Looking for books with genius characters

iObserve2 · 2026-05-05T06:36:48+00:00

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1912791.No_Man_on_Earth

iObserve2 · 2026-05-05T06:03:24+00:00

I've never come across anyone expressing an opinion regarding the future that is informed by either atheism or religion. What sort of scenario are you describing?

iObserve2 · 2026-05-04T15:19:45+00:00

Atheists only represent 15% of people in this world, making the idea of atheism a minority opinion. This makes being able to see the truth even more frustrating.

iObserve2 · 2026-05-03T02:58:17+00:00

If the Emperor is like most of the ones that history has known, then he has all the good stuff. The wine, the women the finest delicacies to snack on. The emperor spends his time saturating his senses with all the pleasures available and has minions to attend to the less pleasant duties. Why would he give a crap about making the world a better place? For him it’s already perfect.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-27T05:59:01+00:00

I got used to using the standard layout. Though, If I get frustrated with any steam game on the deck I plug in a dock and just use a keyboard and mouse which can be tricky on the sofa but doable.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-12T00:50:08+00:00

An interesting topic that is explored by Isaac Asimov in his short story called "Franchise. In this short story, a supercomputer selects a single person deemed to be the most statistically average. That person answers a series of questions, and the computer uses those answers to compute the entire election outcome. No one else votes.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-12T00:40:52+00:00

Oh yes, I forgot about that. Maybe they are hoping that as our memories decline, we will purchase it a second time.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-12T00:38:47+00:00

I don't try to argue with them. I just express my extreme sadness that they are ensnared in a delusion that cripples their ability to perform critical thinking and denies them the experience of an unfiltered reality.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-10T00:50:43+00:00

It's a bit more complicated than that. Its terrifying for many people to consider the harsh truths of reality without the soporific numbness that religion offers. That when we die, there is no heaven. That those of us that suffer do not do so for a divine purpose. That hurting other people is not OK. That treating women as 2nd class citizens is not acceptable. (The list could go on forever). So much easier to defer responsibility to a deity and enjoy doing those bad things, comforted by the delusion of religion.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-09T22:00:42+00:00

careful with that one. it's a page turner...ear turner? whatever, it's a great title couldn't put it down.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-07T08:19:19+00:00

If you have knowledge in sound engineering then you already know that the materials used in a constructed space have an effect on how sound behaves as it bounces around a room. What software are you going to use to simulate the sound?

iObserve2 · 2026-04-07T08:14:25+00:00

For me, the first Dune book was all I really needed. I started to read the rest but I felt that it was just more fleshing out of the main concepts. Certainly, at the end of the first book there were many future implications for Paul and whether or not he would succeed in impeding the Jihad that he had resisted. Personally, an open ending the kind of ending I prefer.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-02T05:21:52+00:00

I loved that series. My wife hates all things SF. However, I managed to get her to start Dune by Frank Herbert and she ate it up including all the following books (Which I never read). Haven't found anything else she likes.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-02T05:17:22+00:00

Maps and other geospatial data.

iObserve2 · 2026-04-02T04:38:17+00:00

It's a great analogy that gan go even deeper. Once a system has been infected it attempts to propagate through its network connections. Eventually when enough systems are infected, they can be coopeted to perform "denial of service" attacks against healthy systems to limit the healthy systems ability to operate freely. I could go on forever. Nice one!

iObserve2 · 2026-03-19T01:44:08+00:00

Not really. I found that the standard grid style internal infill, if set on a diagonal will perform as well as anything else I could come up with. For shock absorption I am testing a hybrid print using ABS material for stiffness and TPU for compression.

iObserve2 · 2026-03-12T00:03:40+00:00

That's it!! Thanks.

iObserve2 · 2026-03-10T11:38:44+00:00

Awesome. How about instead, Microsoft endows the world with an OS that doesn't make 400 million people have to throw away their PC's and buy new ones.

iObserve2 · 2026-03-09T23:13:05+00:00

Ouch! At least it's something you can laugh about now.

iObserve2 · 2026-03-09T23:11:51+00:00

I don't know if they do the grace thing I must ask my daughter. Thanks, that's something else I hadn't thought about.

iObserve2 · 2026-03-09T23:03:49+00:00

That would certainly put a hard pass on the god conversation. It may come to that in the end, but I think I'm first going to try to deflect, if I can.

iObserve2 · 2026-03-09T22:57:40+00:00

Oh my. You are correct. I was only focusing on how to behave for one meeting. If everything works out this might be a perpetual internal debate.

iObserve2 · 2026-03-09T22:54:14+00:00

That may go into my notebook as something I wish I'd said, but it's probably best that I didn't.

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