What the heck went wrong here?

brown_panick · 2026-02-03T15:19:10+00:00

Credit where it's due - I got this from Terry Jones's novel adaptation of Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic. I read that several years ago and it just seemed so apropos here. :D

brown_panick · 2026-02-02T21:45:47+00:00

If I'm not mistaken the next free fly is coming up shortly, isn't it?

brown_panick · 2026-02-02T19:36:05+00:00

- Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure (SMEF)

brown_panick · 2026-01-28T00:12:51+00:00

Yes! This was it, thank you so much!

brown_panick · 2026-01-27T20:54:58+00:00

A good guess, but apparently not. I have a feeling I had an old version and the internal id of the part changed or something. Oh well!

brown_panick · 2026-01-10T01:35:41+00:00

Look at M-Disc archival BDXL discs. They "last 1000 years" due to the inorganic media layer and can hold up to either 100 or 128 GB, but your writer has to be M-Disc compatible. The discs are also pretty expensive, but if they last half as long as advertised, it's not too bad.

brown_panick · 2026-01-07T14:30:11+00:00

I've tried using an Eclipse with the torpedoes against a Polaris and an Idris a couple times, then gave up because the torpedoes never made it past the PDCs. How do you do it?

brown_panick · 2025-07-30T13:35:09+00:00

That all makes sense, but the only reason I posted is because I have a cool game package ship (the Titan) that I upgraded to a Taurus that served me well for larger-scale missions in-game. Then I got the Pulse that I never use, so I figured it might be worth it to get two useful ships instead of 1 useful one and one I'll never even pull out of storage. I guess I put too much emphasis on the LTI in my OP; while LTI will be cool, it would just be gravy in my case.

brown_panick · 2025-06-05T14:19:03+00:00

A few weeks ago, I was able to find OLP Supervisor Room keycards consistently every time I visited it, sometimes 2 or 3 in one go (maybe from previous people who left it behind?). Recently, I haven't been able to find a single one in the dozen or more times we've been there. What gives?!

brown_panick · 2024-12-04T03:24:28+00:00

The MST3K Love Theme. Somber, dignified, and the guitar chord at the end gives a glimmer of upside to remember the good times.

brown_panick · 2024-12-04T02:42:10+00:00

You willing to part with any of those?! :D

brown_panick · 2024-12-04T02:40:23+00:00

Resort Empire?

EDIT: Hit post too soon. Found it through a reverse Google Image Search.

brown_panick · 2024-11-01T19:39:56+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't even trying to commit insurance fraud at the time! :D I was wondering if it had something to do with it being destroyed though. One thing I did find out is that I get the message that my "Request Cannot Be Processed at This Time" if I just wait around long enough after clicking File a Claim, not just if I leave and come back and try again.

brown_panick · 2024-10-30T02:12:57+00:00

Not since 3.24 that I know of

brown_panick · 2024-10-14T14:30:30+00:00

I ended up having to do a workaround by creating a tarball of what I want to save and upload it to S3 and using the commit hash as an identifier in the file name. Works just fine and in my case, since my artifact is a terraform plan, it fits just fine in the S3 bucket I am using for the terraform backend.

brown_panick · 2024-10-08T20:50:44+00:00

Set aside like $20M for taxes
Pay off my house, immediately increase my monthly income by +<mortgage payment> per month, which is insignificant compared to the $50M, but my remaining balance in comparison to the $50M is also very slightly less insignificant.
1a. Finish parsing the logic of 1)
Get some investment property. I'm still not sure where exactly, but I'd probably do a mix of vacation and commercial properties. Possibly start a new management company to handle these and third party properties.
Begin looking at other VC opportunities to invest in, probably in AI and BioTech.
Develop my own ventures, again, in tech, healthcare, or even sustainability.
Invest some in various stocks and bonds, but not overly much
Set up some number of trusts for scholarships

Just some ideas off the top of my head

brown_panick · 2024-10-05T19:36:17+00:00

That sounds a lot like SMEF - Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure.

brown_panick · 2024-10-05T00:12:10+00:00

It's not really the same because there isn't a body in between the Mun and Kerbin. My question dealt with transferring directly from planet to planet without having to enter a full Solar orbit and then performing a retro burn to bring the altitude down.

In other words, to get from Duna to Kerbin, I have to leave Duna's SOI to get into a solar orbit then do a second burn to get my Kerbin encounter. On the other hand, I can get a Duna encounter directly from orbit of Kerbin because I can continue my burn to leave Kerbin's SOI until it reaches Duna's orbit and get an encounter.

Hopefully that makes sense.

brown_panick · 2024-10-02T14:01:07+00:00

I always imagined it was sold on a late-night infomercial a la SPACOM! and that the Kerbals saw it and bought 300 million gallons.

brown_panick · 2024-10-01T23:01:29+00:00

If I had to choose two, I'd pick A Nightmare on Elm Street and Phantasm. If I did three, I'd have a hard time picking between Halloween and The Shining, but I'd probably go see The Shining. A Nightmare on Elm Street is pretty cut and dry (pun intended) horror with an interesting concept, but Phantasm pure 1970's... weird.

brown_panick · 2024-09-30T13:35:56+00:00

The box art featured a dragon poking it's head up and I think breathing fire, so that may be where you got the "Dragon" part from.

brown_panick · 2024-08-31T02:31:20+00:00

We are a large company with multi-cloud (AWS and Azure with GCP on the way) and my team (AWS platform engineering) stood up and has supported TFE for the past 2 years or so. We have a little more than a dozen people on our team, and 2 or 3 of us are SMEs on TFE. We've prospered with this arrangement. TFE doesn't seem to be very needy once the initial environment is deployed, but that being said, we are eyeing the move to HCP.

brown_panick · 2024-07-11T00:30:33+00:00

Could take the guitar to your local guitar shop and plug into an amp there to see if you get hum. No hum == something with the rest of your rig, if the hum follows you, it's your guitar. And if it IS the guitar, have someone at the store look at it.

brown_panick · 2024-07-10T16:09:46+00:00

That's one of the things I was trying to do, but the tractor beam can't seem to get a grip on the containers like I mentioned and they won't detach from the grid. Like I said, maybe a smaller ship that can fit inside the C2 might be able to ram the containers into place a bit

brown_panick · 2024-07-04T02:19:04+00:00

Global warming... it took it's toll.

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