u/Smile_Space

So, I moved into San Pedro a couple months ago and my weather app has been so annoying. I've tried a few apps and they all say San Pedro, but then default to downtown LA due to San Pedro being a neighborhood of LA.

Does anyone have or know of an app that stops this from happening? For instance today it said it was 93-94 when in reality it was pushing 98 degrees. It's not much of a difference I guess, but seeing lower numbers for an area 30 minutes away makes it super annoying.

I've tried The Weather Channel app which works alright, but when I click the daily weather it shows San Pedro for about a second before updating all the numbers to downtown LA again.

I went down to their Beach City Marketplace location today and it was a ghost town! I went like a week ago and they didn't mention shuttering that location at all and seemed super busy!

I see they have the other location over by the Vons on Western, but that smaller location was within walking distance of my house.

RIP

Edit: Okay looking into their Instagram I've just never realized the other location was a Subway they've been converting into a Chachi's for half a year now lolol. I'm happy they got their own dedicated location instead of being holed up in BCM! Just sucks that I now I have to drive over there instead of walk down lolol. Purely selfish reasons I know.

I toured the property today looking to move into the area August 1st for work. It seemed like one of those too good to be true places offered at $2850/month. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom townhouse with a 2-car garage.

I met a real human being and toured the property this morning. She gave me paperwork for the application, and once I started into it I realized something was amiss.

They wanted two full bank statements, my full credit report printed by me, a bunch of my personal information, and a $30 application fee all printed and submitted in-person.

I went to the address they provided me on paper in town and it's some random nondescript industrial building that looking up online didn't have a property manager associated.

So, if you see SOCALHOMENET pop up as the property manager for a place on Zillow or Trulia I'd steer clear. I'm not sure what they want, but it could be an identity theft and money scam.

Does anyone know if there's a mod that simulates gravity gradient torque?

I was doing a deep dive on Google, and outside of a single forum post I can't seem to find any other mention.

For those not in-the-know, gravity gradient torque is a exactly as it sounds. If you have a long satellite, or just a satellite with a long boom pointed away from body being orbited, there is a gradient of gravity across the spacecraft.

This gravity gradient exists on all spacecraft, but you can take advantage of it to essentially tidally lock real spacecraft to the Earth so one side is always pointing to the Earth. It's a passive way to stabilize a spacecraft so solar radiation doesn't cause a spacecraft to tumble out of its attitude over time.

In real life you tend to go into a higher orbit so that your orbital period is longer and thus your angular rate required to maintain an Earth-facing attitude is much slower giving the gravity gradient torque more time to keep the spacecraft in its orientation. The faster your orbit, the longer the boom to create a more extreme gravity gradient across the craft.

In KSP though, the gravity is meant to mimic Earth's, but with orbits at roughly 1/10th scale. So, the gravity gradient is much more extreme given it falls off much more rapidly compared to real life. This gives the ability to have lower stable gravity gradient orbits with smaller boom arms.

I know mods like persistent rotation can simulate the effect by using SAS to point radial-in at all times, but it'd be cool if there's some mod that calculates the gravity of each part of a spacecraft and computes the gravity gradient across a spacecraft to "fake" the expected torque and work with persistent rotation.

Just a thought anyway! Since the math is relatively straight-forward it wouldn't be that much CPU overhead either given it can be directly computed without numerical methods. Hell, you could even simulate solar radiation torque to add even more realism to spacecraft attitude control.

Anyway, just a thought that would be fun! If nothing exists like that maybe I'll dip my toes into figuring out how to mod to just add more realism to the simulation. The problem is I've never coded a mod before. I can code in MATLAB, C, C++, and Python for engineering work, but I've never dabbled in actually modding a game to add functionality.