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  • Kagi has a free trial, 100 searches for free, so you can try it out and see if you like it or not.

  • I think it's simply a question of what are Google's interests. Users doesn't pay anything to Google for the service, so that's not where Google's interests are. Advertisers pay Google, so that's where Google's interests are. Google has no interests to make the search better for users, they want to make it better for advertisers.

  • I think it would be enough if other search providers would be required to give a portion of their profit from each search to Google.

  • Tuollaisia vekottimia kutsutaan painovoima-akuiksi (gravity battery), vaikkakin gravitaatioakku olisi oikeampi nimi. Gravitaatiossa ei ole kyse voimasta, mutta suomen kielessä taidetaan edelleen suosia tuota vanhaa painovoima -termiä.

    Pikaisella guuglauksella löytyy Vattenfallin blogi-postaus "Betoniharkoista tulee painovoima-akkuja", jossa höpistään ensimmäisestä suuren mittaluokan kaupallisesta gravitaatioakusta, joka on rakenteilla Kiinassa. Sen varastointikapasiteetti on 100 MWh, ja artikkelin mukaan sen olisi pitänyt valmistua viime syyskuussa.

  • From the article:

    The data breach started with hackers accessing only around 14,000 user accounts. The hackers broke into this first set of victims by brute-forcing accounts with passwords that were known to be associated with the targeted customers, a technique known as credential stuffing.

    From these 14,000 initial victims, however, the hackers were able to then access the personal data of the other 6.9 million million victims because they had opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature. This optional feature allows customers to automatically share some of their data with people who are considered their relatives on the platform.

  • Project Hail Mary might fit the bill. It's a story of a person who finds himself inside a spaceship, traveling somewhere in space to some location in space. He has lost his memory, so he has no idea why he is there or where he is going. All he knows is, that while he survived, his crewmates did not, and so, he is alone in space with somewhat annoying artificial intelligence as his only companion. He needs to save earth from something, but he doesn't know that yet.

    I'm not 100% sure if it is what you are looking for, but it is very highly regarded sci-fi book. Also it's a standalone book (500 pages), not part of any kind of series of books, so it's less daunting to read than something like The Expanse series. There are some violence, but I don't remember how graphic it is.

  • A recent study found that "Super Mario Odyssey" reduced depression symptoms more than cognitive training or standard treatments

    The N-value was pretty low, only 46 participants divided to three groups, so one can't draw too many definitive conclusions from this study. Also their findings were reduced symptoms. If your house is on fire and you figure out a way to reduce the amount of smoke, it will appear as if your house is less on fire. Still, interesting results which implies that games could be used as part of a treatment.

    with participants showing higher motivation

    They found out that people like playing video games more than going to a psychiatrist.

  • Maybe you should treat your wife with better quality matcha

  • I want to start drinking tea more instead of coffee

    Not sure if you are aware of it, but matcha has pretty high caffeine content. It's less than in coffee, but more than in other types of tea. One gram of matcha powder contains approximately 20-45mg of caffeine. So, if you prepare a cup of matcha using 2 grams of matcha powder, you could get up to 90 mg of caffeine. Tea leaves being naturally grown things, it's impossible to know how much caffeine is in each tea leaf.

    In case you want to reduce your caffeine intake even more, you might want to try other Japanese green teas. As you like matcha, your taste buds might agree with other Japanese green teas as well.

    Also I have a cold brew coffee maker, could I put the powder in the filter as I submerge it? How long would it last in the fridge (assuming I can)?

    One tea brewing method you might want to look into is grandpa style tea brewing. To grandpa style brew tea, you simply put some tea leaves into some kind of container, such as mug or water bottle, and add some water. As you drink the tea throughout the day, you just add more water over the leaves as needed, basically keeping the leaves submerged in water the whole day. Some teas are better suited for grandpa style brewing than others. Japanese tea leaves are usually broken leaves, and broken leaves quickly turns the tea liquor bitter/astringent and as such might not be suited for grandpa style brewing.

    There are couple tea communities that might be helpful in your tea journey:

  • The word "tea" in Japanese and Chinese is cha (茶). Matcha is a Japanese green tea that goes through specific production steps, and the end result is very fine powder. To prepare matcha tea you mix matcha powder with hot water, traditionally, using a bamboo whisk.

  • Store bought wasabi pastes might have real wasabi in them, but only couple percentages.

  • Might also want to upgrade your dice to d20 while you're at it.

  • There's something wrong with the device. Paperwhite's battery should last for weeks, especially if it's somewhat recent model. Try to calibrate the battery by charging it to full, and continue to charge couple more hours after it's full. Then use the device until the battery is completely empty (the device turns off by itself). And finally charge it to full. Do not charge it while you are discharging the battery, or interrupt the charging while charging to full. If that doesn't help, the battery might be faulty or there is something wrong on the software side of things.

  • Can also add two spaces at the end of line to force line break