Updated version of the Standard Backthrow Handoff chart I made earlier this year. Just some small tweaks to make some things a bit more clear. Reminder that this just covers basic information made to be quickly accessible with regards to learning about the handoff❄️
One of my fav Jeff Bezos quotes:
"Stress does not come from hardwork. Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over."
You know what Mamdani taxed the rich and then suddenly libraries started to work, potholes got fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more.
That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!
Last night I won a tournament over 404Cray for the first time. The process is tough but I am happy to keep sticking through with it. Shoutouts @Asidyx for TOing!
Also literally had the smartest Nana of all time, legitimately once in a generation high roll
A $2.5 billion robot has been alone on another planet for 13 years and is still doing science. The scale of that sentence gets worse the longer you think about it.
Curiosity landed in August 2012. Obama was president. Instagram had 80 million users. The iPhone 5 hadn’t shipped yet. The rover was designed for a two-year mission and 20 kilometers of driving. It’s now driven 35.5 kilometers, climbed over 327 meters up the side of a mountain, drilled 46 holes into Martian rock, and is currently running its fifth mission extension.
The computer running all of this has 256 MB of RAM and a 200 MHz processor. Your AirPods have more computing power. Every command sent from Earth takes 14 minutes to arrive. Every photo sent back takes the same 14 minutes. When Curiosity drills into a rock, the team in Pasadena won’t know if it worked for half an hour. They’ve been operating on that delay, every single day, for 4,846 Martian sols.
The power source is 10.6 pounds of plutonium-238 generating about 110 watts. Less than a ceiling fan. It will keep producing electricity for decades because the half-life of Pu-238 is 87.7 years. The rover will run out of moving parts before it runs out of power.
And those wheels. Machined from single blocks of aluminum, 0.75 millimeters thick. Half a dime. JPL watched them get shredded by Martian rock starting in 2013, rerouted the entire mission path, taught the rover to drive backwards, and kept going. The wheels look like they lost a fight with a can opener. The rover is still climbing a mountain.
Every iPhone you’ve owned since 2012 is in a landfill. Curiosity is on Mars, 140 million miles from the nearest repair shop, running on a ceiling fan’s worth of nuclear power, sending data through a 14-minute time delay, on shredded wheels, doing geology that rewrites what we know about whether life ever existed somewhere other than Earth.
We built that. With 0.01% of the federal budget.
If you showed this to 9 year old me he would lose his mind...
Your eyes do not deceive you, this is Minecraft Legacy Console Edition with The Aether implemented as a custom dimension, with custom blocks and items to go along with it. It's still heavily work in progress and missing a lot of features, but I'm hoping to at least get feature parity with the b1.7.3 version of The Aether.
The last Waddle Wednesday will take place later this year
I'm giving notice now so that you will have some time to enter and work towards any goals related to the series you may have or to prepare yourself for the end
Stay tuned for more info on the series finale later this year