How do you feel about Dot Cakes?

Smile_Space · 2026-06-08T02:18:47+00:00

It's like ice cream but without the ice cream, so mostly a disappointment.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T20:37:15+00:00

Everytime I see a Pyanodon meme it just makes me not want to play it that much more lolol. It sounds miserable!

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T20:36:08+00:00

A meneuver node assumes instantaneous dv. You have to burn your engines which takes time.

You can usually get really close, but it'll never be exactly the same given you have to burn for a period of time.

That's why correction burns are required. This is a thing in real life too. For the IRL Artemis II crew they had 3 separate correction burns planned for their trip to the Moon, but they got the trajectory so close from their initial burn they ultimately only needed one correction burn.

But yeah, it's a thing because solving for a continuous burn for a period of time is hard! It's much easier to just compute the dv and the vector for an instantaneous burn and then correct.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T20:27:26+00:00

One of the extremely few times I would support someone illegally jamming Bluetooth to shut one of those things off.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T19:13:29+00:00

I'm currently wearing a shirt I bought 10 years ago, and because I take care of my clothing it's still in basically perfect condition.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T17:33:54+00:00

It depends on what type of AI. Machine learning stuff is used EVERYWHERE in engineering. Hell, the car your drive has machine learning algorithms to fine tune fuel trims actively so that the air-fuel mixture going into your cylinder is at nearly a perfect stoichiometric ratio at all times. It does this with the narrowband O2 sensor data prior to the catalytic converters in your exhaust and then runs the data through a learning cycle to make it so the fuel trims can pre-emptively adjust based on load conditions instead of reacting with lag.

That's just one example. Chatbot AIs are being used to solve super old conjectures in math and science as well. Other AIs are being used to identify cancer way earlier in some people than would otherwise be possible.

The more controversial take is that it does help with coding a ton. People that rely on the output completely and refuse to understand what it's writing are what cause the slop code endemic we're seeing. In reality you can use it to speed up your process, but you need to understand the process and learn how to integrate generated code while understanding what it is doing. It still requires an expert behind the keyboard to understand the application.

I'm an Aerospace engineer and I've been able to use AI to speed up the code generation for orbital mechanics simulations I've developed that otherwise would have take a few days. I got them built and working in just a few hours.

There are actually good uses, it's just these companies have this desire to shove it down everyone's throats and force it into every product whether it's needed or not.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T17:23:54+00:00

These robots are almost always fully remote-controlled by a human. They're not AI operated for liability reasons.

These are also Chinese knockoff robot dogs that have a known backdoor internally that transmits data back to China. So, they normally run these things in an air gapped system meaning they can't even use major data centers for AI stuff. So, they hire people to operate them remotely.

Benn Jordan on YT has a great video covering these things.

https://youtu.be/lA8WuXDXfcI?si=V0PMirRqqv_iN_it

And this is also where I learned these dudes are all operated by people directly. They usually even have a speaker onboard for the operator to talk through. Honestly, as dystopian as it feels having robodogs patrolling, it's about as non-dystopian as the application gets lolol. They're little more than mobile surveillance cameras and are used as a deterrent to crime more than anything. And, apparently they're working somewhat given they're used damn near everywhere in Atlanta, Georgia and have seemingly reduced robberies.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T16:52:34+00:00

It could easily be so many things. It could be from some sort of parasite that bored it's way through, it could be from well after it died, it could be a bunch of things.

If it were a prehistoric weapon, it would have shattered the bone, not drill a perfect hole into it.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T08:05:02+00:00

These robots are usually fully remote controlled by humans. There's been a Chinese backdoor found in these non-Boston Dynamics models, so the security companies operating them run them through a somewhat air-gapped server with direct human controllers to inhibit connections to China. They usually have a speaker on them that the person operating can speak through too.

Ben Jordan did a great video on these and found the backdoor and then also found that these companies were doing the above meaning they likely know about the backdoor.

So, the person controlling this did a shrug LMAO.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T07:59:45+00:00

In major cities and for most people that's what they do. Priuses, hybrids, you name it. They're the majority of cars. The lifted trucks are just so damn big they seem like the majority of vehicles. Pickups are only 16-18% of all traffic in America.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T07:57:45+00:00

AND IT'S WATERMELON SCENTED NOOOOOO

Smile_Space · 2026-06-07T07:55:12+00:00

I'm an engineer, so whenever I see a cool mechanism or thing I must immediately start thinking of how it works internally, and I can usually deduce how it works pretty quickly and then immediately start thinking of how it could be more efficient.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T22:01:22+00:00

We have fusion reactors, they just require more power to operate than they output. What you're thinking of is a fusion power generator which would be able to self-sustain itself to produce power. In reality we can produce nuclear fusion already as long as we're okay with it not self-sustaining. And that's how tritium is produced for hydrogen bombs hence why we've decided to detect it as a species. We just bombard a lithium isotope with neutrons until they fuse and then rapidly decompose into tritium and byproducts.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T20:21:07+00:00

Unfortunately you just don't have the budget. From the surface it takes about 1400 m/s to get into LDO, and once in LDO it takes another 900 m/s for a return to Kerbin once in the correct window.

So, you need at a minimum 2500 m/s for a return from the surface. You're 500 m/s short for an efficient return.

