My son does always try to improve the game creating, I think they are called modules or something, for Minecraft and full on games for Roblox so that’s some educational value.
Couldn’t they have cut other things besides security? If nothing else, it will undermine confidence. And worst case, they get compromised and ruined as they’ll immediately be blamed for dropping infosec and enabling this to happen.
When I’ve writing about something, I do find that my comprehension levels up. Part of it is writing forces a systematic treatment of a topic, revealing knowledge gaps, or even that I’m flat out wrong about something.
That burst of intense focus on something does seem to stimulate the ability to make connections you hadn’t made before. I suspect part of this is because your unconscious mind is being flooded and gets to work making connections even when you’re taking a break.
Inertia sometimes. That is, I sometimes go days without any exercise. Also, while I like being alone there are times when it feels isolating.
Then other times I’m social and it feels more intense because I’m not used to it. I will say that while I always hesitate to do something social, I almost never regret it. It almost always works out way better than I imagined it would thinking I look something the cat dragged in.
A relative of mine had all her photos and writings on an old Windows laptop with no backup. She got a Mac and I set things up to make sure that a devastating loss of items of great sentimental value aren’t likely to be lost.
She had the Mac for months without using it until I visited. Part of the problem was the neighbor who helped her set it up was under the misguided assumption that the password to get on the Mac had to be a “good” password which was written on a post it note. I had her change the password to a word and toss the post it. Anyone with physical access to the machine is going to see the post it. A simple password made it easy for her arthritic hands to access her Mac, removing the temptation to just keep using the old Windows laptop.
Simple things and an easy setup make all the difference.
It's because a thief is more likely to steal your ipad than your password notebook, if you're raided by the US government, you probably did something pretty bad (and know better than to use a book for those passwords) or didn't, and whatever minor stuff they find wasn't on the warrant. Or someone more motivated than the official government finds you and extracts your passwords through more physical means.
I thought the cure for writers block was to just write. It might not be good but just keep writing. There are many great writers who wrote every day no matter how they felt or how well they were writing that day. Action, apparently, tends to cure writer's block.
For well a very well articulated argument for fungal intelligence, look up Paul Stamets, the mycologist on YouTube and elsewhere.
He's a serious scientist but he shows up in popular culture, too. For example, Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets, a astromycologist serving on the USS Discover, was named after the real Paul Stamets.
For a less articulated argument Terence McKenna also speculated that psilocybin is some kind of intelligent substance that came to earth via meteors and consciously played a role in humanity's self awareness.
