egg changed the topic of #principia to: Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/principia | <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
<kitty>
just realized I said "is it goin?" instead of "how is it goin?" 🐈 🐈
* raptop
pets the kitty
<kitty>
nyaa
* kitty
turns into noodles
<kitty>
How has it been here? Haven't really payed attention to principia in ages, as I have not really played KSP in forever haha
<raptop>
okay, though I'll admit to not paying the most attention to Principia given eg: work
<kitty>
I've been messing with programming recently, and finally starting to get to the point where I am beggining to mess with some naive and basic physics simulations
<raptop>
This is where I feel obligated to bring up leapfrog as a low effort high-impact way of improving accuracy over Euler
<raptop>
And of course, you can ask the 🥚 if you want to go into extreme detail on the tradeoffs of various ones
<kitty>
Ooo, eventually I may. Right now trying my best to just do naive dumb things to get stuff out and familiarize myself with it all, but, I will definitely keep that in mind
<kitty>
(totally didn't spend all of last night going back and forth between what datatype I wanted to use for a task in a situation that it really didn't matter much on)