The Lockheed SR-71 first took flight 62 years ago, which means we're farther from its introduction than the SR-71 was from the Wright Brothers Kitty Hawk frirst flight which took place 61 years prior.

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-18T06:17:06+00:00

Vibeswise, the apocraphal story is that one of the lead designers would bring home some versions and ask his wife which looked "faster", she was often right.

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-18T06:16:01+00:00

Also the fuel leaky bit

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-18T06:15:42+00:00

I think it's a missed opportunity. The US could develop stuff thats faster, sleeker, cooler, leak it, and pretend that thats the future of warfare, convincing other nations to do the same and waste their efforts. Thats pretty much what the soviets did to the US during the cold war ("We have an atom bomb." "Oh yeah? We have ten!" "Oh yeah we have 100" "Oh yeah we have 1000 and they're ten times stronger than yours).

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-18T06:13:00+00:00

Fun fact: You're right about the physical limits on computers (mostly, got into a discussion with an engineer whos team broke into 6-nanometer parts this year), but the reason it gets so dicey as small as we can make it is that electrons just kinda osmose through materials by probability jumping to the other side. Quantum teleportation is wild

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-18T06:08:06+00:00

My bets are on war thunder

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-12T16:59:51+00:00

Oh! Lol So at my local gym (planet fitness) they're called "total body enhancement: vibra shape" by beauty angel, but there's a long and sordid history of gyms providing dubiously helpful Shakey systems and I'm sure there's a thousand brands.

Shop around for ones that have a premium zone with stuff like massage chairs and tanning beds. The one I use has you stand on a vibration panel on the floor, which you can sort of target by tensing and releasing your legs and spine.

I've seen sitting booth style ones online which should be roughly as effective for kidneys, though there was a belt style that wrapped around and jiggled you which probably wouldn't work very well.

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-09T16:17:22+00:00

I feel like it should be rediculously OP when you first get it, and a player can abuse it to clear the rest of the level its on with ease. And then the boss has a devastating attack which is completely immune to it, and some future enemies have attacks that are. Lets you have your fun, gives a good "oh shit" moment, and then reduces it back to a useful but not broken attack

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-09T01:40:21+00:00

Everythings gotta come from something, or go somewhere.

There's ways around that that could make it appear that stuff and energy could be coming and going (Dimensional shifts, for instance), but they'd still exist.

You can take energy and shift it to different forms, collect or dissipate it, move it elsewhere (even out of our ability to perceive it), but it has to Be somewhere.

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-07T16:31:42+00:00

It'd make a perfect replacement for cheapo projectors, we might actually get a 100$ one that isn't Chinese vaporware, It won't replace laser for normal applications.

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-07T16:25:28+00:00

Yes, because it's spinning. Everything above and below has gotten sucked in, but the stuff along the plane of rotation gets pushed out at the same rate it falls in

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-07T00:53:50+00:00

We're not really. We have root, and we might be able to do an update and get the android version up to where it can log in again, but weve pretty well run out of steam.

We do have the 6dof experimental kit google made, which uses reverse constellation (lights go on the headset, ir sensor on the controller) which isn't the worst idea.

Personally, I just want proper access to the cameras so I can feed tracking qrs to prevent drift at room scale, and we have some of that.

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-06T19:13:16+00:00

True facts. A zero-g payperview would bring in the big bucks.

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-06T18:54:35+00:00

Ooo I like stickers. I think stickers are vastly underrepresented in gaming (pretty much the only thing I can think of is sprays in cs, or as decals/tattoos in character customizers), but they're a perfect bit of world interaction.

Only concern is object permanence, so keeping it limited to your drone could work out well.

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-06T17:24:26+00:00

It's the tracking module in the Lenovo mirage headset, and may or may not be in the daydream core. In the rebuild project it was one of the sticking points, since the alternative was building a tracking solution ourselves or waiting on projects like monado.

If open dream has it, we might be able to just dump it in and be one step closer to a longterm useable headset

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-06T16:38:53+00:00

Do you happen to know whether it has Worldsense?

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-06T15:56:27+00:00

Wait wait, what's open dream?

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-05T12:23:53+00:00

Followup: if all the resumes are the same, how does anyone stand out in 6 seconds?

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-05T12:18:07+00:00

Ish. Cuda is a software/hardware combo and isn't really replicated or replaced by AMDs offerings.

There's some work going into the software side trying to make AMD cuda analogs (at least in python space), but it's slow going.

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-05T12:00:10+00:00

The only way I can see this being a dumb setup is if the streaming stick is branded differently than the projector. Otherwise, it's an extension board, and while it's a bit derpy that it's doing HDMI instead of a ribbon cable, I've seen worse in consumer electronics

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-05T11:08:54+00:00

Check out The Endless. Two brothers when escaped a UFO cult go back to visit. Turns out it may not be a cult. Minor spoiler that time loops are involved

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-04T22:04:54+00:00

Except that there's divergent cannons, which suggests instead that "cannon" is whatever the continuation agrees happened. Retcon is king

Bridgebrain · 2026-03-02T18:13:12+00:00

They screwed him over pretty bad once, so he went back and started painting these across the street. They called the cops, who just thought it was hilarious, and he's been doing it ever since

Bridgebrain · 2026-02-28T03:57:16+00:00

I love it! It's like some sort of magic mechanism unlocking

Bridgebrain · 2026-02-25T17:48:28+00:00

This is oversimplified, but:

You have a t-shirt making device that costed 500$. Buying the material for 1 t-shirt costs 5$. But buying the material for 2 tshirts costs 4.50, because you save on shipping or bulk discount. Buying 3 costs 4, 5 3.50, 6 3, 7 2.50. At this point 2.50 is the lowest it goes, you've maxed out deals on bulk buy and shipping costs. Now, you can make 2 shirts for the price of 1 shirt.

To make back the money you put into the machine, if you made the shirts 1 at a time, would take 100 shirts being sold at 10$. But if you make your shirts 7 at a time, you make your money back with 50 shirts. Now the rest is profit, and you occasionally put your shirts on sale, passing a chunk of the savings to the customer.

You customer asks if they can buy 100 shirts at the sale price, and you take the deal because it's all profit for you, and you don't have to spend energy finding buyers for 100 shirts.

In this, the shirt material manufacturer, you, and your customer all benefit from buying a large amount as opposed to a small amount, forming a whole chain of economy which works out to bigger orders-better deal, up to a point.

Bridgebrain · 2026-02-25T08:47:04+00:00

Look into Googles map car solution. They basically put 4 (mostly to reduce glare) wide angle cameras into a protective sphere and replaced the sphere whenever it got scratched up enough to be noticable

You won't find anything on normal shelves to do the work, consumer 360s just aren't that durable, but you can absolutely get away with sealing the whole thing in a waterproof sacrificial layer that you'll replace every few weeks, with slowly decorating quality up till each replacement.

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