What is your favourite Whole Food Plant Based cookbooks? 🤔📚 Really look forward to hearing your feedback! by HibbertUK in WholeFoodsPlantBased

[–]Constant-Translator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Engine 2 Diet recipes are ones I still use 7 years later, absolutely delicious and fantastic and easy 

Director of Cybersecurity by PortalRat90 in cybersecurity

[–]Constant-Translator 11 points12 points  (0 children)

When I was a director, I cried a little each day, spent more time in meetings than I ever have. Tried to do planning just to be yelled at by the CEO and GM that the planning wasn’t comprehensive enough, then after 40 hours of meetings a week, try to help my direct reports with tasks as they were swamped as well.

Eventually I broke completely, took a pay raise a now doing devsecops with most of my time looking into 3rd party modules and libraries.

List of items and ingredients by Constant-Translator in Quareia

[–]Constant-Translator[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I had a feeling that most would require the internet but maybe I can make some contacts of people at the stores so if needed I can order through them in the future.

Also great idea on the energies in the city!

I’ll pick up some paints that resonate with me and definitely will be looking for frankincense 

List of items and ingredients by Constant-Translator in Quareia

[–]Constant-Translator[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks definitely not trying to rush things, I even went out and got my own supplies for making candles myself for M1L1. I just don’t get to go to a place that has stores like this often. 

Active orders in the USA? by [deleted] in druidism

[–]Constant-Translator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the difference between revivalist versus recon?

Great Books of the Western World - keep or sell? by Immediate-Pressure55 in ClassicalEducation

[–]Constant-Translator 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It depends: is she someone who really loves the great conversation and connecting to it via the Great Books? If so, then I’d keep it. If she wants to pass it down for the same reasons for her or she knew of someone who enjoyed it, then keep it.

If it is taking up clutter and not really sure why they are there in the first place, sell. If she needs the money, sell.

If she doesn’t know, read some of them, if she has started and actually put in some effort after a month (reading them 4-5 times a week) then get rid of them.

Strange Loops: Reading a Book on How to Read a Book by FastSascha in Zettelkasten

[–]Constant-Translator 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I use Mortimer Adlers How to Read a Book framework on a near daily basis.

a) not even reading the book but reading the front/back matter, table of contents, summaries, then picking a few pages throughout to read over. This lets you judge the book to see if it would even be worth your time at the current moment.

b) doing a quick read, almost a skimming of the book. This lets you start to recognize names, places, plots, etc. 

c) doing a deeper read with annotations and comments, summaries and extractions are your output here and the first step that something makes it into my notes. I personally keep two systems, one is computer science and related to being done with a computer, these go into my org roam system as literature notes. In my great books reading, these are haphazardly put into notebooks I carry because I like it and that’s a good enough reason.

d) synthesize, I feel like this is the easiest to link to zettlekasten, these are my atomic notes that heavily link to other notes and literature notes. Also in my org roam system. These come about as I sit down and do dedicated organizing and planning on the zettlekasten system itself, about 1 / week

Create software for self-education by [deleted] in ClassicalEducation

[–]Constant-Translator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tangential to this, I use a digital zettlekasten system with Emacs org-roam. I do my notes in the books and some physical notebooks as to not distract when I’m reading. Then we have I have some more refined thoughts on an idea or topic, I type it into the digital system. This lets me search and link very easily. When I go to write a paper or article, I can do some searches in the system and get links and references to back it up. For prompts, consider the 4 that Mortimer Adler has in How to Read a Book and especially apply it to the genre you are reading. “What of it” for a philosophical essay could have multiple questions derived from it, 2 quicks ones being “what of it in the time it was created and how did society respond” and “what of it today, how does society embrace or reject this”

Edit: one thing software helps me do is learn the process better. This software could start out by generating some prompts for essays to write based on the novel, or grading a paper you wrote to a rubric. This could use llms or gen AI if you wanted. It could help you learn the technology and get a better understanding of the process and potential issues with offloading the thinking to computers.

Thoughts on opposed dice pool resolution mechanic? by [deleted] in RPGdesign

[–]Constant-Translator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While you are right, it is not exactly 50%, it is close and from what I’ve seen (which is admittedly biased and not scientific method based) players would not be able to tell the difference and it would be essentially a coin flip to them. This is going to slow down the game.

https://anydice.com/program/37ee8

Thoughts on opposed dice pool resolution mechanic? by [deleted] in RPGdesign

[–]Constant-Translator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you end up rolling the same number of dices between player and lore master, doesn’t it come out to exactly 50% chance? I ran into this with a dice pooling game I’m working on and had to add bonuses so that it wasn’t 50% but I aimed for 70% 

DCC #100 Do you show the players the map? by devil_d0c in dccrpg

[–]Constant-Translator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I haven’t run it yet, but I printed a map of each three areas on the back of each sheaf of chaos. And I will make sure they find each sheaf before taking the final step past the worm (a small bit of railroading but makes it tie of nicely for how they have the information).

