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…
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<Serina> Are there any reliable tools for finding flybys for Principia?
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<ezsnack> add to the list of extra mods maybe btw? even if its not a mod?
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<pineconez> It should be imo, it's very useable, the author wants to add even more functionality (I think), and because it's C and can eat every single CPU cycle available, it's a lot faster than website-based calculators. And unlike KSPTOT, it's a single binary independent of KSP itself or other runtimes.(Also a decent CPU benchmarking tool, I guess :lul: ) https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/911993888611393587.png
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<Clayel> for me the only thing it does is max out my cpu at 100% and never return a trajectory
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<pineconez> are you using reasonable parameters? it's a huge search space
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<Clayel> i think so? unless im missing something
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<Composure 1> Try smaller parameters I guess?
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<pineconez> try with departure dates and sequences of irl missions, I can't check it right now. but you want to limit the search space as much as possible, i.e. you first find a transfer to your first target body in the sequence the old-fashioned way (TWP2, etc) and let the tool work from there.
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<pineconez> also haven't checked out the new updates he made to the tool, been kinda busy with other stuff
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<ezsnack> its all about using reasonable parameters
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<Kaga> Are there any alternatives so that my laptop wouldn’t get cooked?
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I feel like ``reasonable'' needs to be well defined?
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<siimav> The thing you can do is power limit the laptop CPU. Either through 🪟s power profiles or with some kind of software.
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<ezsnack> if there was a website version it would still use your computer resources btw lol
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<Qazerowl> Fundamentally, the math required to make these calculations is really, really hard. There are a couple different programs that do (roughly) the same thing, but all of them are going to "cook" your laptop pretty much the same amount, because that's the only way to answer this kind of question.