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is there a genre of written work specifically concerned with the conception and procedure of literary works, or is it all random interviews or annotated guides?
  • Recommending Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the lectures he has been preparing shortly before his death.

    Not an assembly guide for a work of literature, but it'll help your own process if it's already ongoing and you want to improve.

    The lectures also have some comments on what Calvino himself was doing here and there and why.

  • Do spoilers really harm the story you are reading?
  • For me specifically, if spoilers hurt a book, it probably wasn't worth reading in the first place. I love when authors demonstrate mastery of language and narration, and no amount of spoilers can overshadow the direct experience of witnessing it enacted.

  • Scale armor vs Plate armor in endgame
  • Both work very well for the entire journey there and back. I use the first I get my hands on (typically scale armour) and upgrade it to +8. But if it's plate armour, you might have to start using it before gaining the necessary strength, so be ready to spend more time and food on a few levels in the prison area.

  • Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather?
  • Because we have tons of ground-level sensors, but not a lot in the upper layers of the atmosphere, I think?

    Why is this important? Weather processes are usually modelled as a set of differential equations, and you want to know the border conditions in order to solve them and obtain the state of the entire atmosphere. The atmosphere has two boundaries: the lower, which is the planet's surface, and the upper, which is where the atmosphere ends. And since we don't seem to have a lot of data from the upper layers, it reduces the quality of all predictions.

  • Youtube link doesn't suggest video title and the descriptor is in what looks like Russian. I don't live in Russia or use their version of YT. What's going on??
  • Given the fact that there was an unintentional DDOS when federated Lemmy instances were requesting the same preview around the same time, it must be one of LW's servers, not anything on your side.

    The only sure way to get rid of this effect is to use an instance entirely hosted on servers in anglophone countries, I think.

  • Introverts use more concrete language than extraverts | BPS
  • This is not to say that Jung wasn't a genius. Jung was THE BOMB DIGGIDITY (which, by the way, I wish was an official term in the Oxford dictionary).

    If they love Jung so much (which I agree they should because Jung was amaaaaazing), why don't they honor him by using the spelling he actually used?

    Love etymological articles with unreliable narrators.

  • Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.
  • Once configured, Tor Hidden Services also just work (you may need to use some fresh bridges in certain countries if ISPs block Tor there though). You don't have to trust any specific third party in this case.

  • Researchers claim GPT-4 passed the Turing test
  • If config prompt = system prompt, its hijacking works more often than not. The creators of a prompt injection game (https://tensortrust.ai/) have discovered that system/user roles don't matter too much in determining the final behaviour: see appendix H in https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01011.

  • Sheet music resources

    How do you acquire sheet music?

    There're IMSLP and musescore, but many things are just not there.

    Bonus points if you know anything with xenharmonic/microtonal music well-represented.

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