Bldck

joined 1 year ago
[–] Bldck 4 points 5 days ago

Book one ends on an interesting note.

Book two goes back in time to show us more history.

I just wasn’t in the mood for a retread of ideas that were hinted at in book one and were largely just themes or stories ripped from Fallout

Not to say it was bad… just not excellent. I’m a harsh critic

[–] Bldck 1 points 5 days ago

I agree. Season 1 felt hollow

[–] Bldck 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The first season diverged from the first novel significantly and I felt like it was a much worse story because of it.

The author did a great job in world building and storytelling that just didn’t work on screen.

For example, the opening vignette is the sheriff walking up the stairs to leave the Silo. It’s an in depth meditation on the worn steps, his personal feelings (but not motivations) and concludes with the somewhat shocking death.

That just didn’t happen in the show as effectively.

I haven’t read book 2, and I’m not sure I will.

[–] Bldck 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Chaotic neutral response: A line break is just white space.

Most languages use white spaces

[–] Bldck 5 points 5 days ago

This person unicodes

[–] Bldck 2 points 1 week ago
  1. Open a screen
  2. Start an rsync job to maintain parity between source and destination
  3. Exit the screen, but keep it running
  4. Now rsync will be running in the background until you kill it

You can reattach the screen whenever you want to check on status, change parameters or kill it

[–] Bldck 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing! I’m a pure headless Linux user, so I don’t know much about desktop environments

[–] Bldck 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Depending on your file structure, you could probably keep this running all the time so you don’t have to manually intervene in the future

[–] Bldck 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

rysnc might be a faster and more reliable option. It can compress the files for transfer and does checksums after the transfer is complete

I used something like this to transfer 12 TB from offsite to onsite with zero failures


rsync -arvzip --progress /path/to/host /path/to/destination

You can set up a screen and let this run in the background all the time

[–] Bldck 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, I read the book 2 years ago. I rarely review books when I read them, but this book I took the time to write one.

Like I said, the academic linguistics side of this was fascinating. I still refer back to the lesson on translation the word ciao and how complex one word is. Before you even get to tone, content, sentence structure or any of the other complexities of language.

The magic side of it felt shoehorned into the book to make writing a conclusion easier. As you read it, imagine removing the magic and the plot is guided by less arcane happenings. How much could happen with just the bureaucracy, imperialism and capitalism?

Let alone… this is a world with literal magic. And history happened exactly as the real world? No difference except shellfish at a ball in the 1800s

[–] Bldck 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I thought the linguistics part was great. Super fascinating and in depth and well explored.

The magic, historical fantasy and basically the rest of the book was awful.

view more: next ›