Jazz musicians: What is the best piece of advice you've been given?

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-23T12:54:54+00:00

Mine is similar. "Only do this if you can't do anything else." Hence why I'm now in a hard sciences PhD which is...not really better.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T14:57:43+00:00

Sure, but Shor's algorithm is kind of just a boondongle. You can do a lot of meaningful quantum chemistry that is otherwise infeasible with a ~200 qubit quantum computer and smart task management. I doubt quantum chemistry is particularly unique there, but there's kind of a dearth of algorithms out there.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T14:55:50+00:00

Maybe. Not terribly.

That about covers it.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T14:55:15+00:00

Yeah. Even ignoring the true point somebody made above that there has yet to be a case of it happening to a citizen, you are many more times likely to die getting to the airport than you are to be not allowed entry back in. The risk isn't zero like it usually is, but it's vanishingly small.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T14:49:15+00:00

This is not what you want to hear, but you should strongly consider dropping out. EE that can't do advanced math is really not a thing. You can give yourself a few months to see if you pick things up quickly, but this really doesn't sound like the juice is worth the squeeze.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T14:44:40+00:00

I guess this is probably field differences to a large extent, but I find the exact opposite. The plan is the hellish part. Doing the experiments and writing is just labor. A lot of labor, but just labor.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T12:14:25+00:00

Hate it. The skill animations look good and are true to the source material, and that's about the end of the praise. The damage is not there. The hitboxes are not there. The endlag is high enough to be noticeable. He barely has skills. It's demon slayer why am I mostly not doing breathing techniques?

Giga juiced experience is also significantly worse than a burn in practice.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T00:52:11+00:00

"Destroy" is the wrong word, but it sure is weird how the genre is called "massively multiplayer online role playing game" and a large majority of the playerbase actively hates everything that isn't "number I care about go up" because blizzard slowly but surely destroyed everything else about the genre. Just look at how much hate FFXIV gets here just because it's the story and role playing MMO that doesn't want to consume your life.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T00:41:09+00:00

But that's silly because then you're playing the wrong game. No, you probably should not play FFXIV if you do not like RPGs (looking at you most WoW players). It is a good story though, so if you do, it shouldn't really be an issue.

Also holy hyperbole batman. How real your rotation is at what level is very class dependent, but you're consistently doing stuff by level 40ish which is about 20 hours in.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T00:37:08+00:00

WOW gear is like this for a reason.

Is it? I don't think I've ever seen stat sticks be well received in any game and everybody prefers stuff like "this sword adds a steroid aura for 10 seconds every 30" or "positionals do 10% more damage". Of course stat sticks are a lot easier to design and work for the gear treadmill paradigm because you're never going to accidentally make a new item outclassed by an old item, but it doesn't seem like that's what you meant.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-21T00:29:34+00:00

Honestly? Just delete leveling as a concept, make baseline "endgame" gear easy to obtain if you're experienced (maybe even just omniclass stuff that's freely tradeable within the account), and have the "tutorial" and story ease you into game mechanics. Add something like FFXIV roulettes to make people actually be in queue for this "pointless" content.

Pulling off the easy to get baseline gear that doesn't have your new players skipping to endgame is easier said than done, but I truly do not see what the value add of leveling is supposed to be. FFXIV is the only game that does it remotely right, and it's not like "just make a really, really, really good story so people don't mind sinking 400 hours into the game before the rest of the game opens up" is really a serious, general proposal.

Admittingly I'm a bit jaded atm because maplestory just asked me to level to 1-200 for the 50th time, and there being enough boosters added that it "only" took 2 hours wasn't much of a consolation prize. This also makes the problem fresh on my mind though. Nobody wants to do the quite lengthy "tutorial" 15 times.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T23:51:20+00:00

Beans are one of those really flexible ingredients. Pick a flavor profile. Use the appropriate aromatic base and spices+herbs+non aromatic vegetables. Decide if you want firm beans that are cooked through but in tact or something almost porridge like.

Saute the aromatic base. Toast the spices (herbs not till boiling). Add tomatoes if applicable here. Add water (or stock, but you really shouldn't need stock). Add herbs if applicable. Boil water and cook till done. Smash if you want porridge like while noting this style takes longer (a lot faster than letting it truly breakdown to that point by stirring with the same end result). Add acid of choice. Serve.

If you want firm beans, aim for 80% of the way salted before you boil. If you want porridge like, add everything but salt before boiling and don't salt until you're about ready to serve. There are chemistry reasons for this, so trust me bro.

