When light encounters a strong magical field it loses all sense of urgency. It slows right down. And on the Discworld the magic was embarrassingly strong, which meant that the soft yellow light of dawn flowed over the sleeping landscape like the caress of a gentle lover or, as some would have it, like golden syrup.

https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/read-an-extract-from-the-light-fantastic/

The turtle moves!

LGTM 👍

Sounds about right, I had a positive experience when I told my local LLM to refactor a function and add a single argument.

I would not dare letting it loose on a whole source file, because it changes random things giving you more code to review.

In my view current LLM’s do a acceptable job with:

• Adding comments
• Writing docstrings
• Writing git commit messages
• Simple tasks on small pieces of code

Footage from a robot in skynet mode:

!it’s from the movie Runaway 1984!<

Yes, and that’s why the professors are scratching their heads.

Trans men on the other hand prefer Haskell, top biology professors are dumbfounded!

Hear me out, what about using JSON to store the configuration in the Python backend?

Biden! Why did you add tariffs and then remove them again and then add them and then threaten with even higher tariffs. Biden please just stop!

~(FYI this was an attempt on a joke)~

I’ve finally made the choice and filtered trump posts, it took a while to figure out how Eternity does it.

I still watch Late Show and Jimmy Kimmel.

Cool, good to know.

I wrote a script to do backups on a ESXi it uses Busybox’s ASH, one thing I learned after spending hours debugging my scripts was that ASH does not support arrays so you have to do everything with temporary files.

A evergreen quote:

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

In some way I understand Romania, ship those assholes back to the states. And bar them from the country (hopefully), then the assholes are not their problem anymore.

Yes it’s a shame they didn’t pay for their actions, but I expect them to fuck around and find out in the near future.

It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as “n.g. -nix” in my head.

On that note it’s interesting to see the stats on how many that have been arrested and tried for writing “wash me” in the dust.

The accused was fined one car wash for writing “wash me” on the defendant’s car.

Then you should have chosen a picture where the truck is actually defaced/vandalized with spray paint or the like, not some ambiguous dust tracing, that you have to spend time insisting is defacing.

So because they didn’t bother with painting it it’s my fault it rusts when I touch it.

I don’t buy your arguments that tracing words in the dust on a car is vandalism/defacing.

Defacing is something permanent tracing words in dust is not permanent.

You are correct it’s an confusing article Quantamagazine have written, why do they start highlighting “Tiny Pointers” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.12800 when “Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02305 is the main paper, and it disproves part of Tiny Pointers.

Here’s a link to the paper “Tiny Pointers” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.12800 those editors at Quantamagazine writes their summary in a strange fashion, for instance using x in stead of n which is normally used in computer science when talking about big O notation.