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One thing I'd rather like to see is a game that presents you with some conservative, algorithmically determined default mission profile (time, propellant requirements, etc.), while allowing you to hand-fly things a la Orbiter or KSP. If you hand-fly a mission, then you've proven that the profile...

Just out of curiosity, what's the exact error being encountered here?

More to the point, your wine directory (and therefore Orbiter directory) will generally be in your home folder, which you own, so you don't need sudo. You're unlikely to break the system by creating a root-owned symbolic link in some subdirectory of your home directory, but it's simply not the...

Ba ba black sheep is a really weird specimen of poetry. It's got medieval/modern European style rhyming, old Germanic meter with four stresses per line and no pattern in the unstressed syllables, and a good amount of Germanic-style alliteration, but not in keeping with the usual rules about...

It's also about the most famous Shakespeare quote in English. 🙂 It kind of sounds wrong with anything more than "that is the question" to me, and I'm not really familiar with blank verse as poetry, so I don't have enough of a sense for how it's supposed to sound metrically to be bothered by the...

At intergalactic scales, velocities tend to be measured with respect to the rest frame of the CMB. For our neighboring galaxies, this is about 600 km/s.

For the meter, I guess?

Sine oder cosine, das ist die Frage... This has been your daily dose of cross-language humor.

The double meaning was selected with malice aforethought. :-)

"Refueling" might carry over by virtue of it being the most frequent propulsion related replenishment carried out, even if the substance loaded isn't fuel. Other than that, "remassing"?

It also does that weird "professional software" BS where it splits up its save/load dialogs between "save/load" for its native format and "import/export" for everything else (as I recall, it didn't used to).

Hopping? I don't think NASA's frog mech program is far enough along for that to be a viable solution. "Frog Mech simulator" does sound like an awesome game, though.

It made me think of this post of yours: https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/random-comments-thread.770/post-583499 EDIT: weird, the preview is of the first post on the page, not the post actually being referenced.

No, "cow orker" isn't even my invention, it goes back at least to the days of Usenet. I think you missed it because, while your grammar and vocabulary are good, you don't have a good sense of the assumptions an English speaker might make about the meaning of a nonsense word based on its sound...

No, it's a rant about my evening at work.

"Cow orker" is the result of adding a space to "coworker". "Orker" isn't really a word, but it sounds like it might mean something indecent, so that makes it perfect for describing a coworker you're mad at. Urwumpe has the Linux-fu down: my cow orker changed ownership on a top-level system...

My cow orker had one job: teach the customer to use sudo. Instead, he did: $ sudo chown -R $CUSTOMERS_USERNAME /var Guess what I spent all day doing today?

Having seen other people's kids, and how they'll just leave a sticky treat in random not-very-clean places, one of my questions is "how did I not have an upset stomach every day?"

If physics said "No", they're wouldn't be a problem. Instead, it says things like "F around and find out", and "Congratulations, you've stopped being biology!"

None whatsoever, in terms of any likely applicability to my own life. But a situation doesn't have to be applicable to you for its dynamics to be interesting.