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'Hope,' he said. 'Damn thing never leaves you alone.'

Didn't like this book as much as I'd hoped... it covers some neat topics in terms of AI, genetic updating, and some similar stuff but didn't quite hit.

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On a related note... I'm annoyed Amazon swapped up the colors it offers for highlighting in the Kindle App (and the devices that support color.)

Like the colors had meaning that made sense to my brain in a synesthesia kinda of way - yellow "plain old highlight", blue "quote this on the blog" (blue being the color of links), red "I disagree or it makes me annoyed" (red being associated with anger), leaving orange which I used for "I want to go look this up"

These are the new colors, and "Aqua" replaces Blue and "Pink" the old version of Red. Like the colors are close enough that there's not too much conclusion, but it's annoying to have the new palette retroactively applied to all my years of past reading. (I wonder if the choice is aesthetic or has some accessibility concerns I'm unaware of.)

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The problem with wanting to design a villain whose look is military chic but *not* wanting the result to be too obviously fashy is that basically the entire conceptual space of "military chic but not obviously fash" is occupied by high school marching bands, and you need to decide for yourself whether you're okay with that.