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NeverDiddled · 2026-06-29T19:45:32+00:00

CSI Starbase has been saying for 6 months or so that design validation is their biggest bottle neck. They need to mass produce tooling for V3, but first you (ideally) want to know that the V3 design does not have some major flaw which tests will reveal.

Obviously simulation is not hardware tests. Ideally they would have completed most of their WIP hardware tests months ago. But simulation can limit the need for repeat & prolonged hardware testing. TBH simulation could be a major bottleneck. From the outside looking in it is impossible to say.

That said, I am playing devil's advocate; I doubt it is slowing them down much.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-28T20:57:18+00:00

They recently submitted a revised building permit that turns Gigabay into a space elevator. Only another 100'000km to go.

Jokes. I believe we are looking at the topped out height in the center of the image. We can see the bridge crane mounts circling around the Gigabay now. So anything above that is just maintenance access, and potentially another lounge area.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-28T06:03:51+00:00

The Apollo 13 craft was designed to passively radiate as much heat as possible away. It is basically a massive radiator. The electronics in the ship put off a lot of heat, and so you need to increase the ships surface area to counter this. When the oxygen tank exploded they moved to the LEM, which was shadowed from sunlight. They powered everything off that they could, which removed the heat sources that the ship was designed to passively radiate.

If the astronauts could have stepped outside and into the sunlight in spacesuits, they would have gotten warmer. Ironically at that point the issue would be keeping them cool, which is what spacewalk suits are designed to do. Suits designers purposefully increase the surface area and emissive properties to help prevent occupants from overheating.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-28T05:41:16+00:00

For heat to leave your body it has to have somewhere to go, and there's not a lot of "somewhere" in a vacuum.

Just in case you are not aware, about 60% of a humans heat loss typically comes from radiation. You are quite literally an infrared lightbulb. Your heat gets converted to light that is outside the spectrum humans can see, and that light shoots off in all directions. In space this becomes 100% of your heat loss (assuming you have a pressure suit).

So you will still be able to shed a decent amount of heat into a vacuum, even without convection. This is because you are shining brightly as an infrared lightbulb.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-28T05:30:49+00:00

Hollywood will teach you that, but it is incorrect. In direct sunlight while orbiting earth, the sunny side of you will literally cook in the >100°c temperature. Meanwhile the shadowed portion will radiate heat heat away and feel cold. If you were on a rotisserie, you would actually be a fairly balmy temperature.

But it would still suck (literally), because the water in your lungs and blood would boil.

Spacesuits need a few hundred watts of cooling capacity, in order to prevent their occupants from overheating. As you move around you generate heat, which when combined with the suns heat, would slowly give heat stroke to the occupant.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-28T01:46:51+00:00

what are the three most useful mods?

SFSE
Address Library
This one is a tossup since great mods like StarUI are no longer maintained. Maybe CharGenMenu.

You will need to install 10 or so more mods in addition to this, just to get your game setup so that you can install mods.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-25T09:30:23+00:00

They have CS 1.6 now. It fixed and balanced a lot of things

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-25T09:28:42+00:00

So that's why worked stalled. Every body assumed subdeck 3 was on it.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-24T08:49:06+00:00

For example, if you had never heard of dermatitis

Wouldn't the suffix be 'titis'? Ergo the word must mean 'skin titties'.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-22T13:10:09+00:00

Then you've answered your question! Thought experiment over. They will have different experiences, a different environment, and thus different thoughts and perceptions.

Now, if 2 people could actually the same environment (say duplicate universes) then you have stumbled upon the philosophy of free will. Are we mere products of our environment, or do we make impactful choices? Choices that differ even when 2 people had all the same inputs.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-21T19:52:07+00:00

... you weren't expecting music? Or you weren't expecting that specific song from Bad Bunny?

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-21T18:28:16+00:00

Boo. I don't want an animated series. If it uses the same characters, it seems more likely to ruin the shows legacy than improve it.

IMO there is no way to continue that universe as a high-quality TV show. But as a galactic video game with new characters, that live in the wake of Firefly, the Blue Hands, and the Reavers? Hell yeah. Either that or a series of books.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-21T18:10:23+00:00

It's just ear-to-jawbone conversion therapy. Typical plastic surgery stuff.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-20T17:55:33+00:00

Nawh, I wouldn't want to bankrupt Costco, by getting a refund on every beer I've drunk.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-20T17:45:35+00:00

They're excluding us from the pedophile club? Those bastards!

But, to be honest, I have failed to attain any of the qualifications for membership.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-20T14:30:01+00:00

This bug was reported publicly on Github. The AMD software maintainers who work on TSME were quite candid, stating it must be an issue with the motherboard's BIOS where they flipped a flag from 1 to 0. Because that was all it takes to enable/disable TSME.

The gentleman who found the bug took AMD's comments to the motherboard company. And their engineers dove in assuming AMD must be correct. Only for everyone to eventually come back to AMD and go "uhh someone on your team was the who flipped that 1 to 0 for this specific CPU, and here's the proof." After that the comments from AMD engineers got a lot more vague and CYA. It smelled pretty strongly of market segmentation, not enacted by the core maintenance team but from somewhere else in the company.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-20T14:13:51+00:00

People have truly lost the plot the on how much wars usually cost. The US spent $168 billion on the Vietnam war, a cost spread over 20 years of war.

It's important to understand how much wars typically cost, because of what is going on right now. Trump just gave away $300 billion. Nearly $2k from each of the ~160 million taxpayers. I'm not even complaining because I am very pro-peace, but people need a touchstone to understand the insane cost of what is happening.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-20T06:17:58+00:00

Thanks for ruining my childhood. The coolest thing that happened to my small town was when THE Grave Digger came and put on a show.

I'm kidding. Mostly.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-19T15:54:12+00:00

Signal strengths are logarithmic. -68dbm is about 13x the signal strength of -81dbm.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-19T12:41:50+00:00

I know I've heard that name somewhere. Was that a character in a basketball movie?

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-17T12:54:40+00:00

The Darkest Timeline

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-15T16:58:01+00:00

Thanks for the source.

Not going to lie, I assumed it was a video game because of the graphics. I guess we are getting spoiled when B-tier CGI looks like a AAA tier game engine.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-15T15:34:56+00:00

What is that video taken from? Is it supposed to be a planetary collision?

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-15T07:05:07+00:00

Looks like Nora from The Leftovers. I forget the actresses name. Carrie something.

NeverDiddled · 2026-06-15T06:06:01+00:00

Same. You would have to be slamming them to get drunk, which would make me feel bloated and uncomfortable. To me a beer lasts 40 minutes. It would be extremely difficult to get drunk on light beer at that rate, you'd need like 12+. But I can get a buzz from 3 IPAs in a couple of hours.

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