I was looking for this and thought I was doing something wrong not finding anything...
Great job!
I do think though a "clean" development mode not needing this would be to work with a virgin virtual environment starting a new project and running pip freeze on that env.
Wow what an honor! VB really got me of the ground (after a short endeavor with QBASIC) and I loved it! I have to say though that in terms of creating an UI it kind of messed me up: When later studying CS and was asked to create a UI based project in Java I really did not understand what was going on: All students in my team thought it was "normal" that you would hardcore not only the functionality of a button but also it's position, color etc. From VBA I was used to just drag and drop, press F5 and enjoy!
Same goes for debugging via terminal outputs...
Anyways, many thanks to you (and others) - VB really got me hooked
Increasing max/avg/median lifespan without major improvements in battling dementia it is a rather dystopian vision. And even if we are not talking full blown Alzheimers, declining mental capabilities is a big issue: My own grandmother turns 102 this year and even though we as a family feel really blessed, I would say the last 5 years have been a slow but constant decline in mental capabilities. It went hand in hand with decline in eyesight and hearing. So: not hearing much anymore, not able to read or really watch TV and all your friends and relatives have passed for years. I really don't know if I would whish her getting 120...
This. The rates of chronic fatigue, mental illness, dementia are all massively increasing, with increasing evidence linking them to persistent infections and gut dysbiosis, and nobody cares to fix it.
Seeing everyone scrambling to drag life out without doing anything about its quality is just absurd.
There's a topic called "blue zones" which examines regions where people live healthy dementia free for far longer than surrounding communities. it's not clear how much research is active, but it is an investigated topic.
Reading Hagakure (Japan, 1716) really helps putting things into perspective here: Even back then the author complained about moral decline. And in the author`s eyes the sad low point of this degeneracy is the trend that the young lords won't e
Perform their beheadings themselves anymore...
My grandfather (an actual nazi, who fought in the Wehrmacht on the eastern front) complained about us young people not wanting to go hunt with him (which had more to do with the man than with hunting). He complained about how his generation was strong men and how me and my small brother are corrupted by television and anything with a screen on it. His greatest fear was us becoming "verweichlicht" (literal translation: "softened"), being perceived as weak was one of the worst things for him.
Yet he was the man that could never face what he did, never talk about what his real ideology was, he could never face how bad of a father and husband he was. In fact his eating disorders and his silence took 4 generations to heal. If only he could have faced his past and lived in the present, strong men — in my world — can do precisely that.
The point is that generational differences exist and very often a simple "the young people do it different" will become a "the young people are morally corrupted" — because the alternative would be to face your own weaknesses and demons or question how your society has done things up to this point.
Men being afraid to look weak (something that only bothers men that feel weak) is a huge driver of all kinds of problems, even today.
Maybe the Hagakure observations were correct and afterwards morality improved only to decline again in the 20th century. Or maybe his observations are irrelevant to a 20th century phenomenon.
I think it is normal for younger generations to try to differenciate themselves from the older ones. This differenciation necessarily puts the older generation into a situation where they have to question themselves or — the easier route — you don't do that and go all Seymour Skinner: "Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong" and call it a day.
Morals are a fluid thing. My Wehrmacht-serving grandfather for example would say talking about one's feelings is weak and therefore morally wrong and this was a common view in his generation. I would say talking about one's feeling is hard and not talking about them is a sign of a weak person. He fucked up his whole family by insisting to look strong, my father was strong by breaking with the morals of his father.
What a lot of people don't know: the standard NATO barbedwire - correctly deployed - is highly effective against tanks: It messes up the chains and is a nightmare to remove (eg blowing them up is not an option).
I think this is an even bigger issue: A cultural one. We live in a (western) society where NOT getting shit done has become the norm. Often things don't get finished at all and if they do they take forever. There seem to be only few companies/founders (have to mention Elon here!) that are able to break this habit.
I love You mentioning moon patrol. It was one of my first games back in the days on Atari 1024St. Spend hours in front of it, just a me a friend and a joystick...
The saddest thing about these VR companies (or any other hyped yet insubstantial new thing for that matter) to me is the fact that they got acquired too quickly that one cannot short them on the stock exchange...
Calling VR insubstantial is absurd. Just because VR helmets won't be as popular as mobile phones doesn't make them so. It's like calling an Xbox insubstantial.
What VR lacks in game variety, it makes up for in how unique the experience is. VR consoles will be able to get new games and apps, while "regular" consoles won't get more unique without releasing new models.
Gaming in VR is also a lot more beginner friendly. Console Controllers are not intuitive, whereas VR controls almost always are.
In short, VR is already very viable and its future is extremely promising. But if you want to short stuff, be my guest.
I get your point. But with all due respect, the comparison is unfortunately off by a substantial magnitude: overall VR devices sold world wide in 2019: <6M (https://www.statista.com/statistics/671403/global-virtual-re...)
xbox sales alone are quite constantly at 50M per month (!!!)
Then it sounds like you're not really getting my point.
VR as is today is a new tech. The Quest 2 is a recent release, second model of a new lineup. Xbox 360 was released in 2005 so look at xbox sales in like, 2006 instead. Which… checks numbers, hey look, 4 million units.
> Console Controllers are not intuitive, whereas VR controls almost always are.
Almost all console controllers follow a similar control scheme for decades (minus the front buttons like "share" or the touchpads). I don't see them as unintuitive.
They are for someone who hasn't ever played a game, easier to get them to learn how to do stuff with vr controllers than with a console controller, vr incorporates far more normal movements that everyone already knows how to do, like picking stuff up or aiming a gun/bow, shooting is easy it is aiming it that is hard.
The experience of VR gaming and desktop gaming is not interchangeable. I tried a modern VR headset very recently and I was blown away by the level of immersion. So many early teething issues from several years ago were actually solved problems. Living room space was a biggie, for instance.
Even if you could, you won't make money shorting on the stock exchange because you think stocks are more expensive than they should be. You can only make money shorting things on the stock exchange when you guess that other investors will think the price is too high relatively soon.
