If you want to accelerate a person to “fly high into the air” speed over a distance of a see saw’s arc is going to kill the person. There is no sweet spot

Yeah Baldur’s gate 3 and hell divers are both doing terribly

Minecraft is pretty unique, or was until its imitators appeared and is the most popular game (or is it second to Tetris?)

I think release then fix became common as soon as internet distribution became practical

Back when everything was on physical media the releases were more polished

I hear about people getting Minecraft on game pass. Those people don’t play Minecraft like I play Minecraft

If they die, other companies will buy that IP

I presume they would do as many O- people do and have blood drawn for their own use if they expect they might need it

Spoiler tags don’t seem to work in my client, so beware if you have only just started the books or tv series, or wish to not have your suspension of disbelief broken

That plot line is closely related to the biggest plot hole in the books and tv series

Sophons are sent to Earth at near light speed, presumably accelerated in a particle accelerator. They are the size of and very like protons. In fact they are protons that were unfolded, had AI computer logic etched into them, and were then refolded. How would they slow down? How would they change direction? Note that they are shown to turn within a fraction of the radius of a retina and hardly interact with matter at all.

A proton takes a fair bit of energy to accelerate to a high fraction of light speed, and just as much to stop or turn.

BadlyFoldedProtein (prion for short) would also be a good name

They are made of food

$35

I like Steve Mould’s ad reads. He does science content and seems to only advertise products and services he uses, so his ads are mostly straight “this is what I like about the product, what makes it different to alternatives, this is why I use it, this is the stuff they told me to say”

He’s one of the few YouTubers I actually believe when he says a product is good

I was taught to use spaces for thousands in Canberra

Funny, in Australia we have school dances and they don’t get anything like American proms, with the possible exception of girls’ debutante balls which we dress up for

They were practicing surgery on cadavers between deliveries. Gotta keep your skills up during your stint in maternity

Full refunds would be reasonable, if they wanted to protect their IP

If your modification makes it unroadworthy, you might not be allowed to drive it on public roads

If your modification changes its structure you may need certification that it is still roadworthy

I’m not seeing a case where you’re restricted by law from modifying the car

Software has special legal protections. You can stop it working with impunity, you can break it with impunity, you cannot legally defeat security on the software. Corey Doctorow calls the software protections “felony contempt of business model”

Tesla allow you to opt out of all connectivity

It means you would have no maps, no driver assist, no Internet radio

Anyway if you buy a car it is yours. The worst you can do is break the contact for whatever services are provided by the connectivity. You are allowed to modify a car however you like

Tesla don’t support CD. You’d need to rip those to mp3 and keep them on your phone to play over Bluetooth

If they’re embedded in a combat group they take their chances.

As a rule when talking to management you love the place you work, 5 years? You’ll be there in ten

I mean unless you have complaints you really feel you need to raise

They won’t tell you if they’re planning on firing you. You take the mandatory notice you must give as a target and never give more notice than that.

When I was a primary school kid we didn’t have gifted and talented classes. Kids who were ahead of the class could continue doing more and more advanced maths, move onto the next year’s work, though in 6th grade the problems only went up to advanced 6th grade. I don’t know what you would do if you were smart but unsatisfied with maths, I guess you’d be disruptive.