TomBishop

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on ichđźš«iel · c/ich_iel · 2 pts · 2y

Können wir nicht die aus Sachsen besser verteilen? Dann können die weniger Schaden anrichten.

While it's far from the small flagship plenty of us want (a dream that's as good as dead), compared to behemoths from companies like Samsung, I'll happily settle for a phone series that gets a little easier to hold every year.

Or maybe they could just stop using heavy, brittle material for back covers because they look shiny.

on Fuck Nuance · c/sociology · 4 pts · 3y

I believe I have this pdf on my computer somewhere and every time I scroll past it I wonder what it's about. I always think it's someone angry at the software company but seeing it here I'm pretty sure it must be this paper.

Thanks for posting it. Skimming the content I think there are some arguments in it, that I can agree with but I'll have to give it a closer read before I can form an opinion. The title is hard to beat and I love that it got published this way. Seems fitting.

I found some of them funny but having the third comment in a lot of chains about horrible stuff be quirky or funny is annoying to me. Nothing against some dark humor, but it's too much for me to have to be funny in places where other people are suffering, grieving, or feeling compassion for other people's suffering.

My system starts similar, but I prefer categorising by type of resource over publisher, when I have a lot of files. The publisher doesn't hold much value to me and simply dumping everything into a single folder, even under system can become messy quickly. I sort by system, rules, adventures and sometimes by supplements or additional material like cheat sheets, when there are too many. For some things I also keep a table (or plan to create one some day, haha), because adventures and random tables might work for different systems and I'd like to remember them.

I finished The finder chronicles by Suzanne Palmer this year. Besides that mostly urban fantasy/fantasy. Currently reading Paladins Grace by T. Kingfisher.

A person of taste, I see. I still have a couple of Rivers of London books left but I love the series. Have you read MJ-12 By Michael J. MartĂ­nez? If you liked The Fold and Rivers of London, it might be something for you. Anything else you could recommend?

If it is the computer and algorithm stuff that draws you to Liu Cixin and Egan, maybe you'd like Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon and Reamde are not sci-fi, but feature interesting computer topics.