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The Witcher 2, native Linux version

That is a bit more problematic than it should, the launcher doesn't work without discontinued dependencies, the configuration doesn't work at all (had to edit configuration file manually), and the controls seem a bit off so I decided to play on easy difficulty not to embarrass myself too much with doing completely wrong moves because they are mapped in a weird way (imo)

But it still looks pretty good and seems interesting so far, it will definitely take a lot of time to explore, and then I will still have a third game to play

This shouldn't be a problem anatomically, it's hard to eat anything with a foot in your mouth anyway

Yeah, afaik, there's need for accounting for magnetic North difference from North when navigating even on foot, so it's stated on the map with small enough scale

So that's what Elmusk was talking about when said America's problem is empathy…

Same on Thunder, I thought it's intentional

I think I saw an article (not based on this study, and I'm not sure based on anything) that claimed a different language to be the same ‘best for AI’

I expect we may see more, and each time we may come up with some explanation of why, of course. Still maybe I should learn Elixir, it sounds decent

Well, everyone is about to start asking for an ID on the web, it seems, so you might be about right soon

Yeah, it was before the war and heard they recently published a press release stating that not blocking them all these years was illegal, because they technically never stopped blocking. If that sounds stupid, I think that's about right

If this apparent relationship between flares and decay rates proves true, it could lead to a method of predicting solar flares prior to their occurrence

So, can we predict the flares now? I've taken a look at Ephraim Fischbach's articles and it seems that we're very far from that, so the article you linked is interesting but overstates the facts by a lot. This is what I found the best explanation so far:

Some experiments seem to yield strong evidence of variability of beta-decay rates, but other experiments may show little or no such evidence. Some recent experiments help clarify the situation. In particular, a certain oscillation appears in neutrino measurements made at the Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory and in radon beta-decay measurements made at the Geological Survey of Israel, with identical frequency (9.43 years ⁻¹ ), amplitude and phase, strengthening the case for an influence of neutrinos on beta decays. A review of current experimental information leads us to suggest that 1) beta-decay rates do not change, but 2) the angular distribution of decay products may be anisotropic, and 3) the angular distribution of decay products may be influenced by the ambient neutrino flux. It appears that experiments at standards laboratories tend to be insensitive to direction, and this may be the reason that they tend not to exhibit evidence of variability.

And even this I would take with a grain of salt

I don't think they meant ‘can't tell difference’, more like ‘don't use different words for siren and mermaid’

I expect it's not suited for kernel, yeah, but it sounds like a fun thing to try other than for kernel stuff

The this:

[Author] portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. In the novel, the people who live in Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly ageing in appearance