Finished the third arc of Future Sepsis tonight. 53,000 of a target 60,000 words, and there's absolutely no way I finish this book in a satisfying way in 7,000 words so it's going over, but my original schedule had me hitting this point near December so I've got lots of time.
One more arc and then the epilogue, then I'll be started on editing. Worst part is the book is all POV so I just get used to writing a character and they resolve their arc.
One sort of unexpected thing is that I basically finished a second book in building the scaffolding for the first, which I'll end up publishing as book 2 in the series.
It'll be exciting finishing up these projects. I think it's already something special, in some ways something really unique anywhere.
One more arc and then the epilogue, then I'll be started on editing. Worst part is the book is all POV so I just get used to writing a character and they resolve their arc.
One sort of unexpected thing is that I basically finished a second book in building the scaffolding for the first, which I'll end up publishing as book 2 in the series.
It'll be exciting finishing up these projects. I think it's already something special, in some ways something really unique anywhere.
kinda seems like a sausage party. Might be worth role playing as the club so nobody steals your ride.
Really feels like it'd be a "Hitler in Russia" moment for China if they tried to do that.
One thing that everyone should be very careful of with respect to AI is that an AI creating a program is like giving a monkey a camera -- legally that's not copyrightable work. So you don't want open source projects using AI code because open source licenses don't apply to it, and to be honest you probably don't want it in your production code either, because if too much of your code ends up produced by an ai, you could conceivably end up making your code effectively public domain.
"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: you should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody." 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
Kind of reminds me of burnt face man. "I may have a burnt face but that hasn't affected my ability to fight crime!"(And that's true but he's still shite at fighting crime)
Writing a book doesn't mean you're smart or special.
You write a book, it's like "ok, I'm doing 1000 words today", and that's something anyone can do. Anyone can pick a day and write 1000 words. They had to do it for school, they can do it in their lives. But the trick is to do that 60 times. If you do that 60 times, then you've got 60,000 words, and you've got a novel-length book. But it's just doing something anyone can do and has done, and doing it 60 times, which most people had to do in school as well.
That means that anyone who has made it through school can write a novel length book in 60 weeks doing something they can definitely do once per week. Doesn't mean it's a great book, but it's a book.
Human beings are unique in that our superpower is endurance. We didn't evolve as the strongest or the ones with big claws. We can't fly. We are smart, but arguably that came later. Our first superpower isn't our brains, it's our endurance, our willingness to keep going long after any other animal would have collapsed. That's how we became apex predators.
You write a book, it's like "ok, I'm doing 1000 words today", and that's something anyone can do. Anyone can pick a day and write 1000 words. They had to do it for school, they can do it in their lives. But the trick is to do that 60 times. If you do that 60 times, then you've got 60,000 words, and you've got a novel-length book. But it's just doing something anyone can do and has done, and doing it 60 times, which most people had to do in school as well.
That means that anyone who has made it through school can write a novel length book in 60 weeks doing something they can definitely do once per week. Doesn't mean it's a great book, but it's a book.
Human beings are unique in that our superpower is endurance. We didn't evolve as the strongest or the ones with big claws. We can't fly. We are smart, but arguably that came later. Our first superpower isn't our brains, it's our endurance, our willingness to keep going long after any other animal would have collapsed. That's how we became apex predators.
That quote was said by... Some guy...
(Stop hitting me you always hit me! ow ow ow I'm sorry!)
(Stop hitting me you always hit me! ow ow ow I'm sorry!)
As much as I really dislike the practice that they are trying to ban, I absolutely understand why the court struck it down and they were right to do so.
Ok, just renewed my domains for another 5 years. Cost a bit of cash to do, but I can't imagine my life without my websites now (I might be broken?)
The fact that Canada -- and not nice vancouver or sunny toronto, but actual Canada with winters that can reach -40C -- has tent cities is a national shame, and it happened under "Canada's natural ruling party".
Foraging for food out of necessity isn't a big leap.
Foraging for food out of necessity isn't a big leap.
Worst part isn't linear, it's exponential.
If you don't have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, nobody likes it. If you do have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, you'll be disproportionately rewarded for making something viral.
