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I love Europa Universalis 4 (PC game), the game starts on November 11th, 1444 - a day after the Hungarian/Christian defeat in the battle of Varna, which paved the way for the Ottomans becoming a superpower.

That’s a cool date for the game, because it allows the players to try to save a nearly doomed Byzantine Empire, or change the outcome of the 100 Year War for example.

1453 is also the end of the 100 years war, with the English losing the battle of Castillon. An eventful year in European history.

No no, you don’t get it. Consumers are fine with medium doses of AI, we just have to cover it up and don’t tell them.

This is important because then as a CEO I get to keep my cake and eat it too - I don’t have to pay workers to make games, and still charge for them as if I had actual costs.

This moronic valve policy is gonna kill our golden egg chicken!

Perspective above brought to you by the average asshole CEO.

Can you please stop pronouncing it as “glodal”??

I sense a tragic past with PHP. Or maybe Perl? Maybe even a little too fond of bash scripting?

This is a purely theoretical exercise, from what I could understand:

[They] considered what would happen if a single photon passed through an optical shutter—essentially a very fast mirror that can be switched on and off to block part of a pulse of light. If the shutter was fast enough, it could intercept the photon mid-pulse, snipping off part of this extended wave.

They then did a bunch of calculations to simulate what would happen, but I’m wondering if such a shutter wouldn’t have to travel at the speed of light to catch the photon, and if this doesn’t make the experiment meaningless…