#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 20: How has a setting surprised you?
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#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 20: How has a setting surprised you?
Sometimes, consequences of a premise/setting come together in an unexpectedly apt way. That's actually how I knew I *had* to tackle my current series.
Human women get access to electricity early in the Bronze Age. Pondering tech development, I realized that gunpowder would be used differently. Women would just make sparks to set it off. There'd be no need for triggers and percussion primers and such.
Which means men can't use guns. 🤯
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#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 20: How has a setting surprised you?
Sometimes, consequences of a premise/setting come together in an unexpectedly apt way. That's actually how I knew I *had* to tackle my current series.
Human women get access to electricity early in the Bronze Age. Pondering tech development, I realized that gunpowder would be used differently. Women would just make sparks to set it off. There'd be no need for triggers and percussion primers and such.
Which means men can't use guns. 🤯
@ringles "Which means men can't use guns." Given that the first guns (Arquebuses) used smouldering string to fire them, later flintlock guns used sparks to fire them I feel this is optimistic.
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@ringles "Which means men can't use guns." Given that the first guns (Arquebuses) used smouldering string to fire them, later flintlock guns used sparks to fire them I feel this is optimistic.
Exactly. Humans in our timeline *needed* mechanisms to ignite things.
In an alternate timeline, (half of) humans can make all the sparks they want without any tools or materials. Why *bother* with semi-reliable flintlocks or matchlocks? What's even the motivation?
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Before, you were seeing the same topics (more or less, I think the logic changed a little bit) but in a "topic list" style — like you were navigating into just another category.
While that worked fine, the vast majority of content was microblog content that did not come with a title, so one needed to be generated.
A topic listing with many many long titles (some of which don't function well as titles) does not a good topic list make 🙂
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@ireneista @mntmn @cwebber well it's a general purpose UI *now* but only in a very monkeys paw way
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@cstanhope @mcc @mntmn @cwebber I like it.
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We love it when changes have non-localized and unpredictable results;
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@aeva Short of a shinier trinket to distract VCs I don't think there are any.
I dunno, dig into quantum computing and see if there's anything cool you can make and/or fake?
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lol. LLMao
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@mntmn @cwebber management types have wanted this since the 1950s. it’s why COBOL and SQL exist; it’s why RAD exists. It’s why so called “4th Generation Languages” exist. Management would like nothing more to be done with needing to think about all those pesky details like “that’s a logical impossibility” or “that’s P=NP”, they want their word to be the word of god
