i nerd sniped myself tonight and i imagine the NSA operative who is assigned to me is very confused by the increasingly erratic and frustrated google searches for HOW DO I CALCULATE THE MOON WHERE IS THE MOON
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anyways, somewhere in peru there's a town that is legally somewhere between 100 meters and 1 km off from where it actually is, and it'll be really funny if it ever gets big enough for that to actually matter
time is fake, but as it happens space is also fake
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anyways, somewhere in peru there's a town that is legally somewhere between 100 meters and 1 km off from where it actually is, and it'll be really funny if it ever gets big enough for that to actually matter
@aeva wouldnโt it matter more for smaller cities?
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@aeva I mean borders and locations of civil territories are actually definitively imaginary so that tracks.
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one of the benchmarks we wanted to use had a typos where two digits were transposed preventing us from using it because otherwise none of our math would have added up. the professor rejected my proposal to simply interpolate the error across all our data points to make the more convenient benchmark work out lol. so instead we had to chain our data points to a much less convenient datum which iirc involved us trespassing into a reservoir.
@aeva at least all the measurement units are nailed down.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
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@aeva wouldnโt it matter more for smaller cities?
@luana I figure the smaller the city the lower the odds you end up with grosstopically overlapping structures, legally speaking
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@aeva at least all the measurement units are nailed down.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
Well, ok it could be worse.@kevingranade they did eventually redefine the kilogram as something other than robespierre's evaporating left nut at least
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
@aeva I mean, we already see similar issues with geographic borders. Especially rivers, because rivers really don't like to stay put.
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@aeva I mean, we already see similar issues with geographic borders. Especially rivers, because rivers really don't like to stay put.
@ataylor nothing a liberal application of hubris can't pretend to fix
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@aeva "We shall put this river in a box and then everything's fine!"
Cue decades of flooding.
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@demofox @dotstdy @jon_valdes assuming I didn't screw anything up adapting Jon's shader toy, the 30 iteration soft sin also has the surprising property of being able to clip out of the expected -1.0 to 1.0 output range https://github.com/Aeva/mollytime/blob/af58e9237903856b6193a116ae6408038dc47d4a/src/patch.cpp#L319
@aeva @demofox @dotstdy
Yeah, I should have mentioned I'm not 100% sure of the quality of that SW sin implementation. I grabbed it from the internets and hoped the kind stranger that wrote it knew what they were doing.I was more interested in the GPU differences at the time, and this impl was good enough to show those clearly
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@aeva @demofox @dotstdy
Yeah, I should have mentioned I'm not 100% sure of the quality of that SW sin implementation. I grabbed it from the internets and hoped the kind stranger that wrote it knew what they were doing.I was more interested in the GPU differences at the time, and this impl was good enough to show those clearly
@jon_valdes @demofox @dotstdy well I can tell from eyeballing it that it definitely produces a smoother gradient than the hw version
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
@aeva I mean it's causing enough problems with gps they have dedicated stations just to measure it and to recalibrate
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@aeva I mean it's causing enough problems with gps they have dedicated stations just to measure it and to recalibrate
@aeva oh and the whole maps rescanning the whole city every now and then thing
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@aeva oh and the whole maps rescanning the whole city every now and then thing
@pupxel i think they continuously re-map cities because of construction not plate tectonics
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand the why behind the asinine coordinate systems a little better but it also glosses over the math so it's kinda useless at the same time. i'm tempted to just make shit up and move on, but it would bother me that the function was wrong if i did that
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ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand the why behind the asinine coordinate systems a little better but it also glosses over the math so it's kinda useless at the same time. i'm tempted to just make shit up and move on, but it would bother me that the function was wrong if i did that
@aeva are you modeling real life or an approximation of it?
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@aeva are you modeling real life or an approximation of it?
@efi yes
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ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand the why behind the asinine coordinate systems a little better but it also glosses over the math so it's kinda useless at the same time. i'm tempted to just make shit up and move on, but it would bother me that the function was wrong if i did that
@aeva is this one of those things where the approximate solution that drifts from reality by 0.0004% every year is like 3 lines and the more correct one is 5 pages of dense research and no one who writes about it is concerned with the idea that a reader may be a beginner and not know the difference
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ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand the why behind the asinine coordinate systems a little better but it also glosses over the math so it's kinda useless at the same time. i'm tempted to just make shit up and move on, but it would bother me that the function was wrong if i did that
@aeva I love the way everyone uses different names for parameters, and does everything from the POV of an observational astronomer ... Really useful for simulation work.
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@FraEmme ma guarda, io la vedo esattamente al contrario. Il non aver POTUTO mollare tutto per andarmene a caccia di un lavoro ben pagato, per necessitร familiari, รจ stato un sacrificio. Che ho fatto piรน che volentieri e senza pensarci un attimo, sia ben chiaro.
Quindi alla fine generalizzare ha sempre poco senso. La soluzione รจ sempre: fai quello che ritieni giusto nella tua situazione e fregatene di cosa pensano gli altri. Tanto,qualunque cosa scegli di fare, ci sarร qualcuno che si lamenta ๐คฃ
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@francina1909
Purtroppo in questo caso niente buone notizie. Ennesima morte sul lavoro ๐
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@GiorgiaMecojoni Grande!
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@GustavinoBevilacqua
Mio padre ce l'aveva giallo primula.
Era scomoda ed esosa come non mai...
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Vedo persone che portano come una medaglia il fatto di aver lasciato indietro compagni e figli piccoli per inseguire il posto di lavoro.
Io lo trovo atroce.
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@pierostrada un sistema in cui vale f*tere gli altri nei peggiori modi possibili e poi fare la caritร non serve, ma questo si sa, solo gli ipocriti ci credono
Quindi non basta dare piรน soldi in beneficenza, devono solo smettere di voler divorare il mondo, solo quello giร basterebbe
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Lo dico? Lo dico. Io trovo ATROCE che sia normalizzato che se uno vuole lavorare deve (DEVE!) essere disposto a mollare famiglia e affetti e spostarsi anche lontanissimo.
E che anzi, se non lo fai vieni trattato come un coglione pesaculo non disposto a sacrificarsi.
