My favorite feature is how currying is applied literally everywhere. You can take any function that accepts 2 args, pass in a single arg and return a new function that accepts one arg and produces the result. In Haskell, this is handled automatically. Once you wrap your head around using partially applied and fully saturated functions you can really start to see the power behind languages like Haskell
I’ve been learning Haskell, and now I won’t shut up about Haskell
“Our cousins lie about our family trees.”
Thank you for writing this up. Blindsight to me is exactly as good as it is hyped up to be. I think it crops up in all recommendations lists because regardless of what you’re looking for, it is something one should at least try to read. It’s one of the only books that I will actually reread every now and then. But I won’t pretend that Watts’ pros or character work is what brings me back. It’s purely the scope and delivery of his ideas that makes the book so fascinating and the atmosphere of the novel completely supports the abstract nature of his arguments.
The fact that Echopraxia is not as praised as Blindsight has always led me to believe that the book was missing the parts that made blindsight so great, and frankly without those parts blindsight would be a below average sci fi novel. I will move this up my TBR list based on your recommendation.
Piranesi??
Okay clearly weezer is not post rock, but there is an overwhelming presence of the genre in this list.
I also love Radiohead, weezer, BCNR, Swans and joy division… soooo
Damn, Post-Rock is in shambles
Never seen this before. It’s incredible!
The volume of cars is a scale factor that determines the impact of traffic causing behaviors and conditions for free flowing highways (no traffic lights, stop signs, etc.). Following too closely and improper lane changing are two specific behaviors that actually create slow downs. There are numerous models that simulate this.
I came here to point this out and love the way you stated it. Confusion, hesitation and unnecessary lane changes are what create traffic. There has never been a major highway development in history that didn’t cause at least some short term issues. We should give city planners a bit more credit than that
You’re right, doesn’t change the point though. I have never encouraged anyone to try Lemmy because of how prominent some of this stuff is in the front page, even with nsfw toggled off
51% yiff and fucking degenerate kink content, 48% memes, 1% other
Energy weapons help a lot, you just have to keep applying pressure on him to quickly break the shield. The trick with the missiles is to dodge forward when the missiles are closing in at you at around a 45 degree angle. That way you get behind them without them having enough space to turn around be hind you.
You’ve probably beat him by now but double shot gun double grenade launcher. Stay very close to him in phase one and fire all your weapons at once. At close range you will almost guarantee a stagger. Follow up with another shot then wait for your weapons to be fully reloaded and do it again.
Using this strat you can enter phase 2 with 20-40% of his hp left. Then just clean up the rest
Single most disturbing scene from a movie that wasn’t rated R
I wept.