Jon Colverson

Really good 9-minute podcast with an LSE professor explaining how the tariffs were calculated and whether that is reasonable approach or not: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I'm ridiculously elated about it being the weekend after two days back at work. A whole weekend to do whatever I want! Incredible!

e.g. Here I'm stopping an animation player before playing an animation. In 6 months I won't remember why I did that, so I added a comment for future-me:

A good rule of thumb for commenting is to comment /why/ the code is doing something rather than /what/ it's doing. And you only need to do that when the code is doing something non-obvious.

The comments on the variables are A+. You won't need the comments like the ones in the functions when you get more comfortable with coding. They're essentially just translating the GDScript into English, and you won't need that anymore when you're fluent reading GDScript 💪

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot YouTube video by carlsagandotcom

I hadn't listened to the Pale Blue Dot monologue for a while, and now my face is wet www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupT...

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Played this demo, and it's a delight. A chill drive around game with good controls, soothing music, and all in all a mostly calm and pleasant experience.

Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.

The blog post announcing Google's new quantum chip includes this mind-blowing part: "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch." blog.google/technology/r...