Caleb 90
Added 2024-01-19 10:21:24 +0000 UTCHappy Friday
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I expected to open chapter 94 tonight but when I click on it, I am told it is locked and I need to join. I have and was expecting it to open!?
Grahame Cotterill
2024-04-26 21:53:44 +0000 UTCI love the chapter. Each one seems to be better than the next. Now for a miniscule quibble. It has no effect on the story, but before I retired, I used to be responsible for (along with many other people) keeping autonomous air vehicles from falling out of the sky (or doing other stupid things). So, failure rates (probabilities) are of interest to me. At the bottom of page 17 & top of page 18 of the pdf, the text states that “That means that around 0.003 percent of schools in the US were affected”. This is incorrect, based on the numbers given. It should read “… around 0.3 percent …”. Using American symbol conventions 0.003 % x 116,000 = 0.00003 x 116,000 = 3.48 3.48 is “close enough for government work” to 3, so let’s call it 3. But it is 2 orders of magnitude low, relative to the 300 school shootings referenced. Or in another way 300 / 116,000 = 0.00258 as a ratio. Again, call 0.00258 0.003 for easy discussion. Then 0.003 as a ratio, is 3 out of 1000, is 0.3 %. So, as a check 0.3 % x 116,000 = 0.003 x 116,000 = 348 (or 300 for easy discussion). That, is it for the numbers. It seems that as both a value (300) & a risk (3 of 1000), is high (from my previous experience 3 out of 1000 is high risk [1 fatal failure every 333 hours, 1000 / 3, or approximately 14 days], but that is what the numbers say. I do admit there is a bit of a hand wave here, translating this to hours, but it helps show why 3 out of 1000 is considered a high number. Therefore, we could either question the correctness of the input data or the translation of “one hundred and sixteen THOUSAND” to 116,000, or both. If anyone spots an error or misunderstanding in this please let me know.
Sam Rhine
2024-02-11 05:57:42 +0000 UTCThank you for really top notch writing! So looking forward to next Friday’s chapter.
RA93CC
2024-02-03 23:20:34 +0000 UTCEverything was ice. About 1.5 inch’s then a small layer of a bit of snow maybe about an inch then another couple inches of ice in our driveway. The street because it was able to melt a bit was just a several inch thick layer of ice. Made for some fun times trying to get the wife (healthcare worker) to work downtown. Then our power was out for 36 hours exactly. House stayed above 45 in that period, no burst pipes or anything thank god.
Roadspill
2024-02-03 17:53:12 +0000 UTCI live further south and up in the hills and my driveway was a literal ice slide. Hopefully you and yours stayed and came out of it all safe!
Jayden
2024-02-03 02:41:23 +0000 UTCWow. You took us from breathing hard over the compulsion-training sex scene to tearing up at the heartfelt thank you’s from classmates and the professor’s wife. Amazing!
J H
2024-02-03 00:37:45 +0000 UTCI give up!!!!!!
Nicholas Sebright
2024-02-03 00:30:35 +0000 UTCNess not need I hate predictive text
Nicholas Sebright
2024-02-03 00:30:10 +0000 UTCLovely to laugh when Jess returned.
Nicholas Sebright
2024-02-03 00:28:33 +0000 UTCThank you for another great chapter. I loved all the interactions with everybody.
David Long
2024-01-19 16:40:35 +0000 UTCGreat chapter. Although the bad thing is that I’m living in Gresham, right next door to where the story is set and this nasty winter storm is raging through town knocking out power, killing water pipes and water mains and our power just went out last night around 11:30p 😤😖🤬 Hopefully we get power back soon.
Roadspill
2024-01-19 15:17:44 +0000 UTC
