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  1. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I think for a long time the value in Starlink will be giving access to fast internet to rural areas, not delivering better internet to urban or suburban areas. The big downside to LEO is that the satellites will have their orbits and mechanical parts degrade due to atmospheric drag. So it's...
  2. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    I dunno. I feel like growing up anytime I learned about space stuff whether it was from a book, movie, being at a science-type museum, whatever, everyone tries to impress the audience with saying how big space is. It's like, Calc I first lecture, "Newton invented this shit offhand to answer...
  3. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Did my first barbell deadlift a couple days ago. Kept it light but it felt great.
  4. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    What you said is fine, but you're going to have to play nice in this thread if you want to stay here.
  5. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    The video sucks but isn't that what a meteor looks like? we had one in Michigan a few weeks ago, shook my dad's house
  6. Tuco

    Far Cry 5

    If this isnt a bug im getti g this game.
  7. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Oh and to speak against what I just said: last year I started getting a swelling feeling in my left knee when I ran/walked too much. I couldn't talk my doctor into getting PT for it because he's a toolbag, but when I tried that limber 11 program I discovered I got a lot of pain/pleasure from...
  8. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  9. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I also think that Musk has endeared so much public approval for pushing the envelope, moving quickly and also creating a path toward more affordable space travel that deaths are a tolerable cost of progress. Previous to SpaceX we'd have these monolithic space launches (like NASA wants to do...
  10. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Elon Musk’s Boring Co. chosen as final two in Chicago-O’Hare tunnel project bid I feel like direct tunnels between O'Hare and Chicago's downtown are perfect for the Boring Company if they can pull off the central technology of being able to quickly and cheaply bore holes, and are much more...
  11. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I'd be willing to give even odds on a 1 month avatar bet that the SRS never flies and is basically shit canned in favor of the BFR or a similar rocket. At this point there just needs to be enough proof that SpaceX can do it, and enough political pressure to blow up the Congressional honeypot...
  12. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Lumie gets his own thread so when someone strolls in there and gets abused I can ask them why they entered the lion's den and complained about the lion.
  13. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I went through a couple months of physical therapy for shoulder pain last year. I'm no expert, but my opinion is that while you can guess and experiment different stuff, ther'es so much that can go wrong that you'd have to get lucky to both diagnose the issue and come up with a sensible...
  14. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    somebody fucked something up and now people's games are turning into this mess
  15. Tuco

    Far Cry 5

    So how good is this relative to previous farcry games?
  16. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I am now the proud owner of the cheapest 300lbs olympic weight set that $189 can buy. http://www.sears.com/weider-300lb-weight-set/p-00615814000P The color can only be described as "apocalyptic grey goo". The finish on the inner rings of the plates is smooth after you file down all the burrs...
  17. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    I haven't used MQ2 but I know some folks who do. I haven't heard of anyone who uses it but doesn't do AFK automation getting banned. I'd use it myself, but I think if I started using it, I'd go down a dark hole of automation that I'd never be able to crawl out of. And the further I got into...
  18. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Their license is suspended, not revoked. I don't know what either one means legally, but my guess is that Uber isn't really out as much as a politician reacted to avoid getting any hobo blood on him. Uber probably has a lot of work to do before driving live again whether they have a license or...
  19. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    People are saying good things about 3.1 Star Citizen Alpha 3.1.0l PTU.737437 Patch Notes - Star Citizen Spectrum This will turn it around for Star Citizen!
  20. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    I don't know the specifics, but my guess is they bought Volvo's sensor suite, disabled the onboard processing, and used the raw data in their system. This is totally the correct way to do it, but I can imagine this conversation happening at Volvo: CTO: So someone just asked me if our radar is...
  21. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    I think some of this stuff could be compression artifacts, but the black blobs and lack of gradient is basically what I was talking about when I said this video footage looked like it had a filter put on it to make it look more challenging than it really was.
  22. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    The small images are probably due to some technical issues with the xenforo 2.0 upgrade, but right now I'm going to assume that you spent $2500 on gear that can only take 100x100 pixel images.
  23. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I'm really looking forward to the JWST, but fuck if it isn't unsurprising that there's massive delays and budget overruns. I wonder if we'll have some crazy asteroid hunting space telescopes by the time the JWST launches. I'm sure there's a lot of different considerations for searching for...
  24. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    This is the bench I have. https://www.amazon.com/Fitness-Reality-Super-Weight-Bench/dp/B01DYRFW8U It did not come with the blonde, 2 stars.
  25. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    The T2 is the other one I'm looking at. It's only $50 more that the other one. It's got worse reviews than the Fitness Reality version, specifically about parts being warped.. https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Power-Squat-Deadlift-Bench/dp/B00GHNLK9E What about the bolt configuration makes you think...
  26. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    *raughs* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4I8FOY Fitness Reality 810XLT Super Max Power Cage It's basically the cheapest highly rated rack on amazon that has a high (800lbs) rating.
  27. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    Two vids: The first is me farming some golems for my berserker's hoarded worker's sledgemallet. This is pretty easy killing, but shows how I move around with a melee group and keep everyone on target. You'll here gina whining at me by saying "See" everytime my berserker doesn't see his target...
  28. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Also, @Kiroy @Ossoi I'm pretty sure I'm going to go half-cucked/cocked and improve my home gym with Will probably buy this and some plates on Craigslist
  29. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Thanks. What you said about getting tired of all the eating kind of resonating with me. You were/are doing "190g protein, 90g fat and 380g carbs on rest days, 190g, 90g and 450g carbs on training days", before I quit I was doing 200g protein, 90g fat, 300g carbs, so fairly similar with a bit...
  30. Tuco

    Kingdom Come: Deliverance

    I don't know how many hours it took me to get through KC:D, but I think it was closer to 60-80 hours, and I left a lot of quests unfinished. I imagine in a year or two when I replay it with mods, it'll be another 200 hours.
  31. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Exactly. Personally I find it less stressful to drive myself than to standby and be ready to take the wheel at anytime while an untrusted system drives.
  32. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    What is the benefit of trying to increase your calories via carbs instead of fat? I'm just assuming here that you purposefully have a diet that is so high in carbs and relatively low in fat.
  33. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    Yeah, I just want a few goofy clicky items from some of these bosses and know the competition for them is more fierce than I care to overcome.
  34. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    EQ1:Quick Start Guide is a decent guide. Keep in mind that ISBoxer is like a toolkit, and you don't need all the tools to do what you want. sk/bard/mag is a very good combo. SK can tank + DPS, bard can DPS OK + pull + track + good ADPS, mage can do good DPS + Call of the Hero. Decent synergy...
  35. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Just as an FYI: The behavior of their safety driver is exactly what everyone is going to do. Once most people, even roboticists, see autonomous systems work well, they trust them far beyond what they should. There are in-cabin systems that will monitor your gaze and whine if they see you're...
  36. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    I avoided death once with this maneuver.
  37. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    What's funny about the VLP-16 lidar they have mounted on there is when Velodyne announced the price (8k, now 4k) one of my first thoughts was, "OK, so now we can just sprinkle cars with them for less than one HDL64E". The Cruise car with 5 of them is just that, lol.
  38. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    You take it for a spin?
  39. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    We're filmmakers working on an AI doc that features developments in the self-driving car industry. Ask us anything! • r/science @khorum