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Kerbal Space Program has a whole lot of numbers and variables behind it that influence how your spaceships work and where they go. Well, what better way to keep track of them than with this NASA-inspired flight computer?
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I occasionally drop F-Bomb
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Is XKCD blocking Firefox users? I can see text but not images in Firefox. But it works fine in Chrome.
Florida
'Kerbal Space Program' ??
New Hampshire
Don't usually share XKCD, but this one nails it for me (except for the degree and the NASA part).
Seattle, WA
Odd. Getting a 404 on the image.
Denver
KSP continues to be an amazing game.
Sadly, so true...
Alt text: To be fair, my job at NASA was working on robots and didn't actually involve any orbital mechanics. The small positive slope over that period is because it turns out that if you hang around at NASA, you get in a lot of conversations about space.
Oakland, CA
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True, true, true.
USA! USA! USA!
"Automation" is in my job title.
Rochester, Earth
I got to be pretty decent at spotting this curve while at UMB, and then avoiding it. But there is no doubt about its existence.
oh so true
This is my weakness. I'll gladly write a script or macro to accomplish a repetitive task even though doing the task by hand would take half the time. Coincidently, this is why I use Vim, because it reduces the distance between manual and macro editing. Of course, it took me weeks to set up and learn to use Vim. That's time I'll likely never recoup.
Escondido, CA
Too often true...
RTP, NC
Ah.. The things you own end up owning you...
Montreal, Canada
Horribly true. Been there, done that.
The multi-axial solution is to delegate your yak-shave. Alternately optimize using the "has somebody automated/done this in a good enough fashion" algorithm.
New York, NY
How the boss views most projects. And how I view his project proposals...
Northern Virginia
Yup
New York, NY
Ha. :) For some folks this is definitely true!
Atlanta, GA
Best definition of automating!
Explaining the productivity paradox.
Sydney, Balmain, Hornsby.
Title text: 'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto' meaning 'self-', and 'mating' meaning 'screwing'.
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