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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Ah yes, it’s on the internet, so it must be American.

    • Kosmodrom Baikonur (located in Kazakhstan) is the primary launch site of Roskosmos (Russia)
    • The Proton is a Soviet-made heavy launch rocket, still used today (not related to Rocket Lab’s Electron and Neutron families (which are also not American))
    • GLONASS is the Soviet/Russian equivalent of the GPS

    I think it’s safe to say that the guy did not land a job at NASA.



  • I simply use Nextcloud to sync the vault directory. It has clients for both desktop and mobile and works perfectly fine. I use it to sync basically everything between my work, home, laptop, and mobile.

    The only drawback is that I don’t know if Obsidian automatically reloads a file if it is changed - if not, and you leave the file open in the editor, you might accidentally overwrite the new file with old data.



  • A Proton-M booster carrying a GLONASS satellite crashed shortly after takeoff at Baikonur in 2013. The failure was caused by a gyroscope package that had been installed upside down. The receptacle had a metal indexing pin that should’ve prevented the incorrect installation. The worker simply pushed so hard that it bent out of the way.

    When you make a foolproof design, God makes a better fool.


  • LCh (lightness, chromaticity, hue; a.k.a HCL) can produce values that fall outside the RGB gamut. Since the color picker only offers LCh as a convenience option and always converts it to RGB, it is possible to produce an LCh value that cannot be converted to RGB, and those colors show up as solid magenta ranges on the sliders.

    It’s sort of like taking the square root of an arbitrary real number: not all real numbers will have a valid result.

    Alternatively: imagine a zero vector (XYZ = 0, 0, 0) in 3D space, and tell me which direction it’s pointing in.

    My advice is to just ignore the LCh values unless you specifically need to work in that colorspace.



  • rtxn@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlhmm yes lets play "kerbal debug program"
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    Civ doesn’t compare at all, it is nothing. Completing the main scenario (building a silo and launching a rocket) can take days to weeks if you jump in with zero knowledge.

    Factorio is the definition of a dopamine drip. You start with a pickaxe and work your way up through the technology tree. Coal, coal-burning mining rigs, smelting furnaces, conveyor belts, coal-burning inserters, steam generators, electricity, assemblers, vehicles, oil processing, chemical processing, better generators, better automation, more complex materials… and that’s just the individual items. You’ll have to build assembly lines for increasingly complex items, transport networks with conveyor belts, pipes, or trains, find raw material quarries and wells because everything is finite, then either manage air pollution or expect to be overrun by alien bugs. Small individual steps, but they add up very quickly and there’s always something to do.

    I’m forcing myself not to buy the recently released expansion because I know I’ll lose days to it. If you have ADHD or a thing for automation, it is stupidly addictive. The factory must grow.