Readit NewsI just wanted to add, there's also mechanical lander games that pre-date lunar lander
I can't find a picture. IIRC the machine was something like this
https://content.invisioncic.com/r322239/monthly_10_2015/post...
Except it had terrain and pits. A pit would light up and you needed to land in the pit (your ship landing would depress the button in the center of the pit). If you didn't aim well your ship would hit the edge of the pit, tilt, and you'd fail. If you did hit the button then the light would go off and a different pit would light up.
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now that I think about it, maybe the controls were more like UFO catcher where you'd align at the top and then press "land".
Anyway, it used to be at Disneyland at the Main Street Arcade.
I returned to the museum a few years ago and it was no longer working. I hope they fix it one day.
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I've heard that a lot of their games have various maintenance issues, is this true? On the other hand, I've wanted to get over there and play the only remaining copy of The Pinball Circus!
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.
This is statement so ridiculous it verges on not even being worthy of being called unfalsifiable. It's plain old personal incredulity that because Chomsky cannot comprehend there are limits to human thought, human thought must be infinitely various, and because he uses language to describe thought, language must also be infinitely various. Thought is not infinitely various and language is even less so. This is blatantly obvious from even every day experience. How could language express an unlimited array of thoughts when language cannot even fully express the experience of eating a chicken nugget? Can language express all your thoughts when looking at a sunrise? When embracing your lover after a hard day? Language is the best tool we have but that doesn't stop it from being an extremely limited form of communication.
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.
I'm currently employed at a really cool place, but I'm looking for work more aligned with my interests: farming, water conservation, crunchy scientific stuff, things that actually help people, medicinal mushrooms.
The short version of my resume is: I have a lot of experience with mobile app development, hardware like arduino and raspberry pi, and backend stuff related to apps and websites. Light experience with DSP, web apps, QA, UX, and a million other things. I've also presented at a number of conferences and customer meetings, so I'm comfortable with that kind of thing.
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?
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?