Posts by jkb@octodon.social
(DIR) Post #A3wVVunu2w2JAewlTE by jkb@octodon.social
2020-11-13T17:31:15Z
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Inside the newly built large hangar. There are four connectors, two are flush to the floor and two are wall-mounted on hinges so their height and angle can be easily changed. There's also a small cargo container for easy access tot he cargo network and a collector because why not.A tunnel leads to the technical section and the main building of the base, this allows me to go full mole-person during the night (remember the gun turrets outside are there for meteors, not wolves)
(DIR) Post #A3wVVvOlprWj10CCw4 by jkb@octodon.social
2020-11-13T17:39:32Z
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I tried to stick to an industrial and rough feel for the technical section. It contains two refineries with yield modules, an assembler with speed and efficiency modules, an hydrogen power generator and its battery array, four large cargo containers, and twenty large hydrogen tanks.This whole base is build on an ice lake because I want to easily be able to get and store large quantities of hydrogen for space-faring ships
(DIR) Post #A3wVVw13XW9Svk6mbw by jkb@octodon.social
2020-11-13T17:52:22Z
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There are several entrances to the main building, the main one on the ground floor has easy access to the cargo network and to a medical bay. This is extremely convenient.Another entrance on the side of the building leads directly to the second floor, where cargo access and another medical bay are also in easy reach.I haven't yet written the code that will put status information on the screens on that floor. I also want to be able to control stuff from there, some day.
(DIR) Post #A3wVVwf78aC6vyqm36 by jkb@octodon.social
2020-11-13T18:01:52Z
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Then you have the third and fourth floors, that are completely form-over-function. The third floor has a dining hall and a lounge area, four beds are built on mezzanines.I'm very happy with how these huge windows turned out. Because this building is built against the cliff it has no direct sunlight for half of the day, so I needed large windows to compensate. When the sun shines on them it looks amazing.I will definitely do more of these in other bases.
(DIR) Post #A3wVVxI6nbO0sv5upU by jkb@octodon.social
2020-11-13T18:05:58Z
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And then inside the small hangar there's this little truck that's way more useful than it looks.Also: hooray for hinges that make it easier to have base connectors are the correct height without having to design vehicles around their connector.All these hand-mined ores? They were carried in this good boy.
(DIR) Post #A3wVVy186DOn8Y9s0G by jkb@octodon.social
2020-11-13T18:09:04Z
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All this is not where my drop pod hit the ground.I still have a minimal base that is built there and where I got started so I could look around for a suitable spot for a proper base, and refine enough metals to start building it. When I decided on a spot I carried all ingots and building materials I had using a truck. That was quite the experience.But that's enough screenshot spam for now, I think
(DIR) Post #A3wVVyftee0bAzEQXw by jkb@octodon.social
2020-11-14T14:56:27Z
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We survived Friday the 13th, so here is a very Friday the 13th shot
(DIR) Post #A3wVVzIXKyuv6pJHm4 by jkb@octodon.social
2021-01-23T18:35:20Z
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Finished building this transport aircraft just in time for daybreak. Now I can pay a visit to the NPC station that's 25 km away from my base, despite the mountainous terrain it's in. Time to get some business done.
(DIR) Post #A3wVW01ucHDHNYXWV6 by jkb@octodon.social
2021-01-26T14:40:12Z
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During the night I also built and tested an ice scraping rover. It is based on the layout and chassis of the transport truck I showed earlier, but made as long as possible while still fitting in the small hangar. Two drills are mounted on articulated arms that can fold backward and slightly down so they will drill only the very top of the ice.Deploy, activate, slowly drive forward, come back to base with 200 tons of ice. Neat!
(DIR) Post #A3wVW0hO84OFSBwe9I by jkb@octodon.social
2021-01-27T17:37:37Z
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This mountain peak is conveniently located 49.8 km from my main base, roughly in the direction of the Moon. That makes it an ideal candidate for a radio relay station.The atmosphere here is already thin enough to affect thrusters, at one point I had to drop some building materials at a lower altitude before I could climb again.It has two large batteries, two solar panels, four wind turbines, and four gatling turrets to shoot down meteors.
(DIR) Post #A3wVW1NvZuPxa7qcSG by jkb@octodon.social
2021-02-02T19:01:17Z
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Another night mostly spent inside the large hangar. I love that all vehicles I have can be safe indoors at once and I still have enough space to comfortably work on new stuff.Say hello to my new planetary drill ship, and more importantly to a hydrogen-powered shuttle that will bring me to space. It has enough tanks and cargo space to bring along a decent amount of extra fuel and building materials on each trip.Next steps : prospect asteroids for uranium and platinum.
