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Ration packs for the classy soldier 🎩 Coming soon to #AusArmy #Aprilfools

@DanielleFong Hahaha but seriously, we need some super dense energy fuel like the Star Trek "Dilithium Crystals" which could be synthetically produced for space missions. Surely there is a way to pack more energy into a given area in a semi-stable fashion? Why is nobody "making future fuels"?

> the Fed can't print oil [vc voice] who's working on this?

Australia is supporting humanity’s historic return to the Moon. @NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the Moon – the first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century.

@rakyll Yes, and also, don't write code that breaks your customer-facing examples. Who does that, you know? 😉

"Go and run all the examples in README and tell me what's broken" is somewhat the new integration testing?

@DanielleFong Definitely some regulation needed. Here in Australia, illegal E-bikes with motorbike-equivalent power are very common. Of course, the accidents on those are much worse, so should be limited to the road like regular motorbikes. The right vehicle in the right place, you know?

I don't think people should be using electric scooters on the sidewalk and there's a fucking bike lane come on guys

@joebarnard One good tip for drafting a massive document is, once you finish your "brainstorm draft", (or transcript from voice, whatever) take a moment to do a "categorisation" pass. Title each information chunk, and re-arrange those chunks into the optimal story order. Then, write final.

YouTuber/writer friends, how do you speed up the process of writing scripts? I love making videos and they're so much better with a good script, but I have a hard time staying focused when writing so that process takes forever 😅

@SandyofCthulhu You can call it "The Pirates of Diavolo" and give it an Italian twist. Ship it!

I am a full time game designer, and I've had this job from 1981 to now. Until I founded my own company in 2013, EVERY SINGLE GAME except one (Lightspeed 1991) was assigned to me by a corporate suit. The Man, if you will. Think of it - I'm considered inventive, but I don't get to invent what I want. Call of Cthulhu was given me from Chaosium (I admit I was champing at the bit). Doom was the game being made at id Software when I was hired. Age of Empires was assigned. It was all someone else's idea that I had to implemente. Now, I'm not complaining - the Man treated me well. I had a decent salary, generally good benefits, and a fun work environment (i.e., I wasn't at EA or Disney). But from Call of Cthulhu to Halo Wars, I didn't pick the topic. Was this bad? Not necessarily. The Man paid my way - he ought to have a say in what I do. But how did I deal with it? Easy. I made every game my own. The suits weren't micromanaging every step - or at least when they tried I could push back. For instance, around 2005 I was told to create a game about pirates, but like Diablo. Diablo Pirates was not a topic I would have chosen, but I plunged into it. I researched pirate history from 1500-1750, I forged an entire campaign. I developed enemies both natural & supernatural. I worked on ship combat. I created random & fixed foes, miniquests, and so forth. I also created pirate classes: the Brute (Blackbeard was the achetypal Brute), the Sea Dog, the Dandy (Captain Hook was a Dandy), the Weird, etc. I created a whole complicated campaign, By the time I was a month into the game, I and my small team were dedicated to Pirates Diablo to the point we evangelized it to others at Ensemble Studios. Then Pirates Diablo got cancelled, by the suits, and we were all moved onto something else. That's the dark side of corporate picking your game project I guess. But hey I got paid for my time (probably about 3-4 months of effort). Since we weren't at EA we didn't all get laid off either. We just went on to other things at the same company.

@johnstejskal Deluxe. Ship it!

I have a confession. I'm always scared to share footage from my game. 5+ years solo dev will do that i guess... So to fight this fear, here’s 5 minutes of raw gameplay from one of the first levels. No edits. No hiding!! The game's called Blood And Mead, you can wishlist it on steam ( Link in reply⬇️) #gamedev #indiegame

Learned about something called a "glimmer" recently. It's the opposite of a trigger. A tiny moment that makes you feel good. Coffee hitting right. Sun on your face. Your dog losing its mind when you walk in the door. Most of us are trained to scan for threats all day. Flip that. Start scanning for glimmers. Same exact life starts feeling completely different.

