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  1. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yep. One second is probably like, 100-1000 iterations of their control system. My control systems have checks for a single iteration being goofy, and any kind of jitter is very noticeable and tracked down very seriously. If one iteration of totally wrong feedback is a weird twitch in your...
  2. Tuco

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    It's a good opportunity for people who aren't sure if they want to curate museums or develop games.
  3. Tuco

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    EQ VR would be terrible, it's too UI based.
  4. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    Yes. Casually. It's actually a lot of fun.
  5. Tuco

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    For EQ at least, there's no reason they can't treat it like a cash cow indefinitely and just have a minimal dev team making minimal amounts of content. There's no need to try and revitalize the game, it's doing fine for what it is, and there's no excuse for it to not be revenue positive. DBG...
  6. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    People are generally happy with it. There's some issues here and there, but the content is not buggy, good and enough to progress through. There's enough to do for a month or two casually. The massive number of fairly diluted and uninteresting AAs is daunting. For some classes there aren't that...
  7. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Next Big Future: Cannae will try to prove propellentless propulsion in space in 2017 and has ambitious space probe designs with 33 years of constant acceleration to reach 3% of lightspeed I'll take an avatar bet with anyone that Cannae will never launch a Cannae drive-driven space probe.
  8. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Asteroid Mining should have its own section (Planetary REsources, Deep Space Industries). It's the future!
  9. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia
  10. Tuco

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Did bounties through all the acts and did a rift. Also read a bit about the current meta of the game: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/d3/topic/17346426537 Monk Leveling and Fresh 70 Guide (Patch 2.4.2 / Season 8) It seems like the way to play is to pick a torment level you can faceroll, and just...
  11. Tuco

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Cool. Ill check it out.
  12. Tuco

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Came back to D3 after not playing since before RoS came out. Started off on default difficulty, kept cranking it up and got to torment I before finishing RoS. It seemed like it only took 3 hours to beat RoS, not really sure what to think but it felt uhh, really short. I didn't expect much and...
  13. Tuco

    Happy Thanksgiving!

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    Happy Thanksgiving!

  15. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Well, there's a lot of possibilities and nobody has made a real industry standard way that everyone follows. Like anything else there's a spectrum of possibilities from low-end to ultra-futuristic-cool. On the low end you have a perception system that uses SLAM to map out what is immediately...
  16. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Re: the above truck picture, we've all been there in the northern states. Not like Kentucky. There's a textbook approach autonomy uses called Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), where perception data is compared with previously generated models and live data to perform both...
  17. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    landfill automation would be goofy. I don't know anything about landfills, but I imagine you'd have to carefully model deformable terrain while driving on it. No idea how much a landfill operator intuitively understands that by knowing generally what's in the garbage he's driving over.