Soap was invented a long time ago - 2800 BC and the Romans made quite a bit of it. However it used lye so you wouldn’t want to use it often.

The sanitation of Roman cities should have been pretty good by historical standards. Batthouses were common in the empire and people frequently visited them. Romans also had toilets with running water below them to take the waste away so in that regard they would have done much better than other societies.

The sewer system or lack thereof was the biggest sanitation issue for most historical cities. Back in the day it was difficult to create a sewer system since you need to minimize the slope at which the waste flows or else you have to do too much digging. Until Newton and Leibniz came around in the 1700s we didn’t have calculus so you couldn’t optimize a function mathematically and instead had to experimentally test it out. But, people didn’t test things the way we do today - the scientific method was only formalized relatively recently as well. So this was more difficult to invent that you might think, and the invention has been lost several times over history.

Then once you figure out the minimum angle you have to discover a technique to dig at that angle. The simplest is to take two sticks and insert them into the ground, then tie a string between them that lies right on the ground. Then you can put the sticks this anywhere to see how deep you need to dig.

Since you mentioned 1500-1800, I’ll mention that medieval London did NOT have a sewer system so people dumped their waste in the River Thames. Which is also where they got their drinking water.

It says in the article that it’s over 11 years

The majority of Hispanics don’t like that term. Can you stop using it? It’s close to a slur if not already a mild one and there’s already a gender neutral term - Hispanic.

It’s your spirit that is transported to another world, not your physical body. There are a lot of stories where the character is reincarnated as a different species and even some where the mc is reincarnated as an object like a vending machine.

A long time ago Elon promised that full self-driving would be coming to existing cars that had their self-driving package installed which was cameras only. Elon is probably sticking with cameras only to avoid a lawsuit.

Franco-Prussian war had 2 million on French side and 1.5 million on Prussian side and resulted in an overwhelming Prussian victory per Wikipedia

Fun fact: Robespierre was nicknamed the incorruptible (prior to the reign of terror) for his strong moral convictions including his opposition to the death penalty.

Seconding the Organic Maps recommendation. They added address lookup earlier this year (or late last year?) and it does everything I need now.

Still room for improvement on search, looking up restuarants by a general type, like BBQ doesn’t turn up BBQ places that don’t have BBQ in the name for example. The only other feature I think people will miss is reviews, but you can at least search that online without using another map.

The xbox one controllers I had developed stick drift after 6 months or so, series controllers held up better but I still ended up swapping to hall effect and more recently tmr sticks to avoid stick drift

Maybe its meant for hyperscalars who will rent it out in smaller units of say 16, 32, and 64 core instances to customers.

It’s okay bro, you can just say you’re bad. You don’t have to be good at everything.

The people can have a little stagflation. As a treat.

Zyklon B caused intense pain, which is what led them to gouge out deep scratches in the concrete walls of Auschwitz. Some of the victims were suffering for 20 minutes, since the Nazis were using as little gas as possible to save money and resources so they could kill as many as possible.

You made a stupid post like holy shit I did not expect to see someone making light of the horrors of the Holocaust. Hopefully this is unintentional but don’t accuse any genociders of humane executions.

The problem with most bacteria isn’t that they cause foodborne illnesses (what cooking prevents) but that there are dangerous byproducts created by them, which often are not destroyed by cooking.

My experience is they’re roughly as polite as Parisians

I was very tired when I posted that and skipped over the air part. By pellets I meant little ice cubes

Remember that it doesn’t take the water in liquid form, pellets only.

If you uninstalls display drivers from control panel, windows leaves some changes that were made when installing the driver, like registry edits. This can sometimes cause issues, especially if you are putting in a new GPU from a different brand. Not guaranteed by any means, but this doesn’t have anything go do with a lack of skill.

Process lasso I’ve only head about in the context of r9 x3d CPUs since windows scheduler sometimes doesn’t run the game on the optimal CCD, some games have lower performance compared to the r7 x3d that can be fixed this way.

I remember for Destiny 1 there was a figure of roughly 1 billion thrown around. That figure included like 8 years of server costs and future development costs for expansions, which ended up also including Destiny 2. Probably a similar situation for other games nearing that total.

The best source I could find on this was IGN and they claim a $100 million budget for BG3.