"aside from everything else, it seems like it's really, really late in the game to suddenly realize 'oh we need magical compression technology to make this work don't we'"
Afaik, it was undergoing incredible mismanagement, a series of mechanical faults and poorly maintained systems. It meant that its air defense was down or severely limited, and their communications systems busted, they had to choose between communications with the crew or command. Once the ship was spotted, it couldnt defend against the missles and after the impact the crew could not communicate to address it.
All that from memory, im sure i got some details wrong but what a mess.
This blew up on twitter, but i heard a few industry people note that during play this type of object isnt actually rendered unless visible. Still bad, but not why the game preforms so poorly.
Cant exactly remember the phrasing or terminology but worth nothing
Im a student and have been slowly messing with other note taking strategies for class. I switched first to joplin for md and html which was jeads and shoulders above google docs for speed and organization. This semester im giving obsidian a shot for its links and an automatic flashcard plugin, hoping it helps me review quicker and gets me to think about how these topics connect instead of just copying information from start to end. But admittedly i was convinced by one of those "my second brain changed my life forever and cured cancer" videos
So far its been good and an improvement, thanks to md im taking great notes fast and efficiently and im putting more thought into connections. But all the videos and posts claiming its changed their lives or something is a bit much. I cant imagine it being that much more useful outside of school.
On a side note, any other useful programs/techniques feel free to share.
Fair but id offer that having more "realistic" recipies and those details would still offer far less than understanding and practicing the engineering process. Finding efficient solutions to your problems and engineering them over and over again for efficiency teaches excellent problem solving and engineering skills that would be hugely beneficial, imo more important than learning the specific materials that make each item irl.
People looking to get rich quick write (or pay sweatshops to write) very low effort, poorly researched books about obscure topics. They put them on amazon, maybe make some money, then repeat. The video explores one of those buyable programs to get you involved in all of that.
Seems like chatGPT is being used as the next tool in this process
A lot of the problems people are having in this thread ive been having while trying to use reddit for anything useful.
Im trying to put together a small project using a raspberry pi and figured the subreddit would be a good place to start. I couldnt find good recent answers so I make a short post, what pi would best handle quality video streaming, best ways to go about it ect. Deleted because I was supposed to ask it in a specific thread. Ok sure whatever. So I ask that question in the proper QnA thread and only response I get plainly and unhelpfully says to look at an faq question which dosent answer my question at all. I feel like if your going to have and run a community because your passionate about something, and offer help about that thing, you could probably do better than leading me down the "your question is to generic/easy for me to bother" like an automated help line.
SO feels like that to me, you need to go in with a "worthy" question to get any kind of help and not just stomped down
Similarly, I have found a ton of beginner coding tutorials that contain mountains of useless/unrelated text. I bet a ton of it is SEO, but you gotta wonder if its just generated by something.
Especially now that things like chatGPT seem to write coding tutorials pretty easy (with less bloat than the ones I find on google)
Most people reccomend going cold turkey from any kind of entertainment while working, and while that works for most people and a lot of hugh stress situations, it dosent click with me.
I break up periods of work by checking my phone,scrolling a forum, or working out/playing a game for bigger breaks. If I just sprint it out, i start to lose focus and get distracted far easier either way.
The real help for me is having a dedicated study space and if possible, set time frame outside your control. Im a college student so I frequently head to the library in long breaks between classes and that is my allocated study time/place. It gets you in the mindset and lets you get started on things right away.
Music is also big for me, but it hurts most people. Bossa nova always fits the mood though.
Maybe a way to put it is like like blade runner innovates horizontally, becoming and start its own thing while matrix innovated vertixally, evolving the existing genre?
I agree, spotifys ux is terrible. Nowadays though I dont notice it as much, probably because i use it every day. But I have complaints.
Ive mentioned it before but their mobile design sucks. I use it a lot in my car, so usually ill keep the playback screen open amd just swipe when I need to change songs, simple and probably safe. But if I swipe ever so slightly upward, it opens the lyrics function, so I have to look down, see what happened, swipe, then get back to driving. I get im not using it the way it is "supposed" to be used, but its an akward design choice anyways. When are the lyrics that on the fly important, and even when im looking at the screen I still mess it up.
That and the issues ive been having with the desktop app. Maybe its just my hardware but it never seems to just open om the first try, I usually have to close, then reopen it.
I’m getting back into mountain biking after my surgery, and after an hour or two into my latest ride, if found myself spacing out a lot and letting that chatter take over. Not paying attention during a slow, straight ride I caught my wheel on a root and fell forward over the bike, not fun. I found it much easier to slip into that state while I was exhausted though.
I feel exactly the same as you describe, unless im trying to stay focused, taking in something new every once in a while or making choices, I tend to space out completely.
Off topic, but you might enjoy aovie called primer. Super short, low budget film about time travel. It's got a convoluted, but consistent timeline and the fun of the movie is going back and watching it over and over to fully understand what's happening. It's really good
You might enjoy foxhole a lot. It’s a grand scale mmo war game where two sides fight over a giant map over the course of a few weeks. There’s extensive player led logistics lines, massive front lines, and every battle, base, and item are all made by players.
From my experience it’s got a great community, thousands of players working toward the same goal, participating in little excursions, fighting the front lines, supporting the bases ect.
My favorite little spot was the r/foxhole little spot
For those who are unfamiliar, foxhole is a grand scale mmo war game where two sides fight over a giant map over the course of a few weeks. There’s extensive player led logistics lines, massive front lines, and every battle, base, and item are all made by players. It’s a good time
The foxhole community built a little replica of the game map, and over the course of place fought over it much like the actual game. If you check the Timelapse you can see both sides trying to push into the other territories.
And it found itself caught in a bunch of big events, raids, voids, ect. But the community rebuilt and resumed fighting incredibly quick, which seems pretty in character lol.
Leave it to the foxhole players to fight over even faker land
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