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I agree -- I still prefer the stark simplicity and pure fun of the original "classic" version of SimCity, as well as the rich multimedia graphics, sound, and music of SimCity 2000.

This 1996 talk by Will Wright to Terry Winograd's user interface class at Stanford takes a deep dive into SimCity 2000's design, what made it so successful, and how it compared to other less successful Maxis games. It includes a retrospective of SimEarth, SimAnt, and SimCity 2000, and a preview of The Sims (called Dollhouse at the time).

I attended the talk and took notes, which I had Will review, and years later (after working with Will at Maxis and EA on The Sims) updated it with more details and retrospective learned by developing The Sims.

Just this year I discovered that the Stanford Library had finally published the video of that talk and many others, so I made a transcript and updated the article with lots more quotes and screen snapshots and analysis.

Egregoria looks really cool and impressive, and I'm glad to see it carry on the tradition, benefit from the inspiration, and learn from the successes and shortcomings of the SimCity and City: Skylines franchises, and other great simulation games like Factorio.

Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update):

https://donhopkins.medium.com/designing-user-interfaces-to-s...

>A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked together on The Sims at Maxis. Now including a video and snapshots of the original talk!

Will Wright - Maxis - Interfacing to Microworlds - 1996-4-26:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsxoZXaYJSk

>Video of Will Wright's talk about "Interfacing to Microworlds" presented to Terry Winograd's user interface class at Stanford University, April 26, 1996.

>He demonstrates and gives postmortems for SimEarth, SimAnt, and SimCity 2000, then previews an extremely early pre-release prototype version of Dollhouse (which eventually became The Sims), describing how the AI models personalities and behavior, and is distributed throughout extensible plug-in programmable objects in the environment, and he thoughtfully answers many interesting questions from the audience.

>This is the lecture described in "Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996)": A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked together on The Sims at Maxis.

https://donhopkins.medium.com/designing-user-interfaces-to-s...

>Use and reproduction:

>The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/yj113jt5999
Congrats on the new job. It's a nice looking blog, very easy to use on a phone and to read.
It's also where 99% of businesses are, client-side. Not everything is Electron or the web.
For US, I recommend Paypal. If your payment gateway supports paypal it will cover 80% of transactions.
Multiplicity of systems was a feature of nearly all banks before 2008 and was a contributing factor to some of the inability to perceive and react to risk. After 2008, and forced to by regulators, most banks focussed a lot of resources and attention to consolidate and give themselves a strategic view. Deutsche seems to have found this task far too difficult.
Pretending you can logically deduce what the market most desires based on facts about their lives is a theory that is really far out there

1. Do you have any memory of when SUVs went mainstream? Who'd have thought single women would want to pay the vehicle and fuel premium to commute so inefficiently. Of course men as well.

2. Americans are addicted to options that remove limitations out of anxiety over those limitations, even when the extra cost is very low ROI. Look at data plan, buffet, etc. preferences
It would be nice to mention you are recycling this comment.
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> But what if it is the credit card company you are dealing with?

In general, I find dealing with any big company in writing, much easier than the telephone nightmare you describe. Your call is important to us! Due to unusually high [sic] volumes, the waiting time is half an hour!

Also, in writing, they don't accidentally forget previous conversations. If it has to be escalated to e.g. arbitration, then you have a good record.

If they don't do online messaging, send a tracked letter to their head office. Obviously, that's a pain these days (don't misplace the proof of postage). Thankfully there are companies who print and post letters as a service.
> probably cheaper than the status quo, but less convenient

If it lets you get rid of your cars, maybe.

If you also need a daily car (or even two), rental is not necessarily cheap, and beyond convenience it has flexibility issues.

For instance the rental closest to me is a half hour bus ride away, and not open on the weekends, and the prices can vary a lot depending on time to trip or period, and obviously the type of car can triple the rental price.

It’s worth it to me, because I can otherwise get by fine without owning a car. But if I need a daily anyway, it makes more sense to upscale it a bit and get the extra freedom. Especially if relatives start getting up in age and you never know when you need to pack up quick.

It’s the same issue with timeshare vehicles, if people have kids they’ll all need it at the same time (because school schedules), and you’ll always remember when it was not available for an emergency.
I'm starting to wonder if the "745 mile" claim is actually admission of technical failure. Think about it. If their battery really does have that capacity and can "charge in 10 minutes" then why not a battery half or even a quarter the capacity?

Perhaps this battery's maximum rate of discharge is so low that such a massively oversized pack is needed to get sufficient momentary power to the electric motors?
I don’t think it does unless you take a dim view of it and perpetuate the simplistic scrum-agile bad meme.

