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foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

Their ship is maybe 5 meters across if we're generous. The target space probe? 2, maybe 3 meters across.
And it's THIRTEEN KILOMETERS AWAY.

They just need to avoid a collision! So thrusting enough to move a few meters laterally (over the 26 seconds before you hit it) would save them, and the probe.

But nope. Hit the retros.

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

It's just funny to see that humans are still susceptible to the one-dimensional-thinking fallacy even when they're navigating in a full 3D space where they can move in any direction.

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

This sort of logic is why it's important to detect dangerous asteroids early. If a second Chicxulub is on the way but we spot it out by the orbit of Neptune, we don't need to "stop" it, we just need to push it a couple thousand kilometers laterally so it misses the earth.

The farther out we spot it, the less we need to push for it to miss.

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

@gsuberland this game hands you a torchship with infinite fuel, so it probably is inadvertently training users away from that kind of orbital mechanics knowledge. When you can just single-stage-to-orbit from one planet to another in 30 seconds, you don't need to even think about how to make the most of your deltaV budget.

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

@Infoseepage yeah, the TV Tropes article has the alternate name "The Prometheus School Of Running Away From Things"

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

@gsuberland the funny thing? This game (Outer Wilds, btw) has a very realistic gravity simulation, so it realistically models orbits for planets and spaceships and everything works with reasonable mechanics, so you absolutely can do all sorts of maneuvers to get from planet to planet with minimum thrust!

It's just that no one would ever bother with all that! cause they gave you a ship with infinite fuel and enough thrust that you really should be leaving craters in all the planets!

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

@gsuberland yeah, for game spoiler reasons you are on a strict time limit which would make realistic rockets impossible.

foone OP , vor 13 Stunden

@astrid thanks!

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

I was just wondering because I was thinking about the plausibility of shipping a video game with this technology, so that you could use deniable encryption to hide video game content.

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

Even the NSA can't prove that there is or isn't a cow level

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

@whitequark I was figuring that you'd be able to do things in the game to generate the key. Like if you do one quest, a specific bit is 1 but 0 otherwise. So only by getting the game into the exact right state can you employ the second key

foone , vor 13 Stunden

@lily you should also hide the resources so that dataminers don't easily confirm it.
Hide textures inside sound files. Models inside textures. Voice lines and text steganographically encoded in splash screens.

foone , vor 13 Stunden

@lily right, I'm just suggesting (as someone who reverse engineers/datamines video games) ways to slow down the discovery further.
So it won't be easy to find even if we already are decompiling the binary to find it

foone , vor 14 Stunden

@artandtechnic huh! That's weird but amazingly, not surprising.

foone , vor 13 Stunden

@artandtechnic yeah I imagine it's some combination of that and treating the people who install them as contractors. It makes more (financial) sense to hire someone to fling DVDs in it from a local store than it does to actually coordinate inventory and shipments

foone , vor 15 Stunden

@secretasianman all salute the cool crab pride flag

foone OP , vor 15 Stunden

@brhfl I honestly don't know what they think. Why would someone be doing this in 2024 if not because they're a retrotech nerd?

foone OP , vor 15 Stunden

no one had the correct response, which is FOONE THIS THREAD IS SIX MONTHS OLD
WIKIPEDIA STILL HAS THE BAD FLAG
WIKIPEDIA STILL THINKS THE BAD FLAG IS PUBLIC DOMAIN
AND VGAPRIDE HASN'T BEEN UPDATED TO HAVE A BETTER FLAG YET

foone OP , vor 15 Stunden (Bearbeitet vor 13 Stunden)

You can see the thread here:

https://foone.tumblr.com/post/755662493071900672/this-has-been-screenshotted-onto-reddit-and-the

But the tl;dr is that VGAPride (my DOS program for showing pride flags) has a very complicated Brazil flag, which was annoying to implement, but it's also wrong. It turns out it's wrong because wikipedia is wrong. And wikipedia has the wrong copyright on the wrong flag.

foone OP , vor 15 Stunden

@LionsPhil ugh. so many sites do that now. I hate it.

foone OP , vor 13 Stunden

@ColetteDiskette @LionsPhil try this link: I think it should work better:

https://foone.tumblr.com/post/755662493071900672/this-has-been-screenshotted-onto-reddit-and-the

foone OP , vor 12 Stunden

@devT I haven't seen that, but it's awesome

foone , vor 16 Stunden

@mcc
also:

Andi "mcc" McClure: did not work in the Obama Administration
Foone "foone" Turing: did work in the Obama Administration

foone , vor 12 Stunden

@oblomov @mcc I worked for NOAA doing web development for weather records access.

foone OP , vor 16 Stunden

@keithmann reportedly windows itself does that. When you install a new driver it goes "hey driver, do you support texture compression? accelerated bitblt? and how about FakeTechThatDoesn'tExist?" and if the driver says "yes" to that last one, it ignores all the acceleration that the driver says it supports, since it's obviously a liar.

foone OP , vor 16 Stunden

@PJ_Evans that'd be nice. instead of weird useless certifications, quiz me on cheat codes for old games. I've got way more knowledge in that area

foone OP , vor 16 Stunden

@wollman I'm definitely FCKGW certified.

I used to have a windows 98 serial key memorized because I worked at a PC repair shop back in the day and had to reinstall that OS all the time

foone , vor 16 Stunden

@typeswitch it turns out I am a better programmer than I thought!

foone , vor einem Tag

@whitequark clearly he's an egg, and thus all triangles are trans

foone , vor einem Tag

@whitequark I want webISA

foone , vor 19 Stunden

@grumpybozo @whitequark chrome only supports 50-pin webscsi but firefox only supports 68-pin

foone , vor einem Tag

@DotMaetrix

foone OP , vor einem Tag

this is why they don't let me make exploratory changes at the Time Division. everyone else is killing hitler and such, and I'm over here trying to improve the state of 90s icon culture

foone OP , vor einem Tag

@pinjontall not a first party one. you had to find a third party one

foone OP , vor einem Tag

@stripey yeah. there were shareware tools, and many professional tools

foone OP , vor einem Tag

all the job results were either for companies that make bombs or required top secret clearance with polygraph test

foone OP , vor einem Tag

@istar https://digipres.club/@foone/112758679605896292

foone OP , vor einem Tag

@dragonarchitect https://digipres.club/@foone/112758679605896292

foone OP , vor einem Tag

@ilmari apparently not!

foone OP , vor einem Tag

@lumecolca I might consider working for raytheon or whatever if they could let me become a shapeshifter.

I mean, I have morals and all, but I'm also a trans furry. I can be bribed.

foone OP , vor einem Tag

actually it may have failed because I already had PC USA 2.0 installed and it didn't handle that well