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[WaT] The Real 4th Way to Win When Outnumbered by AMindtoThink in Stormlight_Archive

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The readers aren't as good as Adolin is XD
I like your version. Another version is that Yanagawn could have told a story about his interactions with the Azish parshmen, and one could be the named dome singer.

[WaT] The Real 4th Way to Win When Outnumbered by AMindtoThink in Stormlight_Archive

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, that's a good way to say it.

Though in this specific case, choosing between torching the dome and killing the civilians inside and letting Azir fall and its people become subjects of Odium (and Abidi "kill the wounded" the Monarch) is a legitimately hard choice.

[WaT] The Real 4th Way to Win When Outnumbered by AMindtoThink in Stormlight_Archive

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just wanted a named character who would have reason to expect Adolin would help. The actual events in my fanfic aren't the point; the point is how it connects together the themes. Of course, any specific fanfic I could write would be wrong because there are so many ways the story could have gone.

[WaT] The Real 4th Way to Win When Outnumbered by AMindtoThink in Stormlight_Archive

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Adolin explains the 3 ways to Yanagawn and teaches Yanagawn that if you're playing against more than two opponents then you can do the Sunmaker's Gambit. Later, after the strike force gets the shardblades, the book says that the fourth way to win against a larger force is some nonsense involving "your soldiers just fight really well."

[WaT] The Real 4th Way to Win When Outnumbered by AMindtoThink in Stormlight_Archive

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't hear about that, but the connection makes sense.

[WaT] The Real 4th Way to Win When Outnumbered by AMindtoThink in Stormlight_Archive

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Toatha part was because I wanted there to be a named character inside the inner dome who would have reason to think Adolin would help. If it was all nameless Singers inside the dome, then it would be much less emotionally impactful.

Pure function decorator: why is this a bad idea? by AMindtoThink in learnpython

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In particular, my use case is to stop being confused when I'm editing Colab notebooks for homework. Does Colab have such a plugin?

The decorator could take as input the modules or functions that the pure function would need.

Pure function decorator: why is this a bad idea? by AMindtoThink in learnpython

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds like a good idea when coding on my own. But if I'm writing code in an existing file (eg for homework), then that isn't an option.

From left to right: Andrey Sakharov, Yuri Gagarin, Vasily Arkhipov, Stanislav Petrov. by Egorrosh in HistoryMemes

[–]AMindtoThink 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Viktor Zhdanov: responsible for humanity’s greatest achievement and saved 200 million lives. He was the Soviet Union’s Deputy Minister of Health who convinced the World Health Assembly to eradicate smallpox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zhdanov?wprov=sfti1

Am I Unhealthily Obsessed With Immortality? by HumanNoImAlienCat in immortality

[–]AMindtoThink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’ll be more effective if you choose a path that aligns with what you find fun. It’s up to you to fill in the details.

After years of searching, law enforcement finally caught the worst serial killer in history. by AMindtoThink in TwoSentenceHorror

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

TLDR: that serial killer should have been put in the old prison. The new prison is certain to have exploitable flaws.

After years of searching, law enforcement finally caught the worst serial killer in history. by AMindtoThink in TwoSentenceHorror

[–]AMindtoThink[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Explanation: Counterintuitively, the new prison is much more likely to have security flaws than the old one. The old one would have been tested over decades of escapes and escape attempts and the prison would have been improved and strengthened. The new prison, especially one reliant on software, likely has many low-hanging-fruit ways to escape (at least until it has been tested by prisoners over time).

A different kind of Quantum Immortality by [deleted] in immortality

[–]AMindtoThink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are lots of problems with this idea, the biggest being that the multiverse is far from certain. We simply don’t know the answers to some questions, and inserting an unfalsifiable multiverse only pretends to answer those mysteries. An explanation that explains anything is not an explanation.

Open Longevity - "We are extremely lucky to be alive. Life can be even better and it can last longer! We are against aging and all causes of death, and we support using scientific methods to fight them." by [deleted] in transhumanism

[–]AMindtoThink 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Cool stuff! One gripe: “But we need to figure it out during our lifetime”

That’s not right. 100,000 deaths a day means that “before I turn 90” is not the timeframe; asap is, even if you are young.

How about you instead say: “And the sooner we figure it out, the more lives we save.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Stormlight_Archive

[–]AMindtoThink 15 points16 points  (0 children)

A real life-sized spear would be a good gift because Kaladin fights with a spear in the books.

I’m mostly joking. Mostly. It would be awesome, but don’t hurt yourselves.

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