Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Read few books of that, then switch to something other and then back. "Small Favor" at the moment. "Dead beat" has been favourite so far.
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really don’t understand how so many smart people don’t understand this and continue to consume animal products regularly.
How do you define 'regularly' on a global scale?
I don’t since I really only know about what happens in the west. Here most people seem to eat meat 2-3 times a day, that seems far too frequent to be sustainable. Especially if you consider it immoral to live a lifestyle that couldn’t realistically be sustained if everyone on earth had access to it.
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#163Steve M. Easterbrook Computing the Climate - How We Know What We Know About Climate Change
Tom Deakin and Timothy G. Mattson Programming Your GPU with OpenMP: Performance Portability for GPUs
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#164I have just finished “World of yesterday” by Stefan Zweig, probably one of the best books I have ever read, it gives you a picture how the world was at the beginning of 20th century and how despite of cultural and technological advances of the world, Europe turned to madness. Now i am starting “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace.
I believe that book was the basis for the movie “The Grand Budapest Hotel” with Ralph Fiennes.
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#165Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. - Brian Merchant
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#166In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki, about Japanese aesthetics
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#167My non-fiction pile is very peculiar to me (maths, probability, gambling, Rust and Elixir books, a backlog of a load of recent Humble Bundle deals), but I have some solid fiction recommendations: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is the sort of novel where you start to get sad as the weight of unread pages in your right starts to lighten. A novel about some friends who build some games (set in the…
I can't for the life of me understand Piranesi. I've read so many good reviews but I just couldn't stay focused reading it. It was very slow for me.
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#168I’m reading two very interesting books right now. - Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann; comprehensive study on data models. - 9 Pints by Rose George; it’s 9 stories/anecdotes about blood. Supremely enjoyable non-fiction writing.
Designing Data Intensive Applications is really good, because it gives you an good overview of data systems. I had the feeling I don't have to understand all the details yet I would learn a lot. Are there other books like this?
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#169'Red rising' series
I'm also picking it up, probably next.
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#170I've just started a book by a brilliant Cuban author: Leonardo Padura. I would recommend his "The Man Who Loved Dogs", it's about the man who killed Trotsky.