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Most are ovals, yes, but in those there's also banking involved, 30+ degrees in corners, so the idea of just turning left is missing a very important nuance to it. Outer tires are inflated more, usually 10+ PSI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NASCAR_tracks#Track_ta...

And ... conversely the pigs that we know came to North America from Europe around that same time.

The early settlers brought them over and released them thinking the pigs would just do the 'pannage' thing in the vast unmapped, unbordered and unfenced forests of America and they'd collect them come winter time at will. Instead, they ran off and procreated and went feral, and rest is history.

USA here, same acro. I still start off solving by writing it off and drawing slashes through O/H A/H O/A for reference.

Came to use trig functions quite frequently while playing video games, and that was a big surprise to me. Not to assume you've played it, but I've recently discovered that Stormworks is a programmer's game - you can write microcontroller code in LUA for your vehicle designs. And, wow, does it ever use my trig knowledge everywhere.

Realized the transponder beeps can be triangulated, tick being 1/60th of a sec and that's a distance estimate resolution of up to 5-10 km. And that's when cos and sin came back to be useful because you can do intersection of circles and figure out where to do a sea rescue more precisely. So video games, trig. Who would've thought?

Well, you always get to weigh the effort of rebuilding a toolchain vs working within the existing clunky toolchain. However, I daresay that reimplementing everything that eclipse does for java is no trivial matter and for a day-long project, not worth my effort.

Though not everything can be done with different development tools and AHK is a versatile swiss army knife. It can also do things like hotkey to make any window stay on top, send window resize message to a runaway or disobedient window, or be hotkey window clicks for games. I use it in stormworks to make my own shortcuts to edit / wiring / mirror buttons since they're 54 inches apart, and hopefully this all shows where AHK's versatility shines.

For developer work, it can automate an entire sequence of GUI annoyances into a hotkey. I'm making this sequence up because I don't recall how it exactly went, but the volume of bizareness was about right. AHK helped me painlessly build JAR files in Eclipse. I'd hit F12 and:

AHK would pull up file menu, export menu, select java, type jar filename, hit next, select jar file, confirm overwrite, next, next, select seal the jar, yes overwrite, click that one random dialog button that's bizarrely not hotkey selectable, type main class as 'default.java', next, confirm, click finish. Click confirm again despite finish because GUI. And bam, another JAR file ready to test.

But, ... imitation is the new game- the new '24 electric Dodge Charger will supposedly purposely come with gears ... and air baffles. Baffles, to generate 'engine' sounds because speakers are too fake, and gears to make it seem like arriving to the next intersection is a series of arm wrestling steeple chases despite having a steadily controlled torque curve.

To be fair, plenty of internal combustion cars prior to this rising electric era have embraced sound issues and overcompensated. Like the Mustang engine sound passthrough to entertainment system speakers, and the GT-86 / FRS / BRZ engine sound tube passing through the firewall.

As inane as this sounds, it just hit me that the JWST is some 5 light seconds away. And for some reason, that boggled the mind, that we do these things.

For what it's worth, can't organize that subscriptions tab by any meaningful way. At least none that I know of.

$20 Norelco trimmer and you can join the club any day of the week, my man.

The only thing I hated about losing hair was the transition period where you're uncertain about whether it's really happening, at what rate, and what to do about it; but, once that decision is made - it's nothing but relief and I'm at peace with the size-1 permastubble. As a bonus, one tiny frown and no one talks to you, so that's an unexpected benefit.

Even if a 'cure' comes out, I wouldn't touch it because vanity is a young man's game. But if we gain some deeper medical or biological understanding from this, all the better.

Think that was meant for the last part of the statement (dry heat) - summers in Germany can be very humid.

For what it's worth, that trend is accelerating in its digital stage. Newspaper CMSs change so frequently, they approach abandonware territory within years and artifacts are left behind.

If you attend any large news site and search for "test" you will find those scraps as evidence of prior CMSs. Like chicago tribune "joe assembler test 1" or latimes "now testing assembler and p2p" or cnn "this is a developer test"

Some of these ... artisanal tunnels ... come to a horrible conclusion:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/a-million... [soft paywall]

From one of many other related articles, "The equipment was fed by what Wink called a dangerous, “haphazard daisy chain” of power cords. And on the day of the fire, hours before it broke out, Beckwitt was aware of the smell of smoke in the basement, according to Wink, but reacted only by adjusting the circuit breakers."

That one article can't capture this situation well enough, there was an entire series of them (and it's still ongoing), but one of the issues had to do with the authorities dealing with the situation and simply not knowing what to do to secure the tunnel after the fact. Tunneling was haphazardly done and had gone beyond his property line and undermined neighbors' homes, and it got very complicated.

