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ChateauErin

@ChateauErin@mastodon.social

Games writer (Hack n' Slash), used to be an aerospace engineer at JSC, first queen of RPOP. Demon-frog apologist. Trans woman. Avatar: Shia the Cat.

I star posts very inconsistently and have disabled notifications about being starred. Please don't infer anything from me not using the star.

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ChateauErin, to random
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Starting my first re-read of Gibson's "Agency." not far in and just had to check the publication date. January 2020. I see why I haven't picked it up again. It's like gazing into my own open wound.

still. I barely recall anything about it. Already seeing some distillation of the usual Gibsonian "what if an alright person had unlimited funding and a project to focus on." Agency. the ability to act.

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

ChateauErin,
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@mcc oof. their boilerplate message to you isn't even relevant. This is going to be one of those things like "Reinstate Monica" isn't it

aeva, to random
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O'Reilly changed how their book covers look sometime in the last few years :(

ChateauErin,
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@aeva oh no they must've run out of animals

mcc, to random
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Wait a minute

Toronto local news article posted today https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/equinox-bridge-toronto-waterfront-1.7195397

Star Trek "Strange New Worlds" s2e3, "Lake Ontario Bridge", claimed in a time travel episode to have been built in the 2020s https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/4/47/Lake_Ontario_Bridge.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20230629223102&path-prefix=en

ChateauErin,
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@mcc you've exceeded Canada Criticality

ChateauErin, to random
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I'm rewatching Dropout's Game Changer from the start and it's wild to me how much of my media landscape has this incredible Pandemic Scar across it. It's almost like there was a nuclear war and a couple years of shows just have horribly radiation-damaged footage and at the start of that people acknowledge it and then later on they just...lean in.

ChateauErin,
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I've said before that Dropout's particular flavor of parasocial whatever is unreasonably effective and this is doubly true for Game Changer, where Sam runs a game show for his friends (which is sometimes borderline torturous) and then gives them prizes. Sometimes very nice prizes. In addition to paying them for showing up

ChateauErin,
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@SpaceAce Um, Actually is 100% my jam. Breaking News is great, especially if Amy is completely failing to keep it together. Dirty Laundry almost makes me feel weird because I don't know any of these people but also I really, really do now

mcc, to random
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Live Internet Theory

ChateauErin,
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@mcc in vivo ternet

aeva, to random
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I spotted this conspicuous geographic feature, and was confused as to whether someone built a moat around an invisible castle an hour west of Chicago or if the level designer responsible for this part of northern Illinois was simply running out of ideas, but no, I zoomed in and it turns out it's just one of Fermilab's particle accelerators.

ChateauErin,
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@aeva I see a tiny dragon being confronted by someone in a dress wielding a long, thin sword. Maybe on a cross-stitch to explain the round frame

ChateauErin, to random
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I know criticizing C is like, yesterday's pastime, and the syntax I'm criticizing is probably from the seventies, but I hate in particular that the pointer-type's syntax is

type *name

no no no. That contains an address. How else do I get things to contain an address? the & operator, not the * operator

am I dumb or is C dumb or both

wikkit, to random
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Will the end of the Delta rocket mean an increased price for Centaur and SLS? The Delta program had continuous funding irrespective of launch to support things like the liquid hydrogen supply chain. Centaur is a much smaller rocket, and SLS launches, to a first approximation, never. So who is paying to maintain all the hydrogen trucks, tanks, liquefiers?

Hydrogen itself is a fairly common industrial chemical, but my impression (maybe wrong) is that liquid hydrogen is rare and weird.

ChateauErin,
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@wikkit would you mind if I ask exactly your question on the Space Exploration StackExchange? I'd credit this toot, and let you know if it gets an answer.

