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See if you can find a copy of Michael Sall's book, it's pricey but it's the definitive guide to the game

pschwon 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps

> Can you think of one movie or TV show which models a realistically happy working adult marriage which isn't either sentimental and idealised, or doesn't end in drama, tragedy, and betrayal?

Friday Night Lights

pschwon Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories

There's a massive scholarly debate about when exactly the Final Solution took shape, with one school of thought being that it wasn't until after the invasion of the USSR that extermination became the goal. Christopher Browning's _The Origins of the Final Solution_ [0] provides a good overview of this position.

[0] https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/9780803259799/

pschwon Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office

In the case of the LIRR:

https://gothamist.com/news/lirr-riders-still-miffed-over-jam...

https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/hell-on-wheels-bklyn-shuttles-...

pschwon Emacs is not just an editor (2015)

lsp-java mode should handle most of that: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-java/

pschwon Beej's Guide to C Programming

From his bio:

> I'd started off with Beej's Guide to Network Programming back in 1995 or so

pschwon Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do

IIRC they were the basis of the routines in Arnold's _Education of a Body Builder_... doesn't get any more classic than that.

pschwon The Real War 1939-1945 (1989)

> The author seems to have little understanding of how much this was true of World War 1...

Fussell wrote _The Great War and Modern Memory_, so I'd say he was pretty well-versed on how WW1 was portrayed.

pschwon The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks

From what I remember (I did a masters in history about a decade ago), Eran Shalev's _Rome Reborn on Western Shores_ was the main book on the subject (edit: the subject being Rome / the classics and early American political culture generally, not specifically the US Constitution).

That said, there was some debate over the influence of Rome on early American political debates, with others citing either "classical republicanism" or the pre-English Civil War debates on the English constitution as more important influences (for example, JGA Pocock or Gordon Wood).

pschwon Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction (2019)

Anecdote: When I was in a history graduate program, part of our training was a "written exam" based on a list of 200+ required books (and several hundred more recommended ones). There literally was not time to read every book, so we all got a crash course in how academics read -- get the author's argument from the intro/conclusion, then get the structure/evidence/case studies by skimming the chapter list. By the end, I was able to "read" a book in about 30 minutes, but there was no way I could actually _read_ the book. The goal was to spend as much time as possible reading primary sources, not books, because that was the "value-add" for an academic historian.

pschwon Cisco Webex launches real-time translation

> If you like Zoom you should be ok with Webex.

Webex lacks a native Linux client, and the browser-based version has limited features and in my experience has had some recurring issues with audio and screensharing. So, purely from a user experience point of view, the shift from Zoom to Webex hasn't been painless.

pschwon How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

> Read a book about Lisp games programming

Any recommendations?

pschwon U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Nit: the first issue of Marat's "L'Ami du peuple" wasn't published until several months after the fall of the Bastille and thus played no role in radicalizing the populace prior to the Revolution.

But the broader point that the French Revolution was proceeded by a radicalized literature [0] is accurate (Sieyes' "What is the Third Estate?" is the most famous work [1]). Though it's contribution to the origins of the Revolution is the matter of some debate [2].

[0] For a good overview, see the work of Robert Darnton, esp. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674536579 [1] https://fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Qu’est-ce_que_le_tiers_état... (I don't recall if there's a full English translation of this... there are excerpts in Keith Baker's French Revolution reader (U Chicago Press) [2] One of the better treatments of this is https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Cultural-Origins-of-the-Frenc...

pschwon Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping (2004)

It is definitely doable. _Scarne on Dice_ (1945) details a number of methods for controlling dice throws. And Steve Forte's "Gambling Protection Series" videos show what the moves look like in action.

Mind you, none of these moves will fly in a modern casino.