A positive pregnancy test.

Instructions unclear. Wrapped laptop around post.

I think you’re mixing up names. Dobson is the name of the mount, and since they’re most commonly used on Newtonians, it’s kind of become shorthand. My 5" and 12" are both Newtonian reflectors on Dobson mounts.

Maybe you’re thinking of a Schmidt Cassegrain?

I remembering bringing my 5" dobson to a work retreat camping trip. Everyone was pretty boozed up to the point where they were struggling to keep their eyes steady in the eyepiece.

When one of my coworkers finally got everything lined up he just blurted out “HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT’S SATURN!”

It was great.

I love showing people Saturn. Clearly visible even with city light pollution, and rings can be resolved even with cheap hardware.

Kind of nuts how long people can live without ever seeing the rings for themselves.

I remember thinking the interactive TV thing was dumb when I read it in middle school (early 2000s).

But now we have streamers who just sit there and say “mmm ice cream!” whenever someone gives them a dollar.

Oh also I got an oxygen concentrator from the wholesale Goodwill where everything is sold by the pound. Paid $13 for a $800 medical device.

I use it to get my fireplace going. Works like a charm.

A failed 3D print. Some Pokémon missing a leg.

I mean…books have been doing this for a while. No need to make it a game. Look at 1984 and see some parallels. Book was written 75 years ago but covers things like:

• information sources being constantly edited (far before things like Twitter were able to remove posts)
• constant wars where people are resigned to always being at war
• language being modified so people can’t even express what the problems they’re experiencing are (like how certain terms like CRT are being erased from schooling)
• the every day shmoe being complicit in it while just receiving orders from someone he’s never met editing news articles he knows nothing about (like everyone stuck in the “machine” as it were).

1984 is a bit of a cliche, but it has a lot of relevant discussion of modern issues in it.

Also Brave New World where everyone is too absorbed in entertainment and drugs to realize how fucked everything is, and Fahrenheit 451 because, y’know censorship.

Not exactly modern, and maybe a bit cartoonish, but given how old these books are it’s remarkable how relevant they still are.

Point is, doesn’t have to be a video game. Books are cheaper to produce and tend to need less financial incentive to be written. So you get better content.

Copyright law is the only one that matters apparently.

My strategy is to just keep some copyrighted Disney music on my phone and blare it if things get too dicey.

Back in college, we used to do a “gallon challenge” every 4th of July for the people staying on campus over the summer. Some of them cheated by taking lactaid.

Great recs!

Played Stanley, Inside, Limbo, Everything (by David Oreilly?)

I’ll have to check out the rest!

Picked up Journey off Steam. Been meaning to check that out for a decade or so.

Heh, I guess I should have phrased that differently.

But yeah, it’s actually really courteous. Sometimes a little too much. It’ll move over to the left side of the lane if it sees a cyclist or pedestrian on the shoulder to the right. Unfortunately, it doesn’t understand when there’s a 3 ft concrete barrier between me and the pedestrian and will do it anyway. Makes some narrow bridge crossings a little scarier than necessary.

The first Model X has Autopilot 1 which was a system designed by Mobileye. Tesla’s relationship with Mobileye fell apart and they replaced it with an Nvidia based system in 2017(?). It was really really bad at the start as they were essentially starting from scratch. This system also used 8 cameras instead of the original 1.

Then Tesla released AP hardware 3 which was a custom-built silicon chip designed specifically for self-driving which also enabled proper navigation of surface streets in addition to the just highway lanekeeping offered in AP1. This broadened scope of actually dealing with turns and traffic from multiple angles is probably where the reputation of it being dangerous has come from.

My HW3 enabled Model 3 does make mistakes, though it’s rarely anything like hitting a pedestrian or running off the road. Most of my issues are with navigational errors. If the GPS gets messed up in the tunnel, it’ll suddenly decide to take an exit that it isn’t supposed to, or it’ll get in the left lane to pass someone 1/4 mile from a right-exit.

Yeah, I was fully expecting this thing to be like $400.

Emulators can’t always play every game. I know Pokémon Snap has always struggled to run.

This is identical to real hardware and upscales everything to 4K. Not to mention native support for Bluetooth controllers and other creature comforts.

There was an extensive amount of refurbishment required to re-use the SRBs. Not to mention they had to be physically recovered, and salt water certainly made the process more complicated.

The shuttle itself needed each of its heat shield tiles replaced, which due to the shape of the shuttle were all unique.

The fuel tank was not reused.

The shuttle was meant to be a leap forward in rocket reusability, but it didn’t really pan out that way. There’s good reason the program was scrapped and not replaced with another space plane.

The Starship booster has the potential to launch multiple times per day. The only refurbishment period is how long it takes to refuel it.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=200w*1 year *%240.14%2FkWh

$245/year assuming constant 200W load which is pretty reasonable for a small web server.

The trick is to have the server do other things like print, Plex, Piwigo, Samba, Shinobi, Frigate, Matrix, etc