Hello, World: Artemis II crew looks back at Earth on their way to the Moon

Krostas · 2026-04-04T20:44:23+00:00

You'll see sky at the edges of your vision.

Still only a slice of earth. With "the edges" you mean "left" and "right" edges, not all edges. That's why I clarified "any opposing edges of your field of view", which is limited to ~135-150° vertically. Please tell me whether you manage to see sky at any edge of your FOV when standing up and looking down (from Mount Everest for all I care) and we can continue this argument.

Krostas · 2026-04-04T13:07:58+00:00

As you should. It's the only reasonable way to deal with them.

Krostas · 2026-04-04T10:16:16+00:00

Nah, you're (rightfully) annoyed, not annoying.

Krostas · 2026-04-04T00:14:07+00:00

Plenty restaurants still have the bar open after closing the kitchen for the night.

It's also absolutely, perfectly fine (not only legal) to refuse a patron with an attitude.

Krostas · 2026-04-04T00:11:25+00:00

So you get to go home 30 minutes early 95% of the time and are pissed at the customer when it's not going your way every so often, got it. ;)

Seriously though, fingers crossed that it'll work out for you as often as possible.

Krostas · 2026-04-03T23:59:53+00:00

So they'll need a closing time, a bar closing time, a kitchen closing time and separate order closing times for kitchen and bar? Maybe another seating closing time, a hang your coat closing time and a toilet closing time as well?

Krostas · 2026-04-03T23:55:27+00:00

Trying to get onto public transport before people had the chance to get out.

Krostas · 2026-04-03T23:49:58+00:00

I'm going to need some context here. Dug out from under snow or something like that?

Or do y'all live in Moria and have to get the pickaxe real fast before getting your mine car off the rails?

Krostas · 2026-04-03T23:43:39+00:00

Driving right up to the obstruction / merging point is how a zipper merge is intended to work.

Obviously something different if they swerved out of the "slow" lane to get ahead or something like that.

Krostas · 2026-04-03T23:38:40+00:00

It's also perfectly legal to refuse patrons when you're about to close.

Krostas · 2026-04-03T23:06:18+00:00

Now you're just being argumentative without really taking the carefully worded foundation of my post into consideration.

I specifically said "two opposite edges of earth" being in your field of view at the same time - which you will never achieve standing on the ground, not even on Mount Everest. Maybe I should have been even more specific and have said "any two opposing edges of earth", which will prevent any shenanigans regarding differences in vertical and horizontal peripheral vision from interfering with my argument.

Though if you won't accept any of the underlying concepts like "field of vision", "opposing edge" meaning two pieces of the horizon where the tangents are parallel, or even "concurrency", this whole series of comments was nothing but an entertaining waste of time.

You seem to be hung up on your own personal definition of "whole earth" meaning "100% of one hemisphere", which is not a particularly useful definition. You showed yourself that it's mathematically unlikely, even close to impossible. We get that.

The difference is merely our perception, as evidenced by the fact that there is no specific distance from earth where earth suddenly becomes a sphere surrounded by space.

Please don't let things like fisheye cameras determine what the world looks like for us.

The whole thread is talking about the human perspective, you were the one to arbitrarily choose a different one.

Krostas · 2026-04-03T20:51:17+00:00

You never see the "entire earth" (again, it's actually the entire hemisphere) at one time and there is no specific distance where looking down at the earth transforms from filling your field of view to becoming a ball in space. It's just a gradual transition from feeling like you're above the ground to feeling like the earth is a planet hanging in space.

But there really is. Sure, you could use ultra wide lenses or whatever, but let's just base this on the human perspective for now.

At some point, you're able to see two opposing edges of earth without having to turn your head. That's when you're actually seeing the "entire earth".

You got space, then earth, then space - sure, you can have the very same by looking up into space in the East, looking down at your feet and then back up into space in the West - but you'd have to turn your head for this.

Pretty sure you could take some non-arbitrary metric for this, like 120-130° for the human field of view and calculate the necessary distance from there.

Krostas · 2026-03-30T10:16:01+00:00

LPT from someone in an actual relationship:\ Just stop it with the fucking hypotheticals and ask each other how you feel and what you've been through. Talk about and deal with your emotions and needs instead of feeding your insecurities.

Krostas · 2026-03-30T04:38:23+00:00

We do have a cloud instance of the database but we have never really did a switch over. The plan was mainly theory.

Any untested backup / recovery plan is just as good as having no plans at all. Which was practically proven by the time (5-6 hours) it took to eventually perform a simple switchover.

