sushibowl

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[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Having played a lot of Dwarf fortress in ascii mode as well as with tilesets, I agree with you. It's not especially difficult to make a successful fortress. However the game is definitely obtuse, even more so with the ascii graphics. Just figuring out what is happening on the screen and which combination of buttons to press to do what you want is quite difficult.

The steam release does some work to remedy the situation though.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

Why is it weird? It's just your butt. Are you scared of your butt?

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (9 children)

It really depends on the sensor tech. The fingerprint reader in my pixel 7 pro is absolute dogshit. I've heard the pixel 9 line improves things though.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

You now need to remember his velocity, his position on the map, the direction of his flight, his altitude, his plane's weight and who knows what else, I'm not a pilot.

You're not wrong per se, but I'm having trouble fathoming gigabytes of data being consumed by these types of parameters. You could probably track hundreds of thousands of airplanes with that much space. The only thing that I could imagine taking up that much memory is extremely detailed airflow simulation.

However, as a rule of thumb, the vast majority of memory data for video games is in most cases textures and geometry, and not so much the simulation. Based on the article, it seems this game streams high resolution geometry data based on your current location on earth, which I would say is the most probable reason it asks for so much memory.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Where in the fuck do they force cashiers to stand? Is this some kind of American bullshit? Why would they do that.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Pi Hole couldn't block YouTube ads last time I tried it, which is one of the main things I want to have adblock for. So I went back to ublock origin.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 9 points 2 weeks ago

The problem is, you have so much speed that you keep missing.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So, yeah, bottom line: you only need a delta-V of about 12 km/s to get out of the solar system, but a delta-V of 30 km/s to get to the sun without going into orbit.

This is true, but the possibility of gravity assists mostly nullifies the difference. If you can get out to Jupiter you can basically choose: either let it sling you out of the system, or let it cancel out all your orbital velocity so you fall into the sun.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

These are all technically correct but fairly inconsequential. Even just to graze the sun you need to lose 90% of your orbital velocity. And although everything orbiting the sun will eventually fall in, the friction is really low. It will take billions of years to lose enough velocity to fall in.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

The problem isn't even the hard drives, it's how they are managing them. There's not many digital data storage solutions around that you can dump into a closet for a few decades and then still read.

You have to regularly test your hard drives, so that when one fails you can take your other copy of the data and put it on a new drive.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Efficiency records involving perovskites are generally not that interesting without any longevity data. As far as I'm aware, the lifetime of current SotA perovskite solar cells is measured in weeks or months. That's not commercially viable.

Not that efficiency research is completely useless, but the longevity is the real challenge that's holding this up.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm confused now, because espresso is also coffee? Like, it's all made from coffee beans. I agree that Americano is espresso with water, but to me that is absolutely a kind of coffee.

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