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Supposed to make a review of a ~200 page book. 4 pages in, still on the first chapter. Ask around. Thing is supposed to have between 5 and 10 pages. Fuck my life.

EDIT: This is made worse by the fact that I can usually bullshit my way through these assignments to actually high grades with ease, yet I somehow decided to be an idiot with this one.

Ah, I see the incentive with these things is still to become better at making up bullshit, rather than for someone to actually enjoy and understand a good book.

At least literary education is consistently rubbish then. That will be my mild sad for this post then. The institutionalized extinction of any interest in reading.

Its selling thing we already have, with a helping of snake oil.

On core isolation in general, cooling shouldn't be an actual issue since you processor should be able to run full power on all cores for longer periods of time without cooking itself, always. If it cannot do that then its a bad overclock or possibly time to clean some dust out of the heatsink.

You can usually gain more performance by increasing the process priority, particularly on a processor with a high number of cores. Your OS may not always recognize that DF is a high priority task when for instance, one out of eight cores are busy. It would constitutes only 12.5% load, causing the OS to think your not doing anything intensive and run the CPU is low power mode (meaning, lower clock speeds).

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So no, no need to spend perfectly good money for a thing you can already do, which likely won't really help anyway.

To be honest, the only thing I could hope for is that they create a treatment that makes you basically forget everything if that were to happen. Keep life fresh.

According to some philosophies, dying does just that.

Yet in Linux-minded circles the mental association lean more towards the reactions you get from mentioning "FreeBSD".

On the subject of cooling rotary space-guns, covering the whole barrel cylinder in a liquid cooling shroud that moves with the rest of the thing, and putting the fluid ports along two points of the axle. Kind of like a spinning Maxim gun.

This should be a minimum of moving parts, keeps the fluid exchange further away from hard vacuum and allows the ammunition feed some room.

Said ammunition feed and the ammunition storage would also have to operate in vacuum as there ends of each barrel are obviously going to be open.

I also had the crazy idea of making the gun shoot in two opposite directions, only the baddy-facing end would shoot an actual bullet, and the other end would just shoot an equal weight in gas to eliminate the unwanted thrust the gun might generate. The gun would have to operate from a kind of arm to keep the gas from hitting the craft and pushing it around anyway.

Hmmm, shotguns in space might not be the worst idea.

Velocity differences in vacuum get pretty big pretty pretty easily, to the point where chemically propelled projectiles would be going slower than the target, but being able to spread a big cloud of bits of shrapnel in front of something with a couple km/s speed difference should make an impact at least.

Though even then something like canister shot would probably still work better than anything that fires a stream of much smaller projectile clouds.

You could potentially use a rotary gun as an improvised thruster, with a slight risk of collateral damage.

Which is very convenient because I was first trying to hack in an invisible dummy bodypart that seperate the arms one step from the upper body. Didn't work at all since it kept showing up in combat logs, and then I figured the body part I was looking for actually exists in reality.

Also released a fix for some stupid SHAPED tags being in places they shouldn't be. I swear the moment you hit the 'post' button for anything you suddenly become twice as likely to notice botched things in said post.

Well there was this one time where I mis-planned a pressurized cistern, and simultaneously forgot that climbing is a thing.

This was a fairly fledgling fortress, and most of its efforts were going to churning out blocks, building a surface fortress, mining out a cavern and churning out hemp clothing for trade and local use. Its military consisted of a pair of poorly trained squads with mediocre quality bronze armor, which is why I did not try to fight the web-spitting, skinless-whatnot forgotten beast that showed up but instead trapped it with a draw bridge and a chained dog so I could farm 'Thol's forgotten beast silk'.

All was going well. I dug out a room and hallway with fortifications in between, chained up some dogs in the room and set a 1-tile cave-in trap to trap the beasty in the hallway. Said beasty was however not interested in dogs it could no path to, so I duh out a channel above the hallway, dropped in another puppy, and promptly got distracted by a pressurized flooding that was started with a delay with the river thawing.

The flood was quickly contained and the only casualty was a random child but I was distracted enough to not notice old Thol had come up to eat up a his puppy and noticed he could climb up for much bigger, tastier food.

Sooo, naturally Thol ran up the central stairway, depopulated half my fortress and ran right over my peasant levies that very tactically showed up one by one.

At least he also killed off the sudden rash of bards my fortress had grown.