🚀⚡Astro

🚀⚡Astro

@astro.ftl.sh

Astro / Ash. Part-time cheetah on the internet. Full-time computer engineer for a human-rated spacecraft. Ya know, that Moon one. ⭐ UCF CpE '21 💛🤍💜🖤 they

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Tweaked my feeds a bit, suddenly getting a lot less news and a lot more art, and I think it's having a very positive effect on me.

lmao I'm glad the Regency Orlando seems, at least surface level, to be particularly supportive of Megaplex this year, feels like more so than previous years... but they're gonna get fucking skewered for some of these blatantly AI-generated promo materials

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The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.

Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

For the past week I've been trying to learn Bevy, building on my ~decade of on-and-off hobby game development and my ~year of on-and-off hobby Rust development. It felt so alien. For what ever reason, my brain just could not grasp how to build a game on top of an ECS, the "shape" of the game.

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Reading through the workshop code was the first time I looked at a Bevy codebase and though "oh, so THAT is how all these parts fit together!" Seeing the "Bevy way" patterns used so cleanly (but importantly, in context) has me feeling a lot more confident about diving into my own game.

For the past week I've been trying to learn Bevy, building on my ~decade of on-and-off hobby game development and my ~year of on-and-off hobby Rust development. It felt so alien. For what ever reason, my brain just could not grasp how to build a game on top of an ECS, the "shape" of the game.

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For me at least, learning components in isolation doesn't really help me; I need to see how the whole system fits together, where the seams are, etc.

What I'd really love is a sort of "guided tour" through Bevy, one that highlights the most important or heavily used parts and patterns of the engine, and why you'd use them. From there, it's easy to play and explore, applying and extending those patterns and referring to the examples as necessary.

For the past week I've been trying to learn Bevy, building on my ~decade of on-and-off hobby game development and my ~year of on-and-off hobby Rust development. It felt so alien. For what ever reason, my brain just could not grasp how to build a game on top of an ECS, the "shape" of the game.

The beginning was especially rough; the getting started guide is pretty anemic and mostly boils down to "read the examples," which are useful! But there are just so many of them, it's hard to know where to even start, and they're largely showcases of specific features or domains.

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Someone should write a story about a curséd device, lusted after as a transformative source of power, that renders its users unnaturally youthful long beyond their time

IGN@ign.com

Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen will return as Frodo and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum — more than 25 years on from when Fellowship of the Ring released, and now director Andy Serkis has said some level of digital de-aging will be used. https://bit.ly/4fxOKI3

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glad congress isn’t alive to see this

Bill Prady@billprady.com

There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs

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Replying to @cpsc.gov

It's a perfect reference for The Official Website For 38-Year-Olds

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Replying to @cpsc.gov

Friend, to a firework, your hands are the same. To a firework, your hands are bones and gelatin to be ripped through with incredible ease. Don't hold that lit firework, friend. Lite it safely and follow the manufacturer's instructions. That's how you have a safe and happy 4th.

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So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Tom Kean finally speaks after months away from Congress for a previously unexplained absence: "I was given the diagnosis of depression ... the doctors recommended I remain in the hospital to address my illness"

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Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

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happy start of pride to the gays, but also happy start of summer intern season to the office workers eager to offload all their most boring projects onto young people who haven't been broken yet by the system. you are also seen and valid

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This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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The WHCA continuing their glorified meet and greet after an active shooter and a death is really just so spot on for the horrendous sociopathic tendencies of DC political reporters that I can't quite believe it's real.

I was too busy celebrating with friends last night to post this here when it happened, but: Goodnight Integrity, and thank you.

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I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

The last time human eyes were far enough from Earth to see the whole globe was December 1972. www.nasa.gov/image-detail...