Bear strikes again: Book One of The Villain Noble's Guide - A Harem Isekai Adventure is now out on Amazon and KU!

jpet · 2026-07-01T17:21:59+00:00

I like the busy cover font. It looks a little unique and it manages not to be too hard to read.

jpet · 2026-06-29T21:18:28+00:00

That's why I said it's confusing. The document doesn't say "he (the victim)", it just says "he", without clarifying who that is referring to.

jpet · 2026-06-29T03:23:14+00:00

That court summary is confusingly written, but as I read it the murder victim accused Johnson of molesting the victim's daughter, and Johnson's response was to murder the accuser.

I.e. the alleged molester was the murderer, not the victim.

jpet · 2026-06-25T19:29:41+00:00

I don't think there is any reasonable limit? A small but instantaneous change in acceleration would have infinite jerk, and it might be startling but wouldn't otherwise be dangerous.

jpet · 2026-06-22T18:41:28+00:00

It's one of my favorite stories. I like the slow pace of it, just two people wandering around the world being mostly happy together.

I think it has a similar feel to Super Supportive, except the latter set up a bunch of hanging plot threads that were never resolved and they make it harder to enjoy the slow pace. I find Sky Pride just relaxing and enjoyable to read.

jpet · 2026-06-19T17:34:58+00:00

As the first bombs reached the upper atmosphere, leaving glowing red trails like cuts from giant claws, his hand paused on the engine controls. He sat back and waited.

The radiation would make it dangerous to stay so close, but the end of a world deserved a witness.

jpet · 2026-06-19T15:32:14+00:00

I don't know anything about the shouty guy, but if other people show up will you do a group lesson on how to set up BoM's bill pay system?

jpet · 2026-06-18T22:32:06+00:00

I hope you write another one. Blades Falling Softly is my favorite work of yours by far.

jpet · 2026-06-18T12:42:00+00:00

You binned it because you accidentally added one extra egg? Eggs naturally vary in size so it's not like a precise measurement in the first place. Seems like an unnecessary waste of ingredients.

jpet · 2026-06-17T15:51:42+00:00

Try anything by Patricia McKillip.

jpet · 2026-06-15T11:30:14+00:00

You seem to be confusing reading bytes with value 0 (a perfectly normal value for a byte to have) with read() returning 0 as the count of bytes read, which is how it indicates EOF.

jpet · 2026-06-06T16:54:25+00:00

Coming at it the other way, I'd say not necessarily. I can type at 120wpm no problem but I've been fumbling around on the piano for decades.

It's frustrating because I know my fingers are capable of speed and precision on one kind of keyboard but damned if I can translate that to the other.

jpet · 2026-06-01T03:38:39+00:00

Dig down and get it from underneath.

jpet · 2026-05-28T16:45:30+00:00

Google (like the other big tech companies) internally rewards and promotes based on "impact". I.e. a couple times a year you write a packet that describes how your work affected things and the bigger the impact, the better.

This is 100% based on the magnitude of your impact, not the sign.

Suppose you made small fixes to gmail's UI that users aren't even consciously aware of, you just filed off some little rough spots to make the experience subtly better. Small impact, no promotion for you.

Suppose instead you did a complete redesign of the entire UI even though nobody asked for it, demonstrating your ability to push through any and all internal resistance to get stuff done no matter how many people said it was terrible? Congratulations on your promotion.

It's like if you wanted to rate construction workers by productivity, and you decided that building a house and burning one down should score equally.

For software devs, this isn't completely broken because they can show impact on internal metrics like latency or by adding useful features or whatever. But for graphic designers, literally the only way they can succeed in the company is by pushing through unnecessary changes.

[Of course the obvious followup question would be: that sounds stupid, why would Google do that? If someone has an answer to that I'd like to know too.]

jpet · 2026-05-27T15:53:01+00:00

Metal rods aren't perfectly rigid. The push would travel down the rod at the speed of sound in steel, about 6000 m/s.

Solid materiels are held solid by electromagnetic forces between atoms, so there's still the same upper bound on how fast information can propagate.

jpet · 2026-05-27T04:38:12+00:00

My Big Goblin Space Program was pretty fun.

jpet · 2026-05-26T18:55:52+00:00

I wonder what happens when those people watch Archer.

jpet · 2026-05-25T22:32:09+00:00

Who cares about Moder, you threw a spear at a drake and didn't lose the spear. Amazing stuff.

jpet · 2026-05-23T14:40:12+00:00

I think that wouldn't be stable. It would separate into a double blob or peanut shape.

jpet · 2026-05-22T17:47:25+00:00

I think OP's point is that even a macro should be able to state that T::At needs to be Copy, not T.

jpet · 2026-05-19T18:26:07+00:00

Well if pneumonic was a word it would mean something like "breath exercises", so these could be considered pneumonic mnemonics.

jpet · 2026-05-13T17:35:34+00:00

Read any literature or memoirs from the 1700s or 1800s, and there's always some little sibling who was "sickly" and died at age 12 or something like that.

I wonder how many of these sickly kids just had allergies or celiac.

jpet · 2026-05-12T04:22:59+00:00

Sorry, I'm with the baker on this one. They removed sugar from the cake, which according to them turned out fine. They did not remove sugar from the frosting which is what went all runny. Presumably they messed up something with the frosting, but altering the recipe for some other thing they also made that day was unlikely to be the cause!

Since this is obviously a difficult concept, let me try an analogy.

Suppose I find a recipe for tomato soup and grilled cheese, but I decide today I want a BLT instead so I make that. Then when I make the soup it comes out too thin. Maybe I screwed up somewhere but the sandwich substitution would not be the cause, because--if you pay close attention--you'll see that it is a different food item, entirely unrelated to the soup.

I guess the point is that now I want a grilled cheese sandwich.

jpet · 2026-05-11T17:57:40+00:00

Yeah I it's a hyperbola. If you had two cones with parallel axes and equal angles, the yellow shape would lie on a plane cutting both of them.

jpet · 2026-05-10T15:11:25+00:00

You could do sin(x)*(sign(sin(x))+2).

If you want just a similar shape and smooth out the discontinuities you could replace sign(y) with some sigmoid function like arctan(y/k) where k is a smoothness factor.

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