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    Shower thoughts

    Shpaget replied to p1t1o's topic in The Lounge

    That's because people are terible random number generators.
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    Ok, that's a different game than the one that came up with the search.
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    A quick look at a Yt video of the gameplay I can tell you that neither mechanics of the game nor the depiction of asteroids are anywhere close to realistic, so it's rather irrelevant what the game is like when talking about real spaceflight. That being said, I am confused why would you expect that flaying a spaceship manually is trivial. After all, it's rocket science.
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    This morning my colleague and I commented on some flies that we encountered when we entered the premises. There were maybe four or five of them, not a big deal, just annoying. In the early afternoon one of us glanced at the ceiling and the horror - hundreds of flies. I've never seen anything like that. Enter the largest can of Raid available, AKA genocide in a can. I'm afraid some animal might have entered the air ducts and met its demise. If that's the case, the next few days we might see more flies, but there is no smell I'd associate with dead meat (that particular duct is drawing air out, so that may be the explanation for the lack of smell). We'll see what the morning brings.
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    I knew you wouldn't be able to stay away for long. The factory calls you.
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    This is just amazing. Rwanda is using autonomous planes to deliver blood and other perishable medical supplies. These planes are launched by a rail catapult, fly at 100 km/h with delivery radius of 80 km, deliver their cargo by an airdrop and ultimately land by being caught midair by a system somewhat similar to aircraft carrier arrestor wire. Everything about this is awesome. The technology, concept, people working on the project, not to mention the goal and results.
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    This being a discussion about superconductivity I wouldn't call it basic. That being said, what you are describing is called magnet quench, and is not uncommon when dealing with superconducting magnets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet#Magnet_quench
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    FTL travel but no FTL comms? Can you say Pony Express?
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    Are you seriously claiming that your OP makes more sense than Big Bang? It doesn't. And let's refrain from calling it a theory. It's a hypothesis at best.
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    gx=4 def read_gyroscope(gx): print(gx) gx=read_gyroscope(gx) This really does print out 4. But perhaps you'll understand this better if you try running this: gx=4 print("before", gx) def read_gyroscope(gx): print("during",gx) gx=read_gyroscope(gx) print("after",gx) You get:
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    What does KSP have to do with all this?
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    It wouldn't be the first government project based on non-existing scientific principles. Stargate Project What you are proposing sounds like technobable, but at its core is using vacuum which is too well known to sound plausible. In the last month and a half you've stared so many topics for your sf story, and expect us to pitch in, but you still haven't decided (or at least told us) what the story is about, time setting, tech capabilities, hardness of the sf, or anything else of substance. Why don't you develop the background and worry about technicalities later?
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    Nope, they are actual bells that are tubular in shape. Funny choice for an album name. You don't see many albums named "Guitar" or "Triangle".
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    Can't get the sound of those bells out of my head.
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    Doogee S60 Lite, which is not even close to light. It's actually a heavyweight at almost 290 g. The battery does comfortably last for 3 days, which is a plus, but I long for my old Siemens C35 which would get a full week of battery life at a third of mass, and managed phone calls just as well. There is one annoying bug I've been hunting down ever since I got it though. It sporadically turns off all sounds, including alarms and ringtones. It doesn't lower or mute the volume, it doesn't enter the Do not disturb mod, there is no indication at all, and I'm sure it's not my pocket that's doing it since once it happened while I was putting it on the wireless charger. The first time I placed it a bit off center and it produced a complaining sound, so I removed it and replaced it. It produced no further sound, even though it should have confirmed the placement. When this happens, the only way I manage to turn on the sound is to reboot the thing. I've tried googling the symptoms I've come across multiple people having same issues with different devices, which leads me to believe that the problem is with Android and not the device itself. Unfortunately I haven't found a solution yet.
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    Again with the 97 000. What's the deal with the false precission? Have tug boats attach cables and winch your ship to the dock.
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    Hopefully that will help with reinforcing why it's important to be careful with variable and function names. As for the funness of the bug, it is a nice one.
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    The x in function1(x) is not the same x as the global one. https://python-textbok.readthedocs.io/en/1.0/Variables_and_Scope.html
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    Is that a good or a bad thing?
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    Why the insistence on so many while loops? In order to exit a while loop, you need to satisfy the condition from inside that while loop, since no other while loop is running parallel. while a == 1 twiddleFingers() rollEyes() while b == 3 CheckTheValueOfa() This will never exit the first loop since you never check if a changed to something other than 1. The program is stuck inside the first loop and has no way of exiting and advancing to any other piece of code (assuming that finger twiddling and eye rolling doesn't check the value of a). Moving the CheckTheValueOfa() function inside the first loop will make sure it will exit once a is no longer 1.
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    Having near exactly the same names (as in with the only difference being the upper or lower case) will lead to confusion and usage of the wrong one, which will result in unexpected behavior that can be very difficult to debug.
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    That's a recipe for disaster.
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    And that's just the drums. It's not even finished yet! I've been following the progress for quite some time, and the machine is amazing.
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    Yes, one variable for each stored value. Arrays, lists, or just var1a, var1b, var2a, var2b, they can all be employed for storing multiple values, but that's not what OP asked.
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    Yeah, reading that sentence back I see there's an "of" and an "h"missing. Hope these bold parts make it clearer, but you did understand what I was trying to say. At the root of the propeller the chord ratio (ratio between the thickness of the aerofoil and the length) is much higher than at the tip (the propeller is much fatter near the center than at the edge), and the entire aerofoil is twisted (chord lines, AKA lines between leading and trailing edges near the center and near the edges are not parallel). This is an extreme example: Chord line near the center is almost parallel to the axis of rotation, while chord line at the tip is almost perpendicular. This is what i meant by "twisted".
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