NGram

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[–] NGram@piefed.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So basically

Our editor flew into the hornets nest and still couldn't get away from the hornets

Lol what else would you expect. Taiwan is the semiconductor centre of the world, of course the latest tech fad is going to be there too.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 10 points 5 days ago

that carries part of the machine code used to fabricate its own body.

Seems like just a clickbait headline. It could easily contain all of the gcode for printing the book itself and not the part for printing the letters on the page.

But it might be possible to have gcode that (completely) prints its own gcode. Regular programming languages can do that, there's a whole fun community around cool puzzles that use that. Obviously, this project does not do that.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Prestige is meaningless. What matters is (relevant) knowledge and experience. Any university, assuming it's not just a degree mill, will be able to get you what's actually important.

It's like Klingons and honour. Only the ones you don't want to be around care about prestige enough to let it influence their (hiring) decisions.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

This, folks, is why you don't post pics of yourself/someone publicly online. It doesn't prove you're a real person, it just proves you don't understand how the internet works.

The more you insist you're real, the less people will think you're real. You don't need to prove you're real here, you just need to not act like a fake person (scammer, bot, etc.)

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

How does anyone know for certain where the South Pole is if the only people to claim to have visited it are lying?

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think you realize that every reply you've made to me makes it sounds like you've already checked out of dating. You're only interested in the women who don't want you. You're calling it a losing game. You're blaming women for not meeting requirements that only you can set or change. Those all sound like rationalisations to why you're not successful in dating instead of trying a different approach or doing a bit of introspection into why what you're doing isn't working for you. Sure, on paper you're still in the game but you've made it so hard for yourself to find someone that you're effectively not even playing.

Also dating isn't a game you can win or lose. Being alone isn't a loss. Having a partner isn't a win. It's about enjoying life however you live it.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How do people know the South Pole isn't in Antarctica if they've never been to it?

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know, I was getting a similar vibe. I just wasn't going to call it out because then he'd be less likely to engage since everyone (else) knows the stigma against the manosphere cult(ure). I thought it'd be more effective to address his arguments than to attack the community he is strongly connected to.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

No, Antarctica is a continent which contains the South Pole. People have been to the South Pole, if Antarctica were actually just an ice wall the South Pole would not exist and so would not be possible to visit.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Which ice wall? There are lots of walls of ice in the world. The South Pole is in Antarctica which (depending on where you approach it from) can look like a wall of ice.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

There's ground below every point on Earth. There just might be some water on top of it too. Also Antarctica is a continent with ground underneath the ice. The North Pole is the one without ground (immediately) below it. Hence the Arctic Ocean on maps.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 23 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

If earth is round

🤨

Anyway, we do send rockets left or right. It's required to get into orbit, since basically orbits are something moving fast enough sideways so that it always misses Earth. We don't send rockets down, obviously, because that would be into the ground. But if you're talking in cardinal directions then yes, we do fly rockets in all directions. Polar orbits are called that because the satellite flies north- or southwards.

The reason why rockets launch facing up (opposite gravity; not north) is because it's more efficient to leave the thick parts of the atmosphere before getting most of your speed because of drag. You could launch a rocket parallel (tangential) to a point on Earth it'd just take a lot more fuel. Space planes do technically launch like that, but they use the atmosphere to their advantage by using wings (lift) to gain height.

 

I've released a new update for OpenJam's Robocraft servers with lots of multiplayer bugfixes and a few new features as well. Robocraft was a vehicle combat sandbox MOBA which shut down official servers in January 2025. The OpenJam servers are a FOSS re-implementation of the official servers aiming for feature parity, though there's still lots of missing features right now.

Since the last release there have a been a few organized events where full 5v5 and even 6v6 matches were played, which were quite fun. It's been really cool to see the fruits of my labour on reverse-engineering the server functionality to get it to a point where we can play the full game again! Now I'm shifting my focus towards implementing in-game social features (friends, clans, parties, etc.) and server federation so the (currently only) four public servers aren't so siloed.

 

OpenJam's rc-servers is a collection of re-implemented Robocraft web services. Robocraft was an online vehicle combat game where you build your own vehicle (robot) out of blocks and then fight others' vehicles in a few different game modes. The official servers were shut down by FreeJam in January 2025.

These servers are intended for self-hosting but I've also got a reference instance running. There are also other instances running in Japan and the USA. I've been having a fun time reverse-engineering the expected server behaviour from the client as well as figuring out the niche communication protocols.

 

Hi folks, this is my first release of server emulators for Robocraft Royale. In case you aren't familiar, Robocraft Royale is a spin off from Robocraft (a multiplayer vehicle combat game) to try to catch the battle royale trend in 2017/2018. The game studio behind Robocraft shut down early this year but RCR has been offline since 2018. The server emulators replicate the behaviour of the original servers so that the game game be played without needing the proprietary servers, since they were never released to the public.

I say server emulators (plural) because the game actually has a few services which each run independently. There's 3 different networking protocols at play too, which is fun. The main web service speaks Photon Unity Network, the authentication server is regular HTTP, and the multiplayer server is LiteNetLib. I wrote Rust implementations of PUN and LNL when I was working on server emulators for regular Robocraft (those server emulators should be getting a major release soon too) so I'm mostly just reusing that work here.

 

Takes places May 18-23 in Utrecht, NL. Who's thinking of going?

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