sp3tr4l

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[–] sp3tr4l 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol ok here you go:

Bohemia Interactive basically imagined up what you're asking for about a decade ago, and at least in my circles, everyone thought this was the stupidest looking thing ever.

[–] sp3tr4l 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

After years of saying Starship can do 100 tons to LEO... 'Block 1's actual proven payload capacity is 'a banana'... not 50 tons.

Starship has never launched any actual payload to orbit.

Anyway, onto 'Block 2', that'll be able to do what 'Block 1' was aupposed to do, even though none of the contracts Musk's signed to develop Starship have any mention of different Blocks... but its ok because Block 3 will do 150 tons!

Just like how Hyperloop is an idea that makes any sense and will work.

Just like how FSD is will be complete and ready in 2017.

Just like how Solar Roof tiles are totally real and not completely fake.

Just like how Tesla cars will be able to fly with monopropellant thrusters.

Just like how Elon is a free speech absolutist except when people mock or disagree with him.

As with basically all of Musk's promises to shareholders and aspirations presented as facts at publicized events since about 2014... what Musk says is all almost entirely bullshit, and anyone would be a fool to take him at his word.

[–] sp3tr4l 4 points 2 days ago

So their consistent position is consistently internally inconsistent.

Wonderful.

[–] sp3tr4l 3 points 2 days ago

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.

The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is.

Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't.

If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.

The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

[–] sp3tr4l 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He is.

The prosecutors charged him with terrorism and other crimes in a federal court.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/unitedhealthcare-ceo-murder-suspect-luigi-mangione-extradition-hearing/

NEW YORK -- UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione appeared in federal court in New York City Thursday after waiving extradition in Pennsylvania.

He faces four new federal charges, including murder, which could make him eligible for the death penalty. He is also facing multiple state charges.

Mangione, 26, appeared in front of a federal judge in New York City just before 3 p.m. after being transported from Pennsylvania.

[–] sp3tr4l 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well, you said ghost gun.

A homemade gun can be, but is not necessarily a ghost gun.

You can purchase a serial stamped, legal, traceable lower reciever/frame, and then purchase all the rest of the components of a gun, and assemble the whole gun yourself.

This is fairly common amongst experienced gun enthusiasts who prefer specific brands or designs for various parts, and like to do their own custom builds.

The result is a totally legal, non ghost, homemade gun.

...

Long Explanation of all the metal FGC9 parts an average person cannot make at home, period, or metal parts you can make at home but would need to have a CNC machine and significant machine shop experience.

The FGC 9 that you linked an article about... yes, it does feature more 3d printed parts which are typically made of metal... but it still requires you to buy many various metal parts.

https://www.hickoryhillarms.com/post/building-the-fgc-9

So even with this thing, here's all the parts that are not 3d printed plastic, that you would be very difficult even for an engineering graduate to create on their own unless they had access to their own industial machining tool manufactory:

Fire Control / Trigger Mechanism; Springs Disconnector Pin

Hammer Hammer Spring

Grip Screw Grip Screw Lock Washer

Feed Ramp Screw

Mag Catch Spring

Primary Buffer Spring Secondary Buffer Spring

Brace Screw

Ejector Screw

Alan Key / Wrench

Firing Pin Retaining Screw Firing Pin Retaining Screw Nut

Reciever Screw

Firing Pin Firing Pin Screw

... Phew. Ok, so, sure these parts are not that difficult to purchase, why bother listing them all?

Because you said you don't need to be an engineering graduate to make the metal parts of a gun.

That's not true for all the above parts.

You'd need to have an entire manufactory to make these things out of the material required, at the quality required.

...

The following parts actually could be CNC'd by someone with moderate experience with a CNC machine, and a CNC machine at home, but they're not made of 3d printed plastic:

Bolt

Barrel (Non Threaded, thus significantly innacurate at range)

Now, if you are even more experienced with machining, you may be able to produce a threaded barrel...

... But at that point we are talking about an experienced machinist with pretty uncommon equipment, which itself can be traced.

Either way, you can't make the bolt or barrel out of plastic for the FGC 9, and while yes, a novice machinist could learn how to machine one at home, the vast majority of people who build FGC 9s purchase the bolt and barrel from someone who runs a small, often psuedo legal business of making them.

[–] sp3tr4l 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You just 3d print the lower reciever, most modern handguns use injection molded plastic for this part, and a good 3d printer (and operator) can get a pretty decent result.

But its not just the 'pressure bearing' parts that cannot easily be 3d printed.

Almost everything else still has to be either purchased or very, very carefully assembled by hand with skill and machining tools.

Here's a Glock 40:

Its basically a pretty bad idea (impossible with springs) to try to replace any of the metal parts with 3d printed plastic, many more parts than the barrel and slide are made of metal, and many of those parts could easily fail, even after mag worth of ammo or less, and completely brick the weapon.

