Quote of the day: "I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"
Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?
Don’t fuck with moon dust. No seriously, do not fuck with moon dust.
Absent any moisture or atmosphere, millennia of asteroid impacts have turned lunar regolith (soil) into a fine powder of razor sharp, glass-like particles. What’s more, the solar wind imparts an electric charge on the dust, causing it to cling to any and every surface it touches through static electricity. On earth, sand tends to get smoother over time as wind and water tumble the grains about, eroding their sharpness. Not so on the moon – lunar dust is sharp and deadly. This is Not A Good Time if you’re an explorer looking to visit our celestial neighbor.
During Apollo, the astronauts faced a plethora of unexpected issues caused by dust. It clung to spacesuits and darkened them enough that exposure to sunlight overheated the life support systems. Dust got in suit joints and on suit visors, damaging them. It ate away layers of boot lining. It covered cameras. Upon returning to the cabin, astronauts attempting to brush it off damaged their suit fabric and sent the dust airborne, where it remained suspended in the air due to low gravity.
Inhaling moon dust causes mucus membranes to swell; every Apollo astronaut who stepped foot on the moon reported symptoms of “Lunar Hay Fever.” Sneezing, congestion, and a “smell of burnt gunpowder” took days to subside. Later Apollo missions even sent a special dust brush with the team to help clean each other and equipment. We don’t know exactly how dangerous the stuff is, but lunar regolith simulants suggest it might destroy lung and brain cells with long-term exposure. 1
In fact the dust is so nasty that it destroyed the vacuum seals of sample return containers. We no longer have any accurate samples of lunar dust, “Every sample brought back from the moon has been contaminated by Earth’s air and humidity […] The chemical and electrostatic properties of the soil no longer match what future astronauts will encounter on the moon.” 2
Whats worse, the solar-charged dust gets thrown up off the moon’s surface via electrostatic forces. The moon doesn’t technically have an atmosphere, but it does have a thin cloud of sharp dust itching to cling to anything it can find.
And it probably isn’t just the moon. “A 2005 NASA study listed 20 risks that required further study before humans should commit to a human Mars expedition, and ranked "dust" as the number one challenge.” 3
The coolest solution I’ve heard about in next-gen spacesuit design is a mesh of woven wires layered into the suit. When activated, the wire mesh would form an anti-static electric field that repels dust. Quite literally a force field. 4
#astronomy #apollo #moon #lunardust
W4 Games have just launched W4 Cloud.
It's a complete, free & open source networking solution for #GodotEngine. Host your own servers, it costs you nothing to use.
https://gamefromscratch.com/w4-games-launch-w4-cloud-complete-godot-multiplayer-solution/
Stolen from Reddit, who stole it from Tumblr.
Is it just me or has webhosting and domain name registration not really gotten any cheaper in the last decade and a half? Isn't that insane? That feels like the biggest impediment to whatever utopian internet we'd all like to imagine.
When writing and looking for words I always fall into this trap of turning to thesauruses, reverse dictionaries, visuwords, or even chatgpt, all to just try to prompt my brain and every time its fuckin useless. But if I go sit somewhere with a notebook and a pen, put my phone away, and just ... go, let the words wander on the page I always end up with so much way better stuff. Machines can't even help prompt me to creativity properly. Instead, through practice I have turned myself into a thing that produces creativity, solutions, and design. And I don't think we have anywhere close to the tech required to be able to teach itself to become such a thing. I'm not even sure it's possible with silicon given the limits of physics and the crazy efficiency of the biological carbon solution.
After god knows how many years of work, the people behind the #StarWars 4K project have released the final installment. For those who don't know: a group of dedicated restorers, unhappy with the reworked Special Editions, hunted down, scanned and restored the original 35mm theatrical prints of the first Star Wars trilogy in Ultra High Definition. They're better than the official blurays. Incredible work, not only in terms of authentic content but even the picture quality is superior.
Happy "Captain Cook got stabbed in the chest in Hawaii" day to all who celebrate.
The more you know, the cooler you sound.
People don't talk about game architecture enough so!
💫 How do I ID things? 💫
Let's retrace how I reinvented the wheel!
Latest when adding your first 💾 Save Game 💾 system, you will find you need to ID your object types, cuz you can't store a reference to a Prefab
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I spend the morning documenting more issues with CharacterBody3D and providing really specific MPR's and use cases.
Character creation and movement is one of the issues that has been bothering Godot users for long time. If you want to help fixing this, whatever it is sharing the bug report, your experiences, testing or fixing the issues, please take a look at the Bug report:
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Stacy's mom
Has set up us the bomb
Her name is CATS and the main screen turn on
Stacy, you and I, make our time before we die
I know it might be wrong
Our base belong to Stacy's mom
"Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man."
deeply fucked that the version of the future we were sold was flying cars instead of no cars
Love this toothpaste label - let's roll it out across all products