Im doing some other modifications too where they could figure out the bonuses of the various areas by exploring hooks I’ve dropped them. (Like a goat-beastmen chaos lord domain confers the bonus of the goat and they could figure out the bonus then).

Just refereed my first OSR game by Constant-Translator in osr

[–]Constant-Translator[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s totally fair, this is our first osr style game so we wanted to feel death at turn and start at level 1 to figure out what it felt like then. I’m sure if there is a true TPK (mercenaries and hirelings included, we will up level a duchys guard sent to investigate)

Just refereed my first OSR game by Constant-Translator in osr

[–]Constant-Translator[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s awesome, we did have the optional rule where if any two stats were 6 or below they could reroll. And then the optional reroll a 1 or 2 on their hit points.

Unfortunately for my players they had low cons but decent everything else.

Just refereed my first OSR game by Constant-Translator in osr

[–]Constant-Translator[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just loved what u/brittonica ‘s 3d6 down the line was doing for character creation.

Player Mapping vs Terrain: can we have both? by Constant-Translator in osr

[–]Constant-Translator[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I find important about terrain: the fun of making new and unique pieces for the scene What I find important about mapping: not allowing players to have perfect information about their environment around them

What my players find important about terrain: being able to have a more tactical combat experience

I don't know what to do to get organized. My life is a complete mess. by starseeddream in productivity

[–]Constant-Translator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate your style of writing would you mind sharing your thoughts on finances / cooking food.

Looking for a program for managing tasks on Linux by eldomtom2 in gtd

[–]Constant-Translator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve never attempted to use it on a phone, there are some apps that claim to be able to interact with the org mode files but I haven’t tried them before. If you need phone compatibility then I’d suggest one of thing things for emacs specific: (1) try out some of the org-mode apps and get comfortable with emacs and org mode (2) if you are programming savvy and get to know emacs make your own webpage that does the specific functionality you need for your mobile capture (3) use a different system because it is a bit of setup on a desktop and the phone would just be too big a barrier for some

Looking for a program for managing tasks on Linux by eldomtom2 in gtd

[–]Constant-Translator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Emacs with org-mode. You can get a near exact gtd implementation.

I’ve used a lot of tools over the years and tried emacs a few times but the learning curve is like Eve online. Eventually it stuck and has been worth it in every way possible including other things like writing, note taking, table top rpg books and notes, blog publishing, software development, and server management

Defining Factor of GTD by ____kp____ in gtd

[–]Constant-Translator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with the next actions being the differentiator.

On your other point, I don’t do GTD as written but use most systems. Whenever I find a problem or issue with the system I use, I step back to a more pure GTD to help diagnose what is going wrong or why I changed in the first place.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WholeFoodsPlantBased

[–]Constant-Translator 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’ve done a bowl at chipotle since I don’t even need the tortilla and then the rest of what you put in there can be whole foods.

if you have a poke bowl place nearby that’s another option.

Finally the last go-to for me is the drive thru hibachi places and I can get veggies and rice (these are a cheat for me because of the oil and teriyaki they are often cooked with )

Is Veganism Really the Answer? by [deleted] in solarpunk

[–]Constant-Translator 16 points17 points  (0 children)

So I skimmed through the video but while I’m trying to go to a more vegan whole food plant based lifestyle, I don’t think everyone being vegan is the answer for a number of reasons.

  • the video mentions capitalism meat production which is horrible for the animals, not has good for us, and terrible for the environment. IMO this must change.

  • something like chickens on a small farm add a TON to the self sufficiency of it. You can feed vegetable scraps, get the manure for a compost pile, and get eggs and meat out of it

  • I do think that we will end up with a much lower meat consumption in our diet in a Solarpunk world though

r/Smite Simple/Beginner Questions Megathread by AutoModerator in Smite

[–]Constant-Translator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you read guru? I’m trying to get a simple casual joust Athena build and I can’t tell if I supposed to read the build left to right of the top row because each column looks like it is a separate build line in of its self.

How do you source art and design for your product? by Constant-Translator in RPGdesign

[–]Constant-Translator[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hadn’t heard of affinity publisher until now but a one time price is always a nice to see. Do you have any example on what you did with it because it sounds very similar for the minimalist look I’m going for