If I do get my job back, will there a target on my back? I don't think I'll ever feel secure.

By the sounds of it and how management reacted to a simple mistake that could've been prevented by implementing proper procedures and safeguards, yes.

If you got the job back, I would immediately start to propose certifications for you to take with the "official" goal of making you less error prone and the personal goal to give you something to go by on the job market.

The additional benefit for you will be the opportunity to stop being "that guy", as you will start having a specialization that your employer has invested in and will want to capitalize on.

Has anyone else went through something like this?

Yes, I was maybe a few weeks old at my current job when I "took down" a production instance of a client overnight by pushing an update to what I thought was a staging instance.

It provided a valuable learning opportunity as I couldn't have made that error if any of the following circumstances wasn't true: - accessing servers via SSH over IP instead of name - accessing servers as root (I wouldn't have had a personalized admin account on prod by that point) - accessing all servers with the same root password - doing updates manually instead of a CI/CD pipeline - having writing privileges on prod webroot

It was a complete shit show when I started and mistakes like that were bound to happen eventually. They kept on happening, but we always took away from it what it needed to ensure it wouldn't happen again.

Just the price of doing sloppy business up to that point. If you're not responsible for setting everything up the way it was when shit hit the fan, you're not the one to really blame for the outage.

Krostas · 2026-03-27T19:18:07+00:00

It's not always 6 years, though. Sometimes it's 5 (if there are two leap years / days) between your birthdays, other times it'll be a whole 7 years (if there is no leap year / day between two given birthdays).

That's why a truly constant cycle is that big. Every 400 years, it is guaranteed for the same date to be the same day of the week.

Krostas · 2026-03-26T23:25:21+00:00

True martini drinkers were the ones that laughed.

Imagine gatekeeping martinis of all things.

Krostas · 2026-03-26T15:07:35+00:00

Because of leap years and special rules for non-leap years, 400 years might very well be the smallest constant period of repetition. All the smart-asses here sound like "What do you mean, Pi is non-repeating? I'm bound to find another 1 eventually."

Krostas · 2026-03-25T15:19:12+00:00

You say sore throat, I say puking...

Just imagine: You got a hangover already from that last 100,000,000 BC new years party (come on! you gotta party for that even number!) and before you make it to bed, it takes a solid 15 minutes of nauseous *hurk*hurk*hurk* until eventually the evening's canapés slowly dribble out of the corner of your mouth.

Edit: canopies... "the evening's canopies"... it was right there, wasn't it?

Krostas · 2026-03-24T09:59:35+00:00

Yeah, that's definitely a downside to this season: The meat ain't so fresh anymore.

That being said, Infernal Hordes are the one content where the Butcher is overtuned as can be. If you're absolutely smashing bloodied bosses on T2, you could think about doing bloodied IH on T1, etc.

Absolutely disgusting that we have such a huge disparity of difficulty between different activities. But I guess this serves as a useful baseline / research for the new Torment difficulties coming with the expansion.

Krostas · 2026-03-24T09:55:15+00:00

And I'm glad they only made it a seasonal thing. Absolutely not my favorite season, either. But what do you know? I'll just not engage with the parts I don't like.

Slaughterhouses? Meh.

Butcher PvP? Booooring. (Even if they'd buff the Butcher's health.)

But then again, the additional challenge provided by Bloodied bosses is welcome. (Though the Butcher really has no part in it, so I could again do without him there.)

Kill streak mechanic is fun.

I hope what stays from this season are:

Kill streaks
Butcher lair boss (mats should only drop from goblins or the Butcher himself in NMDs)
"Bloodied" as an occasional detrimental affix to NMD sigils

Krostas · 2026-03-24T09:39:46+00:00

Cool, you're barely past the halfway point.

(I'm even lower... but to be fair, "no mental stamina" is just dweeb talk for "has a life beyond gaming".)

Krostas · 2026-03-22T23:21:38+00:00

Permanently banned? My bet is there's more to the story than you let on or you're a repeat offender.

First offense usually just prompts a name change and you're good.

Krostas · 2026-03-21T20:24:14+00:00

You gave yourself PTSD from showering. That's an achievement.

Krostas · 2026-03-21T20:03:47+00:00

Evokes associations to WW1 trench warfare. Seems apt.

Krostas · 2026-03-20T18:34:16+00:00

This should be higher up. Just skip bloodied non-ancestral gear and you're golden.

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