From 16f41a2016ec718c411c5087223f11fddc167ed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 14:52:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] I hate CSS --- blog/other-stuff.md | 6 ++++-- src/style.sass | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/other-stuff.md b/blog/other-stuff.md index 12d1d39..339466c 100644 --- a/blog/other-stuff.md +++ b/blog/other-stuff.md @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Obviously this is just stuff *I* like; you might not like it, which isn't really * [Street Cultivation](https://www.goodreads.com/series/287542-street-cultivation) - again, sane characters who do not make obviously stupid decisions for plot reasons. * [Nexus](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642710-nexus) - somewhat dumb plot but very cool transhumanist technology. * [The Divine Cities](https://www.goodreads.com/series/159695-the-divine-cities) - I like any[^1] fiction about killing God, and this has great characterization and a creatively exotic setting too. I haven't actually finished City of Miracles though. -* [The Machineries of Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/160439-the-machineries-of-empire) - also a cool unique setting, although I do feel like it has some issues with pacing, and the vaguely mathematical setting annoys me because the few pieces of specific maths are wrong. +* [The Machineries of Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/160439-the-machineries-of-empire) - a unique setting, although I do feel like it has some issues with pacing, the vaguely mathematical nature of setting annoys me because the few pieces of specific maths are wrong[^2] (and, related to this, the setting is also not really congruent: there's not enough information there to model what might happen next yourself, or why anything might happen), and the fact that somehow nobody in several hundred years has thought of a particular thing until the protagonist did. * [The Freeze-Frame Revolution](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510759-the-freeze-frame-revolution) - interesting ideas and surprisingly cognizant of AI safety concerns for its time. Annoyingly short, but it *is* a novella. * [Bastion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59521676-bastion) - great worldbuilding, somewhat annoying characters (though they improve somewhat). * [Dogs of War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35827220-dogs-of-war) - pretty good scifi, though I am not sure it's very "thought-provoking" as some reviewers claim inasmuch as the ethical questions in it are not very hard. @@ -81,4 +81,6 @@ If you want EPUB versions of the free web serials here for your e-reader, there You can suggest other possibly-good stuff in the comments and I may add it to an extra section, and pointlessly complain there or [by email](mailto:me@osmarks.net) if you don't like some of this. Please tell me if any links are dead. -[^1]: Not really. \ No newline at end of file +[^1]: Not really. + +[^2]:
Think of normal spacetime, said the author/illustrator, as a hypersurface. Each point on that surface had a tangent space associated with it. The tangent space could be considered a linearization of the area around the point, with extraneous information knifed away. Anyone stuck in the region of a threshold winnower’s effect was painfully affected by the linearization.
That is not at all how that works. Also some parts on cryptography. I can only assume reviewers generally ignored this because they studied English.
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