An easy way to throw an effective team into disarray in tech is to waylay it with back channel requests and unplanned work. If you’re too busy fighting fires and working personal errands for disruptive managers and executives then you’re not delivering what your team is supposed to deliver.

The ‘proper channel’ isn’t a bureaucracy as described in the SSFM, it’s simply an ordered list of priorities with a gatekeeper.

Edit: as far as dogmatically adhering to this process goes, then any effective agile/scrum process will have a baked in allowance to handle the unexpected or adapt to change, rather than stubbornly stay the course.
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I think it implicitly is.
Your comment can be interpreted two ways.

If you're asking "where do we get the power plants", that is a valid concern, especially as we want to get rid of coal power plants at the same time.

But ultimately it is not that much power - I did a back of the envelope calculation for my country and converting annual vehicle-miles driven into kWh with average EV efficiency ended up adding 11 % increase in electricity consumption.

Not sure how it stacks up with other countries, and yes, we need more and cleaner power, but 11 % increase is not insurmountable problem.

If you're asking "how does that much power gets places", electric trains routinely run as much power. My city runs hundreds of trams that take over 700 kW each, and full power electric locomotive usually takes about 5 MW. The grid already knows how to handle it.
It looks and feels pretty cool, great potential here. Somehow reminds me of CityBound (whose dev doesn't seem too active these days, alas)
Prices are already coming down. China actually has lots of cheap EVs on the road already. Think <10000$ cars. Are these cars amazing. No. But they are amazingly good value for the money.

What's going to happen in the next 3 years is that several of those Chinese manufacturers are bringing production capacity online in Europe and North America. And they will start selling these vehicles at a premium and make a lot of profit because they don't have much local competition in terms of cost. Tesla is rumored to be working on a cheaper EV but they will likely build it for the international market and manufacture it in their Mexican plant.

Meanwhile, the cost price of batteries keeps on dropping. CATL and other manufacturers are announcing new batteries all the time. For example CATL has had some success with bringing sodium ion batteries to market as well as LFP batteries. Component prices for EVs are dropping as well. It's not impossible to scale EV production. That's actually what's happening. Production volumes are growing year on year and cost per vehicle is trending down.
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So how exactly are we supposed to do things then? Just start putting in effort and communicate vaguely for maximum directionless effort?

That sounds like the kind of activity that needs to be shut down to me.

So here we are at two schools: Unconsidered busy effort vs Considered intentional effort
Is it common for mobile networks to hand out short (64 or smaller) prefixes to phones? Phones are routers after all (hotspot) so this would seem to break stuff.
For you it was common thing, at mine classes best we did was adding numbers in assembly.

Don't assume everyone had the same uni experience.
For a meteorology focused response I don’t think the use of meteorological summer is too surprising. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/meteorological-versus-astrono...
Considering the Model Y may very well outsell the Corolla this year, that doesn't look like it is the case any more. While they generally are more expensive up front, the total cost of ownership can end up less when you calculate fuel and maintenance.
Your comment is entirely centered around money and how, since you have enough, you will not bother with startup stuff. You are mistaken about why people create startups, and I do believe you missed that this is not the reason the top poster is knee deep in a startup at 65, otherwise you would not have made the comparison, or you would have acknowledged the situation was different. In a way, you tried to one up the top poster by presenting yourself as someone beyond the need for money.

I see you went into my comment history. The one comment you mention, I have to admit, is not written well. My point was simply that you cannot turn your hobby or passion into your main activity if that activity does not earn you enough money to make a living.
> the employers don’t ask “what you are able to do?”, instead of “what are your credentials/studies”.

I believe this issue extends beyond the scope of those without CS degrees; it also affects developers who have spent time working at small startups that haven't significantly scaled. If you haven't had the opportunity to work on large-scale projects, you might lack impressive accomplishments or credentials to showcase. This issue can compound over time, leaving you stuck in positions that are less rewarding than even mediocre jobs, regardless of your true capabilities or the quality of your work.

Some people say that you can build open source projects or build products to show what you have. Balancing such efforts with a full-time job can be challenging, as these undertakings can consume most, if not all, of your free time. This creates a vicious cycle where you're continuously overextending yourself just to prove your worth. It's a demanding situation that can impact both your professional and personal life.
You can trick it into writing you erotic stories, it will just flag it afterwards
>> 99.9% of developers used SourceForce and SVN.

