FD4280
23d ago
Learned of him from HPMOR. Feels similar to Timur Shaov (but not as mean). National Brotherhood Week and The Masochism Tango stand out.
FD4280
23d ago
~100 miles for 4 and 6, and at least that for 1 and 2.
Walmart is 3 miles out. Farms are closer than that, mostly wheat, some cattle ranches.
FD4280
1mo ago
Doomer. If a civil war couldn’t happen over Covid, it’s not going to happen at all. Maybe an uncontested secession or three.
FD4280
1mo ago
I think I previously watched/read a few that were set in Europe, and wasn’t too impressed with either. I don’t enjoy TV very much in the first place, and the books felt much weaker than Cornwell’s Arthurian/Viking-Saxon/medieval archer book series or Patrick O’Brien’s works.
This one was a nice surprise.
FD4280
1mo ago
Finished Sharpe’s Tiger by Bernard Cornwell. I’d love to read more historical fiction of this quality, especially set in India.
FD4280
1mo ago
Dungeon Crawler Carl, on the third book. It’s decently fun after the disappointing “The Devils” from Abercrombie.
The latter was not that bad, by the way. I just have to accept that Abercrombie will never reach the level of his first five books again.
FD4280
1mo ago
Arklatex sounds like software for reverting typeset math into bad handwriting.
FD4280
2mo ago
You have P(dad is bald | son is balding). If you can find P(bald) and P(born to a bald dad) - assuming the latter doesn’t impact the sex ratio - you could use Bayes’ Theorem instead of searching for P(son is balding | dad is bald).
FD4280
2mo ago
For reference, where do you stand on Worth The Candle and Mother of Learning?
FD4280
2mo ago
Hamas would have scavenged such a facility long before it produced anything. Rockets now or nukes later? The decision practically makes itself.
FD4280
2mo ago
Topical for Greenwald and maybe his opposition!
Braces -> LISP -> lisping -> male homosexuality -> also topical for Greenwald with some stretching? So maybe brackets.
FD4280
3mo ago
It must take tremendous restraint to avoid the phrase “pissed off” in sharing this story.
FD4280
4mo ago
Langrisser is great for F2P challenge accounts with a deliberately gimped roster. Arknights is also good in that regard.
FD4280
4mo ago
The Union has gulags out of sight in Angland; one of the main characters had run such a gulag just prior to the novels, and sends people there during.
FD4280
4mo ago
Seconding the First Law, with the caveat that some of the (six) protagonists fail pretty hard on the hypocrisy metric.
Bach - pretty much everything, but the catalog #1052 keyboard concerto stands above the rest. Glenn Gould is a wonderful choice here.
Mozart - Sonata #8, symphonies #25 and 40. Probably anything else he composed in minor key is brilliant too.
Beethoven’s violin and third piano concertos. Appassionata. Symphonies 5 and 7.
Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.
Chopin’s first piano concerto.
Grieg’s piano concerto.
Dvorak’s cello concerto.
Sibelius’s violin concerto. You want Oistrakh’s recording.
Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto.
Shostakovich’s 5th symphony.
Sviridov’s Snowstorm suite.
This brings to mind a What? Where? When? question that's much funnier than it has any right to be.
(finish with a slightly modified literary quote for the last line).
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