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127 seconds. Any computer engineer recognizes this.

Sometimes no doesn't mean no, you know?

There are apparently four main ending achievements.

I've uninstalled the GEForceShitWhatever almost immediately, as soon as it asked me to register. I don't have to register everywhere to update drivers, thank you. So I only upgrade by hand, whenever it needs to be done. I did notice that after hotfix 1.2, the game was immediately complaining...

Voyagers are getting on 50 years already in space and work good enough (when you don't upload the wrong command). So, designing things to not work, but be ready to work, isn't far fetched. Granted, they're using old technology made by Boomers, not a modern one by Gen Z...

Yeah, but it's tiny. There's a small amount of Neandertal DNA that ended up in some african populations, but it's marginal. Now, north africa is different, but that's because the middle-east invaded several times, to the point they don't even have black skin anymore, but that's definitively what...

And once again - those divergent lineage that spent 100-200-300kY evolving out of Africa are not our primary ancestors. At best, they provided 3-5% of DNA in asians, 3% or less in european DNA, and all the rest came from africans who hightailed out from Africa 50kY ago. The vibe I'm always...

That's the "It only takes one" argument for you. If you have lots of species around, and colonizing the galaxy is doable... the one that does it will colonize the galaxy, and make it so that we don't even evolve. You need an argument about why almost every species won't do that, just why one...

You don't need speed of light for Fermi's paradox. If you can only do 1% of the speed of light, with AI (just getting kickestarted and looks like it can work out), artificial wombs (being developped as we speak right now) and frozen embryo (already worked out), a species that can last "forever"...

We ("caucasoids") are also interfertile with africans. Meaning we're closely related enough to be considered the same species, no matter what. As I said, DNA hints that there was once about four slightly distinct human lineages: Homo Africanus, Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo Denisova, and a...

Hotfix just in, and major Gameplay (sic) fixes: (I kid you not: this is under "Gameplay")

Unfortunately, DNA basically put that part down. Non-African races are basically 97% pre-50kY Africans, 3-5% Denisovans/Neanderthals. So while it's true that euros and asians have a bit that evolved for a long time outside of Africa, they got most of their ancestry from there. The big...

It's just back to the old Fermi Paradox which says that, if the numbers in Drake's equation align with what we think, our solar system should have been colonized before the dinosaur even went extinct, if not earlier. So AT LEAST one of the factors in there isn't correct. That usually leaves two...

It's a bit more complicated, but apparently, you can, if you pick the right dialogue at camp when it pops. You just need a lot of approval. There's a wiki with all "approves"/"disapproves" reaction if you want to game it: https://baldursgate3.wiki.fextralife.com/Companion+Approval+Guide...

Microsoft decided to pull a WotC and tightens his EULA on Minecraft:

It is probably doable. Oceanic migration occured with far less technology. But there appear to be no trace of anything in the local population, notably gene-wise, so they didn't put down a colony, like they used to, or it suffered the same fate as the viking's northern ones.

He's apparently still 50 chapters ahead on Patreon (I checked, he just posted 180), with 1 chapter a day going on... except on the day of the week where he does 2.

That was yesterday (now two days ago). Some patch hitting. Today's graph is... very different (the little blip is what was on yesterday's screenshot):

ROFL, my ISP has crashed. Two friends (all on the same) got their internet not responding at all for 2mins when I had "no connections" either... (including my own servers)

Started download lightning fast, then 1min later, slowed to a crawl... had to reboot to restore my normal speed. It's oscillating between 200 and 700Mbps. About 18 min download expected.

You need reflection, not lensing. Lensing will not make you able to see things in your past light cone - you need the light to travel forth and then back to see X thousand of years. The Turyshev 2020 proposal uses the lensing from the sun to get a telescope with a 25km resolution on exoplanets...

Wait, finally their launches on SpaceX will be broadcast in 1080p instead of 720p?

That reminds me of an old discussion of racial advantages in AD&D. "So elves are long-lived, dwarves are strong and resilient, but humans?" "We fuck anything, and we make babies with them no matter what"

Yea, Chinese replication is "less than conclusive" (it's China, fake it until you make it is a way of life in academia), but at least we've got western institutions working on it. Of course, there's things like the Harvard Prez scandal, where they take the same picture, zoom it a little bit...

Apparently, they're shipping the physical hardcover early this time - I just got a notice that it's now on FedEx on its way to France. Yay!

Doubtful. The Zanclean Flood (which is the breakup of the Gibraltar dam and refilling of the Mediterranean you describe) occured around 6 million years ago. At the time, our ancestors were either still ancestors of the Chimpanzees or close cousins of those. Zero chance anyone remotely "human"...

Hell, there ARE people who will fuck their raid on a perma-death server just for the lulz.

The best things in the universe are the BWC megastructures ("Because We Can"). (Warning: 2h video)

I mean, they're not wrong. Mens Sana in Corpore Sano.

It's like all technologies. They start experimental and expensive, then get practical and affordable. The scale simply changes based on technology. In the 50s, "there is a market for maybe 6 computers in the world" (famous words by IBM). In the 60s, each university wanted its own. In the 70s...

Apparently, you can skip over the first (assuming you do not pick that character as "you"), but the second is a given. (I can't remember which human mage turned himself into a Lich based on an Illithid Brain)

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Nostalgia hits you for X damage!

Absolutely. But if it had formed into a really solid stable planet before being blown up, it would need something truly major (and thus highly unlikely). Big, and going very fast - probably at interstellar speeds - yet hitting perfectly a smallish planet. Earth got clobbered by a massive...

"You pay, we launch, no questions asked. It's your money." It's easier to measure, but way easier to scam though, as no one can check the actual satellite to see if there's no small ion "leak".

A possible recipe for that pizza: Beware garlic, yes.

Jupiter has demonstrable effects on the belt - there are clumps at some resonances (Trojan asteroids, notably) and empty zones of the belt where any asteroid orbiting there get tugged away (Kirkwood gaps). Shattering an already formed planet is a well-known model. For an earth-type planet, the...

By the way, one of the pizza recipes I saw from the 16th century involves... sugar and honey toppings. Yes, Pizza as a pastry dessert (to be fair, Italian renaissance involved putting sweet stuff on everything).

Too weak to break up a planet once it has formed. Those tidal forces aren't enough to break the moons of Jupiter, let alone a planet AU away (tidal effects work in the inverse cube rather than inverse square). They're strong enough to disrupt planetary formation, which is probably why the...

If the italians say it's a pizza, then it is a pizza. They invented the damn thing, they get to say what it is.

I don't remember which game it was, but the power-based matchmaking was specifically done so that whales wouldn't be matched too often against whales, so that they wouldn't be fucked over and over. They would face other power-buyers from time to time, so that they'd feel incentivized to buy...