mercano
@mercano@lemmy.world
- Comment on Land where 3 weeks ago:
Russian capsules launch from the Kazack steppe. In the event of a launch abort, like there was in October 2018, you need to have a capsule that can land on land.
American capsules launch from Florida and fly over the ocean. In the event of an abort, they need to be able to land at sea.
They both took their abort modes and just made it the standard way to land after a mission.
- Comment on 9 miles over the speed limit 3 weeks ago:
In Vermont, at least, there’s a second clue: Standard license plates are green with white print. State cops have dark green plates with yellow writing; town owned vehicles, including police cars, have red & white plates.
- Comment on I guess it's better than XP 3 weeks ago:
TIL OS/2 has finally been retired.
- Comment on I'd listen to that 4 weeks ago:
“The Internet wants us to start a podcast so they can listen to us heckle people.”
“That’s because at our age, no one wants to WATCH us do anything.”
- Comment on i guess lunar eclipse got an update too.. 1 month ago:
Does Discworld have nutters who insist the world is spherical?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
An FU to the CBS execs that canceled him for political expediency.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 month ago:
Steam does have an option to hide all of your activity in a certain game, but not to cherry pick certain achievements. I think it’s so you don’t have to broadcast your 235 hours spent 100%ing Kink Simulator to your entire friends list.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 month ago:
This is exactly why games have achievements for things like making it through the tutorial, completing Act II, or beating the final boss. It lets devs know how far players get through their games before loosing interest.
- Comment on Interview: ‘Star Trek Voyager: Across the Universe’ Developer On Giving Players “The Weight Of Command” 2 months ago:
I’ve seen in the trailers that the
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Tuvix
Scenario is in the game. I’m curious if the developers will have any way to generate statistics about which way players make that decision.
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 2 months ago:
Did you just assume that bug’s gender?
- Comment on Not that limit 2 months ago:
That’s a ChatGPT kind of answer. A pattern is recognized, but the meaning isn’t understood.
- Comment on Form over function 2 months ago:
You’ll need a lucite engine block to show off your shiny new pistons.
- Comment on Get that silicussy 2 months ago:
API call girl
- Comment on Kids would encourage parents to get gas here so they could see the dinosaurs 3 months ago:
The curvy Coke bottle with a screw top also dates this to the mid 90’s or later. Before then, Coke came in a straight sided plastic screw top bottle. The classic curved glass bottles had the pry-off metal bottle caps.
- Comment on genius 3 months ago:
This is called the Jesus nut. It holds the main rotor onto the helicopter. It doesn’t have any redundancy, so if it fails, you’re going to be meeting Jesus in moments.
- Comment on AGDQ 2026 Schedule 4 months ago:
The Mario 64 70 Star, 70 Person Relay doesn’t sound like a competitive category, but does sound like fun.
- Comment on T2 butter mold 4 months ago:
I know now why you fry.
- Comment on Spoiler alert 4 months ago:
And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
- Comment on How I imagine mathematicians... 4 months ago:
Ah, that’s how we wound up with reverse Polish notation.
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- Comment on Colm looks so uncomfortable without a the console in Transporter Room Three 5 months ago:
He did get an updated uniform is season 3 while many of the non-main characters were still stuck in the original uniforms.
- Comment on forbidden dots 5 months ago:
In a pressurized water reactor, yes. In boiling water reactor, steam is formed in the reactor vessel and is sent directly to the turbines. While in operation, the turbine area is too radioactive for human presence. Fortunately, the radioactive byproducts carried in the steam are all very short lived, so it only takes a few minutes cool off.
- Comment on Pow-- 6 months ago:
The footage of them in full face obscuring costumes, along with the mecha, is mostly straight from various Japanese shows, overdubbed into English. The US production company got Japan to shoot a little bit of extra content when Mighty Morphin Power Rangers became a smash hit, before they started rotating to other Japanese series to take footage from. You can make more money off of the toys, anyway, if you have new action figures and mechs every year.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 6 months ago:
It’s kind of like Java itself, Sun dropped the leading 1 after 1.4, following it up with Java 5.
- Comment on Bet you didn't know that before Excel, people used Lotus 1-2-3 6 months ago:
There’s a long-standing bug in Excel, dating back to the original release, where it thinks 1900 is a leap year. This isn’t a mistake, though, Microsoft coded it this way because Lotus 1-2-3 thought 1900 was a leap year, and they wanted to be compatible so they could import Lotus spread sheets. However, by doing this, they locked themselves in, and they need to continue to have this bug even today to be compatible with old Excel spreadsheets.
- Comment on Baseball 6 months ago:
There are also two other ways to see the MLB logo: you’re either looking at the front of a left handed hitter or the back of a right handed hitter.
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 6 months ago:
I’ve been playing My Time at Sandrock exclusively on my Steam Deck, so controller controls. It’s more focused on crafting instead of farming (you don’t unlock farming until you’re 2-3 in game weeks in), but it’s still very Stardew. I haven’t played the previous game in the series, My Time at Portia, but I understand it takes place in a more fertile area than Sandrock’s desert.
- Comment on Harsh 6 months ago:
Make sure to lead your shot. At Apollo velocities, you’ll need to aim where the moon will be at in three days, not where it is right now.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 7 months ago:
Ah, well, it does have a desktop mode, but it’s Linux + KDE, not Windows. It can probably do what you want, but it would be some adjustment to the new environment.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 7 months ago:
+1 on the Steam Deck train. I’ve been in the hospital the last few days, it’s been a godsend, playing Silksong between doctor visits.
You can get a dock if you want a full sized monitor or a real mouse & keyboard. The deck also has two trackpads, which is sufficient for slower mouse games like city builders while in handheld mode.
Because Valve is selling a lot of Decks, game developers are starting to use it as a watermark for low-end performance when tuning their games.
I will admit the Deck’s CPU is a few years old, you can probably get a faster portable if you really want, but SteamOS makes things pretty easy. Technically I can drop the Deck into desktop mode with a Linux KDE environment, but I can’t remember the last time I had to. Maybe when I was trying Minecraft?
- Comment on Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes | Reveal Trailer 8 months ago:
20 years on (yes, 20), that opening theme still gets me hyped up. I was really expecting the Battlestar to jump away from the missile in the last shot.