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I finished up Incurable Graphomania. After reading harassment architecture, I'm in a minor self-published author vortex. I saw this title....somewhere? Recommended? and bought it on only the basis of that, the title, and the cover art.

The blurb on the back is accurate. It intrigued even my wife. The writing is exactly what you'd expect based on the author's name. I see the same cadences, themes, and texture in many of the posts here from those who have hail from Russia or the baltic states.

This unfortunately means that despite the variety in subject matter, the short story collection felt very similar throughout. Anna did not utilize the technique I see from other collections like this where symbols are shared, or an overriding universe. It fixates on the geographic area near Washington D.C.. I've never considered it worth it to have a deep cultural knowledge of this region, so that effectively meant nothing.

The stories are consistently good. Light horror, dry comedy, irony, sadness. One of them was admittedly so awful that after a paragraph I scanned the rest, saw that it was just a jumble of meaningless words, and moved on.

For this post, I scanned another much more fawning interview/review to reference if you're on the fence. I have not finished it (longer than some of the short stories) but I respect her and enjoyed my time reading it.

4/5?

I will always try to turn people onto Petey, who just dropped a new single Model Train Town.

It's great, but his best track (maybe?) is Freedom to Fuck Off.

Mine around 2? Pretty much after walking. They go to daycare so I don't know when they picked it up. I'm a gun nut who wanted to wait till they're older but they've started having sticks and pistols and rifles very early.

Will once again support this. The performance of my $200 bookshelves is lightyears beyond any soundbar I've heard

I have to thumbs up this - those who have not toasted sweet breakfast breads like the above are missing out. A muffin cut in half and then fried in butter like this is absolutely sublime.

I can tell you when I ruminated about this I wanted a person to make my interest, not a bank.

Then I realized that @Quantumfreakonomics had it right and nobody wanted to make less than the S&P 500 for 30 years, or if they did they'd buy bonds.

I also realized when someone asked for a seller's loan my very first thought was "fuck you, if you can't get a loan from a bank why would I trust you?"

I had my parents loan me part of a down payment at min interest and paid it back within 2 years. Your parents should be able to trust you enough to loan you the money and it's better for them to lever you up now than when they're dead.

Semver is one of a couple programming concepts that are widely applicable. Mostly my field is full of cutesy bullshit that prevents the art from being taken seriously (PHP? Gulp/Grunt/JavaScript in general?) but yeah, it's awesome.

Jesus Christ, BB replacement has been such a pain for me. I too had a square taper, but purchased one of the incorrect depth to start. The manufacturers don't even list what you have anymore since they use interchangable suppliers, and my budget hybrid bike had one that failed after a measley 2,500 miles which is absolutely pathetic for such a basic component.

Between the opaque nature of diagnosing it and the need for specialized tools, it's the bike repair job that gets the biggest thumbs down from me.

If you haven't checked out the park tool videos on YouTube yet for these things, do. They're awesome at least.

This is exactly my thought. Building an encrypted message chat with superior data retention and querying capabilities for real-time comms like this is... not optional?

Why are they spawning off special chats for this one operation, for instance? That alone is a security/ops hole. My org has an entire policy to ensure our real-time messaging stays meticulously organized to ensure leaders and doers aren't overwhelmed with threads, context is maintained, the whole nine yards. Yet the executive branch has to hack with something like this?

The hypocrisy of Hillary's email whining is a bit strong. But it begs the question of how exactly government officials are supposed to communicate in real time, given the inadequacy of email as a format.

I agree. I suppose it doesn't matter - the NPCs are going to read a headline instead of the conversation, and I doubt any of them have functional relationships with their bosses. But this seems like a total nothingburger. No way Vance actually shits on the president with 17 of his other closest advisors.

I strongly disagree. If this guy was stupid enough to let in not just a journalist, but one part of an organization that is an ideological enemy of the administration, who's to say he can't be spearphished by an adversary with a passing knowledge of the English language?

It is an enormous fuckup.

Good luck man, hope it's awesome.

Dear Lord man.

It seems like a fully generalizable statement that more funding=on average better service

You can find dozens of graphs showing how much we spend on education vs the results we get. The relationship is almost the inverse of what you've said here.

Do you truly have no qualms with the explosion of over-"educated" people being churned out of universities? The outright fraud at community colleges where dropouts keep their grant money?

I understand the naive desire to have everyone go to college. It's an extremely fun part of life. Stupid people with worthless degrees being there to party with is part of it.

But the cost disease the fed government has wrought on every single stage of education is staggering. The music has to stop here. It's too obvious and too simple to fix, unlike problems such as healthcare.

I've been thinking along the same lines recently. All this power, and nothing to do with it.

I plan to leverage more translate technology this summer while traveling internationally.