Extremely common on managed server providers, not so much on self-hosting. So, I think a vast amount is missing under the iceberg.

Howdy. Apparently one of my dev hobbies is remaking classic games in my own twisted ways, and this time around I thought, what if Mahjong was actually 3D and needed lots of light? Result is the prototype I put together.

Unfortunately, this one definitely requires a mouse and a good graphics card since the mouse becomes a flashlight, but otherwise it surprised me when that small lighting and shadow change clearly turned the familiar game into a memory matching pair and mahjong crossover.

Think this is the classical image of that star, taken in visible light:

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=2MASS+J175540...

Click on fullscreen icon on right-hand side, then zoom out until FoV on bottom left says about 10.63' to 12.23'.

Best I understood, that should be about the same field as the Webb image, based on the instrument definitions I read about. And I wasn't able to line up any dots visually - the new Webb image was taken with a red filter, so I thought it's likely showing photons no one's seen before.

Paging any astros for corrections.

Someone made a plot of just the punctuations from Blood Meridian: https://medium.com/@neuroecology/punctuation-in-novels-8f316...

Surprisingly ... uh, motivational to type. Add a small editor screen on the bottom and it could be some version of written? kitten!

Of some interest, this is the proposed imaging breakdown by time:

   2.0 % observation calibration
   4.9 % instrument calibration
   7.9 % solar system (comets, asteroids, kuiper belt objects, etc)
  16.1 % exoplanets
  17.2 % nearby galaxies
  20.4 % galactic (debris disks, etc)
  31.5 % distant galaxies and cosmology

There's a whole huge breakdown of what instrumentation calibration entails: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/about-jwst/history/science-operat...

This doc was drafted in 2012, and so this might've already changed or will be: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/about/history/science-operations-...

I grabbed my red and blue glasses because this vaguely looked like a 3D anaglyph to me, and while it's not the clearest such image, it definitely appears as a cohesive object hovering above a flat map. Further I zoom out, it definitely looks like it. Inadvertent byproduct of however this was photographed or stitched?

The part that is - surprisingly computationally complicated - and I can't stress this enough, is ensuring that previous years' matches don't re-match. When you add more people and more years, it turns into a bloody mess to a point of engines throwing hissy fits. Run the numbers, be surprised.

IMO- it's that it's not a job but a skill. And that skill is meant to do a job with it, not be a job itself.

Programming ability today is like a modern equivalent of literacy or numeracy, but it's being abstractly used by the illiterate and innumerate to accomplish a job they want done but can't do themselves.

Which is how we end up with products developed by people who don't eat their own dog food. It's not necessarily their fault, it's the nature of the beast.

Also, possibly a misfire. The clamp is under spring tension that can approach 50,000 Newtons, and the separation mechanism can use explosive bolts.

Not sure which configuration this launch entails but the telescope itself weighs 6,500 kg, so that sounds like a lot of energy to account for.

Ariane 5 user's manual, PDF: https://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Arian...

Authentic. And by all accounts, he was drunk-dialing in '64. Think you can hear a belch at some point.

Edit: if I recall correctly, he liked to drive people around his ranch while drinking whiskey out of a styrofoam cup, with lots of ice. When he needed a refill, he'd stick his hand out the window and shake the cup, at which point a secret service agent would sprint from the car pacing behind him to fetch him a refill.

And then there was the thing where he liked to drive new guests into a lake to scare them, since they didn't know about his amphibious vehicle, but that's a different story.

As people grow into maturity and are taught the minimal slivers of history they're required to know, it all comes off as so dry, just names and a condensed series of reforms. Then they form their models of the universe on that.

What's lost is the irrational, the continuum of grit, the human condition, and then bizarre that's always been normal. And with that, here's an illustrated recording of president LBJ ordering pants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_myjOr0OU

They're very verbose and dense, and it strikes me that Neal Stephenson more or less wrote the three books just for himself, but it's worth checking out his "The Baroque Cycle" trilogy, culminating with "The System of the World."

It's fiction, but it's very eye-opening and mind-teasing fiction that puts a lot of contemporary moving parts in motion at the same time. And the books basically revolve around the Newton-Leibniz feud over inventing calculus.

Sadly, promise of money means "viability." Have to be realistic about these things.

You wouldn't believe it, but no one wanted to make a good hip broach to fix grandma. It took athlete injury repair R&D money to make that happen.

Hrm... some... other suggestions are... not like him at all.

Look to Alastair Reynolds.

Look to 'Mote in God's Eye.'