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Re:Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planeta... by superb_dev on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:59PM (#41672932)
Sounds like they’re using all available resources. What’s wrong?
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Re:Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planeta... by Vecr on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:32PM (#41673379)
Are they limiting the input to a 1% cap, then multiplying the difference from the actual model by 0.000000001?

If so it might not be too bad in practice, but it's still bad science. It's like someone today took planetary epicycles and copied them verbatim into their car physics simulator. Yeah, it probably won't be a material detriment, but why are they in there?

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