Oh the chicago school you say, as in the people who were happy to slash and burn south american economies just to see what human rights abuses they could get away with in the pursuit of cheaper labour?

Why wouldn’t you hear them out on this labour issue?

Is there an alternative? I just started using it but the experience is incredibly grating, especially the way they gate your progress behind “lives” that stop you learning unless you can pay.

Also youtube just recommended a nondestructive way to enhance the left joycon using conductive foam. I had no idea this was an option, but it’s from ifixit who are basically one of the most reputable repair resources out there.

https://youtu.be/XsIZU_Da2yM

You could try that before doing any soldering, I imagine the foam isn’t expensive.

Yup, and honestly even according to that anti-art logic it was a strategic failure. Funny meme gifs were part of how the game gained notoriety, but you don’t maintain a game long term on meme status alone.

Even if “haha funni physics glitches” were still the in thing - I think people got over them fast, like with any comedy style - the longevity of the game came from the deep mechanics and impressive missions people could do, and the community support.

I actually think that sequels to breakout sandbox games are always doomed to fail. Like what if they tried to release Minecraft 2? It would be awful, and I think we all instinctively know it would be, which is kind of a self fullfulling prophecy.

Minecraft doesn’t have a monopoly on the special sauce that makes their game good. It has a decade and a half of support and cultural recognition from a dedicated following. You can’t make that happen a second time. I don’t like what’s been done with the franchise commercially, but they figured out how to milk it without doing a direct sequel, which I think is part of why it’s still relevant.

GIMP has been the photoshop alternative for many years now. It stands for gnu image manipulation program, and it is an image editor. The category is named a bit weird but the program listed is the right one.

I followed this for the right joycon. If you buy the antenna from the links, the only difference between them is the wire length, which has nothing to do with signal strength. I tried both because they were so cheap, but the shorter 50mm one was much better because it’s long enough without too much excess:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7myhlj/joycon_antenna_upgrade_details_and_thoughts_after/

And that person says you can strip the wire and solder that antenna to the pad on the left joycon too, since it doesn’t have a port.

I didn’t go that route, I just did this for the left one:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/3/6/14834648/nintendo-switch-left-joy-con-connectivity-antenna-mod-fix-dont-try-this-at-home

I figured since I was soldering anyway I’d do the simpler thing, plus something about just tacking on a basic wire was very alluring.

That video doesn’t pay attention to the wire length, I think maybe the guy got lucky, but do pay attention to that. 2.4GHz wavelength is 12.49cm which is too long, so you need 1/2 or 1/4 that. The dipole ~6cm wire, soldered in the middle, is a good way to pick up that frequency.

This page shows you how to calculate the antenna length and shows a basic diagram of what it looks like:

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/dipole

Now, I calculated 6.25cm wavelength, but that and other pages show ~6cm, but apparently it depends on wire radius, so I would defer to their knowledge. If you get close enough, it still works from my experience.

Obviously bear in mind this is a mod and you run the risk of damaging something. Personally I didn’t destroy a joycon with the mods, I did it by not realising I had to pull the battery connector up and away from the board, which could happen with any repair. But my kids enjoyed picking out a new colour for the replacement, so that was fun.

And splitting hairs over what exactly constitutes a genocide, conveniently ignoring the fact that the US wanted cultural genocide excluded from the UN definition for propaganda purposes.

I guess they’re fine with US propaganda as long as it aligns with their chosen capitalist state’s interests.

Now that you’ve done it once, I can recommend the gulikit hall effect joystick kit, which is a drop in replacement. I’ve done it for my kids’ joycons and it shouldn’t ever need fixing.

I also installed a replacement antenna for one of them, you can buy a square one that fits where the original goes. And for the other side where the antenna is etched into the board, there’s a handy pad where you can solder on a wire. I used a 6.25cm long wire, stripped and soldered at the middle, this makes a dipole antenna tuned for 2.4GHz, and just tucked it inside the case.

Since doing this the signal never drops out. It used to be nearly useless for sitting on the couch, now it’s a solid connection.

Glamux.

You said “far more likely” and it turns out you don’t have the numbers and you were just making that up? Wow, I never could’ve predicted that.

