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Thanks for adding to the coporate-techno-king takeover of america nightmare fuel ^^.

I wonder if one of the reasons they’re so young is that’s the age you’d have to be to not realize in how much legal trouble they might be putting themselves in. (Bar an eventual pardon from Trump.)

Myself I’ve learned to embrace the em dash—like so, with a special shoutout to John Green—and interleaving ( [ { } ] ). On mac and linux conveniently short-cutted to Option+Shift+‘-’, windows is a much less satisfying Alt+0150 without third party tools like AutoHotKey.

Warmiest memory is our dad reading to me and my sisters (until we were quite old I think) , the Chronicles of Narnia, really going for the voice acting.

After wracking my brain trying to remember novels I read as kid and coming up blank, I finally remembered most of my early sci-fi books were in French, mostly aimed at middle-school aged kids but, gave me an early taste for sci-fi, and neat cover art to boot: https://www.noosfere.org/livres/collection.asp?NumCollection=-10246504&numediteur=3902

A few choice picks:

Les Abîmes d’Autremer: (rough translation: The Abysses of Othersea)

About a young journalist investigating the planet (Autremer) with the best spaceships (the Abîmes), which turn out to be retro-fitted space whales, that the pilot bonds to, and the journalist herself ends up as a pilot.

L’ Œuil des Dieux: (The eye of the gods)

About a group of 29 kids who were left behind at a lunar station after a serious accident while there were still in kindergarten, (nobody knows they are still alive), told many years later the oldest ones now teenagers, when they don’t really remember this (having been raised by a now defunct nanny robot) , and for them the station is the whole world, and they don’t really understand technology, and are separated into three semi-hostile tribes tribes the Wolves, the Bears, and the Craze.

(Generation Ship sci-fi is still one of ny favorite genre, if I ever write a sci-fi book it would probably be in that setting)

L’Or Bleu: (Blue gold)

This one I don’t remember that well and don’t have at hand, but it follows a young man from saturn visiting Earth for the first time, in a world where water has become scarce, specifically in the Atlanpolis capital city of the now dry Mediterranean sea, Paris with a now dry Seine river, making his living by being very good at arcade virtual reality videogames with leaderboards (the book is originally from 1989), and uncovering machinations of those of have power and control of water.

Bonus Mention:

From a short story, from a collection I don’t remember, but it follows a girl who is interupted in her life [while vacationing with her parents], is interrupted by the “Player” trying to complete his quest, and finding out that she’s acutally an NPC, she’s disturbingly realistic, and falling in love they do eventually complete the quest with a teary goodbye, and hopes that the virtual reality software the boy is using is actually tapping into parallel universes somehow. Cue the reveal, the girl was the Player all along, with slightly modified memories, for “enhanced” “immersion” and “excitement”, she does not mourn or worry about the boy much at all, realizing he was the NPC after all.

L’imparfait du futur, une épatante aventure de Jules: (Future Imperfect, A spiffing adventure of Jules)

This one is a whole French comic book series (Bande-déssinée), which tells the story of Jules an unremarkable young man with average grades, who is selected for a space program for no greatly explained reason (It later turns out the chief scientist is a crazed eugenicist with really flawed software, trying to create “ideal” pairs), which actually explores the concept and consequence of light speed travel, and time dilation, something not properly explained to Jules, until “take off”, cue a horrified face. When he does come back from alpha centauri in later installements, his younger brother is indeed now older than him. This book actually prompted me to ask in class in 2nd Grade for the teacher to please explain Relativity (in front of the whole class), and to his credit he actually gave it a fair shot, and didn’t dismiss the question as not being context or age-appropriate.

[There’s actually also lot of high quality french sci-fi comic books, generally intented for a more grown up audience.]

By Ursula K. Le Guin, I really like The dispossed and The left hand of darkness, and The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (espcially the underground mathematicians measuring the distance to the face of God [the sun], one).

24! - Crossed Wires - Leaderboard time 01h01m13s (and a close personal time of 01h09m51s)

#!/usr/bin/env jq -n -crR -f

( # If solving manually input need --arg swaps
  # Expected format --arg swaps 'n01-n02,n03-n04'
  # Trigger start with --arg swaps '0-0'
  if $ARGS.named.swaps then $ARGS.named.swaps |
    split(",") | map(split("-") | {(.[0]):.[1]}, {(.[1]):.[0]}) | add
  else {} end
) as $swaps |

