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Which was wonderful, and a breath of fresh air. But Rothfuss’s prose is what makes his books as good as they are, in my opinion.

I absolutely love Brandon Sanderson. He’s my favorite author. So keep that in mind when I say this:

I don’t think Brandon Sanderson is up to the task of mimicking Rothfuss’s prose.

LLMs are really bad with letters, and in my limited understanding that’s because they don’t see words as strings of letters, they see them as tokens. It’s all numbers by the time the LLM is processing it.

But fsck (file system check) instead of fuck is a Unix joke. I think it’s fine.

Otherwise I broadly agree with you. It’s why I’ve adopted the swearing from Stormlight Archive for use around audiences that I shouldn’t swear around.

The “gunk” is just mineral deposits, right?

Sure, I get what you’re saying. You can watch the video of their meeting, it’s online. I haven’t watched it myself but I have seen writeups about it.

Yeah. When someone told me, “If you agree to pay a fee, for three years they won’t give you a patdown every time you fly because you won’t have to use the scanner that thinks fat people are smugglers, and you won’t have to take your shoes off” my first thought was “fuck yes” and my second thought was “isn’t that the definition of racketeering?”

(Also my very first time using TSA Precheck I was flagged for “random screening” and TSA got one last revenge patdown in. 🙄)

That’s the face of someone with the instincts to be ingratiating and the dementia required to forget who he’s supposed to hate.

The man who said Chuck Schumer came to meet him and brought “a very nice man,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a man he meets with regularly but whom he had completely forgotten.

It feels like they’ve been saying the REAL ID would be required for years, and keep pushing it back. Now they’re like, “We’re so serious you guys. It’s for national security. No bad actor will pay $45.”

How much cough medicine was involved in the creation of this video?

Guten Morgen Klaus.

Oof. Worst time of the year to lose half your singing range if you’re a choral singer. Unless you want to get out of all the holiday concerts. 😂

Seriously though, I’m sorry to hear that. The first time I had COVID it did a number on my voice. I’m not convinced I’ve ever completely recovered, because singing isn’t as easy as I remember it being. I require more breath support than I used to, and sometimes struggle to maintain intonation on surprising notes. Like, not low or high in my range, notes that should be easy.

But it’s better now than it was right after COVID. Much better. I hope yours improves!

OP said it was in a conference room. Good catch!

Holy shit.

Seriously?

He does such a good job. I wish he’d be a bit less clickbait-y, but I understand private equity investment means he kinda has to play the game, like many other very good YouTube channels (Veritasium springs to mind).

Like the flight where the pilots got lost above Kathmandu and flew right into a cliff like driving into a wall.

(I saw an Air Disasters/Mayday/Air Crash Investigation episode about that one years ago and it really stuck with me. Recently Mentour Pilot did a good episode about it.)

Technically, the 10 commandments tell believers not to be envious. Not to envy your neighbor’s stuff.

Envy is “I wish I had what someone else has.”

Jealousy is “I’m worried someone else will take what should be mine.”

(Though in modern English “jealous” has largely absorbed the meaning for “envious,” I think the distinction is worth making because both concepts are individually useful.)

Since the first commandment is “you shall have no other gods before me,” God being “a jealous God” fits the 10 commandments well.

Starstruck Vagabond, Yahtzee Croshaw’s game.

It’s a well-designed game, and he documented much of the development process on YouTube. It has a dopamine-laden primary gameplay loop that involves either manually piloting your ship around a star system to complete missions, or letting the autopilot fly while you run around your ship making repairs as needed.

I wouldn’t say it’s fun, but it’s not necessarily supposed to be fun, in the way that Papers Please is not meant to be fun. It’s mostly about the living as a star freighter pilot. What plot there is is driven by other characters coming in and interrupting the drudgery.

But I love playing it before bed. It winds me down nicely. And it’s perfect for the Steam Deck.

I used to use Stardew Valley as my wind-down game but I found I was staying up much later because “just one more day-itis” sets in. Starstruck Vagabond I can just save and put down whenever.

Edit: Oh, also it’s tangentially related to his Jacques McKeown book series, Will Save the Galaxy for Food, Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash, and Will Leave the Galaxy for Good.

I just want something to make this coughing stop

Pseudoephedrine (decongestant), dextromethorphan (cough suppressant), guafenesin (expectorant), and either ibuprofen or acetaminophen/paracetamol (pain relief/fever reduction). Or some other substitutions.

“Advil Cold and Sinus” is a brand name for the ibuprofen/pseudoephendrine combination over the border in Michigan. I assume you can get it at a pharmacy in Canada, but to get the actually good stuff I’m guessing you have to ask a pharmacist, because at least in the US it’s behind the counter due to pseudoephedrine’s use as a precursor for methamphetamine.

You can get dextromethorphan and guafenesin in cough syrup, though sometimes you can also get it in pill form. Careful, some cough syrups also contain acetaminophen/paracetamol.

You can also go the easy route of DayQuil/NyQuil or equivalents, this is usually effective enough for mild cases but I like to get the pseudoephedrine for the bad ones.

With a viral infection generally the only thing worth doing is fighting the symptoms. Your body will clear the infection with time. Using antibiotics appears to work because the infection was going to clear anyway. So you take the antibiotics and the viral infection goes away, but it would also have gone away had you not taken the antibiotics. But of course you can’t copy yourself and test this.

Edit: Oh, be sure to eat something when you take ibuprofen or your stomach will not be happy with you.