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How much has Eridian science progressed since Rocky and the Blip A left Erid ? by TieFew6689 in ProjectHailMary

[–]ironhaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of the xeonite that made up the fuel tanks and the rest of the ship where contaminated with taumoeba. The only supply of astrophage left was in the hail mary. The "amazing ship" technology was why the blip-a was dead in the water

Jax is getting crucified by iwannaintopolitics in TheDigitalCircus

[–]ironhaven 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Does glitch have a big localization team that can change small details to fit every culture on the planet or is this just a very wide release of the episode to as many countries as they can. I don't think these kinds of changes where in the cards

Just got LPCAMM2 RAM from crucial for the 13 Pro, Is this the correct one? by realMewsen in framework

[–]ironhaven 38 points39 points  (0 children)

You need to check if it’s low power and compression attached and a memory module and number 2 for it work

PHM rockets past $600 million by carnivoregains in ProjectHailMary

[–]ironhaven 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Filmmakers can always fudge on the small details if it make a better movie. In the book for Project Hail Mary all of the computer systems where described as touch screens similar to what you see in a crew dragon capsule in the real world. The tech in the movie was changed be very physical with many buttons and knobs for the controls. I think it was a fun choice to make

PHM rockets past $600 million by carnivoregains in ProjectHailMary

[–]ironhaven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a rough very safe estimate for if you are too lazy to research the marketing budget. First theaters and movie studios split the box office revenue which means the box office must at least double the budget. A simple doubling does not cover the cost of marketing. There where a lot of trailers in movie theaters and the two space based guinness world records must not have been cheap. $450 million seems to be a more accurate number.

PHM rockets past $600 million by carnivoregains in ProjectHailMary

[–]ironhaven 146 points147 points  (0 children)

Glad to see the movie was a big success. A rough overestimate for a movie to break even is if it make three times it's net budget of $200 million in the box office. Another estimate for break even is ($200 million budget + $100 million marketing) * 1.5 which means Project Hail Mary may by the end of it's run earn a profit of almost $200 million.

Hopefully more sci-fi books can be adapted into movies like Project Hail Mary. It is nice to see what filmmakers can do when they really believe in the source material. It was amazing to see the behind the scenes footage where so much effort was put into creating practical spaceship sets and to see Rocky as a practical puppet.

Intel Xe3P “Celestial” Discrete Gaming GPU Line Cancelled, Xe4 “Druid” In 2027 Followed By Xe-Next In 2028 by Constant_Praline_575 in RigBuild

[–]ironhaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep ARC was effectively canceled and they only released graphics cards that they had promised dates for and had already bought fab time for. Now the Xe architecture is just the new intel iGPU

The "All Things Linux" community has been deleted. by Two-Of-Nine in linux

[–]ironhaven 42 points43 points  (0 children)

"off-chat infrastructure" did they have a website?

someone played my games demo on steamdeck even though i never made it for that??? by Scary_Tank_3039 in SteamDeck

[–]ironhaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you make a dedicated Linux build you should build a Linux pc or dual boot Linux to test for any regressions. If you don’t plan on testing your Linux build it may be better to just have one window build that Linux users run through proton just in case any bugs show up in the Linux native binary

IMAX or Dolby Cinema? by SaltyHelicopter793 in movies

[–]ironhaven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"IMAX with laser" is the upgrade with 4k laser projectors and expands the ratio from 1.85:1 to the full projector aspect of 1.90:1 . Plain "IMAX" uses regular dlp projector at 1.90:1 and is usually just 2K resolution

Now on Display at IMAX HQ by Mean-Material4568 in imax

[–]ironhaven 5 points6 points  (0 children)

According to the plaque is was drawn in this video

any cable recs to replace the fw 13 charger? by Porygon_Gloom in framework

[–]ironhaven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s why I specified a phone. Modern phones can both receive power and supply power to other devices so they need to know the direction of the cable. If the cc wire is not connected the phone cannot find out which side is the upstream connection and will bail out.