SourceSafe!
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Dictators should not be considered communists, especially not “democratic socialist”
What I think people feel about range anxiety is a combination of several internalizations:

- battery-powered toys run out of power at inconvenient times; that's our benchmark

- gasoline fuel stations are everywhere, and we know it takes 5-10 minutes for everything to be completed

- we can't afford to have a second vehicle just for long-range trips, so our annual longest trip is what we think about. Adding 30 minutes to every 10 minute stop might or might not be a problem

- we've all had the experience of waking up a little late, needing to get somewhere immediately, and then realizing that we need to fuel the car -- and that makes us 5 minutes late. If the equivalent makes us 35 minutes late, that's not acceptable

- in five years, is this car going to be undrivable because the batteries only hold half as much charge? Is it going to be worth much less because it needs a new $10K battery pack?

But the number one reason why people aren't buying electric cars is the same reason they aren't buying new cars: too damn expensive. US passenger car sales peaked in 1986. In 2018 they were lower than any year since 1951, and they have sunk even lower in every year since.

1951 car sales: 5.3 million

1986 car sales: 11.4 million

2018 car sales: 5.3 million

2022 car sales: 2.86 million
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Don't beat around the bush. Who is keeping who out of schengen?
I mean if you want your German pride back, Mercedes has a car (exactly one, it's a concept car) on the road that actually does 1200km on a single charge, the EQXX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G7Egi36C4M
If developers do unionize this is essentially a recipe for the kind of industrial action that, unlike striking, would be very effective.

This + ramping up technical debt and seeding docs with outdated information would probably be enough to kill almost any project.
Many of those variations of ethernet remain compatible, 10g switches can often negotiate down to 10/100.
>if you put milk in a pot, heated and added lemon until it separated sounds like you made ricotta, not cream cheese.

Interesting. That is basically how paneer is made. Then you strain off the whey after the milk "splits", and hang the paneer up to drain, wrapped in a porous cloth, for a few hours.

Then you can eat it straight away, either raw (delicious that way too), or deep-fried alone, or in some recipe for a dish having paneer as an ingredient. The raw paneer lasts for a few days in the fridge.

The whey can be drunk as is, or used instead of or in addition to water for cooking.
Point could be made people don't really use git anymore - they use github as the primary interface. Branching, merging, review, etc.
What if we let our kids eat what they want? A radical new take on weight debate
It's a loan word, but "amok" is the consensus spelling in English
A lot of the comments here seem to be about discussing legitimate sabotage of a company. Meanwhile the article seems to mostly be about using common sense to be efficient and how a lot of "best practices" are actually horrible for that. So some satire.

The real issue here imo is, power structures. That's societal, and cultural. I sincerely doubt people use these to sabotage anything, infact the people who have control over such things are at the tippy top of an organization or place of governance (laws begat norms). So if that were the case um, you were screwed before you even started by who you listened to and who you worked most closely with. Not by some threat actor... IE we're doing it to ourselves by who and what we reward and it's only an evil plot if it really is being done by government agents or something, in which case we'll, see point #1.
Ops professional here. The parent is basically correct, and I'm not sure this is a fair take on what they're saying.

To wit, the challenge isn't at the functional level, it's at the integration level. The individual elements are well understood, thoroughly developed and available at scale, but the integration for every factory is, on some level, going to have uniquely differentiated elements.

The scoping and management of that is where the challenge tends to sit.
> For $1M they should have a dedicated tech actually working for us every single day. AWS is a fucking racket.

Do they not assign you a dedicated account manager like everyone else does?? For $1M a year you should really have a real person assigned to you whose number you can call directly at any time. Last time I checked, GCP does this. Not that I'd recommend switching, but still, that sounds insane.
Does Brave support this proposal?
Yep, this is an excellent point: if you could get that sort of range, then most of the market would happily buy about a 1/4 of that provided the price was similarly much lower.
We were a DEC partner , so I had a DEC 3000 AXP which was eventually replaced by a 500 series AlphaStation.
Their current hybrids are great and very much in demand, especially the Prime models. Now if only Toyota could make anywhere near enough to satisfy that demand they would be doing really well. And an equivalent truck as capable and reliable as the Tacoma would probably ignite a sales frenzy. But whether they can't make the margins or don't have access to enough batteries, they can't seem to really perform in that space.
I can, considering demand is through the roof. If it's a good deal for the customer, that's another story. I'm not sure what the ROI is in fuel and maintenance savings but over the lifetime of the vehicle it's probably close?
"Created on top of" does not mean training on the ouput, rather finetuning the model.
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If we can. most of endeavors which try to build a smaller ecosystem has failed.
Sure that was a regular bitrate stereo mp3? I remember struggling a lot with my 486DX/100, waiting for better assembly optimization to happen on Linux (to keep up with a DOS mp3 player that handled it better).
I think both of you are holding the idea of ranking organisational strategies on a linear scale. But what works for a tech startup might not be good for operating a chemical plant.
I agree with your second point but...

