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The classic "technically strong but lacking soft skills" unheard story about you through the office after your results.

Wow, thanks for the kind words!


Hi thanks! Sure, certainly! I also want to eventually add some physics-based levels for fun, with like a box2D sim interacting with the circuits (with N circuit ticks = 1 box2D "tick"), or even little games on top of the circuit, but I need these tutorial campaigns first otherwise the step curve is way too high.


Hi, thanks! Today the game is focused on digital logic, It would be fun to put resistors, capacitors or maybe transistors, maybe as a mod, but the algorithm would be a little different, would need analog simulation which I'm less familiar with.

Would probably be slower but doable, fun mod for the future!


If you are mapping the lines where each pixel has resistance and capacitance (presumably quite small values) could you add a new pixel type with editable resistance / capacitance and hide it behind a graphic of the schematic representation (i.e. the zigzag of a resistor like --\/\/\-- or capacitor like --|(-- ?

Your current algorithm would need to be able to accept a wider range of values but it seems like it would work from a math standpoint.


Nand gates you already have and they can take the place of transistors for now, so C's and R's would bring the most options at once. And LEDs, but those should be very easy.


Thanks!


Hello, I've just added some new changes to my circuit simulation and game and wanted to share it here.

The game is open source and available in full in Github and on Steam:

https://github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever/circuit-artist

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3139580/Circuit_Artist/

More info on the github page, thanks.


That's looking nicely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireworld ish!


Thanks! Yeah I got inspiration from Wireworld and Wired logic , just wanted to build a "paint" layer on top of it one day but i end up adding more and more :)


The genious leadership at prime video thought it would be a good idea to introduce adds not only on the beginning of movies but also in the middle of it, with an extra paid option (on top of prime) to remove it. When an add appeared I got so frustrated I cancelled my prime subscription at that very moment. I wonder if they even considered/cared about brand reputation impact.


Sadly, brand reputation is a means to an end. If they lose the most demanding 5% of customers, while getting 10% more profit from the other 95%, that's a huge net win.

At least in the short term. But manager bonuses and promotions and the stock price are all based on the short term, aren't they?


I canceled prime when they introduced ads. That means I no longer spend nearly $1k a year on other things from Amazon too.

They dont care. The mismatch in power between trillion dollar companies breaks the traditional accountability relationship between seller and buyer.


I've seen (somewhere on HN) it compared to soviet central planning committees: decisions are made by people so far removed from any actual situation on the ground and with so little accountability they have no hope of making correct ones, and then sooner or later, whatever they're in charge of collapses.


Same!


It's handy for non-tech-savy people, namely the elderly. It can be used for playing music: "Alexa play X", "Alexa shutdown" is all the user needs to know.


Arguably that comes under the 'accessibility' use case that was mentioned.


If a cable goes down, isn't the traffic just re-routed? Don't see the point of intentional damage here.


Dunno what the real reason is, but it's easy to see possible a intentional reason: Testing to see how it well it works and how other nations respond.


Cost of new anchor = X

Cost of fixing cable = >>X

Damage = done


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