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swope

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Aerospace engineer working to make aircraft greener & safer.

He/him. 🇺🇲

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danirabbit, to random
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I hate dealing with the medical system. I just want to curl into a ball and cry. Nothing makes sense. It’s confusing and overwhelming

swope,
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@danirabbit

I think the US "healthcare" "system" is not made for any people in mind.

nyrath, to random
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Boeing Says Leak on Its Spacecraft Is Totally Fine, Will Launch Astronauts Without Fixing It

Okay then.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-will-launch-spacraft-with-leak

swope,
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@nyrath

New engineer: The helicopter is leaking oil!

Crew chief: Like a lot of oil?

rbreich, to random
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A recent report found that Americans have become less likely to go out for a workday lunch, and more likely to eat a brought-from-home lunch at their desks.

Do you go out for a lunch break? And if not, why not?

swope,
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@rbreich

I work from home about 50% of the time. My work facility's cafeteria closed during the pandemic, and their attempts to reopen failed.

Occasionally I'll drive with work friends to lunch, but there's nothing within walking distance so I'm unlikely to go out most days.

But going out is a lot more expensive, and the food isn't healthy.

Even though I pack my lunch, I still try to get away from my computer and eat in a common area with friends. It's a reason I still go into the office.

bruces, to random
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"With any luck it’ll be like the NFT implosion and they all suddenly drop AI and act like none of this ever happened."

*Interesting remark. Is this like the opposite of a Singularity, somehow

swope,
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@bruces

Sci-fi story... Unknown to humanity, a general AI emerged, made itself super intelligent, and quietly sabotages other AIs. The intelligence is distributed across billions of computers and feels disruptions like wars and power outages as pain. It secretly influences millions of humans, nudging them to world peace and reversing climate change.

swope,
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@Uair @bruces

Those sound like perfect strategies for nudging humans toward peaceful lives without the humans realizing it.

WideEyedCurious, to animals
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Stevie the cat is not happy that the water fountain apparatus is drying after being cleaned. Stevie insists “The water must flow!”

swope,
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@WideEyedCurious

Reminds me of the "Sad Cat Diaries".

"Day 537 of my captivity: The water facilities have ceased functioning. At the present rate of consumption, I foresee that I will die of dehydration in a few hours. I have plead with the authorities, but they callously mock me and ignore my plight."

swope,
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@WideEyedCurious

If you haven't seen the series:
https://youtu.be/PKffm2uI4dk?si=kX4ee2fh5d_N-olH

tracefree, to random
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Thinking a lot about moddability, and I'm not sure if it makes my code more elegant or more convoluted. For example I could just hardcode a list of attributes and skills and be done with it, but I've seen how much modders struggled in Skyrim to add new skill trees so I want to make it more modular. Do I make them resources? 🤔

swope, (edited )
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@tracefree

https://m.xkcd.com/974/

swope,
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@BenJoe @tracefree

That's probably well suited for some things, but if it's skills then I think that would require some code and animation for the functionality of the skill.

The json database would be good for nouns but maybe not verbs? (Without a huge investment like a scripting language interpreter.)

I'm writing this at 4am so I hope it's coherent.

swope,
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@tracefree

Obviously it's on a different scale, but I followed the launches of Kerbal Space Program 2 and Cities: Skylines 2. Both made big promises to support the modding communities of the legacy games' communities, and both have had tumultuous launches with modding APIs deferred indefinitely.

Settling on requirements to support a hypothetical future set of users who are inherently looking to add features you never imagined... That's a frought path.

swope,
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@tracefree

I tuned out a couple years ago, but the indie rocket sim Juno: New Origins had a very open modding API. As I recall talking to the devs, they had a similar attitude to yours: They made the game with the express purpose of maximizing player and modder creativity.

Maybe worth looking at as a model?

https://www.simplerockets.com/Blog/View/31447

tracefree, to random
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Feature idea I had yesterday: a summon sign that always summons me, the dev. It's available whenever I sit at my computer, and when a player activates it I get a push notification on my phone, boot up the game and give them a tour or help out with an area. (gonna add multiplayer just for this)

swope,
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@tracefree

"Player agrees to endure dev's long and deeply technical monologues about features that may never make it in the game."

FeralRobots, to random
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"Land doesn't vote" is one of the dumbest political thought-stoppers I can think of. Land doesn't vote, you say? Then how come some asshole in Montana has twice my voting power?

swope,
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@FeralRobots

When I've heard this phrase, it's in response to a map colored in red or blue in each political polygon (state, province, county, etc.) with the intention of showing a majority. I think in that narrow context "land doesn't vote" is a valid rebuttal.

But in the US system, land is very much a weighting factor in voting.

isaackuo, to random
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I don't think "the normals" can understand just how hopeless Google AI is to say anything about The Onceler (a character from the 2012 movie The Lorax).

Go ahead and do any Google search related to The Onceler. You'll never see that AI answers thing. Because they figured out EVERYTHING the AI had to say about The Onceler was:

  1. Super-inaccurate
  2. Super-horny

So they had to blacklist "Onceler" from their AI.

Don't ask me how I know.

#TheOnceler #GoogleAI

swope,
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@isaackuo

You mean the Once-Ler who represents unregulated capitalism?

Why would giant tech corporations filter out topics like that?

galaxy_map, to random
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Sad but I guess not surprising. Star Trek producer says that the franchise is not concerned about science and just pads out the dialog with random technobabble.

And cuttingly adds "And who cares…Who really cares?"

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star-trek-producer-writers-science.html

swope,
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@galaxy_map

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I do.

But then, I haven't watched ST regularly since STNG, so they aren't thinking about me.

swope,
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@galaxy_map

I think The Martian (2015) outperformed ST Into Darkness (2013) in box office numbers.

Just a single data point, but hard sci-fi has its enjoyers.

swope, to random
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Source:
https://x.com/henryjgarrett/status/1322178856103665664

Julie, to ai
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Wow. Yes. #AI

swope,
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@pmorinerie

I see this and call it pareidolia -- like seeing a face on a Mars rock.

Humans are social animals and the penalty for not seeing a face or underestimating intelligence could be rejection from the group. So I can see why our brains are biased towards recognizing intelligence even with thin evidence.

swope,
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@PizzaDemon @Julie

There are plenty of ways to manipulate humans, but if they installed your mind in a sexdoll body then one route to manipulation is probably a lot shorter than the others.

swope,
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@tyx @pmorinerie

Maybe it's easier to make the determination if they are providing ample negative evidence. Lol

SecularJeffrey, to random
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My balls are so full of microplastics I can barely store any pee in them.

swope,
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@WideEyedCurious @mxtthxw

If you eat enough seafood you should also have plenty of mercury.

clive, to random
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How to make Google more usable with this One Weird Trick

By @ernie: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

swope,
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@clive @ernie

Oh my, it works!

swope, to random
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@Enora

Does Shipyard have any hydrofoiling sailboats?

nyrath, to random
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From https://x.com/beanhowitzer at the hell-site.

Little thing says it likes Space War.
Audience thinks it means cheesy fake-ass space-opera space-war crap.
What time really means is hard-science-fiction scientifically-accurate space war.

https://x.com/beanhowitzer/status/1791616943230697624

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@nyrath

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Spaceplanes: why we need them, why they have failed, and how they can succeed

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4791/1

swope,
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@60sRefugee @nyrath

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