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Wild Hearts improves Monster Hunter, and that’s great news for both
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Monster Hunter rival Wild Hearts is almost here, and everything we’ve seen of the EA-published fantasy game from Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force division is shaping up to be a serious contender to Capcom’s crown. The idea of beating Monster Hunter at its own game with a first entry is perhaps a little bold, but Wild Hearts steps certain things forwards in ways that should make fans of Monster Hunter and the genre as a whole excited for the future.
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Google’s Go May Add Telemetry That’s On By Default
Telemetry, as Cox describes it, involves software sending data from Go software to a server to provide information about which functions are being used and how the software is performing. He argues it is beneficial for open source projects to have that information to guide development. And the absence of telemetry data, he contends, makes it more difficult for project maintainers to understand what’s important, what’s working, and to prioritize changes, thereby making maintainer burnout more likely. But such is Google’s reputation these days that many considering the proposal have doubts, despite the fact that the data collection contemplated involves measuring the usage of language features and language performance. The proposal isn’t about the sort of sensitive personal data vacuumed up by Google’s ad-focused groups. “Now you guys want to introduce telemetry into your programming language?” IT consultant Jacob Weisz said. “This is how you drive off any person who even considered giving your project a chance despite the warning signs. Please don’t do this, and please issue a public apology for even proposing it. Please leave a blast radius around this idea wide enough that nobody even suggests trying to do this again.”
He added: “Trust in Google’s behavior is at an all time low, and moves like this are a choice to shove what’s left of it off the edge of a cliff.”
Meanwhile, former Google cryptographer and current open source maintainer Filippo Valsorda said in a post to Mastodon: “This is a large unconventional design, there are a lot of tradeoffs worth discussing and details to explore,” he wrote. “When Russ showed it to me I made at least a dozen suggestions and many got implemented.”
“Instead: all opt-out telemetry is unethical; Google is evil; this is not needed. No one even argued why publishing any of this data could be a problem.”
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Industries of Titan review: a curious hybrid builder that’s less than the sum of its parts
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I imagine Industries Of Titan started out as an ambitious concept. A hybrid of a factory layout/logistics sim, integrated into a city builder, combined with an RTS, all wrapped up in a satirical dystopia encouraging you to be the most appalling villainous hypercapitalist possible.
All of those parts are present, and as a bonus it’s incredibly gorgeous, with strong voice acting and a distinctive soundtrack that will haunt my head for weeks. Most of its parts are made to a high standard, it’s tragic that its final design just doesn’t work at all.
Of all things, IOT reminds me of Fragile Allegiance. You’re a ‘founder’, sent to an already colonised and abandoned Titan to build a new city at the behest of the Council. You’re a ‘founder’, sent to an already colonised and abandoned Titan to build a new city at the behest of the Council. First, by salvaging its ruined buildings for minerals and isotopes, then mining for surface deposits, all of which goes back into your building resources. Curiously, you never combine two resources to produce a third, you can only upgrade minerals through a tier system. Higher tier resources are more potent, meaning, for exmaple, a building site will accept 100 raw minerals or four higher tier units. It’s a bit strange, but it mostly works. Double clicking on your starting buildings summons an interior view, where you lay out machinery, little modules for workers and storage, power pylons and so on.
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We gave our baby a unique name with Roman numerals – people say that’s the least cringey part of our birth announcement
A COUPLE gave their baby a name that involves a play on numbers – but that’s not what has social media users talking.
Instead, they’re fixated on other aspects of their birth announcement that are a bit off-center.
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Taking to a baby name forum on Reddit, a Reddit user shared a woman’s baby announcement which she originally posted on Instagram.
The woman wrote: “She’s here. Born January 7th, 2020 in our little home by the sea.
“Her big sister awoke to watch her emerge from my waters and her big brother awoke to meet her early the next morning.
“Our birth journey was sacred.
“Me and Antoine communicated through sound and telepathy for the whole ride and we were so proud of her when she was finally in our arms.
“Welcome to Earth little one. Metta IV (pronounced metaphor).”
Reddit users left their two cents on the woman’s post in the comments, and some pinpointed some things that felt more cringe-worthy than the baby’s actual name.
“Lol, I also communicated by sound while giving birth,” one person wrote.
“Isn’t communicating with sound just… talking?” another questioned.
“‘Emerge from my waters’… Listen… I’m pretty new agey and woo-woo, but this makes me wanna vomit,” a third said.
“What the f*ck kind of drugs is this lady on?”
“Nope nope nope nope nope,” a final person wrote.
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Scientists just found a planet that’s stranger than you can imagine
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Imagine a distant planet where life could potentially thrive — but perhaps only on one particularly bright side.
Astronomers announced the discovery of a world beyond our solar system, an exoplanet dubbed Wolf 1069 b. Their finding, recently published in the science journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, is intriguing exoplanet research for a number of reasons:
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Wolf 1069 b is around the same mass of Earth. That’s rare. Among thousands of confirmed exoplanets, “only about 1.5 percent have masses below two Earth masses,” notes a release from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, a research institute in Germany. Importantly, we know from experience that rocky, Earth-like worlds can create conditions that might allow life to survive.
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Even rarer, Wolf 1069 b orbits in its solar system’s “habitable zone,” meaning a special region where liquid water can exist on the surface.
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To researchers’ current knowledge (this can change with more observation), the planet isn’t being pummeled with harmful radiation. Wolf 1069 b orbits a star (Wolf 1069) that’s smaller and cooler than the sun, allowing the world to orbit pretty close and still be a potentially habitable world. The planet orbits its small star every 15.6 days!
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A weird quirk: Like the moon, Wolf 1069 b is “tidally locked” in its orbit, meaning the same side is constantly facing the red dwarf star. As a result, the planet’s “dayside” is perpetually day, and the nightside perpetually night.
So, if you stood on the star-facing side of Wolf 1069 b, a year would last about 16 days, the sun wouldn’t set, gravity might be similar to that on Earth, and you might even find water sloshing over the surface.
Crucially, however, there’s still no evidence of life in the universe beyond Earth — though there are exciting contenders for potential habitability in our own solar system. “A habitable planet can be habitable but not inhabited,” Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, an exoplanet researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told Mashable earlier this year.
Finding an Earth-sized planet
Finding an Earth-sized world is a huge challenge.
Many exoplanets are found by watching to see if a star dims when one of these extremely distant planets passes in front of it. Many of the exoplanets discovered so far, however, are much bigger than Earth, so this slight dimming is “easier” to find. Scientists used a different strategy to sleuth out Wolf 1069 b, which is a small planet. They looked for tiny but periodic changes in light from the star, a technique called the “radial velocity method.” This can provide evidence that a planet is tugging on its star. Then, scientists calculate the world’s mass and other information by measuring how much the star’s light changes.
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In the vast universe, Wolf 1069 b is a relatively close Earth-sized discovery at just some 31 light-years away. That makes it a rare finding, and an exciting planet candidate to study for biosignatures, which are evidence of past or current life. “Because of its favourable prospects regarding habitability, it is among a small illustrious group of targets, such as Proxima Centauri b and TRAPPIST-1 e, to search for biosignatures,” the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy noted.
Huge, future telescopes will look for these possible biosignatures. What’s out there?