[ inputs | select(test("->")) / " " | del(.[3]) ] as $gates |

[ # Defining Target Adder Circuit #
  def pad: "0\(.)"[-2:];
  (
    [ "x00", "AND", "y00", "c00" ],
    [ "x00", "XOR", "y00", "z00" ],
    (
      (range(1;45)|pad) as $i |
      [ "x\($i)", "AND", "y\($i)", "c\($i)" ],
      [ "x\($i)", "XOR", "y\($i)", "a\($i)" ]
    )
  ),
  (
    ["a01", "AND", "c00", "e01"],
    ["a01", "XOR", "c00", "z01"],
    (
      (range(2;45) | [. , . -1 | pad]) as [$i,$j] |
      ["a\($i)", "AND", "s\($j)", "e\($i)"],
      ["a\($i)", "XOR", "s\($j)", "z\($i)"]
    )
  ),
  (
    (
      (range(1;44)|pad) as $i |
      ["c\($i)", "OR", "e\($i)", "s\($i)"]
    ),
    ["c44", "OR", "e44", "z45"]
  )
] as $target_circuit |

( #        Re-order xi XOR yi wires so that xi comes first        #
  $gates | map(if .[0][0:1] == "y" then  [.[2],.[1],.[0],.[3]] end)
) as $gates |

#  Find swaps, mode=0 is automatic, mode>0 is manual  #
def find_swaps($gates; $swaps; $mode): $gates as $old |
  #                   Swap output wires                #
  ( $gates | map(.[3] |= ($swaps[.] // .)) ) as $gates |

  # First level: 'x0i AND y0i -> c0i' and 'x0i XOR y0i -> a0i' #
  #      Get candidate wire dict F, with reverse dict R        #
  ( [ $gates[]
      | select(.[0][0:1] == "x" )
      | select(.[0:2] != ["x00", "XOR"] )
      | if .[1] == "AND" then { "\(.[3])": "c\(.[0][1:])"  }
      elif .[1] == "XOR" then { "\(.[3])": "a\(.[0][1:])"  }
      else "Unexpected firt level op" | halt_error end
    ] | add
  ) as $F | ($F | with_entries({key:.value,value:.key})) as $R |

  #       Replace input and output wires with candidates      #
  ( [ $gates[]  | map($F[.] // .)
      | if .[2] | test("c\\d") then [ .[2],.[1],.[0],.[3] ] end
      | if .[2] | test("a\\d") then [ .[2],.[1],.[0],.[3] ] end
    ] # Makes sure that when possible a0i comes 1st, then c0i #
  ) as $gates |

  # Second level:   use info rich 'c0i OR e0i -> s0i' gates   #
  #      Get candidate wire dict S, with reverse dict T       #
  ( [ $gates[]
      | select((.[0] | test("c\\d")) and .[1] == "OR" )
      | {"\(.[2])": "e\(.[0][1:])"}, {"\(.[3])": "s\(.[0][1:])"}
    ] | add | with_entries(select(.key[0:1] != "z"))
  ) as $S | ($S | with_entries({key:.value,value:.key})) as $T |

  ( #      Replace input and output wires with candidates     #
    [ $gates[] | map($S[.] // .) ] | sort_by(.[0][0:1]!="x",.)
  ) as $gates  | #                   Ensure "canonical" order #

  [ # Diff - our input gates only
    $gates - $target_circuit
    | .[] | [ . , map($R[.] // $T[.] // .) ]
  ] as $g |
  [ # Diff +  target circuit only
    $target_circuit - $gates
    | .[] | [ . , map($R[.] // $T[.] // .) ]
  ] as $c |

  if $mode > 0 then
    #    Manual mode print current difference    #
    debug("gates", $g[], "target_circuit", $c[]) |

    if $gates == $target_circuit then
      $swaps | keys | join(",") #   Output successful swaps  #
    else
      "Difference remaining with target circuit!" | halt_error
    end
  else
    # Automatic mode, recursion end #
    if $gates == $target_circuit then
      $swaps | keys | join(",") #   Output successful swaps  #
    else
      [
        first(
          # First case when only output wire is different
          first(
            [$g,$c|map(last)]
            | combinations
            | select(first[0:3] == last[0:3])
            | map(last)
            | select(all(.[]; test("e\\d")|not))
            | select(.[0] != .[1])
            | { (.[0]): .[1], (.[1]): .[0] }
          ),
          # "Only" case where candidate a0i and c0i are in an
          # incorrect input location.
          # Might be more than one for other inputs.
          first(
            [
              $g[] | select(
                ((.[0][0]  | test("a\\d")) and .[0][1] == "OR") or
                ((.[0][0]  | test("c\\d")) and .[0][1] == "XOR")
              ) | map(first)
            ]
            | if length != 2 then
                "More a0i-c0i swaps required" | halt_error
              end
            | map(last)
            | select(.[0] != .[1])
            | { (.[0]): .[1], (.[1]): .[0] }
          )
        )
      ] as [$pair] |
      if $pair | not then
        "Unexpected pair match failure!" | halt_error
      else
        find_swaps($old; $pair+$swaps; 0)
      end
    end
  end
;

find_swaps($gates;$swaps;$swaps|length)