ChateauErin,
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@wikkit sorry to say that I'm way too lazy to check for a license and would probably ask you every time, but I hope not to ask you often enough to bother you. :D

question is up here https://space.stackexchange.com/q/65928/11262

ChateauErin,
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@wikkit per this answer https://space.stackexchange.com/a/65947/11262 and last year's Air Products press release about their new LH2 contract with NASA https://www.airproducts.com/company/news-center/2023/03/0327-air-products-wins-nasa-contracts-for-liquid-hydrogen-supply , it sounds like the liquid hydrogen economy is actually growing in anticipation of other use-cases coming online. I have my doubts about LH2 for trucks and planes, but that sounded like a decent amount of LH2 tons-per-day production coming up.

mcc, to random
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Imagine what's happening right now in the universe where "blogging" was established in the 90s as slang for throwing up

ChateauErin,
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@mcc instead of this timeline, where it's when you read five words of someone's essay so you can work harder or some shit

b0rk, to random
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I've been criticizing git nonstop for months on here but I really do love it. I've been using it for probably 13 years, I'm used to all of the warts that I run into regularly, and I don't think I've had a major problem with it anytime in the last 7 years or so.

not to minimize all of the very real problems that people have with git but I really do believe that it's possible to use git successfully

ChateauErin,
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@b0rk I forget if you've ever said if there's another version control system you prefer. For me, my prior version control experiences (...Clearcase...sigh...) weren't really great and Git has fit my own mental models well enough that I'm not tempted to use anything else until submodules come up, and even then I wouldn't know what to switch to

mcc, to random
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Looking into how to set up a bluesky server.

Noticed this bit here, in the documentation. That's an interesting way to spell "cannot"

ChateauErin,
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@mcc I cannot comprehend the thought process behind "okay! we have this messaging service! how should people join? using this other messaging service of course"

mcc, to random
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I have literally implemented SRP at both the client and server side but I am still unable to figure out, if I were to purchase or set up a "Passkey", what exactly I would have, or how it would work, or which computers, web browsers or web sites I should expect it to work with

ChateauErin,
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@mcc when you speak of this, is YubiKey an example of what you're speaking of? because this is exactly how I've felt about those. clutches password manager and typeable but high-entropy passwords closer

sundogplanets, to random
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I'm talking to a journalist in a bit about NASA's new "space sustainability strategy" and this one sentence from the abstract seems to sum it up:

"Given the substantial upfront expenditures required to develop and deploy remediation capabilities and the potential delay in receiving benefits, these motivations do not appear to be sufficient to incentivize immediate action"

I'm going to have to read this more carefully, but did NASA just say they don't care about orbit?!

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/otps-cost-and-benefit-analysis-of-orbital-debris-remediation-final-tagged.pdf?emrc=661fe22b468ed

ChateauErin,
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@sundogplanets I'm hopeful that you're noticing this, since your voice already seems to have reach. Hopefully that will shake something loose

mcc, to random
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🦀

ChateauErin,
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@mcc carcinization has come to crabodon

ChateauErin, to random
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Fallout is a pretty enjoyable show. If you don't mind a little hyperviolence now and again I think you will like it just fine.

mcc, to random
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At an event called "New Demos 2" in Toronto. We're gonna watch some demoscene stuff on an actual movie screen at a movie theater. This is the programme

ChateauErin,
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@mcc Command Line Factorio has my attention

mcc, to random
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Do you ever think about how if someone has had sex in space already, we wouldn't necessarily know

ChateauErin,
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@mcc as a curmudgeon, I insist the sex be in orbit so that foreplay, coitus, and cleanup all have to taken care of in freefall. I'm ambivalent on gestation.

mcc, to random
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The process of keeping trans people suppressed is a process of continually forgetting, so that trans people are continually new, and five years later are again new, and five years after that are again a new thing, and five years after that are again a new thing that just came out of nowhere all of a sudden

ChateauErin,
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@mcc ancient greece had horses that got pregnant, and they had curiosity, but did they have the right blend of the two to grow boobs

mcc, to random
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Okay. I'm here (Texas). Where's the eclipse

ChateauErin,
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@mcc the forecast is sufficiently cloudy for Monday that I'm probably not going to make the short-ish road trip into the zone of totality. unless i break sunday night / early monday morning and just run for it

mcc, to random
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Hey so I'm traveling to go see the eclipse tomorrow, so if anybody else is going to be on the Sun this weekend lmk and we'll meet up

ChateauErin,
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@mcc uhhhh...well, it's a partial occlusion for sure as seen from the sun. What portions of the sun would see that occlusion sound like simple geometry but today is not a simple geometry day for me

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