excral

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[–] excral@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

To escape a body of mass you need to have enogh velocity (kinetic energy) to overcome the gravitational pull of that body. You can imagine it like a ball sitting in a bowl. With little velocity it will just roll back and forth but if it's fast enough it can roll out of the bowl and escape it's influence.

That critical speed is called "escape velocity" and it depends on mass and distance from a body. The escape velocity of earth (from the surface) is about 11.2 km/s and the sun's escape velocity (from earth orbit) is about 42.1 km/s. Earth orbits around the sun at about 29.8 km/s. If you launch in the direction of Earth's orbit, you will orbit the sun already at about 41 km/s, so you "only" need 1.1 km/s more to escape the sun, too.

If you tried to reach the sun, you could launch in the opposite direction leaving you orbiting the sun at about 18.6 km/s. Since there is almost nothing in space you won't slow down from friction and the orbit won't decay. Instead you'd have to accelerate opposite the direction you're traveling. Now, calculating exactly how much you'd need to decelerate isn't trivial since you don't want a stable orbit but an elliptical orbit that just touches the sun at the closest point (perihel). I don't know how much deceleration that takes, but it's propable that it's easier than accelerating by 1.1 km/s to escape the sun.

[–] excral@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That requires neither engineering-level math nor paper nor patience. All you need is the chain rule and some basic knowledge of sine and cosine:

The derivative of cos is -sin, but because of the 6x you get an extra factor 6. The sine function is periodic on 2pi, so sin(6*2pi + pi/2) = sin(pi/2) = 1. So the result is -36

[–] excral@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The one time I can think of is Alesi/Berger who moved from Ferrari to Benetton for the 1996 season

[–] excral@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, you're absolutely correct. My bad. In my defense, I was confused by this slightly broken table in the German Wikipedia. I didn't realise there were normal race weekends after USA, Brazil and Qatar.

[–] excral@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The constructors title is in danger, there's no doubt about it. For the drivers title however, Verstappen still holds a comfortable cushion. Even if Norris goes full domination and wins the 6 remaining feature races, Verstappen can defend his lead by only finishing 3rd each race. Norris' only chance are basically DNFs from Verstappen or another constructor stepping up and consistently finishing between him and Verstappen

[–] excral@feddit.org 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't forget first party Linux support and Proton to add Linux/Mac support to many windows exclusive games.

[–] excral@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

The last times May 4 was on a Thursday were 2006, 2017 and 2023. The Core 2 wasn't released until July of 2006 so I'd guess the correct year is 2017, but even then the hardware was already pretty dated. For reference, in 2017 the first generation Ryzen prozessors and Intel Kaby Lake (7th generation Core i) were around.

[–] excral@feddit.org 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The difference is, that you could just continue using XP until Win7 was released or continue using Win7 until Win10 was released. Win10 will reach end of life next year and then the only supported Windows will be Windows 11. Vista or Win8 were never as forced as Win11 is now.

[–] excral@feddit.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

Plot twist: the products were placed by competing brands because they knew the product placement would backfire

[–] excral@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago
[–] excral@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Minecraft was just the example they used in the post but I agree. Minecraft is no indie game studio anymore atleast since Microsoft took over. But at least the free update policy hasn't changed since the takeover

[–] excral@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Factorio Devs made this Blogpost some time ago about how to go forward with development. It basically boiled down to developing a big (paid) expansion pack. I would be totally fine with Stardew Valley doing the same. However, going for free updates was discarded for Factorio because they have a "smaller but more dedicated audience [compared to Terraria and Minecraft]". I don't think that applies to Stardew Valley so free updates might be the way to go.

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