rverghes
9d ago
And then you have the people on their phones while walking, going extra slow.
rverghes
9d ago
There's a recent YA fantasy series, Keeper of the Lost Cities, by Shannon Messenger, which has this "magical genetics" as an explicit plot and world building point in an otherwise fairly normal story. There's an institution in the magical society which generates a list of 100-200 potential matches for all young adults based on family history. Marrying someone on this list guarantees that all your children will have magic as well. One of the heroine's problems is that her parentage is unknown, so she is technically "unmatchable", which causes problems in her possible romances.
Unusually, the author is sticking to this plot point so far, rather than having the institution be running some sort of conspiracy. There's one likeable supporting couple, allied to the heroine, who were a pure love match, not matched by list. And it turns out that one of their children does not have magic, unlike his siblings, and he has to deal with that.
rverghes
1mo ago
If you run into this again at an Indian restaurant, order some yogurt or raita. They'll have it for sure, and it will moderate the spice the best.
rverghes
2mo ago
The only film I've left early is District 9, and that was because the shaky cam made me nauseous.
I should have walked out of Oliver Stone's Alexander. It's pretty much the only film I regret staying all the way through (and it was so long, too).
rverghes
9mo ago
One thing that I think is missing is a discussion of payment. A priest is not paid for confession, but a therapist is paid by you. That surely changes the relationship. Or maybe a comparison of therapy paid for by a third party vs first party.
rverghes
11mo ago
I don't want to ever have to see or care about staged files. My files are either being worked on or have been committed. There is no such thing as a staged file.
Maybe take a look at jujutsu: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj
It uses git as a back-end so it's completely compatible with git, but it follows the idea that you always have a commit in the works:
Working-copy-as-a-commit: Changes to files are recorded automatically as normal commits, and amended on every subsequent change. This "snapshot" design simplifies the user-facing data model (commits are the only visible object), simplifies internal algorithms, and completely subsumes features like Git's stashes or the index/staging-area.
A much better month than the last few. Maybe because there wasn't a major hot culture ware incident.
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