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The saviors constellation

For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens

emmaklee

pourquoiwhy

I learned a new concept

Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative. The purpose of graceful degradation is to prevent catastrophic failure. (Tech Target, first result on the search engine)

biglawbear

Literal opposite of planned obsolescence. I love you graceful degradation.

gallusrostromegalus

Oh neat the first time I heard of the concept the guy described it to me as "catastrophic functionality".

He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.

I've been having a few bad years mental health wise, and thinking about those robots a lot .

maddie-2022

This is also why NASA missions usually keep going so long after schedule. They are *masters* of graceful degradation, able to keep machines limping along on minimal power and after sustaining heavy damage

voluptuarian

I swear this is the last thing I’m going to say about Persuasion

but the “we’re worse than exes… we’re friends” line…

Like Anne Elliot wishes Wentworth thought they were friends

First of all the girl has few enough of those as it is, secondly at the start of the book Wentworth has a terrible opinion of Anne. He sees her, at best, as wishy washy and unreliable. At worst she threw him over because he wasn’t rich and broke his heart. He has no respect for her. Even the love that still exists between the two is not enough to overcome his harshly negative opinions of her.

A friend would care about Anne, have some admiration and affection for her– Wentworth doesn’t even like her. Every time they’re together Anne knows the man she loves is sitting there actively thinking badly about her. Friends my ass

ticklingtimetickstotest

magnusbae

In case you were wondering why Spotify Wrapped sucks balls this year, and more importantly doesn't have any genre data:

Can you hear the sound of bells? That's because they're clowns. 🤡 🛎

juicydangler

aramzs

It's even more fucked than that, this wasn't just casually this guy's job, it was his passionate life's work. You should buy his book: You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music

It's really good and he does an amazing job explaining some really complicated topics!

injuries-in-dust

quasi-normalcy

The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

quasi-normalcy

I’d just like to point out that every single thing that has happened in the 6 years since I created this post has only reinscribed its absolute moral correctness in my mind.