FD4280
9mo ago
Nine novels and a short story collection, starting with The Blade Itself. They don’t start as polished as Half a King, but the first five are much better overall (and the rest are at least comparable).
FD4280
11mo ago
From personal observations: a humongous portion of 3, with a greater opportunity cost bringing men down (comparative attractiveness of a runner’s physique between the sexes and the sheer suck of running with extra muscle mass if you also lift).
For comparison, look at high level chess.
FD4280
1yr ago
Nope, just watched a bit of playthrough and thought it was too good to spoil.
FD4280
1yr ago
Not very recent, and the production values are poor, but the Geneforge series might be up your alley.
FD4280
1yr ago
That’s an argument for not discriminating against groups that have a reasonable chance of producing 100x people. As stated, it requires a heavy dose of blank slatism on top.
FD4280
1yr ago
The non-STEM calculus is usually horribly watered down, and in a weaker school may never deal with anything more complicated than polynomials. Life science calc, where it exists, cuts out trig in favor of early work with exponentials and logs, and is much more computational, but at least it doesn’t purge limits from the curriculum.
FD4280
1yr ago
No offense taken. I took up Project Euler two years ago, when grad school felt unbearable between some personal issues, Covid fanaticism, Zoom-based teaching, and figuring out that I wasn't good enough for number theory. (The last was always a possibility, it was just an extra layer of suck on top of the others). So I optimized for enjoyment. In fairness, the PhD program was for enjoyment to begin with - I'd gone into the master's with the goal of teaching community college and ended up liking pure math way too much. Now it's time to grow up.
Screwed lower back and pretty much all arm/hand joints. Chronic pain, now mostly manageable with NSAIDs and very light barbell squats.
Tedious work toward (hopefully) a useful goal for a non-woke employer will be a massive quality of life improvement.
FD4280
1yr ago
I have a heap of Project Euler solutions, many of which are reasonably complicated. I haven't used version control, and collaboration on past projects was mainly in meatspace.
FD4280
1yr ago
Cetirizine hydrochloride works wonders for me, but must be taken daily and takes several days to kick in.
FD4280
1yr ago
Seconding homeschooling. If you can teach them the Art of Problem Solving curriculum, awesome. If not, you might get some mileage out of it yourself.
FD4280
1yr ago
Then at least one of three possibilities must hold true:
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The interviewed population was far broader than Vermont and Maine state prisoners.
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Serious cherry-picking of interviewees took place.
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Vermont and/or Maine have diversity quotas for their prisoner population; gangs of New England slavers roam the country to fill said quotas.
Seriously, I have a hard time picturing any state except maybe Alaska with that kind of minority breakdown in its prison population.
FD4280
1yr ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZIniljT5lJI
(The bleeped version is way better, but this one is mine)
FD4280
1mo ago
Fantastic nature, small enough to avoid soul-crushing traffic, comparatively sane government, and freedom to homeschool with decent private options if you’re not into that.
If I could tolerate remote work, it would be my top choice in the US.
Is this in a location with an extremely high cost of living?
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