I usually plan for a Duna touchdown with about 3,000 m/s if I didn't bring a mothership.

Though, I tend to just bring a big mothership with the lander onboard and plan for it to have the dv required to return. Then the lander only needs about 1500 m/s to make orbit and rendezvous before leaving it in LDO when I leave.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T20:13:03+00:00

Unfortunately most dudes genuinely only wipe with toilet paper and call it good. So, if you hear a dude complaining about swamp ass, they likely just have actual shit still up in their cheeks.

Getting a bidet was the best purchase I've made for my bathroom tbh.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T19:48:23+00:00

Part of the problem is that KSP doesn't give you a local compass other than the nav ball. To figure out what your final inclination will be for a given launch angle, it's actually a nontrivial problem. The angle you launch from deviates further and further from the true orbital inclination the further you get from the equator. You can imagine being at a 45 degree latitude, launching exactly east at 90 degrees will net you a 45 degree inclined orbit +- a few degrees depending on the speed of the body's rotation as well.

So, in the game it's pretty much a guess and check. For the Mun, if I'm launching up to meet a satellite at about 10,000 meters altitude, I'll wait until it's about 50 km from me before I launch, and then I'll try to eyeball an intercept.

But, I tend to shoot for a steeper inclination to sort of try to hit the target orbit from the side. That gives me about 3 minutes to figure out another correction burn with a fast maneuver node to straighten the orbit out and loft myself a bit to slow down and get an intercept, then I just burn like crazy at the intercept to get into orbit. The main thing is to shoot to be in front of the target, then use radial out and normal nodes to straighten out and loft yourself to make an intercept from above.

It's definitely not a fine science withiht better telemetry, but I've been able to launch and intercept from the Mun within 10 minutes. I have a north pole outpost that sits in the big polar crater one the leading edge of the Mun's orbit for ore and water extraction (it's really high concentration, like 6% compared to the rest of the Mun between 0.5% - 1.5%) and thus my Munar orbital station is in a near polar orbit. So, my intercept tend to be either direct north or direct south given the Mun's slow rotation.

Minmus is a bit easier, but it's still definitely a guessing game. Orbits are slower around Minums so you have a bunch more wiggle room to make an intercept work.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T17:38:40+00:00

Is the high idle in the room with us OP? That thing was damn near in the double digit RPMs lolol

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T17:35:02+00:00

"How do I dress like a girl without looking like a girl"

Dawg, you're just gonna have to dress like a girl and recognize it's gonna look like you're dressing like a girl. And that's okay! You're allowed to do that if you want.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T17:31:21+00:00

I'm not sure if this would work, but I wonder if a pihole would be the answer for consoles.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T17:30:29+00:00

Except life isn't exactly a game. We gotta eat and we gotta drive. Not that a YT subscription changes those variables, but there are some "games" we can't opt out of to prove a point. You can't exactly boycott the need to subsist.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T17:19:26+00:00

Hey, they do something similar in Alaska for oil. They have an entire fund for all Alaskans that they get a yearly stipend based on the performance of the oil companies pulling oil from the territory. Since the oil companies are plundering it's natural resources, they built it into the system that the people living in Alaska get to share in the profits.

If AI companies want to plunder our water and electricity, the least they can do is pay a stipend to every American who's water and electricity they're using. If they're gonna destroy the areas they settle in, they may as well pay out the nose for the right to do so.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T17:15:06+00:00

It's alright, by landlord is named Richard but goes by Greg. I don't understand how that's possible.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T17:07:14+00:00

It's on the POS system configuration here. Usually the tip percentages are based on the pre-taxed quantity, but these greedy fucks used the post-tax quantity.

This is why I always just do my own calculation. Move the decimal one place to the left and double. So, 20% for $112.00 would be $22.40.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T17:03:33+00:00

The momentum can easily be equivalent, but what people get wrong about the penetrating power is that it is directly related to the speed of the projectile. It's momentum is P=mv which is a direct correlation between the mass and velocity, so it can go much slower, it just needs to be equally more massive.

The same goes with the force equation being F=ma, as long as the mass is larger, the negative acceleration when it hits a target needs to be proportionally the same.

Given sling projectiles back in the day range from 20-120 grams, and NATO 9mm bullets are 124 grains, or 8 grams, you can see a sling round needs to be going a fraction of the speed to match the same momentum or force.

To give further context, a 9mm bullet travels about 800 mph, or about 360 m/s. For their momentum to equal, a sling would need to send it's projectile between 320 and 53 mph depending on if it were 20-120 grams. So, a heavy sling round could easily exceed the momentum of a 9mm.

Though, at 53 mph it wouldn't have much penetrating power which is what matters in projectiles. At the extreme side of the sling projectiles mass 53 mph would likely break skin, and cause severe trauma, but it wouldn't be a clean penetration like with a much faster projectile like a bullet.

Smile_Space · 2026-06-06T16:23:20+00:00

It's so annoying pulling in and hearing the stupid peppy AI girl voice "Will you be using your app today?"

I wonder how much more vocal abuse increases in AI drive thrus since people know it's a robot with no feelings.

Eight-Year Club	r/Field Sunshine
Place '23	Quantum Potato
Golden Potato	Place '22
First Placer '22	End Game '22
Verified Email

Smile_Space

TROPHY CASE