People who make or sell 3d printed weapons still have to include a parts kit (or shopping list) with the stuff you can't 3d print... with the exception of weapons that fire basically .22 or smaller cartidges, and those ones that actually are all 3d printed plastic are not going to survive very many shots.

[–] sp3tr4l 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The lower / reciever / frame is the part of a semi auto handgun that has the serial number, as this is the part that is legally considered 'the firearm'.

If you 3d print the lower, you can just buy every other part, often without a background check, in many instances without any ID at all, and assemble the gun around your 3d printed lower.

What makes something a ghost gun is that it does not have a serial number that can be tied back to a purchaser, who would have had to be ID'd / NICS checked or w/e.

What makes it a ghost gun is not that it is entirely made of plastic that wouldn't show up on a xray or something, its that it is untraceable to a point of origin if you have the gun and nothing else to go on.

The other way people do this is by destroying the etched in serial number.

...

I haven't actually heard it confirmed that Luigi only had 3d printed the lower, though for a normal person, that would probably be the easiest way to assemble a ghost gun.

But, he's an engineering graduate.

Its possible he did '3d print' many other components by using metal machining tools.

[–] sp3tr4l 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have had a lot of opportunities to post this lately, so here we go again:

New York City cops... they ain't too smart.

[–] sp3tr4l 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well, I mean, it's Emmanuel Goldstein here.

You know, the arch nemesis of the Party, the guy in every Two Minutes of Hate?

Obviously his capture warrants a significant security presence, who knows what he's capable of.

[–] sp3tr4l 1 points 3 days ago

Maybe when I can actually use my wrist or sit in a chair for more than 30 minutes without extreme pain...

[–] sp3tr4l 4 points 4 days ago

Its like a guy saying he'd go for Sadako from The Ring, or big dommy mommy Demitrescu (sp?).

 

After Michael Moore was directly mentioned in Luigi Mangione's 'manifesto', as someone who can explain the shitshow that is the American healthcare system, Moore's response included posting his entire 2007 movie SICKO to YouTube, in its entirety, no ads.

Here's his full post about it: https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health

Here's the movie: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YbEQ7acb0IE

 

After Michael Moore was directly mentioned in Luigi Mangione's 'manifesto', as someone who can explain the shitshow that is the American healthcare system, Moore's response included posting his entire 2007 movie SICKO to YouTube, in its entirety, no ads.

Here's his full post about it: https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health

Here's the movie: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YbEQ7acb0IE

 

After Michael Moore was directly mentioned in Luigi Mangione's 'manifesto', as someone who can explain the shitshow that is the American healthcare system, Moore's response included posting his entire 2007 movie SICKO to YouTube, in its entirety, no ads.

Here's his full post about it: https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health

Here's the movie: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YbEQ7acb0IE

 

I said something along the lines of:

"Wow, I haven't had a reason to smile ear to ear in a while."

Along with

"Nah, the more dead ~~corpos~~ dragons, the better."

In response to some liberal going off about how violence is never the solution, not mentioning how this murdered dipshit has personally overseen a system that perpetuates harm, suffering and death (violence) in the name of profit.

...

Good ole' civility clause.

Whats the paradox of tolerance?

.world mods have never heard of it I guess.

 

Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk cast the upcoming presidential election in dire terms during a Saturday appearance with Donald Trump, calling the Republican presidential nominee the only candidate “to preserve democracy in America.”

The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla who also purchased X, Musk joined Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the former president survived an assassination attempt in July. He warned “this will be the last election” if Trump doesn’t win and, clad in a black-on-black cap bearing the “Make America Great Again” slogan of Trump’s campaign, appeared to acknowledge the foreboding nature of his remarks.

“As you can see I am not just MAGA — I am Dark MAGA,” he said.

The appearance marked the first time Musk joined one of Trump’s trademark rallies and represented the growing alliance between the two men in the final stretch of a competitive presidential election. Musk created a super PAC supporting the Republican nominee that has been spending heavily on get-out-the-vote efforts in the final months of the campaign. Trump has said he would tap Musk to lead a government efficiency commission if he regains the White House.

Trump joined Musk in August for a rare public conversation on X, an overwhelmingly friendly chat that spanned more than two hours. In it, the former president largely focused on the July assassination attempt, illegal immigration and his plans to cut government regulations.

Before a massive crowd on Saturday, Musk sought to portray Trump as a champion of free speech, arguing that Democrats want “to take away your freedom of speech, they want to take away your right to bear arms, they want to take away your fight to vote, effectively.” Musk went on to criticize a California effort to ban voter ID requirements.

Saturday’s rally took place at the same property where a gunman’s bullets grazed Trump’s right ear and killed his supporter, Corey Comperatore. The shooting left multiple others injured.

