The amount of space between planets is crazy. My old school had a scale model of the solar system using the same scale for size and distance.

On one end of campus there was a 12" yellow sun. Around campus were poles with little domes on top that had little pins with plant models suck in them.

Really irritating poop.

So white light is when your brain sees a roughly matched signal level on all three color channels. So white would be all of whatever color receptors we evolved for the planet. It’s more of a signal overload than a color.

We actually can’t tell the difference between the mix of primary colors and the actual color. Take Cyan at about 490nm. Looking at it triggers your red, blue, and green receptors in a spefic set of levels your brain reads as Cyan.

However your brain can’t tell the difference between a signal at 490nm and the right combination of 440, 540, and 580 nm. So for example a tv can only show 3 colors but your eyes and brain can’t tell the difference between that and all the natural colors.

We are the most sensitive to green because it’s the wavelength least used by photosynthesis and most plants reflect it. So we evolved to be extra sensitive to it. Camera sensors are usually 50% green, 25% red, 25% blue.

A small number of women have a mutation allowing them to see yellow. So some women can tell the side difference between true yellow and a primary color mix.

Linux isn’t going to help much when the applications are using a lot ram. Firefox is an absolute ram hog linux or windows. Linux is just going to use less of the ram for it self.

“For some reason” is a common expression indicating the reason is obvious but not stated.

A lot of his humor was based on things you want to do but don’t. So exploring dark desires that you should not act on is reasonable for comedy. Then it comes out that he did some of that stuff and it’s not funny anymore.

It’s a big issue. The problem is there are a large amount of elderly people and not enough young people to care for them and keep the economy going.

Population age graphs used to be a triangle. Lots of kids some adults and a few elderly. So there were a lot of people to care for a small number of the elderly and a big group to care for you when you became elderly.

These countries age graphs look like upside down pears. Lots of elderly some working and few children. So more work by the young to care for the elderly.

1.15 in Japan 0.72 in Korea. so yeah.

Both countries have high cost of living and expect women to drop everything and become full time moms and care for their parents and inlaws.

Women for some reason don’t find that appealing and decide to not have kids. Many refuse to get married if there partner wants kids.

Even men often don’t want children as they are expected to work long hours to support the family.

Totally. If it wasn’t so fun we wouldn’t be talking about it today.

Galaxina. Low budget space western comedy. Space cowboy wants to have sex with his robot pilot but they have to order the extra parts for her.

What’s your favorite Stewart Raffill movie? Tell me it’s not Mac and Me.

Yeah the budget was cut a lot just before shooting started. I think the director and cast said it’s going to bomb so let’s just have fun.

I’m in the minority where Chronicles of Riddick is the only Riddick movie I like. Such a neat universe.

Yeah I thought the odds of her winning were less than 50% but they were still bette than the odds of Biden winning again.

More people need a transplant than there are donors. A lot of people die waiting for an organ. Some people are willing to skip the wait list and get their organ from non willing donors.

But you can’t remove pocket from firefox just disable it. Given that it wa also a close source binary blob that made firefox not completely open source I’m glad it’s going.

Qt Creator is my favorite IDE. I’m mostly worrking in C# these days and I so miss it.

The ACA was essentially the republican compromise that was offered to Clinton when he tried to get universal health care. He rejected it and was unable to get any meaningful change.

It shows how much we have moved to the right that the republican plan from 10 years earlier was barely able to be passed by Democrats.

I’ll also point out that Clinton’s big goal for his time in offices was universal health care not balancing the budget. He completely failed on that but did briefly balance the budget.

Still better than the republican goals.

Sort of. They changed the law to repeal the paid sick leave from Proposition A.

They couldn’t force a change to the state constution that grants abortion rights. They did force a new amendment to go on the ballot to overturn the rights grated by Amendment 3.

The new amendment would remove the right to abortion with some exceptions not in the previous abortion restriction laws. It will be up to the voters.

Hopefully they don’t pass the new restrictions but it could go either way.

Witcher 3 the game is a fine place to start. I’d say you can start in any of the games and Book 1 the Last Wish, Book 2 Sword of Destiny, or Book 3 Sword of Destiny. The games were in line with the books cannon but telling there own story. The popularity of the games made Sapkowski write more and they have now diverged somewhat. Here are some notes on all of them as far as a starting place.

Last Wish (book): Short stories based on classic stories. Good intro to the world and the writing style. No main plot so it can be skipped or read later without much problems. The Sleeping Beauty story is the opening cinematic of Game 1.

Sword of Destiny (Book): More short stories but we introduce a lot of the main characters in the rest of the books.

Blood of Elves (book): This is where the main story of the Witcher starts proper. After this you should read them in order.

Witcher 1 (game): Game play is ok but I think has the most interesting ideas and storytelling. It has the choose between two bad choices and find out later what the effect is. It doesn’t spoon feed you the lore and there are lots of hints about what is going on you can catch if you are paying attention. For example echinops grow where terrible crimes were committed if the crime wasn’t atoned for. Every place you find a echinops growing is a clue as to the nature of what happened there.

There is another great non obvious story element that I love. I think it’s more fun to know this and see how it plays out in the game. I recommend reading the spoiler but it’s up to you.

Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings (game): Improved gameplay with much more focus on combat and combat mechanics. Better graphics. Ok story but nothing compared to 1. The combat is very hard early and is required so that can be a drawback.

Witcher 3 Wild Hunt (game): The best game as far as gameplay. Fun lots different things to do and a solid story. It’s a very Ciri focused story and thus can spoil some of the books somewhat. As far as a starting place you are going to have a lot of fun but it does throw a fair amount of characters at you and expect you to know them. Also the spoiler from 1 is specifically confirmed at one point so if you don’t want that beware.