Random thought of the day
-
Did Freud wear slips?
-
@Zecc I wonder if he wore slippers to prevent slips on the floor?
-
-
-
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Did Freud wear slips?
He wanted to, but became a psychologist instead.
-
Some day I’m going to make a game with resource mining, where “iron ore” is not some magic rock with big chunks of metal in it – it’s going to be god-damn haematite, and will look the part!
-
@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
Some day I’m going to make a game with resource mining, where “iron ore” is not some magic rock with big chunks of metal in it – it’s going to be god-damn haematite, and will look the part!
Day 1 invent deep-scan radar
-
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Did Freud wear slips?
Anything else I can help you find?
Last year that was not a borken image.
-
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Last year that was not a borken image.
Twas borken less than 24 hours after posting, including last year.
-
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Last year that was not a borken image.
Twas borken less than 24 hours after posting, including last year.
Not my fault. It still showed for me after @dcon complained about it. Here it is again, downloaded to my own machine from the same address and then re-uploaded for posting here:
-
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Last year that was not a borken image.
Twas borken less than 24 hours after posting, including last year.
That explains @dcon's post. I guess I still had it in cache last time I saw it (obviously. And I no longer had in cache the first time I failed to see it)
-
@da-Doctah I saw it when it was first posted, but it was broken shortly after that. Stupid weird proxy caches.
-
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
Last year that was not a borken image.
Twas borken less than 24 hours after posting, including last year.
Not my fault. It still showed for me after @dcon complained about it. Here it is again, downloaded to my own machine from the same address and then re-uploaded for posting here:
Ah, that's very disappointing, thanks.
-
@kazitor said in Random thought of the day:
Some day I’m going to make a game with resource mining, where “iron ore” is not some magic rock with big chunks of metal in it – it’s going to be god-damn haematite, and will look the part!
This apparently resonated with a few, who might be pleased to know I’ve since been making incremental progress towards remedying this situation in Minecraft, at least.
From left to right is copper (malachite/chalcocite), iron (haematite/banded iron formation), and diamond (embedded in kimberlite), except the very top-right is obsidian (kinda).
Still refining gradually… while getting a decent set of only 256 pixels can be done in record time, each of those pixels is about 60000 times more important than I’m accustomed to…
-
@kazitor I applaud this fundamentally pointless effort. Note that more exact RGB values may be obtainable by reference to spectrographic data.
-
@kazitor Games getting it wrong is so common I always have to self-correct in the rare cases one gets it right.
-
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
Games getting it wrong
To require a reducing agent in the smelting process is beyond the scope of this project, unfortunately. As is changing the way ores generate, but I might set up some random variants for various textures.
Perhaps I’ll attack Factorio next (WTF is up with anything involving uranium there? Processing uranium ore in a centrifuge, only to get U-238 anyway? ), except it strikes me as the sort of thing where somebody else must have already “fixed” everything long ago.
-
@kazitor I haven't really looked into it much, and I haven't played Factorio in ages (last time was before they officially released!), but I'm sure there is one.
Maybe this one? I don't know how realistic it is, but to my layman's ears it sounds more realistic than vanilla Factorio.
Edit: remember to click the rocket at the bottom of the page. Them's the rules.
-
-
@coderpatsy said in Random thought of the day:
@kazitor I've not used any of these.
As for the look of ores,
Need a mod to simulate the various regulatory agencies next, pretty close to being able to Iran from home.
-
@Gribnit Might be tricky to mesh with the 'alone on an alien planet' basis.
-
@PleegWat if there's no bureau of the IRS, the FDA or the EPA, can you even call it a planet? Without those it's an uncivilised hunk of rock.
-
@Arantor said in Random thought of the day:
it's an uncivilised hunk of rock.
Ah, I see you are getting it.
-
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit Might be tricky to mesh with the 'alone on an alien planet' basis.
Consider "Planet X" from the classic "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century". Only four inhabitants shown during the time depicted, two from Earth and two from Mars, all therefore "alien" to Planet X itself.
-
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century". Only four inhabitants shown during the time depicted, two from Earth and two from Mars, all therefore "alien" to Planet X itself.
I may have considered this too long, but how is 392 supposed to be funny? And assuming everyone has an RPN calculator is probably not gonna work out. Am I supposed to be using the hex digits too?
-
@coderpatsy said in Random thought of the day:
TIL centrifuges for military and civilian enrichment are different. That puts the whole Iran thing in a new light.
-
The current conclusion to the saga:
I have a banner sorta image and everything:
Give it a shot, if you care, maybe I’ll retexture other stuff or add variants some time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Gąska: that’s not quite what it’s saying. Merely the scale/extent of enrichment needed for weapons-grade uranium is much higher, requiring bigger cascades and more energy but not strictly different centrifuges/other enrichment devices.
-
@kazitor different in size is still different. Different enough to know whether they planned making nuclear weapons all along or not.
-
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
different in size is still different.
The centrifuges are not a different size. There are more.
(citation: I have been covertly manufacturing nuclear weapons for 50 years.)
-
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
That puts the whole Iran thing in a new light.
Can you give a brief non- elaboration?
