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(BTW, the poem like formatting was a happy accident.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1pjw7q6/t...
Still feels a bit like a party trick, but if it works...
It is strange to see how low-poly the old models were: https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/46859/!!-starship-troo...
It takes time for decades old ways to change.
This is one of our early translation tests. I publish it here for a while for you: https://media.nimbus.fi/tero/for_hackernews/sleeping_childre... Please don't expect it to stay there forever.
It has the same heroine that is in our debut book: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_ja_t%C3%A4hdet Every short story has the same main characters visiting an another star and an another world.
Here's some of the local space that I generated from Gliese/Hipparcos dataset some 20 years ago. I'm trying to port our original LightWave starmaps to Blender: https://media.nimbus.fi/tero/nimbus/local_space.png
We should probably write a blog (blag) post about the hurdles of translating from a small (and not so well supported language) to English. Luckily my wife is way better in English than I am.
There are a lot of small languages in the world, and translation used to be extremely expensive. And there is never too much good space sci-fi.
(We don't write space battles or wars. Our style is slower and bit more philosophical. Light speed is the limit, and travel takes centuries.)
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https://x.com/karinanguyen_/status/1764789887071580657?s=20
> The entire structure would be in constant flux, rotating, morphing, and rearranging itself into novel patterns never before seen, hinting at the unimaginable depth of intelligence operating within.
It allows references to another data structures.
5.3 Early Formatters
The problem was that there was no interactive computer system like CTSS at Princeton; there weren’t any computer termi- nals either. All that was available was punch cards, which only supported upper case letters. I wrote Roff in Fortran (far from ideal, since Fortran was meant for scientific computation, not pushing characters around, but there were no other options) and I added a feature to convert everything to lower case while automatically capitalizing the first letter of each sentence. The resulting text, now upper and lower case, was printed on an IBM 1403 printer that could print both cases. Talk about bleeding edge! My thesis was three boxes of cards. Each box held 2,000 cards, was about 14 inches (35 cm) long and weighed 10 pounds (4.5 kg). The first 1,000 cards were the program and the other 5,000 were the thesis itself in Roff.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/first-you-see-it-t...
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...
>Methane on Mars is expected to have a rather short lifetime – around 400 years – because it is broken down by ultraviolet light. Atmospheric mixing (for example, by winds) should quickly lead to a more or less uniform background concentration. But previous observations hint at seasonal variations in methane abundance, with concentrations varying with location and time. If this is correct, there must be an active source to replenish the supply and, at the same time, a relatively quick way of removing it in order to account for the apparent rise and fall in the measurements.
The scary part is that there actually already is a web site that sells those...
Semi-oblig-xkcd: https://xkcd.com/284/
With dangling balls: `(function(){})()`
No dangling balls: `(function(){}())`