Programmer's Notepad is amazing, its been my goto in Windows for well over a decade at this point. Has everything I need without any bloat, also work fine on large files (I often do regex-searches on huge log files with it).
It was definitely xkill, I remember using it a lot during the early Ubuntu releases. I think the shortcut was ctrl-alt-esc, but its so long ago it was removed I no longer know for sure.
Satisfactory is really great, highly recommended from me as well. I think the verticality really adds a lot of fun over Factorio where you are restricted to keeping everything on the same level. Can make some really confusing spaghetti though...
The loss of 3D was one of the biggest things I missed when moving on from industrial mods for minecraft (the inspiration for factorio).
I recently got an RTX card and played around with the minecraft RTX demos. I decided to look further into behavior packs, and apparently the scripting API is much more capable than it previously was. The community of people making content is basically nonexistent, but I now think it's just because people have moved on.
Everything is in place to have added blocks, oregen, ticking tile entities, power generation/distribution, multiblocks, etc. It would be nice to see a behavior pack that picks up the torch of gregtech/industrialcraft.
Unfortunately, most of the unofficial GT versions have lacked proper vision. That is, vision in a way that is not aligned with GT proper, and what really draws players of industrial games in.
Anyway, here is a promising example. I hope to see more industrial content for minecraft for windows 10.
Yeah, I love both factorio and satisfactory, but factorio ended up being the one I dumped more hours into.
Satisfactory ended up hiding too many details as you move around - the first person view and the very large structures made it really hard to untangle the mess.
Satisfactory felt like writing regexes - Basically write only, hard to read and parse afterwards.
That said, man the first person view is fun when you're actually doing the building. Just not nearly as fun once things have gone wrong and you need to debug.
Don't know if I agree on the height issues... every machine has ladders, they give you a tower fairly early on, and you can always walk on conveyors
As for debugging, I've found that planning a build on paper, keeping in mind production ratios, eliminates the need to experiment and debug, and then building simply becomes figuring out how to route conveyors
I've never had issues troubleshooting by getting to a high place and looking at the big picture, but to be honest since I started planning my builds on paper it barely even comes up
X-series is always a safe bet if you want something a bit more portable than the T-series, but with the same build quality. I don't know about the newest (x280), but I'm rocking the previous X270 and I'm really happy with it.
I also never see people mention it, but the L-series feels a bit underrated. I handled some older ones the other day and was super impressed by the build quality. I think they go for like half the price of T-s too.
L540s (4 or 5 years old now) used by the dozen in one of the places I teach, the managers have them as portable work machines. They seem reliable, they get a beating. Quite big 15inch screen, thick bezel &c.
Must be really cool to win something like that, but how hard would be to convert this back to normal funds again? Would any of the coin exchanges allow you to just withdraw $2M?
I was really hoping 2.0 would include the integrated e-mail client they teased a looong time ago. By now I think that is the only feature I still miss from the Opera 12 days.
The email client was also really handy for reading rss feeds. It made the notes tool more useful for grabbing web content and then composing an email with it.
This kind of plane isn't "not in use" very often. In fact, any time it's not flying people around is costing the airline loads, and they try to minimise that.
Plus, when it's not flying passengers, it's being fueled, cleaned, maintained, and inspected. All of those are easier if there's power and systems online.
because the whole Option Foo stuff that Visual Basic had,
is a hideous global state thing that makes it hard to reason about code without checking for what it's options were set to.
Programming languages should not be configurable in that kind of way.