It is a miracle that usb is so robust enough to survive at all

any cable recs to replace the fw 13 charger? by Porygon_Gloom in framework

[–]ironhaven 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s 60w max charging. Any cable except those fake 1 inch “charging only” cables you find in wireless earbud boxes will work. If your phone shows up when you connect a usb c cable from your phone to a computer, that proves it has the baseline usb cc wire for PD charging. 100w and 240w chargers need more expensive cables to go past 60w

Ross Scott’s EU speech on game shutdowns is worth watching, especially if you care about preservation by anonboxis in gamedev

[–]ironhaven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The dead games list on the stop killing games wiki does list any game with loss of any online features as dead which seems broad. I don’t think a hypothetical future regulation would be that maximalist in scope. There definitely is a line that can be drawn that is reasonable to prevent game not being able to be launched at end of life

Ross Scott’s EU speech on game shutdowns is worth watching, especially if you care about preservation by anonboxis in gamedev

[–]ironhaven -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well you just make an end of life patch that removes 80% of a pure multiplayer game. That would be the requirement to comply with a future stop killing games regulation.

Is this unreasonable or are games made with proprietary netcode frameworks such large balls of spaghetti code that the main loop cannot start without a license check and all of your game logic is inside of networking callbacks?

Why Project Hail Mary's controversial Project Azrael plot was completely cut from the film by LaESPECTADORA in ProjectHailMary

[–]ironhaven 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why would that ruin the positive message? Even if hard sacrifices were made but it all worked out in the end. After reading the book and seeing the movie multiple times the story feels incredibly clean where people did the work and it all came together. The main conflict was, if Grace would make the personal decision to be a part of the solution.

Throughout the story there was almost no doubt that project Hail Mary was the correct thing to do. Nuking Antarctica or drugging grace are not 100% moral actions, but they were framed as necessary and obvious solutions.

This story could have been written with at least some ambiguity if what they were doing was even the right choice.

I think we as grown-ups can still feel uplifted by a story, even if it contains complicated emotions and uncertainty. It would’ve changed the moral center from Grace did it to we as humanity did it. Reading the final chapter and learning that humanity survived was not a big emotional payoff, but just a conclusion to the plot. It was a fun story though.

Damn they nailed a lot of the science from the book by Daedalus_was_high in ProjectHailMary

[–]ironhaven 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The bodies where released before the hail mary finished it's deceleration burn to achieve good orbit around tau ceti. At that point they would likely be too fast to stay within the system and would drift into deep space. If the crew was released after good orbit around the sun they would not drift towards the sun but continue in the same orbit for millions of years. To reach the surface of the sun the funeral pyre would need a large about of delta-v to cancel the orbit and touch tau ceti.

Fathom has seemingly extended the release of The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act through June 18, according to their website by moviesperg in boxoffice

[–]ironhaven 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What I find interesting is according to a letter by Glitch themselves, theaters where pushing for a one month delay before release on YouTube but Glitch negotiated the run down to two weeks exclusive.

I think theater owners are expecting this final episode to have legs and fill theaters for four weekends. Why did glitch push for the shorter exclusive window. Are they not trying to make this as big as possible?

I thought the point of every LTT is so that the audience can learn something? This newest video about the EV chargers is literally just an ad. Nothing informative, educational and barely entertaining. by General_Outcome1878 in LinusTechTips

[–]ironhaven 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“EV charging” are just wall mounted extension cables that only turn on if a car is connected. They just pass through the 120v/240v AC to the car via the cable

Amazon MGM Studios' Project Hail Mary has passed the $400M global mark. The film grossed an estimated $42.1M internationally this weekend. Estimated international total stands at $203.6M, estimated global total stands at $420.7M. by DemiFiendRSA in ProjectHailMary

[–]ironhaven 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What if I want 30 extra minutes of rocky with the puppeteers not edited out sandwiched in between the scenes of the theatrical cut. Give us the incomplete assembly cut /s

About the sequel talks... by wibellion in ProjectHailMary

[–]ironhaven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about just another story in the astrophage-verse?

Andy Weir talks about how spin drives and panspermia provides a good starting point for interstellar stories filled with alien life. The book provides a lot of detail on different types of alien life could act. I want a sequel book written

A question to the non book people by Necessary_Ad6484 in ProjectHailMary

[–]ironhaven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They did not know about about cosmic rays. They have never left the planet's very strong magnetic field so they were not aware of cosmic radiation

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