Arvil
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I learned 3 new words from that. That's honestly not a very common thing to happen on one day...
Though the german translation would suggest that "importunity" is misapplied in this context. I guess I'd need to see a lot more usages of it to develop a feeling for its actual meaning. Big fat chance of that happening...
I do love how "to propound" is essentially a literal translation of the german word "Vorschlagen" (when considering that "pounding something" is synonymous with beating it).
And "To vamoose" might be the phonetically most endearing word I've heard since "Shenanigans". At least if it's pronounced the way I'd expect it to be. For which in english there's obviously no guarantee. For all I know it could be pronounced like famous. Or poop. No telling...
It also strikes me as interesting that whoever drew that picture seemed to know the most common way spears were held (both palms in the same direction). You don't see that depicted often nowadays. A drawing depicting cavemen fighting a dinosaur is a really unexpected place to find historical details...
So the stress is on the first syllable? Ach, pitty, it would sound way cuter with the stress on the "moose"...The pronunciation is /væmus/, it's a corruption of Spanish "vamos/vamonos".
Yeah, I didn't think it was really. But it's kinda funny that it works as one...Actually not.
I had assumed that it was an older image by default, but that old? Well, I guess it might explain why the artist might have known more about how to hold a spear and less about dinosaurs...I'm going to estimate that the picture is at least a century older than the speech bubbles.
ancient man could meet an animal much cooler than a dinosaur
For example Dire wolf Smilodon Megatherium
In popular media, I see them most frenquently held with rear palm facing inwards, front palm outwards. It's a grip that was used sometimes, most frequently in certain situations in single combat as far as I can tell, and it does feel somewhat more natural and intuitive at first. Until you have to hold the bloody thing at or over your head and thrust from the top, then it just falls apart horribly.Is there another way to hold a spear?
I can't speak for other parts of the country but I have always heard it pronounced with the stress on the last syllable.So the stress is on the first syllable? Ach, pitty, it would sound way cuter with the stress on the "moose"...
In popular media, I see them most frenquently held with rear palm facing inwards, front palm outwards. It's a grip that was used sometimes, most frequently in certain situations in single combat as far as I can tell, and it does feel somewhat more natural and intuitive at first. Until you have to hold the bloody thing at or over your head and thrust from the top, then it just falls apart horribly.
So the stress is on the first syllable? Ach, pitty, it would sound way cuter with the stress on the "moose"...
I once took a traction unit in to the vehicle maintenance unit(VMU) at work with two lights out. He changed the bulbs, no luck. He changed the fuse, no change, he then took a screwdriver to the junction box, all the lights stopped working. It got fixed the next day by the senior mechanic, the apprentice learned lots that day. The problem was that a wire had worked loose from its connection, the apprentice was looking at the wrong end of the wire...
Last week I found the same guy under a trailer trying to work out where a fault was in 100m of wiring, most of which is not easily accessible.
I tend to be forgiving towords our mechanics, but always check their work though.
// Define the X-33 class
class X33: public VESSEL
{
public:
// Constructor
X33(OBJHANDLE hObj, int flightmodel);
// Destructor
~X33();
// Flight model override function
void clbkSetClassCaps(FILEHANDLE cfg);
// Flight model update function
void clbkPreStep(double simt, double simdt, double mjd);
private:
// Private variables for spacecraft dynamics
double mass;
double fuel;
VECTOR3 CoM;
VECTOR3 CoP;
VECTOR3 thrust_vector;
double thrust_magnitude;
double Isp;
double Cd;
double Cl;
double As;
double Ar;
// Private functions for spacecraft dynamics
void update_dynamics(double simt, double simdt);
void compute_forces_moments();
};
void X33::compute_forces_moments()
{
// Calculate current dynamic pressure
double v = length(vel);
double q = 0.5 * rho * v * v;
// Calculate lift and drag coefficients
double alpha = atan2(vel.z, vel.x);
double Cl = Cl0 + Cl_alpha * alpha;
double Cd = Cd0 + Cd_alpha * alpha + Cd_beta * beta * beta;
// Calculate lift and drag forces
double lift = q * As * Cl;
double drag = q * As * Cd;
VECTOR3 lift_vector = lift * normalize(cross(vel, CoP - CoM));
VECTOR3 drag_vector = drag * normalize(-vel);
// Calculate thrust force
VECTOR3 thrust_vector = thrust_magnitude * normalize(orient * thrust_direction);
// Calculate total force and moment vectors
VECTOR3 force_vector = lift_vector + drag_vector + thrust_vector;
VECTOR3 moment_vector = cross(CoP - CoM, force_vector);
// Set forces and moments on vessel
SetForce(force_vector);
SetMoment(moment_vector);
}
Seems OK after a quick look... it's missing the actual numbers, and it used VESSEL instead of VESSEL4, but on the other hand it wrote comments, so that already makes it better than 95% of programmers...@GLS in the video thread gave me an idea to ask it to make mods for Orbiter. That it can't, as in it can only output text, but it could write code, so I asked it to code the aerodynamic handling for the X-33 , based on similar aircraft . This is what it wrote. Perhaps someone who knows coding might shed some light on the quality of it, my coding experience is limited to Pascal, unfortunately.
Seems OK after a quick look... it's missing the actual numbers, and it used VESSEL instead of VESSEL4, but on the other hand it wrote comments, so that already makes it better than 95% of programmers...