I think that particular talking point also serves an exculpatory purpose: “If it was only a razor-thin victory I might understand being angry with me, but see it’s a decisive victory. He has the mandate of heaven of the people (this is a Trumpian victory! not a Democrat failure!) ! It would be wrong not to congratulate him!”

It’s also incredibly misleading, maybe it was possible to “completely” re-write the UI back in 2005—never mind that most of the value would come from, the underlying geographic data being mostly correct and mostly correctly labeled—there is no way in hell that the same would achievable in 2024. (Also the notion it would take any coder 2 * 1000 / (365 * 5/7) = 7 years to achieve a comparable result is proposterous)

As long as no-one ever bakes—pluginlessly—LLMs into vanilla vim (or into normal nano) I won’t despair too much.

Not surprised, still very disappointed, I feel sick.

Why hasn’t he attempted to make a robotic owl yet? Poser…

To be “fair” kubernetes api only supports strongly validated/typed YAML-ish input…, it won’t let you put non-string values in string locations. And in reality at the HTTP api layer—at least for kubectl—json is used. (Which also means you cant’ do the more weird occult YAML things that JSON wouldn’t let you)

You have to blame the deep-nestedness of k8s resources for unreadability…

I was also a Elon skeptic back-then, but I’ll admit I did get a kick out of the “don’t panic” dashboard.

But golly does he read H2G2 completely wrong (transcript):

I think and it highlighted an important point which is that a lot of times the question is harder than the answer. And if you can properly phrase the question, then the answer is the easy part. So, to the degree that we can better understand the universe, then we can better know what questions to ask. Then whatever the question is that most approximates: what’s the meaning of life? That’s the question we can ultimately get closer to understanding. And so I thought to the degree that we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness and knowledge, then that would be a good thing.

It’s backwards! It misses the joke! It took thousands of years and they got a nonsensical answer before any question! It took a thousand more and they got a nonsensical—incompatible—question! It has been theorized that should someone understand the universe it would be replaced by something more complicated! It has also been theorized this has already happened! Also regarding scale of knowledge, Trin Tragula definetly showed that the One thing you can’t afford to have in this universe, is a sense of perspective!

Surely his reading comprehension isn’t actually this bad, and he only got a bad meme-cliffnotes version of the radio-series/books/movies!?!

I wouldn’t swap it for the world ^^, but maybe a tad fewer existantial crises would be nice (no monkey-paw curls plz)

• I don’t know Matt Mullenweg, but I’m afraid to ask
• I love the nonsensical misleading QR code onliner, conflictingly using both echo "<URL>" | and mac-only getoutput("pbpaste") (yuck).
• It is famously easy to maintain a job and mental well-being when you have no stable home and few sets of clothes! Famously you don’t need a registered address to open a bank account, and you don’t need a bank account to get a registered address!
• I guess you could run the GPU for 1000 years.
• One needs to learn that interpolation = confabulation = useless bullshit.

How nice it must be to never ponder how large humanity is, and how each and every person you see outside has a full and rich interior and exterior world, and you that only see a tiny fraction of the people outside.

Personally one of my “oh other people are real!” moment, was when our parents (along with my sisters) took us on a surprise ferry trip to England (from France) and our grandparents that—at least as far as kid me remembered—we only ever saw in their home city, were waiting for us in Portsmouth, and we visited the city together (Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is quite nice btw).

I knew they were real, but realizing that they weren’t geo-locked, made me more fully internalize that they had full and independent lives, and therefore that everyone had.

How about people here? When did you realize people are real?

No no no it’s fine! You get the word shuffler to deshuffle the—eloquently—shuffled paragraphs back into nice and tidy bullet points. And I have an idea! You could get an LLM to add metadata to the email to preserve the original bullet points, so the recipient LLM has extra interpolation room to choose to ignore the original list, but keep the—much more correct and eloquent, and with much better emphasis—hallucinated ones.

.
Yikes. Could be a troll (I hope it’s a troll)

And also closing with:

Nvidia insists that it “wins on merit, as reflected in our benchmark results and value to customers.” And Nvidia does have the best stuff — but that’s not what the DOJ, Warren, or France are concerned about, is it?

To tie the bow nicely.