I live in a country where our ISPs are required by law to keep a record of our internet metadata. When ISPs have been subpoenaed in the past ths answer has often been “we don’t keep that data”.

So in that case we’re looking at a likelihood of 1 vs less than 1. So you’re wrong there.

Plus, I would love to hear your source on these probabilities you proclaim. Can you share how you know this?

You said “far more likely”, so one assumes you have the numbers.

Yeah, this is just the thin end of the wedge.

Although I suppose you could call windows itself the thin end of the wedge, this is a slightly wider part.

Get yourself a nice smokey chipotle hot sauce in your mac and cheese. Best thing ever.

If you like factory designing games, I can recommend anything by Zachtronics.

They’re all esoteric programming/automation type puzzle games, and they all have their own unique solitaire games built-in for whenever you get tired of the main game.

My personal favourites are SpaceChem - scifi molecule factories - and Opus Magnum - steampunk alchemical molecule factories. Something about the molecules just works for me, don’t know why. Plus the Opus Magnum solitaire game is really unique and fun, and it has a user-made level feature, so you can keep playing.

Last Call BBS is a collection of minigames they made as their final release before shutting up shop, so it’s a lot more casual than the others, but a lot of fun.

Efficiency doesn’t matter if you’re shipping material for production halfway round the world and shipping those products halfway back just because rich people wanted to outsource to cheap labour, and overproduce cheap crap that falls apart way too fast so they can sell us the same cheap crap again a couple years later. It’s mostly waste. Some shipping is necessary, but I’d say a vast majority we could do without.

Like I don’t believe for a second that these tarrifs will actually fix this problem because they’re just a big tantrum with zero strategy involved, but in an ideal world we would make a lot more locally and spend a lot less energy sending things all over the planet to make a handful of shareholders slightly higher margins.

And those laws were written under the belief that “it is surely safe to assume any truck this big is a work truck, nobody would ever drive a truck this big just to go get groceries, that would be absurd”.

Entirely by design. Why do you think they have a “security council” with 5 permanent members, who are the most powerful nations on earth, who can each veto literally anything completely unilaterally?

They are keeping themselves secure against the UN ever doing anything against their interests, that’s the only way the word “security” makes any sense. It is intentionally set up to never get anything done. You would never create such an arrangement if you wanted an organisation to have actual teeth.

Big recommend on that video and Anark’s whole channel.

This is a short clip he put out recently that makes a really good case for building the new world by fixing today’s problems, which makes life better now, which is something people seem to miss.

Like we’re not just rolling the dice that what we do now might pay off for future generations. We’re not just “planting trees in whose shade we will never sit”, we are planting seeds we can reap soon, because we need to eat, so we’re solving that problem.

And satisfyingly, this brings us full-circle to addressing the point of the original post.

Oh cool. I can still access spotify on the computer, so I’ll probably just check and search up the artists I like. Thanks!

Viewed from above the north pole, the planet’s rotation, orbit and the ISS’s orbit are all moving in a counterclockwise direction. The ISS’s orbit is inclined ~51° from the Earth’s rotation, and the Earth’s rotation is tilted ~23° from its orbital plane.

I think that means that Earth & the ISS never have their orbits perfectly aligned, but for our purposes that doesn’t matter. All we need is for one moment in time, for the ISS’s vector to line up with the Earth’s, and we should get very close to that at two times of the year, where the ISS’s northernmost or southernmost parts of its orbit fall on the farthest point of its orbit away from the Sun. This should be true regardless of Earth’s tilt at that moment.

( edit: on reflection, not quite true, you need the ISS’s highest or lowest point relative to the plane of Earth’s orbit, but it will still happen twice per year )

At those moments, the ISS is travelling with the direction of the planet, very close to parallel, and its speed relative to the Sun should approach ~134,600 km/h, unless you did the math wrong, I didn’t check that.

In this same orbit the ISS should also reach its slowest point, as the opposite side of its orbit should be aligned against Earth’s orbit.

But also, in the premise of this idea is the admission that the bicycle is “stationary”, because its speed in relation to its immediate environment is what matters, and we all know it.