On the fediverse, every once in awhile I'll post a meme that does great, and other times I post something substantial on Yugoslavia and get pretty little engagement. But it's fine, people will see what they want to see and they won't see what they don't want to see, but who follow me will get everything -- post about Yugoslavia and the meme post. On big tech, the fact that I make a post about Yugoslavia it's typically going to mean that nobody sees my meme post because I pounded myself into the dirt through the algorithm.
If you don't have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, nobody likes it. If you do have an algorithm and you make a post nobody likes, you'll be disproportionately rewarded for making something viral.
On the fediverse, every once in awhile I'll post a meme that does great, and other times I post something substantial on Yugoslavia and get pretty little engagement. But it's fine, people will see what they want to see and they won't see what they don't want to see, but who follow me will get everything -- post about Yugoslavia and the meme post. On big tech, the fact that I make a post about Yugoslavia it's typically going to mean that nobody sees my meme post because I pounded myself into the dirt through the algorithm.
It's crazy that Yugoslavia split into so many countries afterwards. Tito was either a brilliant leader or totally screwed up the whole region.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo.
Either he was keeping a region that was destined to be split up into a thousand little countries together, or his actions fueled tensions that caused a region that could have been unified or mostly unified to become deeply balkanized.
By the way, I never realized until editing this post that Yugoslavia is actually part of the Balkan peninsula, meaning the use of the word balkanized is deeply fitting and in fact the country was formed in response to the Balkan wars where in the first war the Ottomans were expelled and in the second the different Balkan states were warring with each other pre-WWI and then World War I, both of which resulted in a large number of countries that were partially hostile to one another -- World War 1 was in fact caused as a direct result of the Balkan conflict, with a Serbian nationalist killing Franz Ferdinand)
Holy crap there's a lot of important history jammed into what from a map looks like a country changing into other countries!
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo.
Either he was keeping a region that was destined to be split up into a thousand little countries together, or his actions fueled tensions that caused a region that could have been unified or mostly unified to become deeply balkanized.
By the way, I never realized until editing this post that Yugoslavia is actually part of the Balkan peninsula, meaning the use of the word balkanized is deeply fitting and in fact the country was formed in response to the Balkan wars where in the first war the Ottomans were expelled and in the second the different Balkan states were warring with each other pre-WWI and then World War I, both of which resulted in a large number of countries that were partially hostile to one another -- World War 1 was in fact caused as a direct result of the Balkan conflict, with a Serbian nationalist killing Franz Ferdinand)
Holy crap there's a lot of important history jammed into what from a map looks like a country changing into other countries!
Ackshually inflation has averaged 2% as long as you ignore food shelter and transportation but if you need to buy an IBM XT it's cheaper than ever!
Kindle is perfect for me because I travel a lot for work and carrying 162 paperbacks with me isn't practical for either me or the poor airport security, but I try to read dead tree books to my son at home because there's something iconic about reading from a thick leather bound hardcover book.
I guess I'd have to move to audio books if I couldn't read anymore. Short form media kind of loses it's luster.
I guess I'd have to move to audio books if I couldn't read anymore. Short form media kind of loses it's luster.
In my country, the boomers re-elected the liberals to own Trump. Basically the only demographic voting that way.
I made a conscious decision to start reading again a few years back, but prior to that I read hardly at all. There's a limited number of hours in the day, and it's a habit that you need to get into.
I do have to admit most of the stuff that I read is absolute trash. But it's trash that I find entertaining, and unfortunately a lot of Western media really doesn't seem to care about whether something is entertaining or not. (And to an extent I guess I'm not stuck in traffic I am traffic -- I hope people find Future sepsis entertaining when I publish it later this year, but I do have to admit I'm writing it because it's a story I'm enjoying telling, rather than a story that I know someone else will enjoy reading)
I do have to admit most of the stuff that I read is absolute trash. But it's trash that I find entertaining, and unfortunately a lot of Western media really doesn't seem to care about whether something is entertaining or not. (And to an extent I guess I'm not stuck in traffic I am traffic -- I hope people find Future sepsis entertaining when I publish it later this year, but I do have to admit I'm writing it because it's a story I'm enjoying telling, rather than a story that I know someone else will enjoy reading)
Apple considering raising iPhone prices -- unlike what they've been doing for the past 15 years where they've been raising iPhone prices.