The question is not “can we give people whatever pills might possibly work”. They can already run studies on basically any drug candidate they can come up with.

They’re claiming to have more or less perfected Windows emulation on Linux (which is what SteamOS runs on top of). I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve massively improved it - I’ve long felt that Windows emulation could be significantly improved with a serious, well-funded push - but we’ll have to see how well it runs…

There’s actually zero mention of streaming on their site, as far as I could see. I expect it will have it, but that’s not the stated purpose. The hardware is overpowered for streaming - it’s basically ~25% the power of current-gen consoles. I also don’t think it has any cellular internet, which you’d need to stream…

Virgin Galactic’s tech is of dubious value. It’s pretty much tailor-made for short suborbital tourist hops, and has no good path towards anything actually productive.

Hot take: a “skip boss” button or a flat-out invulnerability toggle is not a good solution to the problem of playability.

This does seem likely to evade most anti-cheat protections, but it also seems likely to fail in the market.

Yes, but that would likely have a tremendous false-positive and false-negative rate.

On the other hand, if that brine has concentrated enough valuable elements, it could be a resource in and of itself. Magnesium would be a good candidate, perhaps also lithium, calcium, and uranium.

I think you might have hit the nail on the head with “bad localization”.

As it so happens, I’m working on a retro-y, pixel-y, jRPG myself. And I have some Opinions about how fonts in such a game ought to work.

Shit, making a pixel font isn’t even hard. Having never made a vector font before in my life, it took me about a day to learn the tools well enough to convert a bitmap pixel font I’d made into a .TTF. Then another day or so to redo it in a way that still looks right at the “native” res, but if you render it at say 4x…

Ah, that’s clever. Chemically, it’s still taking the same amount of energy, but since it’s making use of heat that would otherwise be wasted, it could be much more efficient in practical terms.

I mean, nuclear reactors are a pretty good source of electrical power, if you can get one built without running into a NIMBY wall. And because they generally don’t like to be ramped up or down quickly, they often end up producing more power than the grid needs. Electrolysis (or desalinization) is a good way to soak up…

The full (and only three-page) article, thanks to the power of piracy: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/0360-3199(96)00031-6

So, liquid hydrogen is a fairly common fuel in the rocket industry. The strengths and weaknesses of it are well-known. It’s not the craziest thing I’ve ever heard but my gut feeling is that this doesn’t seem advantageous.

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Well, part of it is that Valve paid to use the Quake engine. So to the extent Id was diminished, they were compensated.

Now someone needs to go through Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends, and see if the same flicker is used there. Because yep, those are also Source-derived. Pretty heavily modified, but still Source.

The Minotaur series is built from decommissioned ICBMs, mostly Minuteman or Peacekeepers. The Minotaur 1 is built from a Minuteman II’s first and second stages, plus a Pegasus first and third stage. Due to it using ICBM hardware, Minotaur boosters are exclusively used for US government payloads, usually military or…

Personally, I’m talking that up to Elon shitposting. “lol wouldn’t it be cool if your license plate flipped up and had a little rocket behind it?”. He’s a shitposter, he spouts random crap all the time. (If he were just a shitposter, we could just ignore him completely, but unfortunately he also sometimes tells the…