Let 3 or 4 go under as an example to the rest and see if they suddenly find they can make it happen after all? I do feel like there’s some merit to the idea they are gaming the system with lowball bids.
heavyboots
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This definitely feels like a “you made your bed now sleep in it” situation. If they underbid to get the grants, that’s their problem. I am so tired of corporate socialism.
Anyone who survived the Mac operating system prior to OSX is well familiar with this methodology haha.
Same with Adobe Type Manager when they stopped doing font duplicate deconfliction…
Magic/science crossovers I can think of offhand…
The Madwand series and the Amber series by Zelazny. Actually Lord of Light may sort of qualify too? He was big on mixing the two. Roadmarks is another one.
There’s also people writing about magicians living amongst us. Stuff like the Unseen University by Naomi Novak. Very much traditional magic but also taking place in the modern world. Same for An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard. Actually one of the very best from this genre is The Magicians by Lev Grossman.
I also love Strata by Terry Pratchett which is a suitably hilarious take on building a flat planet where magic works in a science universe.
And another idea I really enjoy is books that have applied the principals of science to magical systems. Probably my favorite is The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone. Magic is basically something like a stock market/economic system and you end up with index funds of souls and so forth. Very strange but fascinating to think about. Similarly Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett is all about using magic as a system and developing new spells based on known principles of that system. (And using them to steal things.)
The Practice Effect is great!
I may have to buy this one… I am kind of a sucker for anything Expanse-related, it seems.
I would disable any custom fonts you have added to Windows too. Or at least check them for font conflicts. And check the reliability reporter to see if it says anything in particular about the days when FF crashes.
EDIT: I also just noticed you have a VPN in your plugins. The Firefox VPN used to behave pretty wonkily if it got a bad connection and could look like everything was frozen. This would be my immediate prime suspect if you think it’s extensions.
I also agree a fresh profile is a huge pain but worth a shot if all else fails. It can make a difference when you can’t trace down what about:config you boned horribly haha.
For my money, Dune is by far the better book. But I'd personally stop reading after about the 4th one in the series max (might even stop at 3). They don't hold up well after that I don't think.
Well, he means absolutely only his speech should be free, of course.
And yet Siri is dumber than a bag of hammers…
And I say that as someone who has been using Macs since the 512k in high school.