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Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephantβ€” No! No! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephoneβ€”

Some launch reservations indicate 2nd Starship test flight could be Aug 31st

#space #SpaceX

RT https://twitter.com/MarcusHouse/status/1691826072378298850

Artemis II crewed #Moon mission still working to Nov 2024 launch date (maybe)

#space #NASA

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/08/orion-update-081523/

A horse just walked by the window 🐴

Postwar prefab building (with real asbestos)

There's a big plane parked here

I'm hearing that WiFi 6 and above _finally_ is getting good enough to run wireless video to a monitor (or VR headset etc.)

The Starship booster does a static fire test complete with the new water deluge system:

[video] #space #SpaceX

RT https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1688265922580979712

For some reason Windows Defender antivirus starts using 2.5% of the CPU as soon as I run this game in VR and then it stutters

Cracked it - unscrambled the quaternion into a 3x3 rotation matrix and I can look around properly in VR now

I'm getting head position info out of my #VR headset's API (OpenXR on HTC Vive). Now looking into field-of-view info. Looks like I'll have to do quaternions to get the rotation.

nostr:npub1flslgfa98hecfvqeaqqa924fdrpnx3qwyktglfzuv0gy6t73walqpfsgsw Purists would say and should be deprecated and use CSS for formatting. But then...

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/255366/why-are-the-b-and-i-tags-deprecated

"In HTML5 i and b are no longer deprecated. Instead, they are given semantic meaning. So they are now actually about semantics, and not about presentation.

As before, you use em to mark up emphasis: "The cat is mine." But you use i for almost all other cases where you would use italics in a printed work. For instance:

You use i to mark up taxonomic designations: ... "

nostr:npub1flslgfa98hecfvqeaqqa924fdrpnx3qwyktglfzuv0gy6t73walqpfsgsw So an example use would be

I really hate Escherichia coli

nostr:npub1flslgfa98hecfvqeaqqa924fdrpnx3qwyktglfzuv0gy6t73walqpfsgsw Purists would say and should be deprecated and use CSS for formatting. But then...

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/255366/why-are-the-b-and-i-tags-deprecated

"In HTML5 i and b are no longer deprecated. Instead, they are given semantic meaning. So they are now actually about semantics, and not about presentation.

As before, you use em to mark up emphasis: "The cat is mine." But you use i for almost all other cases where you would use italics in a printed work. For instance:

You use i to mark up taxonomic designations: ... "