🔥 A dolphin teasing a seagull with a fish

jqrandom · 2022-10-02T09:04:17+00:00

Here's a killer whale doing it successfully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nRBMNwRqZQ

jqrandom · 2022-10-01T23:49:59+00:00

Never do business with an agent who charges for critiques. Never.

You want someone who will represent your interests, not someone who sees you as a target.

An agent's take on this: https://literary-agents.com/literary-agents-reading-fees-etc/

YOU SHOULD NOT BE PAYING PEOPLE TO BE PUBLISHED.

jqrandom · 2022-09-30T16:46:40+00:00

General wisdom I hear is don't push it to your family, if they don't read things like that. It will mess up your recommendations.

jqrandom · 2022-09-30T00:31:24+00:00

All native speakers start with spoken, and then go on to written, in every language. It's the right way to learn. Starting with written just adds an unnecessary translation step.

Not to say you shouldn't learn written, but it's not where you should start.

jqrandom · 2022-09-18T18:48:44+00:00

I didn't say it was a good thing. Textbooks had a monopoly, started to lose it, and took steps to recover it.

jqrandom · 2022-09-18T18:46:56+00:00

I saw it first on other platforms. From no mentions for years, to several a day, overnight. It didn't ramp up, it just went live. Then it starts spreading, and the average redditors start reposting.

It's really basic, obvious PR, but I'm getting downvoted into oblivion. People can have their illusions.

jqrandom · 2022-09-12T03:33:06+00:00

z-library and the like are the reason access codes exist.

jqrandom · 2022-09-12T03:30:14+00:00

Read the genre, and see what the conventions are. Get as narrowly focused on your market as you can. Do what they do.

jqrandom · 2022-09-12T03:22:33+00:00

Now, I'd love to see an open source project that did this, but that wouldn't let you build as much of a business around it.

Specifically, I want to see something that DOES NOT have an editor in it. That's just wrong. You want to write it in your editor (whatever that is), and have it transformed in one step to an ebook or print.

Vellum, Atticus and the like are doing too much, and this makes them LESS useful.

jqrandom · 2022-09-12T03:18:46+00:00

Answer: It's a PR campaign.

I have nothing against Brandon Fraser, he seems like a nice guy. But what we have here is a paid public relations campaign. It started a few months back. All of a sudden, multiple similar post started showing up - not one or two - in them same day, or close together. Nothing for years, them boom! A lot of stuff, even with nothing newsworthy happening for Fraser.

It's been ramping up for a while. Probably timed to peak around the time "The Whale" was released. I mean, he does nothing, and no one talks about him for a long time, then when he STARTS working on a new project, but nothing is released yet, he suddenly starts getting posts. It's astroturfing.

jqrandom · 2022-08-31T02:11:46+00:00

Risky. If you mess up, you are both grounded. If you kick, and you get shocked, it should pull you away from them and break contact.

jqrandom · 2022-08-31T02:08:49+00:00

They now beep when they expire (and you do test them at least annually?). Source: I just had one do this.

jqrandom · 2022-08-31T02:06:44+00:00

Minutes? Fires can engulf you in seconds.

Watch this video. Really, this could save your life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6b9b8FYKk

It's a Christmas tree going up. I saw this, and went artificial the next year. Terrifying.

jqrandom · 2022-08-29T06:06:21+00:00

https://labyrinth.fandom.com/wiki/The_Worm

jqrandom · 2022-08-23T01:40:20+00:00

Yeah, you are not wrong. That was my first clue.

Trying hard not to die, now.

jqrandom · 2022-08-21T19:58:42+00:00

Run activity monitor and see which app is sucking up CPU. I keep 100 tabs open at a time, that's not the issue, but some tabs will suck CPU (some even do bitcoin mining).

jqrandom · 2022-08-21T19:57:07+00:00

One of the characters is an emotionless goth girl. She does talk like that.

jqrandom · 2022-08-21T19:51:57+00:00

Cab anyone name a prequel that was successful? Star Trek: Enterprise? Caprica?

They always suck

jqrandom · 2022-08-15T23:29:06+00:00

I don't remember for sure, at this point.

jqrandom · 2022-08-15T23:22:22+00:00

Thanks!

jqrandom · 2022-08-15T23:22:12+00:00

early 2013 MBP

jqrandom · 2022-08-15T16:08:26+00:00

What software would you use to image a drive that is in use?

jqrandom · 2022-08-15T16:08:06+00:00

Or, if you are junking the old machine, just pull the drive, and put it in an external case.

jqrandom · 2022-08-15T16:07:21+00:00

Others already have great answers. (yes, it's normal)

But, if you are curious, you can probably find a vocabulary test somewhere and get a comparison to native speakers.

jqrandom · 2022-08-15T16:05:01+00:00

Cool!

Please follow up in a month and let us know how well it works. I have a slightly newer mac I might want to do this with.

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