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ulyssessword
4mo ago
I enjoyed that series, but I've almost never recommended it. There is a level of autism on display that is truly mind boggling.
Yeah, I don't foresee a second opportunity any time soon. "You wanted plot in this chapter? Nah, here's a character sheet along with how the bonuses are calculated. Isn't it awesome?" (Yes, it is)
It is a better way to fill subway rides than doomscrolling, but...it disappointed me.
May I suggest the Power of Ten series? It's a solid 4/5 through all 3M words I've read so far, and I assume the other 2M will be similar.
EDIT: And instead of 170 chapters, you should be able to decide by the end of chapter 7. The first four are abnormal, and the rest are typical enough to judge it on. It does improve as it goes on, but it doesn't transform into some other kind of work.
The very rough plot summary for all of the books is (no real spoilers IMO): The world runs on Pen and Paper RPG physics (closest to D&D), and the main character has been incarnated from Earth and is familiar with the system. Using their (absurdly powerful) knowledge of the system and (honestly pretty decent, but completely overshadowed) starting buff, they make their way into the world, find a terrible problem, and
It's also very much an action story in the XKCD sense.
The setting for Book 1 is very, very strongly based on
Book 2 is
Book 3 is
Book 4 is
I haven't read books 5 or 6.
ulyssessword
4mo ago
From your first comment:
I struggle to understand how anything but higher promiscuity could explain the difference between gay and straight people contracting HIV.
This comment thread is how something other than higher promiscuity could explain the difference between gay and straight people contracting HIV. The different transmission rates of different sex acts are enough on their own with no difference in promiscuity.
Sorry, I rephrased it to make it less accusatory.
Thanks, that clarifies it. I was mostly focusing on the image, which is why I mentioned his bad comparison in a parenthetical aside instead of the main part of the comment.
The size of the moral circle was examined in that study, but was not used to generate the heatmap:
Heatmaps indicating highest moral allocation by ideology, Study 3a.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12227-0/figures/5
EDIT: nvm, they just reused the same term to refer to two different things.
That data was not used to generate the heatmap.
>Heatmaps indicating highest moral allocation by ideology, Study 3a.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12227-0/figures/5
EDIT: nvm, they just reused the same term to refer to two different things.
ulyssessword
6mo ago
The power goes in, then...? The only power expenditure he laid out is cooling the material. That deals with the inefficiency in our technology, but it is still generating free energy at its heart.
ulyssessword
7mo ago
I think I want to build self contained mini factories.
Take a look at this: https://www.themotte.org/images/17324829035101736.webp
I'm making red/green research from ore, coal, and water. It's moderately impractical, but still cool.
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ulyssessword
7mo ago
SE logistics gets a lot simpler once you get antimatter since you can make a minimalist shuttle design, copy/paste it a bunch of times, and then send them back and forth like super large expensive trains.
Leave Nauvis and settle on the smallest non-dry, non-vitemelange moon in the system. You need to build a ground base somewhere, but the planet with a deep gravity well, no special resources, and many biters isn't that good of a choice.
ulyssessword
8mo ago
Which reference class is the company purporting to be better than?
ulyssessword
9mo ago
Give it five or ten years and I'll agree with you. LLMs haven't proliferated to the same extent that search engines have.
ulyssessword
9mo ago
Do you have small cans, and a good variety of spices (from a commercial spice rack or simply self-assembled)? Just make one of each, and see how it turns out. I wouldn't imagine that cinnamon tomatoes tastes great, but I've been wrong before.
ulyssessword
10mo ago
Try using that in a conversation with a friend, and pay attention to how he/she responds. I have a feeling they would find it unnatural.
ulyssessword
10mo ago
Sure. Given the areas my commute goes through, it would speed things up for me. I suspect it would help everyone else as well.
ulyssessword
10mo ago
Good luck! Is it position number three that's broken, or the spool that you have loaded there?
ulyssessword
11mo ago
I feel like you're skipping half the argument, and I can't fill in the blanks on my own. Is it:
- ...because voting patterns would change to match the new system (why?)
- ...because the past 35 years (containing one election with Republicans ahead in the popular vote) are typical. The 130 years with only two mismatches are too old to draw conclusions from.
- the votes wouldn't change, but the new counting method would affect the results
or something else?
ulyssessword
11mo ago
I think you got the same as me. An apparent typo on the autocomplete, that goes to the real results when entered: https://imgur.com/a/eNXCArL
ulyssessword
11mo ago
I hope they have an instant hot water dispenser.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I haven't mailed anything in years, and I haven't mailed an actual letter in decades.
I'm struggling to think of when I last received a valuable piece of mail (instead of just paper copies of bills and advertisements). It might have been some Christmas cards from pre-pandemic times.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I suspect it's more effective than one made in the "political cartoon" style, even if nobody would confuse it with a candid photograph.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
You're responding to a filtered comment.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
You just need to accept that program state and file state do not need to be correlated.
Or I could continue to tilt at windmills.
I just have an odd feeling that, when you're using a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get style editor, when you see something you should also get it.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Not sure why it’s not working for me.
Try it while logged out (or in a private window). Reddit's blocking functionality is a bit strange.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I am going to die in this game-like dimension has one of the most unique worlds I've seen, even if the plot is kind of generic. It was written by a physics teacher, and it has entirely new physics: gravity pulls you to the nearest surface, cold is just as real as heat, your lungs process lavi and oxygen doesn't exist, and my personal favourite: "
Generally, the differences from earthly physics show up in a controlled scenario (such as training), then surprisingly they also show up in real situations working exactly the same way. Like, wall-running past a pit is fine because the nonexistent floor doesn't pull you down, but surely
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ulyssessword
1yr ago
Maybe
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It also shifts the comments rightwards to use up that space
And what actions does it take in pursuit of those goals?
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