Tonne? You mean megagram?

It takes a fair bit of work to produce quality subtitles. So in my experience most youtubers/videocasters rely on machine generated subtitles. The quality on these are sometimes great, often okay, but sometimes pretty bad. It doesn’t currently deal well with all accents, and can struggle on technical subjects that use unusual verbiage (like uncommon words, domain-specific terms, or pronounced acronyms). Still, even mediocre subtitles can help at times.

Seems like a fair description of many who would call themselves “libertarian”, even if not the going definition.

Maybe I’ve been missing out.

All good information.

I laughed at

sedimentary behavior

I too try not to settle down at the bottom of lakes and rivers…

I tried it for a couple months and it was alright but eventually it got too frustrating. I did love how well it did some really repetitive things. But rarely did it actually get anything complex 100% right. In computing, “almost right” is wrong. But because it was so close, it was hard to spot the mistakes.

There were cases where my IDE knew the right answer but Copilot did not. Realizing that Copilot was messing up my IDE enhancements to produce code I was painfully babysitting, I cancelled it.

Thanks. This also explains “sus” which I was wrongly assuming was some memetic borrowing of the French.

For the uninformed like me, what is “amogus”?

All wifi is light-based…

If you don’t want to treat the second hard drive as separate. You might consider https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs or alternatives to create a virtual union drive.

A while back I put some information into a couple of actuarial tables and got a rough estimate of my date of death, then scheduled it on my calendar.

Interesting, I’ll check it out.

Heroics. The fate of the society/world/universe turns on the actions of one or a few characters.

Heroics only make sense in certain settings. In many/most, it really doesn’t make sense for the main characters to be the primary plot drivers when there are millions or billions of other actors in the world. I think it is overused, presents a tunnel-vision worldview, and ultimately confines the world to the characters and ends up less interesting for it.

Good points and illustration. I think that there is no true need to be able to empathize with alien intelligence in a narrative. Goodness knows I have trouble empathizing with plenty of human characters… Hierarchy of Foreignness was even a thematic element in the Ender books.

Have you read A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge? I remember it doing a pretty good job of imagining polymorphic sentience and civilization churn.

It reminds me of lots of different things (it’s like a blend of Rogue Legacy, Final Fantasy 1, and The Linear RPG, turned it into a Möbius strip).

I am enjoying exploring the mechanics of the game.

Not that you are wrong about the crazy amounts of energy required for mining, but I don’t think that picture is a good example. I recall seeing it in the news, and it is from a cannabis grow operation in the Netherlands: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/melting-snow-being-used-police-find-cannabis-farms-netherlands-10036057.html