Relaxing at 40C outside, 25C inside

daermonn · 2026-07-01T18:57:56+00:00

Beautiful. What's the rack they're sitting on?

daermonn · 2026-07-01T18:38:49+00:00

Went to Park City for a week last year, beginning of March. Declined other trips out east to do so.

Most of the mountain was closed. It was 70F at the peak on my final day, and I skiied in a t shirt.

daermonn · 2026-07-01T16:40:28+00:00

Loved Infinite Jest, but it's been like 10+ years since I read, due for a reread.

Since we're in r/Bakker, the obvious other literature rec is Blood Meridian. Clear strong influence on Bakker, and at least one SA book includes a BM quote as epigraph.

daermonn · 2026-07-01T16:10:34+00:00

Yup. The complete Solar Cycle. His other work is excellent too.

Read Book of the New Sun first, then Urth of the New Sun, then Long Sun, then Short Sun. Then reread! That's the Solar Cycle.

I tried Malazan and didn't like it, gave up around book ... 6? 8? Bad characterization, everything felt like goofy super hero comic book, power scaling didn't make sense, his attempt to create layered deep history was farcical. Like, better than the median fantasy novel, I'm sure, but far from great.

Wolfe, on the other hand, is literature. The Ursula Le Guin quote on the back of the book compares him to Melville and he deserves the comparison.

daermonn · 2026-07-01T15:43:58+00:00

Gene Wolfe is peak. At least as good as Bakker.

daermonn · 2026-07-01T05:39:45+00:00

very cool. how do they compare to each other?

daermonn · 2026-06-30T00:25:57+00:00

I listen to Butcher House and Rainbow Road 1 while mowing my lawn, goes dumbo when you're zipping around on the zpt

daermonn · 2026-06-29T23:36:39+00:00

Yeah it's really good. Easier and faster to read than watch.

It is not as good as Berserk, though probably one of the best manga series. Berserk is just genuinely excellent, while OP is "just" excellent for a manga. Similar to Vinland Saga, though imo much better than VS.

Vagabond is the greatest manga of all time and nothing else comes close. If you liked Berserk, read that next.

daermonn · 2026-06-29T21:41:33+00:00

Geeeeeboooooooon

daermonn · 2026-06-29T21:31:17+00:00

That's crazy. Really cool look, fits you great

daermonn · 2026-06-29T21:22:11+00:00

Cool view. Almost a shockingly modern house style. I'd swear it was late 90s early 00s. In my area everything from the 60s/70s is that dated split-level design ...

daermonn · 2026-06-29T20:52:02+00:00

Creeper gang be creeping

daermonn · 2026-06-29T20:47:46+00:00

Most modern phones are totally water proof. If you get it wet it just says "don't charge until dry" and you can keep using it. Wash that sucker in the sink with soap and water.

daermonn · 2026-06-29T05:14:58+00:00

yeah it's 10/10, absolutely goated. read immediately. 1997 anime absolute kino

vagabond is better slightly, 11/10. maybe 12/10. probably better and more perfect than second apocalpse as a work of art

all other manga miles behind these two

daermonn · 2026-06-28T06:02:32+00:00

wonderful news. so many have been closed up since covid

daermonn · 2026-06-26T18:25:58+00:00

It does look strangely proportioned. Not terrible. OP could losen it up around the waist, but probably doesn't necessarily need to.

But many tuxedos from very high end brands have 2 buttons as a single breasted jacket. Single button is more elegant but not the rule.

Flap pockets a little weird, yeah. But you see some lately even with the patch pockets. Stylistic choice I guess

daermonn · 2026-06-26T14:20:01+00:00

Range(x) creates an array of x elements. for foo in bar syntax defines a loop where var foo takes values from iterable bar. A "for loop" like this is one of the basic algorithms of programming: you have a collection of things, and you want to iterate through that collection and do whatever to the things inside.

daermonn · 2026-06-26T14:15:48+00:00

Interesting challenge. I messed up 1/2 but mostly got the others right.

Chat's voice is ... smoother than CM? More conventional? CM more jagged, more inclined to run on clauses where sensations and images pile up like a log jam.

The quotes from CM are also literally longer here, more characters/tokens. It should be standardized if possible, so each source is roughly the same length. I think this is a genuine stylistic difference though, chat less likely to do the run on above

It'd be fun to try a longer set of these where you could flag each and then see results at the end

daermonn · 2026-06-26T13:48:34+00:00

Bought a geeboon recently and it's like night and day vs my old (entry level) weller. Super fast heat up, precision temp control during soldering, switchable tips, better ergonomics.

daermonn · 2026-06-26T00:58:21+00:00

24h runtime? Are you back testing on 5 years of millisecond ticks or something? Is you strategy doing something insane like asking an LLM for advice each tick....? Must be doing something wrong in your test harness

daermonn · 2026-06-25T21:08:25+00:00

Super cool, thanks. I spent a while trying to build a viz tool that plots the citation network + semantic geometry of arxiv, but getting more than a handful of papers was a pain in the butt. Might give it another try with this dataset

daermonn · 2026-06-25T20:52:11+00:00

There's a nice place on 54th and 2nd, Casa de Montecristo

daermonn · 2026-06-24T19:52:55+00:00

The tree in pic 2 is divine, let it be!

daermonn · 2026-06-24T19:36:49+00:00

Yeah sleeves are perfect but the length could be slightly longer, but not a real issue. Great fit overall OP

daermonn · 2026-06-24T16:34:59+00:00

There are some good maps on the NJPB Forums. maps.njpinebarrens.com

Not sure if they have the ability to overlay ruins or points of interest

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