. Others were saying that the cam thing was fake. I kind of thought it was a way to find out who was watching the video, since obviously youtube chat isn't going to change the video angle...And now I think that's exactly what it was, for this exact purpose.

One thing is clear, and it's very scary in light of all the NATO press conferences where people are asking if a cyber attack constitutes an act of war: There is a massive war happening on the internet right now. Reps are reluctant to respond to these questions because it's clear that total cyber war has been going on for years.

This is an interesting perspective. I feel like a frog in a pot of boiling water, the discourse in my life is just getting gradually worse and most of the media is happy to gaslight people into thinking...Well, anything that gets a click. I'd be interested to hear any more of your perspective.

This reminds me of something about flash games in the 2000s. I was in high school at the time and every morning in class I would check onemorelevel, kongregate, etc for new games. There was a pattern in flash games where someone would make a great simple game with an interesting, novel, or long-forgotten mechanic. It would get to the frontpage of all these sites, and a few months later you'd see that mechanic mixed with every other popular flash game mechanic. It was really cool to see a community of creative people embrace an idea and then beat it to death in a short period of time. I think in a lot of other creative genres, this kind of "copying your idea but a twist" is seen as poor form, plagiarism, or derivative. Maybe the flash game community was low enough stakes that it welcomed that kind of community engagement. I wonder what the people actually making the games thought.

Anyway, this is a really cool example of that. It's wordle, but with a twist.

I have experience with physical eurorack modular synths, visual sound programming tools (VCV rack, Max, audioweaver), and DSP programming (Supercollider, Matlab). I think the simulated wires paradigm IS the best one...for someone who doesn't want to learn at least programming and probably also matrix algebra. In my experience, sound code is generally a LOT of ugly boilerplate code surrounding a few really brilliant lines of code that require years of education to understand. But in a code-based version of VCV rack, the brilliant code would all be inside some object.

You're essentially dealing with connected one-directional graphs of arbitrary complexity. Feedback loops are required for the eurorack experience. That's pretty easy to lay out visually, but I haven't seen good ways of laying it out in code. There's room for innovation here; Someone in the programming world has a more intuitive, more informative way of visualizing data in a graph that could be adapted into DAW paradigms.