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  • I'm not British or anything, but I always thought that in the UK the local pub filled this function? A place to gather socially, eat, drink. I understand most people would go and drink beer there but do they not serve coffee? Tea, at least?

  • What is the hardest video game(s) in your opinion, why, and what other games are you comparing against to make this conclusion?
  • Having played a lot of Dwarf fortress in ascii mode as well as with tilesets, I agree with you. It's not especially difficult to make a successful fortress. However the game is definitely obtuse, even more so with the ascii graphics. Just figuring out what is happening on the screen and which combination of buttons to press to do what you want is quite difficult.

    The steam release does some work to remedy the situation though.

  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB
  • You now need to remember his velocity, his position on the map, the direction of his flight, his altitude, his plane's weight and who knows what else, I'm not a pilot.

    You're not wrong per se, but I'm having trouble fathoming gigabytes of data being consumed by these types of parameters. You could probably track hundreds of thousands of airplanes with that much space. The only thing that I could imagine taking up that much memory is extremely detailed airflow simulation.

    However, as a rule of thumb, the vast majority of memory data for video games is in most cases textures and geometry, and not so much the simulation. Based on the article, it seems this game streams high resolution geometry data based on your current location on earth, which I would say is the most probable reason it asks for so much memory.

  • Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034.

    If it can get the necessary funds, that is. In a press release, the organization claimed that eliminating the patch once and for all would cost a whopping $7.5 billion

    The title seems rather misleading. "We're on track if someone just gives us 7.5 billion USD" is a really big if. It doesn't seem like they are close to raising those kinds of funds either.

  • Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • The title is a lie, and it becomes clear in the very first sentences:

    the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034.

    If it can get the necessary funds, that is.

    That's a big if.

  • Why haven't you done this yet too?
  • Also, sour patch kids have a weird ingredient in the coating that most electrolyte stuff doesn't have. Potassiumsomething something, irrc?

    Probably you're referring to tartaric acid, potassium bitartrate. It's added to candy to stabilize invert sugars, keeping them from crystallizing. You can buy it in powder form, usually called cream of tartar.

    I don't know what it does for hydration, but I suppose it would help top up potassium levels.

  • Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • Wait, but it's on track to being completed.

    Except it actually isn't. If you read the article, they say they could clean up the whole thing by 2034 but they need 7.5 billion dollars. So in fact people with money haven't actually done anything yet.

  • Launches
  • So, yeah, bottom line: you only need a delta-V of about 12 km/s to get out of the solar system, but a delta-V of 30 km/s to get to the sun without going into orbit.

    This is true, but the possibility of gravity assists mostly nullifies the difference. If you can get out to Jupiter you can basically choose: either let it sling you out of the system, or let it cancel out all your orbital velocity so you fall into the sun.

  • Launches
  • These are all technically correct but fairly inconsequential. Even just to graze the sun you need to lose 90% of your orbital velocity. And although everything orbiting the sun will eventually fall in, the friction is really low. It will take billions of years to lose enough velocity to fall in.

  • Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
  • The problem isn't even the hard drives, it's how they are managing them. There's not many digital data storage solutions around that you can dump into a closet for a few decades and then still read.

    You have to regularly test your hard drives, so that when one fails you can take your other copy of the data and put it on a new drive.

  • Longi achieves 34.6% efficiency for two-terminal tandem perovskite solar cell prototype
  • Efficiency records involving perovskites are generally not that interesting without any longevity data. As far as I'm aware, the lifetime of current SotA perovskite solar cells is measured in weeks or months. That's not commercially viable.

    Not that efficiency research is completely useless, but the longevity is the real challenge that's holding this up.

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  • I'm confused now, because espresso is also coffee? Like, it's all made from coffee beans. I agree that Americano is espresso with water, but to me that is absolutely a kind of coffee.

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