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Mais oui, c’est bientôt la rentrée

The way the characters employ the word “science”, or “scientific methods” sometimes reminds me too much of Dr.Stone with his all over the place “the power of science” mantra

J'ai trouvé dans ma bibliothèque ce bouquin appelé "La Bonne Correspondance" pour m'aider lors de l'écriture d'un courriel électronique au directeur de ma section.

C'est un bouquin qui a été publié en 1984, alors les lettres sont tous très ampoulées.

Le champ de ce livre est très étendu.

Les modèles de lettre peuvent aller de la réconciliation avec des amis, la réclamation auprès d'un voisin pour plantation illégales d'arbres, jusqu'à des lettres de félicitation à un acteur de théâtre/une actrice de cinéma et des demandes d'audience particulière à un Ministre de la République.

Ça m'a un peu amusée de lire toutes ces lettres.

En fin de compte, ce courriel à mon directeur a été écrit avec ma sècheresse habituelle.

Je vais le lire en écoutant sur l’audible.

Chapter 11 is awfully long. During the reading and listening I kept getting distracted.

The descriptions of all the exquisite objects dragged on for too long and the details of all these exquisiteness simply don’t interest me.

Like I get it, he has a very bling bling and vain lifestyle, moving on!

结局我不大满意，每一次倒带重来各有各的遗憾才合理，选择了这些放弃了那些就是代价。和和美美让我感觉有些虚假。

但是除了这点外这本书其他方面都挺顺心的，推。

I ordered it about a week ago. And it has arrived today!

Beautiful cover of Narcissus staring at himself.

I know I just wrote an angry post complaining, but tbfair the book is overall well written. Among all the nginx stuff (mostly on oreilly) I have read and watched, I think this is by far the best one.

It is succinct, straight to the point. Challenge, solution, and an example with explanation. Clean.

Originally I wanted to read the book because many parts of the fediverse have been under ddos-attack, and I was looking for ways to protect the servers I administer. And they are found.

I skipped a lot of the chapters as I don’t have an nginx plus, I don’t need a cdn, I don’t need a lot of the stuff.

It’s relatively well written, intuitive and thorough. Could be used as a study guide or a quick reference book.

Some basic understanding of nginx is needed to appreciate this book.

Chapter 2.

Why is the author using acronyms without much explanation (i.e FQDN on page 11) and then later on just suddenly elaborating on it as if it is the first time it being employed

Well at least the term in that case is explained.

Besides that, there are many terms/jargons that are just thrown at me, expecting me to know what they mean without explanation. Maybe some people are ok with reading stuff that don’t fully comprehend as long as le vif du sujet is well presented.

What it aims to explain I have understood with no problem. But along the explanation the author has brings up things that I have no idea what they are and I don’t see what they serve besides confusing and frustrating me.

Or maybe this book is targeting more advanced idk.

Originally I was listening to a LibreVox version, but since there are a lot of dialogues, it was difficult for me to keep tabs on who’s speaking if without good dramatisation, and I got confused all the time as to who’s said what, so I joined the audible membership.

Russell’s dramatisation is ingeniously done and is I think by far the best one. Each character a distinct tone, accent and rhythm.

痛苦面具

Should I consider it a scientific little treatise or a mere self help book? I was unable to make up my mind about up till now.

It’s a tiring little book, full of témoignages, trop de témoignages qui déclenchent des flashbacks pénibles très souvent, et pas assez de raisonnement de sang-froid.

Le mot « self-book » n’est pas une catégorisation, mais plutôt une description de comment les conseils donnés sont vides et inutiles même s’ils paraissent raisonnables au premier regard.

La raisonnement est trop lâche pour que ce livre se qualifie comme « scientifique » mais l’écriture trop ennuyeuse to be considered entertaining

In short: useless.

Not complete garbage, but meh.

Meh.