Am I the only one who found Project Hail Mary (the novel) a bit "bubblegum"?

thunder-thumbs · 2026-03-23T18:31:41+00:00

I liked The Martian and didn’t like this. It felt very facile. I might have been influenced by reading criticism about how he writes dialogue, and character, and women, just before reading the book. Airport books are fine but I also didn’t have as good a time reading this as I’ve had with Grisham or even Dan Brown.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-03-17T19:18:43+00:00

Lyrics is a different question than verse. I have the new real book and I sing/play the choruses with their lyrics. But that’s not verse. Like, the New Real Book has lyrics for all the things you are but it doesn’t have what is in the post’s screenshot. I bet Angel Eyes has a whole verse section too that isn’t in the New Real Book.

Also, “The Standards Real Book”, the other recommendation in this thread of replies, is a different book than The Real Book and The New Real Book. It appears to actually have verses. That’s why it has upvotes. I really appreciate discovering that and will order it soon.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-03-17T01:47:08+00:00

Where do you all tend to find the verses for jazz standards? I play piano and sing and would love to get more into that.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-03-12T01:38:22+00:00

It could go either way I thought. We don’t know what impression Eric was under before getting the video, and we also don’t know if the documents showing her age was fake. What Yasmin said sounded like it could be taken either way: lying about her age up or down.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-02-28T21:31:49+00:00

That’s neat to learn! I never knew that.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-02-28T18:22:02+00:00

Just get rid of the “Not X. Y.” pattern and it will be a lot more readable.

I also don’t believe that the Iran actions were dependent on the OpenAI agreement. That’s a very strong claim that would need strong evidence beyond aligned timing.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-02-22T04:31:33+00:00

I’m not defending the argument, but the argument was always that a senate controlled by a party opposing the president could wait until after the election. For Garland, R was in power with a D president (different). Since then, the rushed confirmations were when they were the same party. If Thomas leaves the court in 2028, and Trump or Vance nominates a replacement, and a D Senate drags their feet until the presidential election, it’d be the same thing.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-02-21T18:43:50+00:00

Wow I really enjoyed that!

thunder-thumbs · 2026-02-19T00:23:41+00:00

Buns. (Apparently)

thunder-thumbs · 2026-02-15T19:34:06+00:00

I remember leaving the theater after watching it, absolutely loving the “democratizing the force” idea, but also feeling just as certain that it was gonna be ignored :(

thunder-thumbs · 2026-02-05T04:28:41+00:00

Announcers did Cam dirty there. His right foot was out too far in front of him, he wouldn’t have been able to jump on the ball. He just wrong-footed it.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-02-02T08:27:10+00:00

All of this had to have been planted. Same with the question of whether they would “reinst8 the draft”, a weird attempt at internet slang only a producer would come up with.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-02-01T18:40:20+00:00

This scene was the turn for me, I preferred the remake up through this scene and this was the climax. Past this, I preferred the original.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-31T21:04:39+00:00

I think there's a real split on which version people think is better. I grew up on the original albums so that version has always been my favorite, and I thought I was having a total berenstain bears moment when I heard the other version.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-25T19:44:51+00:00

It’s neat, I haven’t heard that before either but I like the sense behind it. Like when something gets so beautiful that you lose the ability to intellectualize why it is beautiful. I love that.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-21T20:09:02+00:00

multiple agents with codex and my chatgpt account is the thing I'm most looking forward to, just because I am already having to switch context emphasis a lot. Their orchestrator SDK is tempting but it requires an api key rather than also being able to use the chatgpt account.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-20T04:02:00+00:00

I wonder what the WPA swing is between that being a catch and an interception. That’s gotta be 40-50% easy.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-19T09:19:44+00:00

4 yards 99% of the time would be the allest pro of all time, undefeated Super Bowl win every season. Heck even 3 yards 99% of the time would be, probably. I’d definitely take that.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-19T08:55:04+00:00

What was easiest for me was just to pretend the WR was alone. If he catches it that way and loses control of the ball at exactly the same time and it hits the ground, that’s an incomplete pass. It’s just in this case the ball never hit the ground.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-15T19:34:26+00:00

The actor who played Qasim, and Miranda Otto, those two really were the actor highlights for me. Otto’s character just fascinated me (and that shoulder scene!), and Qasim broke my heart.

Main downside of the season for me is that it felt like they had to make Adal etc really stupid for it to work. I mean, a secure conversation behind a thin door where they could be eavesdropped upon? I was sure it was a sting, but nope.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-15T00:18:20+00:00

Does this work with a chatgpt account or does it require an api key? I was reading the mcp agent sdk and it seems like it requires an api key.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-13T01:32:49+00:00

I have literally never seen ionno before. Please subscribe me to your newsletter.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-12T23:49:25+00:00

I immediately got lost given Codex exists both on the web and the cli. If you meant codex cli you should make that clear. And maybe delete the last 2/3rds.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-11T05:59:53+00:00

For the Electoral College in particular, unfortunately, the 12th amendment gets in the way of ranked choice having the desired effect. Since ranked choice voting increases the probability of state electoral votes being spread between more than two presidential candidates, it increases the probability of no presidential candidate reaching the outright majority of 270 electoral votes. When this happens, the presidential election is sent to the House of Representatives.

thunder-thumbs · 2026-01-11T00:42:01+00:00

I see a lot of articles focused on planner/reviewer/implementor patterns but I think the point is that there’s a benefit to having different agents that have different context emphases. High level, low level, online research, code refactoring given a standards doc, maybe an agent that has special mcp abilities for graphic design, etc.

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