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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The moon has just a little bit more speed than the Earth can hold onto

    Unfortunately that’s not how orbital mechanics works :(

    If the moon had instantaneously more speed than the earth can hold onto (e.g. more centrifugal ‘force’ than balanced by the gravitational force), the moon will accelerate up, until the forces become balanced. This makes a elliptical orbit, like this:

    elliptical orbit gif

    Apparently the reason the moon is getting further away is that it’s gaining energy from earth’s tides

    anyway you should play ksp





  • I think the strike system would make sense and limiting by account age might work as well, but I don’t think the other simple methods of moderation are going to be that useful, as word blacklists always have false positives and auto community lockdown could be exploited by someone to sabotage a community. (like with a denial of service attack)

    Also, this is just my opinion but I really hate it when software speaks to me like they’re real people, I understand that it is ultimately written by a person but when the same phrase is repeated to every person regardless of the context it just annoys me. Similiarly I don’t like the automod messages/comments on reddit because it just feels like low effort content in comparison to what real people post on there.

    I think this would make more sense framed as a plugin rather than a bot, because a bot post is placed equally to a human post while being inherently lower importance.

    If I were to suggest features it would be something like a large language model based content filter, but I understand the computational and cost limitations would make that challenging.










  • The screen on the t430 is indeed horrible but I had a very modern laptop before this which was pretty high spec, and it had a even worse screen than this somehow (it was some horrendous IPS display, I don’t even understand how you mess it up that bad). Compared to that pile of garbage this is much better. The only problem is that you can’t replace the display on the t430 as easily as a modern (non-touchscreen) laptop because it uses the LVDS interface instead of the modern eDP interface.