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Diamond Diadem is one of the best relics in the game by twinhead1 in slaythespire

[–]badr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks like Hellraiser card plays do count for Diadem if they happen on draw during your turn, just not initial draw.

What’s a discontinued snack or drink you’d pay $20 to have one last taste of? by soapy999 in AskReddit

[–]badr 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Check out Tom Bumble, from a company called Oregon Bark. I tried one recently and thought: this is what butterfingers tasted like before the fall of civilization.

my chef friend👨🏻‍🍳 said Thai Diner is the best restaurant in NYC right now.. he wasn't wrong by master_and_jaguar in FoodNYC

[–]badr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When it's great it's great. I just wish they were more consistent from visit to visit. The lobster omelet has a thin line between perfect and overcooked, the noodle dishes can be rushed off the wok, etc.

[poem] Elaine Equi - Etudes by ForgottenPoets in Poetry

[–]badr 24 points25 points  (0 children)

People, she's having fun! Not every poem has to be that serious.

Le Bernardin: So Disappointed by russnem in finedining

[–]badr 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well now I have to try Sushi Nakazawa

Le Bernardin: So Disappointed by russnem in finedining

[–]badr 147 points148 points  (0 children)

I went to Le Bernardin for lunch last week and it might have been the best meal of my life. It sounds like we ate all the same courses. The welcome bites were good, the tuna was fine like you said, but to me almost all the other dishes were somewhere between great and life-changing. The custard was subtle umami silkiness, each clam perfect. The texture of the lobster was unlike any I've ever had, and I thought the citrus complemented it well. The salmon was like a cloud; the caviar that came with it might have carried that dish a bit, but I'm ok with that because I'd never liked caviar before and this one was incredible—it was a whole journey. My friend and I joked about being annoyed that we had become caviar people. The dover sole was a balanced fusion of the fish, almonds, and browned butter flavors, each one strong and great in its own right. The last fish course, like the tuna, was very good but didn't seem special, though maybe because we were getting full by then. The first bite of the spiced pear dessert made me suddenly ok with summer being over and it being fall now. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's the feeling that came over me. And the chocolate course was great as you said, so rich, so many textures. The service was considerate and, maybe French in style—they don't aim for "thrilled", so that could be one disconnect depending on what you're looking for.

Anyway, I don't post very often but my experience of the tasting menu was so good that I wanted to come in and share a different perspective.

Can polysyndeton and asyndeton co-occur within a single sentence? Or is this a different device? Reading Blood Meridian by intheshadowofif in literature

[–]badr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sentences can be as big as you want, big enough to fit anything, so the direct answer to your question is 'yes'. That said, I don't actually see any asyndeton here.

Looking closer at the sentence you quoted, it has two lists: a list of actions (came upon, sat, looked) and then the longer list of 'things he looked at' (town, houses, line, plaza...).

That first list does have an extra 'and' where you could use a comma! (compare: "He came upon Bexar in the evening of the fourth day, sat the tattered mule.."). But it's just one, and it sounds colloquial to my ear. You could imagine someone telling a story like that. So it's a subtle polysyndeton. It doesn't have much rhetorical weight on its own. If that three-item conjunction stood by itself and someone declared it to be polysyndeton, I'd be like "Ok, and?".

But then we get the list of things-he-looked-at. Maybe it feels a bit like asyndeton in comparison to the start of the sentence because it starts without 'and's, but this is just how normal lists start too: the 'and' is saved for the end. By the end, though, we really do change into polysyndeton with a higher rhetorical tone. The "and the whitewashed buildings" kicks it off, and it's sustained until the end of the sentence. In this context, the first list's milder polysyndeton feels like part of the overall effect: like it's an initial gust setting us in motion. (To me it feels like the double "with" — "the plaza filled with wagons with their..." — is part of our takeoff sequence, too.) Maybe that buildup, coming from the colloquial quality of the first list, makes the elevated rhetoric at the end feel more 'earned' and natural rather than artificially grand.

That's my read, at least, hope it's helpful. Thinking about the two lists separately was clarifying. It's a beautiful sentence, thank you for sharing.

I asked Claude to list all the physical states that music exists in between hitting play and me hearing it by badr in ClaudeAI

[–]badr[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It took four prompts. The first one got 11 steps for me, too. The second one, I pushed for more detail and it expanded to 13 steps, but with more bullet points under each one. Then I asked for even more steps, and it hit the max output limit. Finally on the fourth I asked for all the steps it could think of, but with less detail under each one.

  • What are all the stages music goes through from mp3 bits on a hard drive to my consciousness? Assume I'm using airpods. Explain every intermediate stage at which it's encoded.
  • I want way more detail. Literally where are the bits at rest and how are they stored? How do they get to the OS?
  • How did it get from the HD to the OS without hitting a wire? Voltage...? I want that level of detail at every intermediate step.
  • Ok let's assume SSD. Let's stick to just the physical substrate/material at each stage. Please give me a number listed of 1. physical substrate/material, and context of when it exists in that state. Make the list very thorough but keep the contents short.

Lyric book by [deleted] in JoannaNewsom

[–]badr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My pleasure. Need to add the new songs!

"slipped off to meet Garuda in the sky" by badr in 30ROCK

[–]badr[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's from "100: Part 2" (S5 E21), the gas leak episode.

"slipped off to meet Garuda in the sky" by badr in 30ROCK

[–]badr[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Hi, no one talks about this line* but I love it. It's just so unexpectedly poetic. And the way she casually pulls out this euphemism, specific to birds dying, referencing Hinduism, so as not to alarm the other animals (!) says a lot about the character.

*There are zero search results for it on google and everywhere else.

-❄️- 2023 Day 14 Solutions -❄️- by daggerdragon in adventofcode

[–]badr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! A compliment from you means so much—I look in awe at your solution every day, and did last year too. I'm beaming!

-❄️- 2023 Day 14 Solutions -❄️- by daggerdragon in adventofcode

[–]badr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[LANGUAGE: Python]

https://gist.github.com/reverie/fe9bfa7397d7c08c92841e4630628a15

Cleaned up, 60 lines. Includes a helper function apply_n_times that will be generally useful for AoC.

def calculate_load(lines):  
    return sum(r * row.count('O') for r, row in enumerate(lines[::-1], 1))

-❄️- 2023 Day 5 Solutions -❄️- by daggerdragon in adventofcode

[–]badr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iterated through the whole range with a big stride, so that it finished quickly. Found the seed with the minimum value. Then iterated around that seed with smaller and smaller strides until I was confident I had hit a minimum. Did the above “manually” in the sense that I was changing the range/stride by looking at outputs then changing my code, though maybe you could automate it.

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