(DIR) Post #A3wVW20DHZ2hUrlC88 by jkb@octodon.social
2021-02-04T21:20:15Z
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Liftoff! It took only 10% of the hydrogen fuel tanks to get to orbit, where I built a radio relay satellite. I still have to find some platinum, but I found a uranium deposit and will come back with five tons of uranium ore.
(DIR) Post #ART3XnpQyGt2QMGuIa by jkb@octodon.social
2023-01-09T13:03:16Z
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OH: "We have lots of data, we just need to make it accurate and reliable."You don't have any data.
(DIR) Post #ATZG9npgXHY3i77HgO by jkb@octodon.social
2023-03-06T07:31:46Z
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On the 21st of February Elon Musk promised Twitter's algorithm would be made open-source "next week", in a reply to Derek Smart[1].To be fair he also told him to "prepare to be disappointed", which rings quite true now that a whole week has passed and no open code has been released.Elon "Yeah Yeah Real Soon Trust Me I Promise It's Almost OK Just A Couple Kinks To Iron Out" Musk1: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1628122949185159168
(DIR) Post #ATZG9onawXTEhv9840 by jkb@octodon.social
2023-03-13T08:01:58Z
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One more week has passed, still no open-source Twitter algorithm, Elon Musk is a bit more of a liar
(DIR) Post #AUGkonHi93J6leuJBg by jkb@octodon.social
2023-03-20T12:06:42Z
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One more week has passed, "the algorithm" has become "all code used to recommend tweets", but who am I to nitpick when the initial "next week" has turned into "next month". Still a liar, already making excuses. Let's call this the Full Self-Driving Effect.https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1636838845894279168
(DIR) Post #AUGkooGgUM51olR0E4 by jkb@octodon.social
2023-03-27T08:48:52Z
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So… Twitter should release "all code used to recommend tweets" under an open-source license this week on the 31st. Elon Musk said so [1], and Elon Musk is another name for reliability. Nevermind his saying it would be released last month [2], Elon is reliable!What's this? There was some code leak? Some "FreeSpeechEnthusiast" leaked some Twitter code but it has quickly been taken down? Incredible [3]How dare you demand anything on the 31st, entitled brats! Twitter is going through a crisis right now, some scoundrel plundered the precious Code™ and you should understand nothing will move an inch until this issue is resolved (it won't be).1: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16368352095879495702: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16281229491851591683: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-twitter-source-code-leak_n_6420e2f2e4b0b8ee3bd2c992
(DIR) Post #AUGkooydqvF41606k4 by jkb@octodon.social
2023-04-03T07:59:55Z
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In a never-seen-before turn of events, an announcement by Elon Musk turned into actual things actually happening, Twitter has published the source code to its recommendation system: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm(of course the GitHub repository is getting thoroughly trolled, why would you ask?)
(DIR) Post #AUGkopRM8AD7S9R2Uy by jkb@octodon.social
2023-03-20T12:44:35Z
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Why I call this the Full Self-Driving Effect:Adaptative cruise control has been available to the general public since 1998. Lane keeping assistance has been since the mid-2000. Tesla cars include these techs since 2015, quite late to the party.In early 2016 Elon Musk promised that "within two years it will be possible to remotely summon a Tesla from across the country." This means at most 2018. It didn't happen.In November 2022 the so-called "Full Self-Driving Capability" was rolled out as a public beta along with a promise to release the final version "a couple weeks" later. This software has proved to be quite a disaster, and its rollout has therefore been put on hold.But fear not, people who shelled out *checks note* 15 000 Freedom Bucks for vaporware, Space Jesus has promised[1] all your dreams will come true in May of this year! Rejoice!Or buy a Mercedes, a BMW, a Toyota, a Lexus, a Cadillac, a Ford, a Volkswagen, or an Audi. These brands are ahead of Tesla when it comes to driving assistance [2]. Especially Mercedes who secured the first level-3 autonomy approval in the USA [3].1: https://electrek.co/2022/05/22/elon-musk-tesla-self-driving-cars-without-human-driver-next-year/2: https://electrek.co/2023/01/25/ford-gm-consumer-reports-driver-assistance-rankings-tesla/3: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/27/23572942/mercedes-drive-pilot-level-3-approved-nevada
(DIR) Post #AUyjloez0z8HCsRljM by jkb@octodon.social
2023-04-24T13:38:35Z
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#NowPlaying Merzbow - CATalysis // https://masamiakita.bandcamp.com/album/catalysis // harsh noise // Japan // 2023 // Some not-sweet-at-all tunes to drown out the noise and keep the eyes open through the afternoon