> I don’t think it does unless you take a dim view of it and perpetuate the simplistic scrum-agile bad meme.

Look, the thing is, if you've worked in a load of different organisations, and lots of different teams, with other smart people and have never really seen Scrum done well, and have in some cases actively seen it inhibit the delivery of quality software, I think it's legitimate to start questioning the process. People - smart people - struggle to make it work effectively. Plus, 50% of software developers (UX, product management, QA, SRE, stakeholders, etc.) are worse than average: a process that top quartile people struggle to make work well, sometimes even under the most favourable of circumstances, is less valuable when broadly applied across the delivery professions as a whole, and over different industry sectors.

On the flip side, with any process being introduced, I think it's fair to spend some time, maybe 6 months (but it will vary, depending on the process), implementing that process fairly strictly. It does need time to bed in, and there will be areas of friction simply due to creating new habits or resistance to change rather than due to problems with the process during that time. You need time for those issues to shake out so that you can see how much value the process itself really delivers and where it can be improved. At the 6 month point you can review the process, implement improvements, and move forward. You can keep doing the same review/evolve process on whatever cycle you choose, and that way your processes are more in step with changes in the wider organisation (hopefully growth).

Your processes need to fit your organisation, your business model, your culture. So, by all means, you can start with a process like Scrum, but to be really successful with it you need to treat it as just that: a starting point. You need to evolve it to fit your business. We all like to mock cargo-culting and yet, somehow, Scrum and agile often seem to blag a free pass. I don't understand why, because they shouldn't get that free pass. Your processes need to work for your business, and they are always a means for delivering value and never an end in themselves.
Don't think this is atypical of many organisations that have grown their IT over a long period. When I did some work for Network Rail (here in the UK) there were some absolutely hair-raising diagrams of umpteen systems all with lines between them, doubtless many going back to BR days.
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EDIT : I found the message about being beyond money to be patronizing, but I regret that I couched my comment in a way that was not charitable. Hence this edit.
> But Netscape didn't create Java

So what? They didn't invent HTML either.

> The browser was not created to be an application runtime

It's been 35 years since HTML was invented, and 30 years since Netscape was released. There have been dozens - or maybe even hundreds - of browsers written in that time. So when you say, "the browser was not created to be an application runtime", really, I don't even know what that means. Which browser? Amaya? Arena? Lynx? Mosaic? Netscape? IE? IE6? Webkit? Blink?

"The browser" was created to be whatever their creators wanted it to be. Netscape, for better or worse, wanted it to be an application platform. And, to their credit, they were right.
That statement is often quoted and usually attributed to Einstein. He never said it, though. I also think it's wrong. Feynman said something similar, yet different: "I couldn't break it down to freshmen level, which means we haven't really understood it yet."
They haven't been very good about scaling up production of their Prime vehicles. Lots of people would love to buy them and have for years.
> now struggling to catch up

How far are they behind really though? They have been working on hydrogen fuel cell (i.e. they generate electricity) cars ... isn't that practically the same thing except the power source is different? Serious question.
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I don't remember a single git command by heart, just there are some icons in the lower right corner of my Visual Studio window and in VSC window and it's pretty obvious what to do.
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I've seen cases where 100+ people were required to attend multi-day meeting marathons to agree on the perfect sprint goal formulation, a negotiation held hostage by a few pedants that were never quite happy with the exact wording.

That's like 2000 man hours down the drain to produce a sentence I'm not even sure who is the intended audience for.
Even though this is from 2018, it was and still is completely applicable to every other investment bank out there.

Investment banking organizational structures are set up such that bureaucracy encourages 'silos' where teams can deliver quicker if they don't depend on other teams, and performance related pay dominates the managers (managing directors) thinking.

Having worked at Megabank, it ran at least one system on SunOS (not Solaris), well into the late 2010s. It had Windows XP, long after end-of-life.

Nothing about that story is peculiar to DB.
Stretching feels good, but has little effect in injury prevention. In general, back pain is very common across the population and quite resistant to reliable prevention or treatment. I think there was a study that found only education and physical activity had any effect at all (and stretching is not useful for meeting minimum physical activity standards).

Also, people tend to develop disc bulges as they age, and the vast majority are asymptomatic. In this case probably the pain is actually caused by the herniation, but don't nocebo yourself into pain just because there are some deformities in your spine.
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