Several members of Comperatore’s family, as well as other attendees and first responders from the July rally, returned to the site on Saturday. Also appearing with the former president were his running mate Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance, son Eric Trump, daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair Lara Trump, along with Pennsylvania lawmakers and sheriffs.

 

So, I do not follow Adin Ross, as he is an absolutely detestable idiot.

However, occasionally he does something so stupid it makes its way over to me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ylGNxR092Wc&pp=ygUdYWRpbiByb3NzIHNob290aW5nIGN5YmVydHJ1Y2s%3D

5 months ago, in late February, Adin Ross and a bunch of idiot, barely not children, friends, shot the shit out of his CyberTruck with an AR 15.

To Adin's shock and dismay, this royally fucked up his lowpoly status symbol, with many shots going fully through.

Adin can be heard and seen begging, demanding Elon send him a new one.

Its completely absurd.

Fast forward to today.

Adin and XQC presented Donald Trump with a wrapped CyberTruck as a gift.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rffUumHMxrM&pp=ygUiYWRpbiByb3NzIGdpdmVzIHRydW1wIGEgY3liZXJ0cnVjaw%3D%3D

Ok, so other media are pointing out how this is probably an illegal amount for a donation to a Presidential candidate, how Trump sitting down and doing a stream with multiple 'influencers' is extremely problematic for many reasons...

But what I want to know is ...

... Is this a newly purchased CyberTruck? How could that be, given that the waitlist is huge? Did Elon personally order Tesla to speedrun fixing up or replacing Adin's CyberTruck?

Did XQC have one?

... Or did Adin Ross shoot the fuck out of a CyberTruck, get bits of it repaired, then wrap it in a wrap featuring the image of a triumphant Trump having barely missed being headshot from an assasin, and then give a vehicle full of bullet holes, covered up by a cheap wrap, to Trump?

I feel like I am losing my mind trying to comprehend the fractal layers of insane that would be to do.

Does anyone who maybe knows more about Adin or XQC know more details?

I really, really want it to be the case that I exist in a universe where something so profoundly stupid did not actually occur.

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You could probably make a poptarts are sandwiches alignment style thing out of this.

Basically, any video game with an explicit goal, or set of goals is just a puzzle game with extra steps.

What buttons do you push, when do you push them, what does this accomplish, how does that lead you to your end goal, etc.

You could even argue that multiplayer tactics constitute a puzzle, a more social puzzle.

Yes, this is reductive, but this is a dumb showerthoughts post.

 

In what he described as an "emergency broadcast" on Saturday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that his far-right news company, Infowars', studios in Austin, Texas, might be shut down by federal authorities soon.

"This is going to be Infowars' last show, because I learned yesterday that they were going to padlock the door and kick us out last night," Jones said while on Infowars on Saturday.

On the same day, Friday, May 31, the news outlet published an article saying it might be shut down in 48 hours.

Newsweek contacted Infowars by email on Sunday morning for comment and any evidence of the alleged attempt to shut down the company's studios.

Jones said that he spotted "guards looking at me weird" at the entrance of the Infowars building and believed that his company was going to be shut down.

Basically, the entire studio has been repossessed, has guards around the perimeter.

You can currently find clips of him breaking down and crying on twitter, and the whole broadcast is viewable on rumble, but I don't have an x account nor am I going to post a rumble link.

He played out the end of the broadcast with, of course, 'My Way' by Sinatra.

 

This is just a question.

In case you don't know, motion matching is the term for animating characters... basically in a way that smoothly blends minor and even major animations into each other, such that characters are animated much closer to life.

It is most notable in scenarios where a character rotates their axis of movement dramatically, or speeds up or stops suddenly. Instead of the more old school instant rotation or sudden transition from running to stationary, you get a dynamic and procedural animation. Perhaps most notably, feet and legs actually take steps, instead of gliding, during transitions.

It is not the same as inverse kinematics. That basically just matches feet and legs to the geometry they are standing on, for stairs or inclines. (You can use it with arms for things like adjusting arms during arm anims to better match individual weapons or other things, etc.)

Unity, Unreal and O3DE all have freely available motion matching plugins, and I know Unreal and O3DE have freely available prepackaged humanoid animation libraries. Unity probably does as well, though more expansive anim sets cost some money.

So... question is: Is motion matching even possible in Godot? Is there some plugin hidden in GitHub or somewhere that does this?

From what I've been able to figure out... the YMAA project... apparently? claimed to be working on this, but their repo has not been updated in months, their current release does not even have half the features they show off on their youtube channel, and they appear to now be making a machinima or something so who knows.

That is all I have really been able to find. A few other github devs and youtube channels have extremely rudimentary procedural animation in demos, but either they have not listed their code anywhere or its been abandoned for months or years, sometimes since before Godot 4.

So yeah, anyone know if there is a Godot Motion Matching plugin?

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