Nuke

well when they make a roomba that can climb stairs and clean up cat vomit, i might get one.

to think a whole generation of people who dont know how a mop works.

no. doom is relaxing. the synth thrash, the tearing of fleash, the hellscapes. its beautiful.

rip tom t. hall. his relaxing and light hearted approach to country music will be greatly missed.

doom is very relaxing. theres no grind, and you arent fighting esports players, at least in sp.

i have this problem with more competitive online games. in games where everyone is encouraged, nay required to play at a high level, it can really stress you out. i have that problem with mwo where its not uncommon for you to regularly encounter esports caliber players in your matches. the usual fix is to take breaks and play something more relaxing like ksp or minecraft (i play on anarchy servers so that's kind of a stretch to call it relaxing, a simple mistake can cost you everything). you have to regularly ask yourself "am i having fun?" and if the answer is no, maybe you ought to take a break.

anything from scaled composites.

im kind of the opinion that all you need to make a game is notepad, gimp, and blender, perhaps audacity. gcc if you want it fast, your script interpreter of choice otherwise. granted you have to learn all your algorithms you need, but that makes you a better game designer in the long run. nothing against game engines though, they are useful if you need to make a game fast or have a budget and need to pay your employees. for crazy lunatics with game design asperations, do it the hard way, it pays off. thats how you become the next john carmack.

its different if you go in on an emergency visit, like if you have a toothache and want it fixed that day. in that case they usually want to see whats going on immediately. going in for a regular checkup is generally a more laid back approach.

been on a quasi break for awhile myself. i got to the point where i downloaded but not installed the final version. i put it off abit knowing there would be point releases. i guess im now waiting for mods to catch up. i just seem to have a general lack of interest in practically everything lately.

good artists create. great artists steal.

star wars ripped off everyone.

currently locked out of my paypal account for being anti-phone. some years ago i was frustrated by not being able to use a longer password with more entropy. now they have implemented forced sms 2 factor and no option to use another method. i use a totp extension for my browser for some things and really like it (mostly because i can run it on a proper computer). id complain about it more but there is a cat in the way.

wow the cinebench scores on this rig are impressive. 14908 in multithreaded test. hitting 4.4ghz. the 8086k build can only get to 9k-ish though im pretty sure it can get a higher clock with more threads (shows that ghz isnt everything). 1596 single threaded, was hitting 4.8ghz. thats a couple hundred mhz faster than what my 8086k build can do. also trying out some cpu mining, its only doing 5.6 kh on xmonero. which is only worth about 14 cents a day, prisoner wages. i think im going to turn that off its a waste of power. probibly going to throw meshroom at it and see how it handles photogrammetry. but do recommend some other benchmarks, especially cpu ones. build is: cpu: ryzen 7 5800x mobo: msi mpg b550i gaming edge max wifi ram: 32 gig corsair vengeance lpx ddr4 at 3600 ssd: sabrent rocket q 2tb (only 200gb currently partitioned, this is going to be my data drive) gpu: gtx 1060 (temporary pending new sfx power supply, at which point my low profile 2070 super will fit. that will also be temporary pending video cards being a thing again and of course money) case ncase m1 cpu cooler: noctua ng-c14s (doesnt quite fit with this cpu/mobo combo, but close enough where i can make it work) fans: 4x noctua- nf-a12x15 (only 3 installed right now due to psu hogging space) and 1x nf-a9x14 gpu: 750w, i think its a thermaltake (temporary). its old. was going to replace it with a corsair 750w sfx, though i did see a cooler master 850w modular sfx on ltt that caught my interest. leaning towards the corsair for how solid the 600w has been over the last 2-3 years.

maybe on a steam sale. idk. i really dont play many games anymore.

i dont think i ever played a valve game.

thats actually kept me up nights doing math in my head. the new case isnt so bad in that im just going to have to put something in there thats going to eat up a quarter to a half a liter of space and thats just from a few mm of extra height. at least its going to keep its clean footprint. the elite 110 is a whole lot of ugly bumpouts, some stock and some made by me. i doubt it would fit in its original box anymore.