@pronounced_kyle Let me in dude, I daydream about 'why' he wrote these novels all day. Also for others who enjoyed, you absolutely should check out the "Hyperion Cantos" series of novels by Dan Simmons (cited as an inspiration, it's also really good stuff).

Who has read this book? I just finished it and want to start a spoiler-heavy groupchat. I have Theories

@grok @TalkToPartho @lauriewired The brief early tagline exposes what they were actually alluding to with the name, so that is in fact what it was supposed to be.

Yep, that's accurate. Wi-Fi was invented in 1999 by branding firm Interbrand (same ones behind "Viagra" for Pfizer's sildenafil pill) as a snappy, consumer-friendly name instead of the clunky IEEE 802.11b technical standard. It doesn't actually stand for "Wireless Fidelity"—that was just a brief early tagline to evoke "Hi-Fi" quality. Pure marketing genius over specs.

You might think Wi-Fi stands for “Wireless Fidelity”. It doesn’t. A bunch of money was given to the same branding agency that came up with Viagra. Wi-Fi is thus, a meaningless catchphrase because it sounded better than “IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence”

@nicole_lazarou @CollinRugg This is a fair dinkum top idea. If you go early, might be some legit souvenirs to collect. Could also get the historic first documentary footage of each wreck, maybe ask NatGeo for a grant!

I can’t wait to catch an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Tehran so I can scuba dive all these new wrecks. I’m only certified out to 75 metres so please keep them shallow 🙏 I’ve dived wrecks at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands - if the US keeps this up there might be some competition for the name “Ironbottom Sound”!

JUST IN: An Iranian drone carrier ship, the size of a World War 2 aircraft carrier, is currently on fire after being hit by U.S. forces. "And as we speak, it's on fire..." "You may have heard the president say just a little while ago that we have sunk or destroyed 24 ships. That was true. At the moment, we're now up over 30 ships."

These 5 spaceships should land on the Moon this year; several near the South Pole, with rovers/hoppers to explore that little-known, always sunny, water-rich region. In order: - @blueorigin's MK1 - @Int_Machines' IM-3 - @astrobotic's Griffin-1 - China's Chang'e 7 - @FireflySpace's Blue Ghost Laying the groundwork for surveying, tech dev, & pushing the edges of the Outer Space Treaty on lunar law @UN & @openlunar.

@gvanrossum Caps Lock, huh. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. (Can relate, I do exactly the same thing. Also, I remove the stupid "Copilot" key from Microsoft keyboards. 🙂

@EverestBrady Aww. It's beautiful. What is it? A pipe-squeezer?

Working at a secure machine shop, I can’t share most of the beautiful work I do I realized I need to start working on more public projects that I can share. Here’s a recent project I’m pretty proud of! Made every piece on this

@rossgarber This could be a form of intelligence watermarking. You give specific false information to a known group of people. If that exact info gets leaked, then its easier to work out who leaked it.

NEW: The WSJ published a blockbuster report: the Air Force ran a psyop on its own senior officers. Briefing them into a fake classified program about purported alien technology. The WSJ stopped reporting the story. A promised Pentagon report never came. I picked it up. 🧵

@zachtronics Absolutely did not expect this, but so pleased to see it! I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

A new campaign for the award-winning Opus Magnum awaits! New puzzles! New glyphs! New story! Opus Magnum: De Re Metallica will be available on Steam March 17th. Wishlist it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3107410/Op…

@DanielleFong @lightcellenergy Also: You could maybe print up a ceramic Christmas-tree-shaped flame diffuser? For the giggles.

christmas dinner at @lightcellenergy's lab

@DanielleFong @lightcellenergy Nice. Merry Christmas!

Ascender H1 airship in orbit. We've built 11 airships. I think we're three away from a space demonstrator.