FD4280
2mo ago
Have you read Tom Wolfe’s “I Am Charlotte Simmons”? He gets into the basketball talent pipeline in some detail.
FD4280
2mo ago
There is no coverup of poor institutional practices in math. They’re in plain sight, and often equally screwed up at the college level.
FD4280
2mo 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).
FD4280
2mo ago
They may go beyond. Coleridge’s is clearly based on “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” but throws in bits of “Kubla Khan” too.
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.
Just started Ruocchio’s Empire of Silence.
On one hand, it rubs me the wrong way: it feels like a sausage made of three parts Frank Herbert (brazenly stolen tropes: parallel backstory to the Butlerian Jihad with tech limitations and mentats, a galactic empire with rigid classes, personal shields against high velocity weapons, family atomics) to one part Gene Wolfe (first person with an overload of archaic vocabulary. Too early to tell, but I’m about certain that the narrator will turn out to be unreliable as well), with an epsilon of originality in the casing. Or maybe there’s a third influence I’ve never encountered that I’m mistaking for originality.
On the other hand, it is interesting and more accessible than either influence so far.
Edit: Maybe more Wolfe than I thought. The genetically engineered nobility reflects The Fifth Head of Cerberus and its clones.
FD4280
3mo ago
What sort of disability? Can you mitigate its consequences through physical therapy or technology?
FD4280
3mo 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
3mo 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
3mo ago
Batumi was a pretty popular resort in the Soviet era, so you’re underestimating Adjara, even if only counting Americans.
I was aware of Gagauz people but not the autonomous region.
FD4280
3mo ago
I think there’s a “hunted” type start in CDDA, if you’re willing to go through that learning curve.
FD4280
3mo ago
There’s a regional burger chain in the US called In-N-Out (with bible verses printed on their cups and wrappers, so the double entendre is probably not intentional).
FD4280
3mo ago
Huh, Borzoi is not even unflattering. I guess the unflattering ones are either pitbull-adjacent or have very flat snouts.
FD4280
3mo ago
You know what would best contribute to the well-being of your hypothetical kids, barring some giant leap in embryo selection or tremendous wealth? Young parental age. Lower probability of various defects, and parents (and hopefully grandparents!) energetic and healthy enough to give them all the play and development they need.
FD4280
3mo 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
3mo 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
3mo 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?
Do you think that this effect mostly comes from the relative increase in calorie intake to compensate for the exercise?
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