i got enough components to build a computer. i am working with a BIG HONKIN' 750w ATX POWER SUPPLY in place of the intended sfx supply. turns out the case has an atx supply option, but it kills the space i intended for an extra fan and a lot of cable management. im also not sure i have clearance for my low profile 2070 with this supply. so il probibly stick my 1060 in there for now while i run it through its paces. anyway thats my tomorrow project. the 5800x doesen't have a igpu and i cant get an actual boot out of it. but the debug leds get to "vga error", which is where this thing should fail if you boot without a gpu. good enough for now, out comes the bourbon. as anyone who has built an sff build knows the frustrations involved, the swearing and yelling and throwing things involved and general destruction of the relationships i have with my cats. the good news is i didnt have to dremel through the case. unfortunately i might have to due to not being able to get the top panel back on. turns out my cpu cooler sticks out the top. the clearance is off by four or five millimeters. it still technically mounted though because the top panel comes off and the cooler does clear the rails and the side panels go on fine. i figure i can get by with a spacer of sorts, something 3d printed or maybe order a laser cut acrylic sheet. or i can swap the cpu cooler with something else. its kind of depressing because i dont know anything thats even remotely in the same class as the nh-c14s, other than perhaps an aio (which wont fit till i get that sfx supply). temp fix is to put rubber grommets on the mounting posts and hope that gives me some clearance for now.

i think the best dentist i had was an old military dentist, retired from the service and in private practice. that guy removed a wisdom tooth in under 10 seconds and did it for $200 cash on the barrel. the guy i go to now is a bit happy with the anesthetic and you are numb for the rest of the day, hes not as fast but you are too doped up to care or even notice.

its a case of a new technology becoming a crutch. not that we haven't had x-ray technology for a really long time. but it seems the smartphone generations are more likely to get encrutched by it. in the olden days the dentist would get their dental mirror out and actually look at what was wrong with just the mk1 eyeball. 90% of problems tend to be of the 'keep it simple stupid' type and can be determined without any special equipment (its the same in many fields and is no doubt true in the medical fields as well). with the x-ray being the fallback for the 10% of actually hard to fix problems. i think another contributing factor is that the medical field got all bureaucratic, with rubber stampers demanding that everyone get multiple x-rays so as to reduce the error rate and thus the number of malpractice cases. antibiotics and, more recently, opioids are other good examples of things being overprescribed to the point of harm. to the point where i think doctors need to go back and re-read the hippocratic oath, or at least stop listening to bureaucrats/pharma reps/insurance companies where actual patient care is concerned. its kind of the whole reason they are there in the first place.

i just turned 40. im going back to bed.

i still i think it works out. versatility is a tradeoff with efficiency. sometimes you need it and other times you dont. i agree that the miitary are going to hog up most of the high efficiency remass for their own needs. hydrogen is pretty abundant though so there is still plenty for other classes of ships. but you are probibly going to need to get it at either a major base, or a fuel depot. like skimming gas giants will be your main source, and you will have tankers bring it as far out of the gravity well as possible. either to a station or to a moon with a large orbit and a little gravity. or in the deep solar system where you have a lot of water ice (explorers would need to be self refueling and would work similar to the rock hoppers, but without strip mining the whole thing or refining every scrap of material as their main product is survey charts for the rock hoppers). in the astreroids though, you are just going to have whatever volatiles you can find in the rocks.

there are some forms of electric propulsion that can use a wide array of remass options. some craft will be designed for specific high efficiency propellant, mostly used on warships and deep space explorers, perhaps freighters and especially tankers. so these will use hydrogen primarily, perhaps helium and other lightweight fuels for maximum isp. meanwhile your rock hoppers will use versatile engines that can run on practically anything they might find as a byproduct on an asteroid. they take a hit on their specific impulse, but if they can find enough remass to get to the next rock, they can stay in business. they might not only have versatile engine but multiple sets of other options. say multi-fuel capable mpd thrusters, simple chemical engines, or even things like mass drivers. its a lot of dead weight to carry around (along with refinery and mining equipment) but you only have to get to the next rock or commodity station.

boats are pigs. topping off a small skiff is bloody expensive. no reason electric cannot be used, but where seawater and batteries are concerned, you always have a few safety issues and problems with corrosion that cars just dont have. the need to keep your batteries in a water tight box will cause some cooling issues. using seawater to cool the batteries directly seems like a bad idea, so you would run a non corrosive coolant and if you have a metal hull you could use it for thermal rejection and wont even need to bother with salt water loop. but id consider all these as solved problems as we were using batteries in submarines as far back as ww1. scaling it up for large scale shipping seems impractical though if you look at the ginormous diesel engines that container ships use. space for batteries is going to eat up cargo space and lots of it. but the transition is likely more plausible than electric passenger planes. ships with a lot of unused deck space (like passenger ferries) can also pack a lot of solar panel area which can be used to extend range and recharge while in port. biggest issue might be scaling up production of large format cells.

if it trips your virus scanner, dont use it. if had situations where loading common mods from 3rd party websites did, and needless to say i dont use those sites anymore.