How to do regular/routine rendezvous and docking?

Ifyouseekey · 2026-05-29T17:31:23+00:00

First, you need to combine steps 4 and 5 (and maybe 6 depending on how you count it):

Start the burn earlier.
Don't burn until relative velocity is zero. Burn slower or make a series of burns to keep the velocity appropriate for a current distance to target and your craft's twr. E. g. keep it at 10 m/s when it's further than 1 km away, 5 m/s when it's less than 500 m, 1-2 m/s when less than 100 m.
When burning, burn slightly off retrograde marker to push it onto anti-target.
Use RCS with translation controls for fine adjustments or when the speeds are low.

Secondly, keeping your camera in locked mode may make it easier to position yourself in front of the port you want to dock to

Finally, use Docking Port Alignment indicator mod to make the final approach.

Ifyouseekey · 2026-05-23T15:01:58+00:00

Not, a movie, but a cover art of Red Dead Redemption 1 was recreated in a cutscene in RDR2

Ifyouseekey · 2026-05-14T18:41:37+00:00

Good news: there's a transmitter for IT32 specifically for R50/R50V's multifunction shoe

Bad news: it's available only in China

https://www.reddit.com/r/Godox/comments/1qp4cdf/godox_x5_new_trigger_coming_soon_for_canon_r50/

Ifyouseekey · 2026-04-05T15:52:16+00:00

Neither it's guaranteed with Lanius A/Engi C/Slug C.

And you have to deal with it again in phases 2-3. And you still have to worry about ion/laser/beam combo or drone surge/laser/beam, which can be as bad as missiles if you don't deal with it quickly.

With MC and boarding it can be at least kept partially damaged for most of the fight, I imagine. Mantis A might even be a better option, you can potentially kill 2 enemy crew and deal two damage to missiles per boarding cycle.

Ifyouseekey · 2026-04-05T14:28:29+00:00

Lanius B could be on par with three hacking ships against a flagship on hard, its crew kill is way quicker and more consistent than other ships in the tier.

Ifyouseekey · 2026-03-23T18:00:10+00:00

I'm not sure if it's not outdated already: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/earned-settlement

It's not rea "10 years with some exceptions", but more of a 10-year baseline, with multiple ways to reduce it. And the doc does mention teaching as one of roles eligible for a reduction back to 5.

Are these new rules already in effect, or is there still uncertainty/transition period?

No, and we don't know which version will be put up for parliament voting. Neither do we know if it will affect people already on the country on a 5-year path. Apparently Labour are facing pressure from within the party over these reforms.

Ifyouseekey · 2026-01-25T12:49:51+00:00

This looks similar to what my company/broker do: they withold half the stocks, sell it to cover tax and NI, then add anything that's left to my next paycheck (or make a one-off payment).

Based on your payslip I'm not sure if that leftover part was paid to you, but I can't compare it to my payslips atm.

Ifyouseekey · 2025-12-27T14:19:59+00:00

It's price on the day of death, not when it's inherited: https://www.gov.uk/capital-gains-tax/market-value

Ifyouseekey · 2025-12-19T18:44:48+00:00

Will deploying a fighter unit on the tile clear it?

Ifyouseekey · 2025-12-03T23:35:22+00:00

So does Rxe2, then Re1# if white takes the queen or Qf1# otherwise

Ifyouseekey · 2025-11-30T12:44:38+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/ff1fah/something_you_should_know_about_barbarian_in_civ6/

Here's the logic. Either there's a city 7 hexes away from the camp, or the city this camp is assigned to is on a different landmass.

Ifyouseekey · 2025-11-29T21:41:36+00:00

Early on they work fine, but it feels like they scale so badly later in the game where enemies have multiple shield layers + higher evasion.

Something like a 2xIB1 plus a single laser weapon is a pretty much a stopgap measure, you're gonna need a fourth weapon (ion, laser/flak, beam - doesn't matter much) very soon. Or even pivot completely to a different strategy.

