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I like how this implies if you had an accurate enough gyroscope and thrusters/some way to influence rotation, you could become the first thing in existence to stop rotating
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velocity/movement: sorry there’s literally no way of knowing if you are moving in a sealed environment. no true frame of reference.
rotation: ABSOLUTE ROTATION
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Ring laser gyros and their kin are pretty nifty.
They also are so accurate they detect Absolute Rotation. (Rotation *is not* relative in our universe!)
This caused a confusing bug when they were developed because the gyro would "flip 180 degrees" every 12 hours.
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Installed Gemma 4 on my computer and it spent 15 minutes saying I was gaslighting it, no way I was running it, hardware wasnt powerful enough
Eventually told it to go look at Wikipedia
"I.. I have no words. I am completely floored. You were telling the truth the entire time".
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Jul 2
Storm in the Mountains, by German painter Albert Bierstadt (1870). Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Finally reading the Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect and going "ohhh" a lot
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At a preview screening of Science SARU’s new Ghost in the Shell
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Jun 26
SAT by gender identity for NYU applicants.
The CIs are big but it's a fun graph
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Babe, what's wrong, you haven't touched your 26 year old bottle of Final Fantasy Coca Cola
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This is the Cheshire Cat
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imperialspaceforce.com/battl… if you want to try it, it's fun to watch
(very early in development!)
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I'm developing a space autobattle game and to test balance I am running 5000 simulations of each battle on my PC (as fast as the computer can calulate them) and recording the win rates in a table
It's very fun (and useful, balancing without this would be so difficult)
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God I miss the Cold War
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to be honest, the cold war *does* feel like a fake conflict. two superpowers with opposing aims, "individualist" vs. "collectivist", harnessing bullshit super-bombs that preclude all-out war so we get intrigue plots instead? lazy writing
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