FD4280
11mo ago
The best old evidence we have is that she passed the bar on the second try, with the ameliorating factor of the California bar being somewhat nastier than the norm. So she’s probably at least as intelligent as Hillary, who also took two attempts (with preparation in a better law school, for whatever that is worth, and not in Cali).
How difficult is the bar, anyhow?
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.
FD4280
10mo ago
It’s an existential gamble, but Ukraine has the brainpower to develop nukes without external help (and their uranium deposits are west of the Dnieper).
A link stolen from DSL: http://www.francisheaney.com/holy-tango-of-literature/
A parody poetry collection, where an anagram of the poet’s name is chosen to examine in the poet’s style. Enjoyable even if you’re not well-read; I’m not.
Highlights: Shakespeare, Chaucer, Poe, and Larkin.
FD4280
4mo ago
The untranslated word in his mind was almost certainly “pidoraz.” He was picturing child molestors where you pictured consenting homosexuals.
FD4280
11mo ago
I'm trying to help a friend automate a data entry task: read a row from Excel, and paste some subset of the entries into appropriate text boxes on a website in Chrome. My friend is not within driving distance, and I'd like to do it with a minimum amount of installations on his computer.
I'm most comfortable with Python. The first portion of the task can be handled straightforwardly with the Pandas package. Is Selenium the best way to handle the output?
FD4280
11mo ago
I’m on your side and it wasn’t immediately obvious without actually attempting the search as written. You should not assume bad faith here.
FD4280
21d 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
10mo ago
Have you read Tom Wolfe’s “I Am Charlotte Simmons”? He gets into the basketball talent pipeline in some detail.
FD4280
7d ago
Finished Sharpe’s Tiger by Bernard Cornwell. I’d love to read more historical fiction of this quality, especially set in India.
FD4280
23d 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
5mo ago
Kordemsky’s Moscow Puzzles are a nice supplementary resource. Maybe Art of Problem Solving prealgebra.
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
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
9mo 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
9mo ago
Struck me as very childish. Stopped there.
In retrospect, Hunter X Hunter had the same issue and turned out great. Might be grounds for giving it another shot.
They (counting unified/Western only) also averaged 6-7 years on the job. I can’t think of one who was replaced and lived afterwards.
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