I don’t know if the conclusion is “those were civil grade centrifuges and obviously not made for weapons” or “those were military grade centrifuges and obviously not made for energy production.”
-
@topspin the latter. I mean, USA wouldn't be so worried about Iran potentially producing nuclear weapons if the negotiations fall through if the sites were incapable of producing nuclear weapons, would they.
-
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@topspin the latter.
Thanks.
I mean, USA wouldn't be so worried about Iran potentially producing nuclear weapons if the negotiations fall through if the sites were incapable of producing nuclear weapons, would they.
I’m not putting any trust in that conclusion, but that’s not for here.
-
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
That puts the whole Iran thing in a new light.
Can you give a brief non- elaboration?
I don’t know if the conclusion is “those were civil grade centrifuges and obviously not made for weapons” or “those were military grade centrifuges and obviously not made for energy production.”The vector of difference is quantitative, but of sufficient order of magnitude to be as probative as qualitative. You need a tree / forest of centrifuges to enrich to HEU. Consider it as a process of diminishing returns.
ed. he must be off his meds
Thanks Ed! What's
probative
mean?
-
Smoking probably keeps wasps and spiders from building nests in your lungs.
-
@Gribnit from the Lisa Simpson School of tiger repelling rocks.
-
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Gribnit from the Lisa Simpson School of tiger repelling rocks.
Eh, maybe a little better. If you blow smoke at a nicotinoid sensitive arthropod they at least don't maul you right to death, vs the rock.
-
Steven Tyler and Christine Baranski are the same person. Only real difference is Tyler wears slightly more feminine clothing.
-
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Steven Tyler and Christine Baranski are the same person. Only real difference is Tyler wears slightly more feminine clothing.
Close. Tyler is the "outdoor" and Baranski the "indoor" appearance of an evertible person. Yes via the mouth, of course via the mouth.
-
@Gribnit The realization hit me years ago when I was out driving and saw a billboard with one of them (don't even remember which one it was, the resemblance is so strong) for the "Got Milk?" campaign.
-
Of all the series in TV's golden age (roughly 1963-70), isn't it about time someone pitched a big-screen version of "Mannix"?
I nominate Nathan Fillion for the title role.
-
It's interesting to note that it takes data faster to travel 1000's of kilometers (downloading it in South Africa from somewhere in Europe) than it takes the same data to travel a few centimeters (copying it to a USB drive)
-
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Of all the series in TV's golden age (roughly 1963-70), isn't it about time someone pitched a big-screen version of "Mannix"?
If they released it this year, it would be the second most delayed feature film adaptation of a TV show in history, only a couple years less than Honeymooners (the show ended in 1956, the movie released in 2005). Fourth if you include Mexican adaptations of American cartoons. By which I mean, it's not impossible it'll ever happen, but it's pretty much impossible.
If I had a nickel for every time an American cartoon is revived after almost 50 years as a Mexican movie, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
-
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
If I had a nickel for every time an American cartoon was revived after almost 50 years as a Mexican movie, I'd have two nickels.
It's called a dime, you Polack!
-
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
It's interesting to note that it takes data faster to travel 1000's of kilometers (downloading it in South Africa from somewhere in Europe) than it takes the same data to travel a few centimeters (copying it to a USB drive)
Are you confusing latency with bandwidth?
-
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
It's interesting to note that it takes data faster to travel 1000's of kilometers (downloading it in South Africa from somewhere in Europe) than it takes the same data to travel a few centimeters (copying it to a USB drive)
Very little of the write latency is travel time, unless you consider it all travel time, which you can of course do. Also consider how fast and how far you can then throw the USB stick.
-
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
It's interesting to note that it takes data faster to travel 1000's of kilometers (downloading it in South Africa from somewhere in Europe) than it takes the same data to travel a few centimeters (copying it to a USB drive)
I remember an email I received many years ago, back in the days when you could still see routing through multiple backbone nodes in the Received: headers.
Sender's outbound node to local backbone node (single hop) ~3000 km 2 seconds Local backbone node to company server ~80 km 2 minutes Company server to my inbox 0 m 2 hours
-
In other words, your Delivery Distortion Field goes way back.
-
@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
It's interesting to note that it takes data faster to travel 1000's of kilometers (downloading it in South Africa from somewhere in Europe) than it takes the same data to travel a few centimeters (copying it to a USB drive)
Are you confusing latency with bandwidth?
I'm using a measurement called "elapsed time". See @HardwareGeek's post for an example.
-
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
I'm using a measurement called "elapsed time". See @HardwareGeek's post for an example.
So...
Sender's outbound node to local backbone node (single hop) ~3000 km 2 seconds Local backbone node to company server ~80 km 2 minutes Company server to my inbox 0 m 2 hours @HardwareGeek's inbox to USB drive 0 m ~40 years
-
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
@Vault_Dweller said in Random thought of the day:
I'm using a measurement called "elapsed time". See @HardwareGeek's post for an example.
So...
Sender's outbound node to local backbone node (single hop) ~3000 km 2 seconds Local backbone node to company server ~80 km 2 minutes Company server to my inbox 0 m 2 hours @HardwareGeek's inbox to USB drive 0 m ~40 years @da-Doctah's favorite show from TV to theaters 50 years AT LEAST