FD4280
1mo ago
Topical for Greenwald and maybe his opposition!
Braces -> LISP -> lisping -> male homosexuality -> also topical for Greenwald with some stretching? So maybe brackets.
FD4280
8mo ago
Thinking back on it, I retract my judgment from RTwP. Neverwinter and Dragon Age 1/2 were perfectly playable. The thing that turned me off was the Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment engine, which had low-level casters with few spells per rest and concurrently made resting a pain in the ass. Thus casters were a liability 80%+ of the time. Never finished BG1 because of this (Torment was good enough to suck it up for the duration) and haven’t tried BG2.
FD4280
8mo ago
Nope - what I know in the area is downstream of coursework and messing around with Project Euler.
FD4280
8mo ago
Mind sharing some details, or mentioning when you have it on Arxiv? It’d be really cool to have something better than Miller-Rabin, followed by trial division over a pre-generated list of primes if composite.
FD4280
10mo ago
I did not know that such browser extensions exist and will have to look into it. Similarly, no idea about the dev console, but he's on a work computer without admin privileges - any installations have to go through IT.
FD4280
10mo ago
I think there’s a “hunted” type start in CDDA, if you’re willing to go through that learning curve.
FD4280
11mo ago
I keep getting weeks of wet cough with a huge amount of mucus (with no other apparent symptoms) after each instance of respiratory illness. This has been happening for over a year. Could I please get some suggestions for what this might be and maybe working around it? Currently uninsured, so seeing a specialist is out for the moment.
FD4280
13d 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
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.
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.
FD4280
6mo ago
Go to db.chgk.info instead of reinventing the wheel. You don’t even have to translate the stuff :)
FD4280
7mo ago
Do modern people generally consider Julius Caesar (whose campaigns in Gaul were probably within an order of magnitude of all Vikings across all time wrt killing and slavery) a monster?
FD4280
7mo ago
If you don’t set the high bar at prodigy level, we have counterexamples in Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.
FD4280
7mo ago
There’s a Roald Dahl short story with a similarly structured (much tamer but profoundly uncomfortable) punchline.
O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” comes to mind, too, but that one is heartwarming.
FD4280
8mo ago
Do you really prefer RTwP over turn-based? I’ll grant that it works well in Faster Than Light (and is preferable to the singularly shitty turn-based implementation in Fallout Tactics, which runs both options), but for the most part, the good games that have it are good in spite of it.
If Mistborn is at all representative, there’s a long way to fall yet.
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