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Hmmm, yes, that might work. I just need something short with some flavour as a table column heading (it's got a tooltip, so understanding will hopefully not be a problem). TIG would vibe nicely with the TOF column right next to it... (Time of Flight).

Is there some kind of official shorthand for "time until main engine burn"? Kind of like we have "L minus" for launch. An acronym for just the event without explicitly referring to time would be fine too, like an opposite of MECO?

SpaceX demonstrating the capability of doing truly spectacular funerals if they ever go manned with this thing, I guess... 😬

I'm not familiar with how things are put together... might it be possible to move the LUA support to a module, graphics client style, so users could still run with the old LUA module if they want to play an older add-on that wasn't updated? Of course, there'd have to be signifficant enough...

0 is traditionally equivalent to false in computing.

If I get the buzz right, this paper suggests that we had to make up dark matter because we treated the universe as a spherical cow in a vacuum, and it's not required if you consider the actual shape of the cow: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/537/1/L55/7926647?login=false It's all...

Did not see this one coming! Thanks to everybody that put their valuable time into making this possible! :cheers:

Devlog for december is up, revealing some of the struggles I'm having with getting orbital mechanics into the game. No actual update to the game yet I'm afraid, and probably not next month either. https://randomactsofconstruction.itch.io/orbital-margins/devlog/857103/state-vector-december-24

I'll definitely have to spend some serious time with this once I get my first more naive version working, so that I have all the tests for it set up already! :cheers:

I mean, that's what software development boils down to in the end, isn't it? We just keep adding straws of abstraction until the camel breaks 😂

Is there nothing similar to gradle-wrapper for cmake, where you have a script in the repository that will install the correct version of the binary of the build tool in the project root? That would certainly help avoid hassle like that...

Oh, I'm very well aware of that. It can however regurgitate well-known solutions to problems in different forms, which served me quite well when I needed newtons method to solve eccentric anomaly in code. The problem is, of course, that if there isn't a well-known solution, it just makes stuff...

Not entirely cleanly. You can using the eccentric anomaly, and that requires a few iterations, that's true. But they're pretty lightweight.

Imagine you have two objects. One on a circular orbit, one on an eccentric orbit that intercepts the circular one. The properties of both orbits, the positions, as well as the true anomaly of the intersection point in both orbits are all known. What I need to calculate is if the two objects ever...

Or it might be Trump phoning home. I mean, that would explain a lot! :ROFLMAO:

If I got that right, he's saying that starship might be twice as heavy as Musk wants us to believe. That would definitely cut into the payload...

The joys of agile... 😂

Trying to name items of an enum used to track actions that were taken in a workflow in the DB. Naming them after the actions performed... not good, because the actions performed at a certain point in the workflow might change in the future. Naming them after the conditions that triggered the...

I mean, those boxes are very popular to pack up any kind of thing, especially when moving house. Are we sure there's bananas in there?

Yes, exactly! Knew there had to be a name for it! Thanks! :cheers: