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im just more jaded about these things. though lately more so about the declining quality of games than the distribution services.

i was a big fan of the bargain bin back in the day. rather than spend $60 on a new tripple a game, i could grab 4 or 5 out the bin. and they were usually better than what passes for games these days. steam often has deals just as good. it was only a matter of time until the industry moved to online distribution which has been both a blessing and a curse. at some point you could still get boxed media, but it was usually just a steam network installer and a serial number. shortly there after i stopped putting optical drives in my computers. i still don't like the idea of games and other software being linked to an online account or dependent on centralized servers which could be taken down at a moment's notice.

its happening! this is just a teaser i think the real trailer comes out tomorrow. its one of those things where its a great concept but i worry that they may not be doing it right.

its just one of those things, when you colonize another planet you usually don't kill everyone on the old one first.

they haven't exactly said that earth was destroyed, and last we see it still appears habitable though war torn and likely infested with genocidal androids. humans are said to be an endangered species though.

i think the zed thing is the way they do it, the canadians as well, i think calling it zee is really just an american thing. blame merriam webster.

started that 'raised by wolves' series. its fairly new, just learned about it today and watched the first 3 episodes. its essentially about children being raised by athiest androids on keplar-22b after earth is destroyed in a crusades-esque holy war. anyway skip ahead to episode 3, and you learn that antibiotics can fix radiation poisoning. it disturbs me that in a world with internet access, and wikipedia on your phone in your pocket, you can still make an obvious factual error in a script. and ignoring the fact that the name pretty much says what it does (and doesnt do). other sci-fi series would have done something like 'radiation meds' or something like it ('super space drugs' would have also worked).

balance the trains well. as well as keep the ring under tension, like joining tunnel segments on long cables, pre-tensioned and set in place with concrete injection. tension in concert with the balanced trains could keep the flexure to a minimum so as not to disturb the rubble.

thats the cool thing about tbms, they can lay down reinforcement structures as they tunnel.

currently stuck in my player:

glow in the dark bacon! shut up and take my money!

when you dart your 50th squirrel you get a free coat. natures equivalent to one of those cards you get punched every time you get coffee or whatever. turtles also come with free dinnerware.

the amount of torque you would need to rotate the bar would likely deform it. if youve ever worked construction or at least handled a long 2x4 you know that its easier to rotate it along the long axis than the other 2. this is a good example of the concept of moment of inertia as the mass distribution matters. obviously trying to rotate a lightyear long 2x4, you need to accelerate the mass at the end at a faster rate than the mass closer to the center. and obviously that mass at the end cant break the speed of light. assuming perfect rigidity and you ignore any structural issues (and you encounter these at much smaller scales) you will be rpm capped and at a very low value as the ends approach relativistic speeds. at some point you would stop getting appropriate acceleration of the end masses and instead increase their relativistic mass. this would have a bending effect, but since we assumed perfect rigidity that would not be possible. so no chance making an ftl drive out of unrealistic lumber (i cringe to think of how long it would take to mill such a cosmic tree).

theres too much anti-gmo propaganda out there. and it doesnt make any sense as it can stand to have an impact on global hunger issues. i also find it cute when people buy processed foods with 'organic' and 'gmo free' thinking its healthy.

im pretty good with lua, hell i got half a game engine written in lua.

idk about that. i know several but still cant get my head around python. i need my curly braces damn it.

you also have fatter operations. probably the most useful advantage is being able to feed the fpu with one load instead of two, and likewise retrieve the result in one instead of two. including the fpu instruction itself this represents a 40% performance boost when using doubles. then when you take vector extensions (such as avx) into account which are very wide operations requiring a lot of loads and stores to work with, you nearly double the performance. not to mention doubling the data bus which doubles memory performance. should also point out that there are instances where 32 bit machines can have more than 4gb through memory banking techniques. though this was usually in the server space (this usually had per-application memory limits).

64 bit is about a lot more than a fatter address bus.

easiest way to build a centrifuge on a low gravity dwarf planet is to use a tunnel boring machine to carve out a circular tunnel and put a train in it.

if the cylinders were infinite then you wouldn't be able to localize gravity to a single point, all gravity sources become line sources. in addition all cylinders would have infinite mass as they have infinite volume. this would cancel out their infinite gravitational attraction. likewise changes in orientation would be impossible as they would have infinite moment of inertia (not sure if thats the right math terminology because moi is not a scalar quantity) and thus no amount of torque can change a cylinder's angular momentum. all in all it would be a very boring universe. if objects of finite volume also exist, then they might have some interesting orbital mechanics provided the gravity field is not infinite everywhere.

idk, deep space nine was actually one of the better ones once they get past all the regurgitated tng scripts. they seemed to know where they were going by season 2 and stayed the course for the rest of the show. and while they were at a fixed location they did do quite a bit of exploration of the gamma quadrant via the worm hole. its also a deconstruction of star trek. the federation is shown not as a utopian society but as bungling bureaucracy. starfleet is shown not as an exploration fleet, looks past the propaganda, and shows it as what it really is, a military. even the commander/captain is a down to earth realist rather than the over idealized figurehead of high moral character that picard or even kirk was. janeway, archer, and pike (discovery) were just cookie cutter captains in comparison. kirk only stands apart by being a bit of a cowboy. also hands down it had some of the best space battles star trek had ever seen.

i liked the loose serial format from the first couple season, events in one episode has consequences in the next, but still more or less being self contained stories. gone was a huge problem with voyager where despite the ship getting trashed in almost every episode still managed to look pristine in the next. a lot of people say that season 3 and 4 helped the series but i think that's where they went wrong. going with a season long serial for the xindi plot kind of got tedious towards the end. the whole thing seemed implausible. then season 4 was a lot of 2 and 3 part episodes (and most of them had me falling asleep). i don't think a thousand signatures will bring the show back. and if they did it would just attract the current iteration of star trek writers and would just be bad. if strange new worlds cant fix trek i don't know what can.

i think its a good place for mining infrastructure though. also great for tunneling into for radiation shielding and thus capable of continuous habitation, perhaps with the addition of subterranean centrifuges. its escape velocity is a mere 510 m/s, so its great for launching construction materials and fuel into orbit. likewise more exotic ores from asteroids can be processed on the surface. eventually you will want to move this to orbital colonies. large sections of such a colony can be manufactured under ground in a shirt sleeve environment and launched in a mostly completed state with all of its structure and rad shielding in place and merely docked in orbit. a fully kitted out space colony built in earth-lunar space is going to be massive and hard to move to a good place in the belt. barring some serious advances in propulsion technology.

i wouldn't doubt that they have some canned smoke on board just for this purpose.

i think cats rely on nutrients that are thermally sensitive. cooked food might actually be bad for them. unless those nutrients are added back in after cooking like with cat food or taken as a supplement. the anti-pathogen anti-parasitic benefits of cooking still remain though. they might also supplement processed meals with high quality raw meat (sort of like sushi). or they might simply take their meat rare (best way to make a steak imho, just walk it through the kitchen).