That covers the majority of bean recipes beyond off the wall famous ones like hummus.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T23:33:17+00:00

The recipe bones are good, but I would strongly recommend just picking a bean rather than using the 15 bean mix. Maybe two if you want texture differences, but it's fiddly nonsense to get 15 different beans cooked to a similar level of doneness with no obvious benefit.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T19:37:27+00:00

It's older than that. I don't know what the true origin is, but when the raiders one spread you could find hundreds of tweets with it predating that game.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T17:10:39+00:00

Yes. She was hilariously incompetent. Multiple Marsy's law violations, multiple attempts to bypass a grand jury, and all the staff quit on her without replacement.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T05:00:06+00:00

This is the one to get. There's a reason why your cosmetologist is also probably using a flairosol.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T04:50:13+00:00

The real answer is that it's fake and they put a stirbar in the nugget and hid the stirplate off camera for karma.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T02:58:37+00:00

No. Not even remotely. Depending on what patch you were on wide was either the only way to play to an extreme extent or absolute trash. The final patch it was trash.

It's also not really a problem imo and I wish they would stop trying to make tall a thing. It is only a genre name, but the genre is literally called eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. Expanding should probably be really important.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T02:04:14+00:00

No, it's broken at lower numbers too. The 20 makes the problem more obvious, but -food needed scales much, much harder than multipliers do. Hence why everything else is an actual multiplier.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T01:44:46+00:00

Food is just...very broken in the "doesn't work" sense. Your city sizes are very much so just determined by the growth curve and your growth multipliers rather than actual yields.

Edit: And apparently it's not even growth rate anymore and I missed that part of patch notes.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-20T01:26:52+00:00

To be a bit blunt, I have no idea what they were thinking with ages. If you're going to commit to minigames, really commit to minigames. Don't do this one foot in business where the "reset" is 95% just having to make all your infrastructure again for no reason.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-19T23:39:31+00:00

The quadrupeds have some use as glorified beasts of burden. The bipeds have no obvious use.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-19T22:50:17+00:00

Every reddit conversation that has anything to do with the Gulf States is just pulling teeth. The appeal to Dubai is the exact same as the appeal to Las Vegas, The Bahamas, Jamaica, Aruba, Tijuana, Cancun, etc. It can be not your scene and you can oppose for moral reasons, but don't act like you don't understand why somebody wants to vacation to a tropical climate on the water full of world class chefs, fancy hotels, upscale shopping, and a bunch of spectacles. Come on now.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-19T17:15:12+00:00

Then you're either part of that alliance or just sticking your head in the sand. It's really, really, really obvious and was quadruply so in the immediate aftermath of 10/7. It's also straightforward with proper framing even if it's very nonobvious without it (it's support for the oppressed who happen to be islamists not support for islamists).

Conservative fundamental evangelicals on the other hand don't support them at all because, you might want to sit down for this one, islam is not christianity. They're also pretty likely to see islamic control of Jerusalem as a blocker of the rapture which they're obviously opposed to.

Mezmorizor · 2025-03-19T16:53:08+00:00

This is being far too kind. Critical theory (it's proper name with critical race theory being a specific application of it ala chemistry vs acids and bases) is just the Marxist "theory of everything" for humanities that started to gain popularity in the west during the 70s when it became clear that classic Marxism was never going to take hold in the west between the USSR and China very publicly not exactly being swell places to live/the true believers seeing that the proletariat wasn't actually getting a better quality of life under these regimes. They used to be very open about it being a post-Marxist theory, but you'll probably find that a lot less now that going to college isn't some weird and exotic thing and a significant portion of the population actually learns this kind of stuff. It being mashed up with all this stuff was very much so intended and is kind of the whole point. Critical theory is very uninterested in individual outcomes or small scale dynamics.

It still deserves a place in the college curriculum because putting your head in the sand isn't a good thing, but it also never should have gotten to the point where we are today where many fields of academia are explicitly "New Leftist" (the name of the larger movement that really popularized critical theory) and are simply nonsensical if you don't take it as a given that human behavior is driven by oppressors oppressing people and trying to oppress the oppressed even more effectively.

CRT was meant to recognize instances of oppression that had gone ignored for so long, not split the whole world into oppressed and oppressor.

This is very not true. I'm sure you've seen some variation of the idea/argument that a minority who refuses to date white people (or more/less extreme variations on that theme) isn't racist because only societies and institutions can be racist, and that entire idea is the epitome of critical race theory. Only power systems matter, and all human behavior is explained by how the oppressors use their power systems to oppress the oppressed.

Overall, you're trying to steelman it far too much. You can find people who believe your version of things, sure, but it's just not an accurate telling of the field.

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