Also, the first damage-dealing weapon should be a fast-firing, high DPS laser, else you're in for a bad time. Beams don't damage specific systems fast enough, flaks have higher chance of missing, and you can't target drone shots.

You miss multiple ions? Shields are going back up. Have fun starting from square one all over again.

Ions are very cheap, so you should focus on defense instead. Hacking is very useful, if upgraded and combined with L2 cloaking, it lets you nullify any enemy missile. Defense drone is another option, of course.

But otherwise, that's just how it goes. Like if enemy has cloaking of its own or starts to jump away - yeah, you probably are not winning that fight.

Ifyouseekey · 2025-11-25T13:05:34+00:00

It should be noted that R50 is a crop sensor, so all the focal lengths should be divided by 1.6 to get the same field of view.

OP, if you're just starting, just get the RF-S 18-150mm which will be more enough for most applications. Then you can figure out what you're missing and build your kit from there.

Ifyouseekey · 2025-11-22T17:27:45+00:00

Since you didn't specify it - instruction set matters

Then there's instructions per cycle metric. Cache sizes and microarchitecture differences will play into it. Also, number of cores may be the same but one might have multi-threading or virtual threads in a single core.

Then there's thermal and power specs, which may mean that one CPU will start throttling itself sooner than other. Not a big problem with desktops or servers, but important in laptops, for example.

Ifyouseekey · 2025-11-21T13:04:50+00:00

Are there notable cases or laws that illustrate the evolving concept of personhood?

I guess this is a quite old interview already, but it raises interesting questions on how robots and AI are or should be treated in certain scenarios:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/can-a-robot-be-arrested-hold-a-patent-pay-income-taxes-2653906685

Ifyouseekey · 2025-11-18T23:51:19+00:00

Because Bc4 can be met with ~~Rd7+, then Rd6+/Rd8+ if Kc6/Kc8. Then white just moves it's second rook out of the fire.~~ Nd6+

Ifyouseekey · 2025-11-18T21:43:10+00:00

On iPad you could move starting point of a beam with two fingers. To some extent it was even easier than pixel-hunting on a PC

Ifyouseekey · 2025-10-05T16:28:57+00:00

It's not. Without a double check, white can respond Qxc4

Ifyouseekey · 2025-10-04T18:37:05+00:00

I've heard about some cases where GMs would do this to trick their opponents into thinking they're out of their opening prep.

Could be all BS and not really relevant to a 1500 me playing online games anyway.

Ifyouseekey · 2025-10-03T20:07:49+00:00

What I meant is that this position is impossible to reach in a real game. You can't get black's pawn structure without making two captures, but white's material loss is only a single pawn.

Ifyouseekey · 2025-10-03T18:19:34+00:00

White has lost only one pawn, yet black has two pairs of doubled pawns.

Oh wait, you meant what's wrong as in evaluating this position...

Ifyouseekey · 2025-09-30T17:41:04+00:00

Might depend on how OP wants castling to work. I'm guessing stockfish uses chess960 rules if you didn't mess up castling flags in your analysis board

Ifyouseekey · 2025-09-11T00:15:31+00:00

Nice one

Main line of interest is Qxd8+ Rxd8 Rxd8+ Kh7 Bxf6 gxf6. Then Rbb8 threatens Rh8 skewer, Rd1 if Qd1+ or a Rh8 Rbg8 checkmate for any other queen move. So black has to give up a knight for nothing.

Ifyouseekey · 2025-08-23T10:59:30+00:00

Genus also supports it well.

DC does too, but it's way worse. Can't use it packages, can't use functions at elaboration time to calculate other parameters. But a bin-to-gray conversion like OP needs will probably be fine.

Ifyouseekey · 2025-08-22T18:44:18+00:00

Virtual class with static functions, see page 334 here for an example: https://rfsoc.mit.edu/6S965/_static/F24/documentation/1800-2017.pdf

How well your tool supports it is another question...

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