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Would have been great to be a part of something like that.
I believe NASA has lauched quite a few school projects... even one by high school students from India. Good on them to work with students everywhere 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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ChandraRam wrote: Good on them to work with students everywhere
100% agree.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I think it only costs about $3k/pound to put something on a Falcon 9.
I couldn't afford a very heavy satellite, but it's pretty interesting to google that and realize I almost definitely could get some little something up there. Barring all the stuff like they probably don't just let anyone chuck a bit onto a rocket to fling into space and there's almost definitely more bureaucracy to it than just paying.
Edit: The CodeProject Payload Project? That would rock. If y'all do it, I'd definitely want to try to be some part of it.
modified 18-May-24 2:12am.
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Bad news is it's a year and a half off, and the announcement was probably only made to shore up the Take Two Interactive after a loss of $2.9bn in the last financial quarter[^] ... so I'd say it's probably inaccurate - it'll slip back given how the long time frame implies there is a lot of work still to do.
Damn it! I was looking forward to that early next year. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well Dragon age inquisition GOTY edition is free on epic this week. May help pass some of that wait time. 
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I love DA, I think there are too many collection quests in DAI though (same fault as Mass Effect Andromeda).
I'm back in Fallout mode though, tossed in 120 hours this month between FO3 and FO4.
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The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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I saw the headlines but didn't bother reading any of the details.
I'm assuming this is as per previous releases, where the console releases get preferential treatment, and the PC port only comes out a year or so later. Then add a few more months for the show-stopping bugs to get patched...
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Ah, ha! Yes! Do any of you remember my thread asking you guys
how fast you drive on sidewalks? 
**Yes, I have driven 63 mph on a sidewalk!
OK, back on topic. I think GTA is a great game!
I used to play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas back in 2007.
I never actually learned how to play the game.
I still haven't a clue how to play it.
I had every cheat code memorized.
I spent most of my time shooting down police helicopters
by the dozens with an endless supply of rocket launchers.
Then, I discovered how to turn off gravity.
I would magically materialize a military tank out of thin air,
turn off gravity, get inside the tank, and repeatedly fire
the cannon. The recoil would accelerate the tank in reverse,
and once I got up to speed, I would take off into the air.
Sometimes, I'd land the tank on the road and, *GASP* veer off
the road and onto the sidewalk! 
DISCLAIMER: I'm sorry to all of you who are reading this.
It's not my intention to traumatize anyone by what I'm saying.
May God bless the many loved ones in your life who were lost
being hit by vehicles driving down sidewalks.
I can only imagine how amazing the newest versions of GTA are.
If you can still turn off gravity, materialize unlimited
military tanks out of thin air, and play the game as a
flight simulator, I want to play it! 
**That would have turned out to be a fun thread if it weren't for an unnamed social justice hero who derailed that thread with his preposterous act of virtue signaling. I apologize to all of you who read that thread. For those of you who have lost loved ones (many of you, I'm sure) from being hit by cars driving on sidewalks, it wasn't my intention to traumatize you or trigger you to have a PTSD episode. I've had a family member who was killed after being struck by a vehicle as a pedestrian. It's an awful thing, but I'm glad it didn't destroy my sense of humor.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Update: Turns out I did have it after all. I forgot the name of the project, or rather I misremembered it as something else. A friend turned me on to his copy, which was old, but gave me the proper name. Looked through my ex-system drive and there it was! woot
In a rare moment of total frustration and exasperation with my code, I deleted an entire project and abandoned it totally. I think. I may have just stashed it, but I probably deleted it. Either way I can't find it.
Today, I tracked down a bug in a library that that project used. I want to resurrect that project, because it was freezing the same way this bug caused. This was maybe 6 months ago, and I didn't have a ready way to track the bug - the old project was too complicated. Well, maybe I fixed it. I don't know now.
The project was really cool - it allowed you to pick and choose whatever statistics about your PCs hardware you wanted, and spit them to a display connected via USB. Which you can hang on your wall.
This is what it looked like, except this one is fixed in terms of what it displays - you can't choose. And even though it works on large displays, it only shows a small amount of information - so that it will work on small displays as well.
Image of ESP Mon 2 - a precursor to the project I'm talking about[^]
I want you to be able to choose what to display. I never delete my code. Why did I do it here? I remember being absolutely beside myself with frustration - the kind that doesn't come around that often so that's why I think I deleted it.  
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified 16-May-24 14:03pm.
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We can all breath a sigh of relief!!
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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...and you deleted all your daily backups?
(ducks and runs)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It was a personal project, and I think I wasn't sure enough about it to make a github repo for it yet. It hadn't really matured to that point, or at least that was probably my reasoning at the time. Anyway, I found it after all. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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It takes awhile to get through, but it's entertaining the whole way. This will give any mechanical engineer the warm fuzzies.
MECHANICAL TECHNO DEMONSTRATION - YouTube[^]
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Amazing! How can someone even imagine that?!!
Really is Genius in a specific realm being displayed.
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Lot/many of people do it.
just hang around music festivals like Mutek or Sonar.
you'll see artists do wild things with analog devices of all kind.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Maximilien wrote: Sonar.
Nice one. Some friends of mine continue assisting every year.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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