Tangent's Shared Notes

Assume that nothing here is perfectly up to date or complete. While I may publish finished works here, the primary point of using this service for me is to be able to quickly and easily share things regardless of their stage of development. Things have been loosely organized into categories. As time goes on, some notes will end up in multiple categories.

• Futurism
• Gaming
  • Game Development
  • Game Playing
• Science
• Vehicle Maintenance
• Writing
• Uncategorized

I will also make my best effort to archive these pages with the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine so that they are hopefully preserved in the case of https://share.note.sx being disappeared. (Note: It turns out that their system doesn't let me correctly update this note, so it, and maybe others, will always be a bit out of date there. :D) #status/missing-tags

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Futurism

• Climate Change Mitigation: Near Term Solutions: Notes on realistic ways to deal with climate change.
• Fermi Paradox (Do aliens exist, and if so, why haven't we encountered them?)
  • Fermi Paradox Solution Categories: A brief list of categories for possible solutions to the Fermi Paradox.
  • Grabby Aliens & The Fermi Paradox: A theoretical framework for expected civilization behavior.
  • Methods of Stealth Observation: A table of ways to potentially observe Earth in secret.
  • The Odds of Life and Intelligence: Hypothesizing about what probabilities we can estimate for life and intelligence occurring.
• The Kardashev Scale: A way of measuring technological/societal progress.
• Life Support: Calculations on the basic requirements for supporting human life in space.
• Minimizing Time Dilation: The theoretical fastest travel speed for all observers.
• Realistic Artificial Gravity: Structures and calculations for artificial gravity without breaking the laws of physics.
• Tank Design: How to realistically design tanks in a futuristic scenario.
• Why We Haven't Found Any Earth-Like Planets: Tl;dr: We overestimated how easy they would be to find, and keep changing the definition instead of acknowledging this mistake.

Gaming

Game Development

• The Cult of Done: A manifesto on rapid iteration to make sure things actually get done.
  • Finishing a Game: Specific advice for game development, and how to actually finish a game.
• Human Body Elemental Makeup: Mainly I just find this interesting, but for developing a somewhat realistic game managing people, it may be important as well.
• Lazy Devs' Game Ideas Notebook: A large list of ideas and thoughts primarily spurred by watching Lazy Devs' VIDEO.
• Rocket Engine Design: Very incomplete and small compilation of notes on how rocket engines are designed.
• Selling PICO-8 Games: Notes based on Lazy Devs' experience in selling games developed with PICO-8.

Game Playing

• Automation 4.2 Engine Tuning: Quick notes on engine tuning in the most recent version of Automation.
• Helium Rain: Tips & Notes about the (now free) game Helium Rain.
• Minecraft
  • Minecraft Defiant Replica Block Choices: Figuring out a palette for making a replica of the USS Defiant in Minecraft.
  • Minecraft Ore Locations: Where ores can be most easily found post-1.18.
  • Stop Quitting Your Minecraft Worlds: Notes from a video of the same title about how to build persistently.

Science

• Climate
  • Climate Change Mitigation: Near Term Solutions discusses realistic near-term options to deal with climate change.
  • Fossil Fuels Were Never Cheap: A paragraph that doesn't go into enough detail as to why this is true.
  • Greenhouse Effect: Did you know that people have known global warming was going to be a problem IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY?
• Health
  • Improving Focus: Brief notes on how to improve focus (mostly through recognizing its limits and meditating to improve capability).
  • Minimalism: The aspects and goals of different forms of minimalism.
• How to Spot a Fake Superconductor & LK-99 Presentation are notes for a video I made about LK-99.
• Human Body Elemental Makeup is a rough estimate of a body's materials by mass.
• Oblique Swing-Wing Aircraft is just to highlight a couple videos about this concept that I like.

Vehicle Maintenance

• Diagnosing P0128: How to diagnose an engine code caused by a coolant problem.
• Engine Valve Adjustment: Research notes on engine valve adjustment. It is currently unclear to me.
• Motorcycle Oil Filters: Research notes. Primary takeaway is that as long as you follow maintenance intervals, and the filter fits properly, it's fine.

Writing

• Act Structures
  • Dan Harmon's Story Circle: A significantly simplified version of The Hero's Journey designed for episodic writing.
  • Mirror Structure: Threads are opened scene-by-scene, then slowly woven together and resolved.
  • Save the Cat Beat Sheet: A rough guideline for writing a screenplay.
  • Snowflake Method: An unfolding method to slowly build up a story outline before writing the first draft.
• Lost Summoner: A very short story published originally on my blog, republished here for archival purposes.
• Nathaniel's Ground: A very short horror story I wrote over a decade ago.

Uncategorized

• Advertising: It is important to understand how advertising is a malicious concept.
• Animorphs Fanfiction: All fanfiction hides gems. I am attempting to find gems within Animoprhs fanfic.
• Consent: A quick overview of the FRIES consent model and informed consent.
• The Cult of Done: A manifesto on rapid iteration to make sure things actually get done.
• File Hierarchy Pros vs Cons: Whether or not a file system hierarchy makes sense depends on what your needs are.
• Living Space Criteria: What should be checked before moving into a new home.
• Minimalism: The aspects and goals of different forms of minimalism.
• Photography Notes: Notes taken from a 2013-ish college course on photography.
• Syncing Obsidian Through Git: Mostly links for help setting up obsidian-git and Working Copy.
• Tiny Home: Very half-baked old thoughts about building my own little living space.