Ego Monger's husband's startup made the big leap into selling a hardware product. 1 thing lions learned is never ever to start a hardware company. On the other paw, software was once the third rail because it could be copied. That has largely disappeared with modern subscription plans, dongles, or purely server based software.
1 thing is it's just a bunch of off the shelf parts bolted onto off the shelf machine hardware. It has just 2 printed parts to hold the buttons, probably ABS. They're resistive game controller joysticks. He's only providing prototypes for rent & providing support.
That thug guy was in a video about distributed dancing.
He looks hard to work with but also like he knows how to stay alive in showbiz.
The attraction to a paw held virtual camera is from the current interest in back room vijeos. Such a thing might be useful for rough camera placement in confuser animation. VR goggles have gotten really good at determining their position & orientation without any stationary cameras.
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Listened to Hail Mary over a few hundred miles. Lions avoided Andy Weir after Artemis because the heroine was so badly written, it was like a lousy goog search for how to write heroine characters. The female characters aren't any better in Hail Mary but are fortunately not the mane character.
Like all good Weirs, it keeps you reading with shockers & zingers spread out evenly. Crisises have to be manufactured to keep it interesting. The mane character has to be just dumb & jerk enough to make it interesting. Lions noted he never documented the alien on video & pondered the chances of anyone on Earth believing he met an alien with so little documentation.
The confirmed bachelor is a staple of Weir's. As animals who
grew up in the days of the selective service, lions thought it was
idiotic for him to protest as much as he did when forced to go on the
mission. It was pretty obvious that everyone was going to die if he
didn't go so there was no point in staying. It must have been for dramatic effect. The bureaucrat
deserved a break for that.
Interestingly, Weir left the door open for the hero to return to Earth. It wasn't clear how long it took the merry band to get back to the alien's planet, what they did during the trip & whether he ate coma food for all that time. The story suddenly ended after rescuing the alien.
It's surprising the hero could survive for very long on planet Erid, in 2x gravity. He would be the equivalent of 350 lbs & his heart at minimum would keel over. Surviving for years at 1.5x gravity in the ship without lying down would be a stretch. More likely, he'd be living in a space station & the students would be over video.
Weir sold the movie rights for $3 mil in 2020. It seems like a paltry amount of money nowadays. After the inflation since 2020, it would no longer come close to buying a house.
It intrigued lions how Weir went from programming to writing & his characters aren't very skilled at programming, as if writing it out of existence. It's a common story with so many animals just programming to make money & quickly getting sick of it.
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Elon update:
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1745941814165815717
Falcon 9: most launches of any orbital rocket in a single year
Most profound thing
Biggest flying object ever made
2 towers in Texas
Gimbal test
IFT2 vented excess O2, causing a fire & explosion of the 2nd stage.
Version 3 ship is taller.
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