Unique capabilities tend to be locked behind high-quality paid apps at the least it seems like. I have a digital reference for knot tying which is really awesome. It shows you a progression of how to tie a not, classifies them based on usage, and let's your rotate and adjust the view. Great for camping with a bunch of other idiot nerds.

PDF scanning has gotten great.

Someone went ahead and built the application I've dreamed about making myself for 3 years for managing trips. It's not the way I would have done it, and it needs some serious work in the desktop/web UX department, but even the free version is nice. I'll admit this is just a fancy spreadsheet so it's not a true net-new capability.

I cut down from 5 reading projects down to 2 and it's helped velocity enormously.

Worst case, do the "snowball" algorithm and finish what you're closest to finishing.

Yes and I hate it. There's only 365 days in a year, and so especially with these examples (which are blown out of proportion on purpose) it's so obviously a technique to imply they're earth shattering events that will own a day for the rest of human existence.

His sister is a psychiatrist not pharmacist

Well I put $450k into the market at the same time. Proceeds from a real estate sale. I'm only down 6% but....

Hopefully that puts it in perspective. I'm frustrated at the same people you are, it'll end up in the wash!

I have to admit that Musk's overall accuracy has fallen off a proverbial cliff, from my view. Previously he'd drop some redpill truths that others wouldn't touch but were ultimately factual. Now it feels like a coin flip as to whether or not what he's posting is real. That's not super different than the hit rate for the journalistic / expert class but it still feels lower.

I'm glad you can vouch for its "authenticity." I've always known that the romantic rhythms in Ireland are different from those where I grew up, and seeing them represented in a novel is one of the reasons I really liked it.

I finished the two novels I started in Feb a couple weeks ago.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

I picked this up digitally after seeing @SubstantialFrivolity 's review. I largely agree with what he wrote but have some additional observations:

A society with a dearth of women is an interesting concept. Historically, what it's led to is almost exclusively heavily utilized prostitution (this is fresh on my mind, given that I just read about the American West). Heinlein goes the opposite way here and posits that men in a more cultured society would revere and protect women even more than they do so now, that consent would be cherished, and that rape would be considered far worse than murder. Once again, this is a concept close at hand for me, given that I happened to stumble across Lara Logan's horrifying story and have had the concept of rape just.... appear more than normal in various contexts.

I'm less down on the polycule aspect, and I think that the idea of linear marriages is compelling. The archetype of a man trading in his wife for a younger one is widespread for a reason. Frankly, I think many of them would keep the older wife if they could, but ultimately make the choice for sex over love and wisdom. The fact that this sort of familial structure simply doesn't exist even with widespread acceptance of polyamory means probably nobody else finds it appealing, though.

The Lunar pidgin dialect that the book is written in made it read "fast" for me. It was very businesslike and to the point, with very few extraneous details. Sometimes this felt more like a textbook on how a revolution is run instead of a story because of this pacing.

My primary criticism is perhaps twofold: The character of Wyoh is introduced and essentially disappears for the back 2/3 of the novel, and the computer as a character is more of a deus ex machina than anything else. Speaking of the latter, it is truly hilarious how much Heinlein undershot computing power estimates in many ways.

Conversations with Friends

After having such a great time reading "Normal People" I decided to dig into this one. In short, a disappointment.

Compared to the first of Sally's books I read, this one had far more unlikeable characters and dug into more culture war crap than I had hoped. The protagonists are insufferable Irish college students (two of them spoken word poetry phenoms if that gives you any indication of where this is going) and basically details a couple of unrealistic relationships in a group.

I can't help but wonder how much Sally knew these people sucked. I get the impression she's pretty into lame, midrange-for-the-uk political views and just got lucky keeping her opinions to herself in "Normal People".

On the plus side, the protagonist is a 21-year-old girl and is actually as stupid as we all were at that age (making immature and emotional decisions, etc.), so that at least felt realistic. As always, the sex scenes are pretty nice, and the build-up to them is paced well. I don't feel like I wasted my team reading it but there are better books out there for sure.

Next in the Queue is:

  • Cryptonomicon
  • My Brilliant Friend
  • Anathem

This is interesting to hear since Trump ultimately defended Zelensky not wearing a suit before the blowup.

The first half of this post filled me with Dread. I have always considered BJJ and to hear the positive side of it, I was convinced I'd have to do it.

I've always been, frankly, scared of stepping into combat sports. I am not a winner at any sport - consistently Luigi to someone's Mario. That's bad enough in things as trivial as racing - applied to combat sports it just sounds like too much of an emasculating exercise.

Then there's keeping to a rigorous schedule which seems impossible with my work and children.

Between that and the potential for injury that would affect now essentially 3 sports I..... Think this is a safe pass on something to take up?

Despite all this I've always considered it so irresponsible to have no martial arts prowress. I'm extremely bad at carrying regularly and your body is a weapon you have with you all the time.

I guess I'm asking a bit for your take on it given all that

The interview was conducted in his home in this case