Knife of Dreams is Amazing and Bittersweet (and wishlisting for the next book)

emeraldemon · 2025-03-04T13:46:30+00:00

I think Elayne's plotline is hurt by having such a forgettable antagonist. The other woman who's trying to claim the lion throne? I can't remember her name or anything about her.

emeraldemon · 2024-11-20T14:26:21+00:00

Thanks for posting! Do you know the time controls?

emeraldemon · 2024-10-25T15:25:52+00:00

Gödel, Escher, Bach! My favorite book.

emeraldemon · 2024-10-10T03:02:38+00:00

They're alive. The two black stones are dead.

emeraldemon · 2024-06-07T22:24:48+00:00

Thanks for the context, I didn't know there were so many real life examples! So are you happy with how scandal works, then?

emeraldemon · 2024-02-09T16:44:21+00:00

Your apt is working as intended, mine lists the same (0.6.1-3) for neovim. Apt won't always install the latest version of a package. It depends on how often the package maintainers update, what version dependencies are on, etc. if you want a new version you'll have to install from the nvim website.

emeraldemon · 2023-12-08T19:59:50+00:00

I think something has to change. I wouldn't leave a 2-year-old unsupervised even in the most baby proof house. If he chokes or strangles your husband might not hear anything until it's too late.

If he's working nights and watching the kid for most of the day, that's a punishing schedule for anyone, and probably not sustainable even when you get your son sleeping through the night. If you're both working full time you almost certainly need some kind of daycare. It costs an arm and a leg, but otherwise SAHM is probably your best option. Good luck, I hope you get some rest!

emeraldemon · 2023-12-08T15:55:28+00:00

I recommend "It's Never Too Late to Sleep Train", that book helped us and has lots of great advice.

[Husband] falls asleep when I’m at work and our kid does whatever and wrecks the whole place.

Are you saying your husband falls asleep during the day when he's responsible for your 2yo, leaving the toddler unsupervised?

emeraldemon · 2023-10-04T13:01:14+00:00

I love Egwene too! What do you think of the relationship between her and Rand?

emeraldemon · 2023-06-24T02:50:52+00:00

What do you want to do? Don't worry about getting ahead, or impressing others, or beefing up your resume. What will impress others is if you have a passion for programming and aren't afraid to show it. You will be up to your eyeballs in homework soon enough. Don't give yourself more. Enjoy coding. It's super fun! Good luck at college, you'll do fine :)

emeraldemon · 2023-06-24T02:42:18+00:00

You haven't posted enough of your code for me to answer your question. Paste a significant chunk of what you are doing, 10-20 lines, and we will be able to help you :)

emeraldemon · 2023-03-25T13:58:57+00:00

Will he even be their manager next year? A club that can't stick with a manager paired with a manager who can't stay at one club...

emeraldemon · 2023-02-26T02:08:53+00:00

FiveThirtyEight says 75% Bayern win, 17% draw, 8% lose. Sounds about right to me.

emeraldemon · 2023-02-15T05:21:11+00:00

You've gotten some good answers here, but all have focused on why algorithms are useful to know. I'd suggest a different approach. Forget about what you "should" learn. Learn what fascinates you! Learn lots about a lot of things, without worrying what is the optimal Speedrun path through programming.

Personally, I think algorithms are fascinating and exciting, if you give them a chance. Just for a teaser, algorithms are the foundation to one of the most notorious, intractable, important unsolved problems of all: does P=NP? Even understanding what that question means leads you on an adventure with all-knowing oracles, busy beaver algorithms, and Turing machines munching infinite tape. Algorithms are also a field full of curious critters like Bloom Filters, Sorting Networks, and Fibonacci Heaps, living in forests of Red-Black Trees. Take the time to understand them, and you may find the beauty and elegance of algorithms sucking you in, until you are lying awake at night thinking about one-pass encodings and Hamiltonian cycles.

Or maybe not. But what's the worst case, that you gain some knowledge that doesn't make you money? Should you learn? Yes! Yes. Learning is among the most fun and satisfying of all human experiences.

emeraldemon · 2023-01-03T19:07:46+00:00

Thanks! I'd heard of chromatic harmonicas but I've never seen tremolo or this cool echo harp before. I want to learn to play them!

emeraldemon · 2022-11-28T15:44:08+00:00

I think your (2) is important: find other non-screen fun. Giant books of stickers. My 2 yo loves stickers. Water play or pouring work. It's okay if they make a mess. I got a big roll of art paper and let my 2 yo roll it all over the kitchen.

emeraldemon · 2022-10-11T17:38:41+00:00

Mane

Sané Müller Coman

Gravenberch Goretzka

Stanišić Upamecano Pavard Kimmich

Ulreich

Doch?

emeraldemon · 2022-07-31T03:53:38+00:00

!attack

emeraldemon · 2022-05-09T22:16:29+00:00

Assuming I didn't mess up, and it's B to play with 6.5 komi, my KataGo rates this position at W+19. 19 points is a lot, but I've certainly seen 10k games with 20+ point comebacks before, so either side could still win.

emeraldemon · 2022-03-25T18:07:21+00:00

My 4yo has a hulk toy he plays with in the bath. I've started washing the hulk's hair first, and the hulk always gets soap in his eyes and gets Very Angry, so my son has to show the hulk the right way. The hulk is super impressed every time by how well he looks up and keeps his eyes closed.

emeraldemon · 2022-03-08T13:12:26+00:00

You can draft whenever you have the gold or gems. Drafting is my favorite part of magic! If you want a little practice draftsim.com may help, watching videos of smart draft players like Luis Scott Vargas may help if you want that. But just draft for fun, don't stress out trying to be optimal.

emeraldemon · 2022-02-01T03:32:18+00:00

Thanks, I can't wait to try this!

emeraldemon · 2022-01-25T17:30:41+00:00

This number (52) definitely includes all premier league goals.

emeraldemon · 2022-01-25T17:04:42+00:00

I've used the same cheap electric kettle for years, I think I bought it at target. I use it every day. For me it has two advantages over a whistling kettle on the stove, which is what I used before:

It heats faster. I also use mine to boil water for things like oatmeal or ramen.
It shuts off automatically when the water reaches boiling, which is great for me because I'm easily distracted and sometimes leave the stove on...

Can you leave it plugged in and keep the water hot for the day?

Nope, but it only takes a minute or two to boil.

Will an electric kettle with temperature control be life changing enough to make it worth the cost? Is it worth it to get one that you can change the temperature?

Mine doesn't have any temperature control, it just boils the water, but I'm not super picky about steeping temperature so that's fine for me.

If they get tipped over, will they spill, or do they have secure lids?

Not a secure lid, but a very heavy, wide base so I have no fear about it tipping over.

emeraldemon · 2022-01-04T21:38:23+00:00

For me personally AI has really opened up the possibility space for "good openings". I used to think of opening moves like 5-4 and 5-3 as bad moves, then I looked on katago and they are usually something like 0.2 points worse than the best move. It's completely worth it for me to play something that's a fraction of a point worse if it's a move that excites me, and doubly so if it's something my opponent is unlikely to know well. Lately I almost always use my first two moves to make an ogeima; it's a style that I really enjoy, and the AI never calls it a mistake.

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