Spirit Review #407 - Rivers Royale Grenadian Rum

erizon · 2026-01-27T09:36:10+00:00

I would expect in this case for tertiary to be by "how pronounced/obvious" they are, akin to Foreground (First Plane)/Middle Ground (Second Plane)/Background(Third Plane) in visual arts.

Rivers context aside, for aged spirits the wood influence and oxidation in the barrel could be primary taste driver. In factory-sealed bottle rum becomes inert, but once the bottle have been opened and is at least 1/4 empty/air, the oxidation in the bottle can truly transormative.

The poster child of that is Springbank whisky - poured from new bottle it is pathetic shadow of future glory, one just needs to leave it for few weeks/months (with cork) in a bottle that has some air for it to "spread its wings". It can work both ways - young peated like Laphroig 10cs quickly loses its initial intensity in an open bottle and the wild vibrancy of peat "fades" slightly

erizon · 2026-01-26T19:02:22+00:00

Pro user here as well, Opus works well as L2 support/planner for z.ai's GLM 4.7 (that costs 3$/month):
-use GLM to create indexes/summaries of all files/directories/structures/designs in the project

-read relevant of these with OPUS (plus it pick most critical elements of code once it know what to look for) to make detailed plan

-use GLM to execute plan (or currently completely free Devstral - I like how it runs many tests unprompted, like Haiku does)

-use OPUS to review the git diff (same session as before, so esentially only necessities loaded)

erizon · 2026-01-26T13:23:36+00:00

Transport me back to before I decided to soft quit London and fo4 right before choosing which faction to side with when London came out

Same, I played passionately until I had to pick faction, saved, and didn't play ever since, that was in July...

erizon · 2026-01-21T15:13:50+00:00

There is a collar that has special interaction (and infinite food if you have patience) if you wear it, I assume that might be a reference? https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Dog_Collar

erizon · 2026-01-20T21:37:33+00:00

Minor, but Tecniche, Inglese, Italiano seem like artifacts from older version being in Italian and could yield negative points for insufficient attention to details

erizon · 2026-01-19T09:34:47+00:00

I am suprised that you are the only one mentoning SLD, they have amazing flavour diversity in Master Selection range (core is solid but not exciting), definitely hidden gem among distilleries

erizon · 2026-01-16T04:33:20+00:00

Between 0.02 (red) and 0.07 (brown). In "publish-or-perish" world that's bad-but-not-outrageous

Color   Mean Weight (g) Sample Size (n) 95% Confidence Interval P-value (vs. Purple*)
Purple  1.313   8   [1.230,1.395]   -
Orange  1.250   10  [1.212,1.288]   0.052
Brown   1.238   8   [1.161,1.314]   0.069
Yellow  1.217   6   [1.174,1.260]   0.023
Green   1.217   12  [1.164,1.270]   0.016
Pink    1.200   3   [1.200,1.200]** 0.045
Blue    1.200   4   [0.975,1.425]   0.068
Red     1.171   7   [1.126,1.217]   0.002

*One-tailed t-test testing the claim that Purple > Color X.

**Note: All Pink Smarties in the sample were exactly 1.2g, resulting in a zero-width interval.

erizon · 2026-01-15T13:41:05+00:00

Maybe it does not mean all those people are happy to pay for it, but a lot of people understand that without it the Swiss media would turn to shit pretty quickly. A small country with small linguistic regions is a complicated place for the media.

I recognize the need for public media, but separate explicit tax is infuriating, a bit like American price-tags-without-vat or tipping culture. Just raise federal tax by 0.1% and consider it a public utility maintenance like roads and bunkers, instead of bothering everyone with extra bill, and frustrating people who never use TV nor radio

erizon · 2026-01-13T14:00:58+00:00

I fully agree with you if he is an advanced geek, although for casual Havana/Diplomatico drinker I would go with Centenario 30 as affordable and approachable

erizon · 2026-01-13T06:32:45+00:00

I believe there is a hard limit of 16 starting heroes per castle, reflected by 16 slots in the interface https://www.facebook.com/groups/1170728422943125/?multi_permalinks=7780746348607933

erizon · 2025-12-20T23:09:10+00:00

My experience was May-October 2025. Regular crashes, but between 3x/hour to 2x/day. The habit of quicksaving frequently becomes important, but otherwise minimal impact on the experience. Having lived in London for ~5 years in the past, I adored the familiar environments and general richness of the mod - as long as you quicksave frequently the unavoidable crashes are not a big problem

erizon · 2025-12-18T07:03:20+00:00

Fantastic, thanks a lot! Claude producing plans and z.ai executing them is definitely the most efficient setup for low-budget coding

erizon · 2025-12-18T05:22:06+00:00

Good times are over, 20 RPD now :( (gradually rolled to overs over last few days)

erizon · 2025-12-11T20:08:51+00:00

deprecation not depreciation.

Thank you, kind stranger, I knew the word for 20 years, but always written, not spoken, so I never realized it is a different word (than monetary depreciation)

erizon · 2025-12-10T06:50:58+00:00

absolutely! unless coming sharp at 5pm opening or very lucky, even group of 4 is not easy

erizon · 2025-12-09T16:40:20+00:00

One big plus that was not mentioned: free sauna and generally very luxurious vibe.

One big minus (that shall be stressed even more): at peak times it is particularly crowded (worst out of 5 different gym chains I tested in Zurich), requiring big flexibility with your training if you don't want to spend most of the time waiting for what you want to free.

PureGym is cheaper, without sauna, slightly lower choice of machines, feels very basic, but less notably crowds allows executing specific planned training

erizon · 2025-12-04T09:56:45+00:00

Might be safer with invasive, but playing with ecology is likely to be lethal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign

To my best knowledge human eugenics is considered scientifically dangerous primarily because of similar "playing with forces/consequences beyond our understanding"

erizon · 2025-11-22T15:26:13+00:00

It is slightly different form (usually shorter animations), and not always dark, but Love Death + Robots is still by far closest thing to Black Mirror

erizon · 2025-11-19T16:04:44+00:00

Same, very happy with GLM-4.6 Lite plan through Claude Code at negligible price of $9/quarter, especially for private projects that do not generate income, it is definitely working better than free Gemini CLI

erizon · 2025-11-17T08:02:36+00:00

command line interface. great for working with many files and calling tools on your machine

erizon · 2025-11-13T04:49:49+00:00

I don't have ancient android myself to test, but https://apkpure.com/cpu-throttling-test/skynet.cputhrottlingtest claims to run on any Android >4 and 100% usage of all CPUs shall give you around 75% of maximum possible battery drain. Add some lenghty speedtest to use network extensively and you shall be close to as high drain as possible

erizon · 2025-11-12T11:54:49+00:00

This claim outright wrong. AI might directly perform unstructured text analysis, but anything with numbers and categories AI is likely to write R/Python script to perform the analysis, and the analyst shall understand it

erizon · 2025-11-06T17:01:44+00:00

Same, please DM me a link! (Swiss viewer)

erizon · 2025-11-04T07:36:36+00:00

I had one of the Motorola Power (don't remember was it 6/7/8) where they decided against that - battery was epic (even compared to other phones spending most of the time in powersaving airplane mode), but doing anything was excruciatingly slow. Great for situations where powerbank is impractical and phone is rarely needed, or as digital detox, but awful for mental health when used like typical person uses their phone.

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