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marzhall

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  • What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

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  • To be clear, I only read the first book because I was not interested in reading more (read: actively annoyed that nothing interesting happened).

    As for YA, that's easy. It falls over the tropes (which, to be fair, it could have been early/first in). This post had been a favorite of mine for years, the "Protagonist" section is 2 for 3. Where it does somewhat lean out of the genre is its world, which is not just thinly-veiled school or the like.

    As for what we actually see in the first book, though, we get an often-told YA story that happens to occur in an exceptionally well-thought out world.

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  • Oh, I have no doubt there's some Seinfeld is Unfunny effect going on.

    But unfortunately I read it in ~2020 after three decades of reading books, so every plot beat was played out for me beforehand by decades of imitators who iterated on it. Unfortunately, being first doesn't make me care about your plot.

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  • Dune.

    It's Y/A trash that had the benefit of coming out a long time ago and so being ensconced in scifi culture.

    I'll give that it is interesting for its world, its one unique aspect, but the actual plot - chosen-one special boy's dad dies and so he immediately becomes the married leader of a group of locals and stages an insurrection against the antagonist in revenge - is so worn out you can barely turn the pages.

    But I'm sure back when it came out, all the adolescents were drooling over the piles of teenage wish fulfillment.

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  • What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

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  • the Strunk & White sobriety test

    got me good

    is there an AP style variant?

  • Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies

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  • Finding holes in software has employed "fuzzing", where you send completely random payloads, as a research tactic for quite a while (and it has found exploits). LLMs just seem like "educated" fuzzing, I don't see why anyone would complain about updating your suite with them.

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  • First hit's free, man

  • One man

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  • As a person with aphantasia, I've enjoyed it since I was a child. But my parents read to me every night before bed for a long time, and so my hunch is that I latched onto it because of that positive association.

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • Ah, got my shenanigans mixed up. Danke!

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • That only happened because the wands both were using were from the same dragon or aardvark or whathaveyou.

  • Do you wash your hands after going pee?

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  • Lmao, reminds me of a college bathroom experience where someone entered, used the urinal, used the hand drier, and left.

    I was astounded.

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  • Fun fact worth noting: humans and octopodes split back when our shared bodyplan was effectively a worm who just got legs. Octopuses have been shown to be able to learn and memorize letters, patterns, their different keepers (e.g., spitting at one particular keeper they didn't like), etc., and all the intelligence they've been demonstrated to learn evolved separately from humans.

    So we've actually got two examples of "worm with newly-evolved legs" becoming pretty damn smart on Earth, not just one - which makes my bet more on the "if the biosphere got to worms with legs, there's a lot of smart stuff there"

  • Yellow Paint

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  • One Two Three Four

    I declare a thumb Woman

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  • Considering you're the only one who went negative, I think you won at being controversial!

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  • There is no moral way to raise a cat.

    Either they live inside and live an entire life in a few thousand square feet at best for 16-20 years, or you let them outside to hunt and they kill tons of wildlife and are exposed to becoming roadkill/coyote food etc.

    My personal dodge is to adopt old cats that have already been indoctrinated into inside life and who could never be let out anyway.

  • ed posting

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  • Great book, I still occasionally use its "glass teletypes" when referring to screens

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  • You see, tea is an excuse to drink sweetened half n half, which is my goal

  • Mac and cheese and smoked sausage

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  • Also a good time - an egg over easy added to the Mac n cheese. I first heard it described as "trailerpark carbonara." Would recommend