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Why isn't Elon swooping in, offering to build a carbon tunnel to the Titanic ("funding secured") and calling people pedos along the way? Seems like exactly his cup of tea.
I think his days of pretending to be a good guy are over.
So he can just skip the helping part, just start calling people pedos
He’s busy waging a war on trans
When did he start? Because I haven't noticed
There’s a great punchline about boys hidden somewhere in there.
He has done it once and cannot be bothered to do the same things over and over again. Rescuing people is a solved problem after all and there is no more challenge in it.
NEXT: Hideo Kojima makes a VR Game that realistically simulates what would be to rescue the Titan, however no player managed to succeed yet, as their submersible also gets stuck in the middle of deep sea, thus also prompting a rescue operation.
Best comment I’ve read in a long time. A thorough breathe out of my nose couldn’t cut it
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One of the most bizarre non-the-onion headlines I have read in a while.
It really is
I wonder what controller his sub uses
Hey the steam controller was kind of a flop but I got one when they went on closeout at like $5 and it's actually pretty sweet. Very niche but definitely unique.
Yeah, I have one. It was great for very specific games. The problem is that it's no replacement for a game that is designed for a two joystick game controller experience and it's no replacement for a mouse and keyboard. It's a 'jack of all trades, master of none.'
Just to defend this as an engineer (though not one that works with submarines in any capacity), using a video game controller might sound funny, but it could actually make sense vs. using a device of your own creation. They're highly replaceable, so you have an infinite supply of reliable backups to draw upon. It's not prone to design flaws in the same way a "homemade" controller would be. OTS devices are often designed to withstand certain conditions or modes of use, such as force or moisture or whatever else you anticipate in your environment. They're also widely used, so there are troves of publicly available information on them to draw upon. It might seem silly, but if I were building a titanic submarine YOLO ship thing, I'd probably use something similar.
$30 Logitechs are awful controllers though.
Ask any serious video gamer and they'll talk your ear off about highly reliable hall-effect sensor joysticks and other such high-reliability parts (Cherry switches, etc. etc.) that kick the ass of cheap potentiometers + dome-rubber style switches (like found in a cheap-ass Logitech).
And such parts are available at... $50 to $80. Choosing a cheap-ass $30 piece of junk isn't even saving much money.
Can't argue with that.
Engineer here, I think the issue is that they used a crappy one and wirelessly. I wouldn't bet my life on bluetooth.
I mean, the controller could even run out of battery or break down without a backup.
Are you sure they didn't have spares?
It runs off of the steam deck
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Too bad the Titanic is below 3000 Meters, we know he won't pass 3
If only they had sunk to 2999 meters 2: episode 2
Please tell me this site is a joke
But the real question is: is it steered by a Steam Controller?
"Great, now that we're close, use the touch pad to extend the robot arm"
They are doomed.
Steam Deck. Linux. They will need to Bing the correct magic for GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, /etc/default/grub, in order to get rid of spurious interrupts.
Is it time again to start praying to Lord Gaben?
Are you ready for a miracle?
Gaben pls
sadly GabeN can only count up to 2
Had no clue Gaben ran anything besides steam, especially not a company like Inkfish. Pretty cool.
What happened to James Cameron's stuff?
Deepsea Challenger isn't operational. It's a decade old and in a museum right now.
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- Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron.*
~James Cameron
other submersibles can reach 4k meters. Why they say only gaben?
Gabe uses a Steam Deck for the controls instead of that cheap Logitech model. Much more reliable.
Are Angry Upvotes a thing on Lemmy? 'cause you've got mine.
People, just trust me, Gabe Newell: it's actually really safe! It's controlled by a Steam Deck hot wired into a version of Source that runs Half-Life 2 and Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines at the same time it controls the sub. Just don't pick Malkavian on the selection screen, otherwise the lights might flicker, and the sub might malfunction, leaving you stuck deep at sea.
Half Life 3? ... More like Zero Life 5 I'm afraid.
Crazy to think about these guys sitting in a big tube 4km under water right now with no connection to the outside world.
And it's also named after GOU Limiting Factor from Iain M. Banks The Culture series!
...huh? Even DSV Alvin is still active. I'm sure there are more.
It's true that after the overhaul about 10 years ago Alvin can dive to nearly twice the Titanic's depth, but Alvin and Atlantis are in the Pacific Ocean right now
The Limiting Factor is somehow both the nerdiest and coolest name for that submersible.
He's too busy making Half-Life 3 instead of saving lives. Let the man cook.
Yo for real how are you a billionaire got sub but you're gonna use a 30 dollar knockoff controller with bad connectivity?
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