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had a look through some of my old drawings of bears and some still make me laugh
got called a "git wizard!" at work today and few epithets can so thoroughly emphasize the mistakes I have made in my career path up to this point as a NASA contractor
(pro tip sometimes you just gotta specify the whole SHA1 when you're fetching stuff that no longer has a branch but somehow hasn't gotten pruned by the remote git garbage collector)
If the clock comes back up during unlock, unlock has silently failed. This is a smartcard unlock so removing and reinserting the card stops it from being a soft-lock; I don't know if other auth methods would require a reboot.
Win11's quality has fallen off a fucking cliff. I might need to ask NASA for a non-Windows option and see what they'll offer.
I need to stop using VSCode.
Today's obvious bug: I search a directory for a string and get 7 results in 4 files. I add another file to search in and one of those files goes away.
It's obviously slopcoded garbage now. It's getting worse and worse and isn't suitable for doing actual work. I just have to have the energy to switch to something else (that is permitted in this work environment) and right now I do not. fuck.
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@mcc@mastodon.social @gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place the opposite of that; the dark eye's pupil DOES dilate, and the bright eye's pupil contracts, since the eyes adapt individually
the actual mechanism is so weird that lack of pupil response to imagined bright lights is a recently-discovered clinical test for aphantasia
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place I really like the feel of the rotating version. throws me back to like...Goldeneye 64's skybox ceilings particularly
Weird to see both of these videos in the same day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a84J54i_na8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CByWbgzOgqQ
which separately assert that two very different movies are actually more like a bunch of TV episodes unsuccessfully bodged together into a feature film.
...for various metrics of success, I guess, given how beloved Khan is.
Wrath of Khan is a bad movie
holy hell i hate software updates
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@Cheeseness I see what you mean. Thank you for sharing it though. I don't know Wiseman personally (I think I might've met Glover once) but I do think he'd be a little OK with that moment, since it ended up being public even if that's maybe not how he wanted it to go, being of help to others with their own problems.
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@mcc@mastodon.social I used to have to get time scheduled with astronauts for things. I'll see how far I can throw this idea.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social at least your doing "something dumb" gets you a neat story and a bunch of moons. I have done dumb things with planes and I can't recommend it! usually. Throwing test equipment out of a plane into a bay was pretty fun. But we did that on purpose.
"sounds like cellos but it's bees"
The Music of Buckaroo Banzai
Brunius has seen Galaxy Quest
The galaxy is at peace
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@aeva from a zine called "Birdy." The place I was at had physical issues but it's looks like they're online too https://www.birdymagazine.com/issue/146/
I didn't even actually read it til you sent me the :3, I just saw the one word while I was skimming, took the photo, sent it, and went back to playing arcade games. But that was pretty good for a one page story
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@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz The Pitt had a list of things to say to someone you're letting go, which is presumably a real protocol known by people who are around death
I don't remember it well but it was approx.
- I love you
- I know you loved me
- I forgive you
- I hope you forgive me
Seems like good stuff to leave in your wake if you leave a message. Plus all the fun/good stuff you can think of
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@gsuberland@chaos.social finally, the internet has been used for The Last Thing.
shut it down
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@wikkit not that I particularly agree with it, but the classic excuse seems to be something like "of course this isn't a war, {Sovereign Nation} just isn't allowed to have {whatever it is we blew up}."
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@standupmaths that was a fun watch. I've been watching the Cracking the Cryptic folks for years, off and on, and the crossover was an instant watch from me
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@Cheeseness do you happen to know when-ish that was? I could use seeing somebody else getting a needed hug
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social sincerely curious: how long did it take to figure out that it was Saturn that was in the way? A few minutes?
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@mcc@mastodon.social @jplebreton@mastodon.social I'm pretty sure that's not it actually; I also had autoplay off, for the same reasons, but have had the hover minefield issue for...I don't know time anymore. I'm pretty sure it's been months? And it hadn't occurred to me that there was an option to switch it off.
unless by autoplay you don't mean "pick a video at random from all of Youtube to play after the video you watched" and instead mean "allow video to start without an initial click." I do have the latter turned on
DEADSTICK IS IN OPEN BETA?!?!?! I thought it was dead! (stick)
@vampiress@eigenmagic.net might be interested? til the 26th
https://store.steampowered.com/app/771800/Deadstick__Bush_Flight_Simulator/
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@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online @jappel@wandering.shop @sundogplanets@mastodon.social Apparently He-3 is really, really good for very cold refrigeration too.
People are trying to work around that (which I only heard about because of a share from Greg Egan) https://www.science.org/content/article/helium-3-runs-scarce-researchers-seek-new-ways-chill-quantum-computers
I'm sorry.
I am excited for the Starship flight test planned for this afternoon/evening.
I do hate Musk,
I even hate SpaceX, primarily for Starlink, but also for enriching Musk and for its upcoming pivot to AI (and hopefully vaporware orbiting data centers, unless they're truly intent to attempt legally-offshoring those, which...sigh)
but
Falcon 9 actually is cool. It works really well.
Starship....might? it's ambitious. Peoples' doubts are well-founded. But Raptor is a hell of an engine.
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Watching a Super Battle Golf stream and while I'm a sucker for variations on golf the thing I've appreciated most so far is the number of people that fit on a golf cart and where they go after the seats are full. that's such a cute, creative decision
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@vampiress@eigenmagic.net I sincerely hope (though I'll mess up the spelling) that you title a game Sekrit Pakidg some day
I'm followed by a reasonably-diverse group of smart people, so I'll toss this out there:
I injured my finger by impact while playing an arcade game. I assume it's sprained; it hurts a little, it's swollen enough to limit its mobility (in particular it won't curl all the way)
Do I need to limit its mobility? Presumably with a splint?
If I don't, what am I risking? Delayed healing? Incomplete healing? It just falls off? It's an important one, it presses K on QWERTY
boosts welcome