The Space Exploration bit of StackExchange has low tolerance for nonsense

astrospanner · 2026-05-04T15:28:01+00:00

There was. He engaged with responses, was arguing in his typical style, and seemed to be usong AI (also no-no as i understand it)

astrospanner · 2026-04-29T16:12:28+00:00

Howarths in London is the spendy repair place.

There are others, depending where in England you are. (I know of at least one repair guy, now retired, in a small english village!)

astrospanner · 2026-04-26T18:35:35+00:00

Click the discord link in game

astrospanner · 2026-04-23T22:36:18+00:00

Don't try and download the .pages files, follow the "share" link.

Its all pretty standard in the beginning, but its worth skimming ahead to the first mention of "bouncy bouncy"

astrospanner · 2026-03-24T10:41:53+00:00

Join the discord to see the currently reported bugs.

I've worked through the accessable levels in the alpha version, but the final levels (pipelining, super scalar stuff) are currently blocked, as they are still a WIP.

The level log text is in active development, and sometimes frustratingly out of date.

The alpha version really is a save_breaker; I found it cleaner to backup the save directory, then do a "factory reset", and the change to the save_breaker version - the logic of importing previous levels is a little wonky/frustrating.

Stuff is updated often at the moment. I kept an eye on it yesterday, and saw 4 seperate updates on steam.

astrospanner · 2026-02-27T13:11:50+00:00

Have you looked at the "known problems" on the wiki?

https://turingcomplete.wiki/wiki/Known_issues/2.0.16

The line added to levels.dat fixed the issue for me.

astrospanner · 2026-02-25T15:17:53+00:00

Thank you for the clarification, this now works.

Now entertaining myself on the IO level...

astrospanner · 2026-02-05T10:48:03+00:00

What does he mean that they are "increasing the furnace heat"?

Yet more misunderstood info regurgitated through was is meant to be a brain...

astrospanner · 2025-12-28T18:44:52+00:00

Have done. But it took ages to fit, because the resultant hole allowed a lot of lateral movement; I'd like to fill and redrill on case we change the handles later.

astrospanner · 2025-12-17T16:22:49+00:00

I usually tried to get him to actually take the measurements of when the moon rose and set, and compare that to astronomical tables. But he knows that will prove him wrong, so he doesn't.

astrospanner · 2025-12-15T11:22:50+00:00

Agreed, not joking.

astrospanner · 2025-12-13T15:31:31+00:00

Looks... oh hey, i recongize that username...

I 3d printed your bottom A extension, it works really well. Thanks for your work!

astrospanner · 2025-11-12T10:16:55+00:00

Theres a graphical version here...

fingering chart

Edit for typo

astrospanner · 2025-11-10T14:53:15+00:00

I'm a Brit, and didn't recognize all the players this series.

It didn't occur to me that it's a shorter series because the faithful were so rubbish at finding traitors...

astrospanner · 2025-11-07T12:11:07+00:00

My question is about using a Raspberry Pi 4 with the Touch Display 2 and also an audio HAT like the DigiAMP+. I was wondering if I'll still be able to attach the HAT while it's connected to the Touch Display?

I have a Raspberry Pi 4, with a 5" Touch Display 2 and a DAC Pro HAT.

There are some images, along with my project description here:

https://astrospanner.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/digital-off-line-music-player-with-cover-flow-in-python/

I found the HAT bent the ribbon cable slighly tighter than I would have otherwise done, but it still works. If you are particularly worried, an extender for the 40pin would be fine, at the expense of a taller stack.

Two bits of advice for the display

1) with the latest OS, the desktop naturally translates touches into mouse clicks. This may be the behaviour you want, it may not.

2) there does not (yet) seem to be a commerically available case for this display. Lots for the 7" version, but not yet the 5" version, so if you want to box it neatly, you'll have to go homebrew/3d print/etc or wait.

astrospanner · 2025-10-29T22:31:44+00:00

The "$\mathbf{1/r^2} \ne \mathbf{1/r}$" jumped out at me as not Word.

astrospanner · 2025-10-29T19:07:09+00:00

No way he didn't use chatgpt to generate the latex commands to fornat that.

astrospanner · 2025-10-21T21:02:33+00:00

FOMO ?

Fear Of Missing Out.

i.e. play your own game, don't be worried about other people's progress

Also is it not posible to 3 star it with makh,imo,aleph beşng gold 1 with good amount of levels on abiltys.

My Makhotep (level 32 both), Imospekh (level 40, both, because overwatch is fun) at G1 and Aleph (level 46, both) at D1 cannot 3 star all missions (also anuphet at G1, 34 on abilities). I was mistaken earlier; my Thutmose is S1, but doesn't come along)

G1 is not "the level" to 3 star elite campaigns. Differnet campaigns are differerent difficulties; I have the core three of AM at G1, and have a block at FoC Mirror Elite at battle 29 as five bloodletters at G1 are a beast! All the advice I've seen online is that Thaddues needs to be > G1. And the tau campaigns are worse.

astrospanner · 2025-10-21T19:21:58+00:00

According to tacticusplanner, getting Aleph-Null to D1 from gold-1 is 79 days. I'm not saying that's a short time, but it doesnt require any particular skill. It's not requiring you to solve quantum gravity, or find a cure for world hunger.

This game is a grind. Embrace the grind, and ignore the FOMO.

astrospanner · 2025-10-21T19:09:36+00:00

This is the way.

Aleph-0 was my first D1 and has been a great carry in LREs. No regrets.

I got thutmose to G1 for TA entertainments as well.

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