troyunrau 5m ago • 100%
Don't get me wrong. There is still a time and a place for Fortran. And this will also likely always be the case for C++. But I'm not sure it is entirely wise to choose it if you're creating a new project anymore.
troyunrau 15m ago • 100%
I've done a bit of C++ coding in my time. The feature list of the language is so long at this point that it is pretty much impossible for anyone new to learn C++ and grok the design decisions anymore. I don't know if this is a good thing or not to keep adding and extending or whether C++ should sail into the sunset like Fortran and others before it.
troyunrau 2h ago • 100%
It's not just about distance. It's also about the ability to sustain. The Moon might end up being like Antarctica -- with resources always flown in. So the Moon might always be a bunch of research stations supported by the Earth.
Mars is too far to pull this trick off, and telerobotics is much harder there due to the latency. So Mars makes more sense to work on establishing self-sufficiency than the Moon does. It also, conveniently, has a better set of resources to support the same.
But I do agree that we ought to use the Moon to test some things first :)
troyunrau 14h ago • 100%
Goblin says: we can arm wrestle for 10%. But I warn you, I am stronger than I look.
troyunrau 14h ago • 98%
Those poor toe beans
troyunrau 1d ago • 100%
My cat loves it when I boot up Stray.
troyunrau 1d ago • 0%
I just watched 45 mins of that video while folding laundry. The result was a dramatic change in the nature of my YouTube ads and recommended videos to promote preppers and pseudoscience. It's amazing how the algorithm works so quickly to push people onto that radicalization treadmill.
troyunrau 1d ago • 50%
Sounds fun. But there's a huge Venn diagram overlap between them and the sovcits, covid-hoax, various types of "truthers" and doomsday cult types. So the target market, if you're marketing to preppers, is not just the clever Doctor Stone cosplayers.
troyunrau 1d ago • 0%
I rarely judge someone for ignorance unless it is wilful. I pretty harshly judge people who cannot assimilate new information. Over time I think I might be evolving from INTP->INTJ as I age. I used to have more patience and would try to encourage people to learn and adjust.
troyunrau 1d ago • 100%
I run a small business. People in my spam folder have really high opinions of my business. They all want to invest or something... Mostly harvesting my LinkedIn profile for keywords.
troyunrau 2d ago • 83%
If it's a game I'm going to get hundreds, or sometimes thousands of hours from, then I'll pay more. If you look at price per hour spent on entertainment, it's hard to compare. However, you often have to wade through a bunch of shitty overpriced games to find those gems.
Okay, back to EU4 now ;)
troyunrau 2d ago • 60%
So, Stray?
troyunrau 2d ago • 100%
The lighting bothers me. The froth was transient however and I didn't really have time to adjust lighting.
troyunrau 2d ago • 80%
I guess just start posting some stuff there hoping to spawn conversations. I'll do the same, even though I hate the Leafs ;)
troyunrau 2d ago • 100%
Sad to see, but at least it isn't freeze-to-death temperatures there.
What alternatives does Cuba have for energy? You'd figure that it'd be a good choice to set up battery backed solar, but perhaps they don't have the capital to get started?
troyunrau 2d ago • 85%
Jokes aside, I think we should congregate in the team-agnostic hockey community until we grow large enough that team specific communities make sense. Same thing happened on Reddit 15 years ago
troyunrau 3d ago • 100%
Can't remember. But it was worth a picture
Instrument is a Geonics EM16 VLF receiver, using in the mineral exploration industry to find buried linear conductors.