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@leoncowle @kurtsh they've lost the sauce.
Oh sure, Rodenberry's old vision of an altruistic #navy floating through space might be a bit outdated - especially in a time when the only thing a navy reminds us of is either protecting #sovereignty in pure desperation or upholding some #imperialistic game - but my god what they did to the cannon.
It's an absolute mess and absolutely wipes it's hind quarters with all the stories, trials and tribulations of characters and arcs of the past.
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Some really neat tricks here in this Shell Tricks blog post by https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz -- thanks Larvitz!
I knew of most of them, but am glad to have now learned of:
1. "fc" to edit the previous command in your editor of choice
2. "**" (globstar) for recursive searching instead of needing to use find (or ls -R)
3. That "esc-." is repeatable to go back further than just the previous command's last arg. I use that all the time, but never thought to hit it more than once!https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/
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Some really neat tricks here in this Shell Tricks blog post by https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz -- thanks Larvitz!
I knew of most of them, but am glad to have now learned of:
1. "fc" to edit the previous command in your editor of choice
2. "**" (globstar) for recursive searching instead of needing to use find (or ls -R)
3. That "esc-." is repeatable to go back further than just the previous command's last arg. I use that all the time, but never thought to hit it more than once!https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/
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Some really neat tricks here in this Shell Tricks blog post by https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz -- thanks Larvitz!
I knew of most of them, but am glad to have now learned of:
1. "fc" to edit the previous command in your editor of choice
2. "**" (globstar) for recursive searching instead of needing to use find (or ls -R)
3. That "esc-." is repeatable to go back further than just the previous command's last arg. I use that all the time, but never thought to hit it more than once!https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/
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Some really neat tricks here in this Shell Tricks blog post by https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz -- thanks Larvitz!
I knew of most of them, but am glad to have now learned of:
1. "fc" to edit the previous command in your editor of choice
2. "**" (globstar) for recursive searching instead of needing to use find (or ls -R)
3. That "esc-." is repeatable to go back further than just the previous command's last arg. I use that all the time, but never thought to hit it more than once!https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/
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Some really neat tricks here in this Shell Tricks blog post by https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz -- thanks Larvitz!
I knew of most of them, but am glad to have now learned of:
1. "fc" to edit the previous command in your editor of choice
2. "**" (globstar) for recursive searching instead of needing to use find (or ls -R)
3. That "esc-." is repeatable to go back further than just the previous command's last arg. I use that all the time, but never thought to hit it more than once!https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/
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I loved Project Hail Mary. Start to finish. My entire family loved it. Even my 77yo dad who we dragged along to go see it loved it — and he generally detests scifi.
So hear me when I say this (ie read the above again), for *me* The Martian still inches out Project Hail Mary. Just by a smidget. Barely. But it does.
But both are awesome. And I can’t wait to rewatch PHM when it comes to streaming. In the meantime, I’ll rewatch The Martian (for the umpteenth time).
And bring on the new sci-fi novel Andy Weir is currently writing!
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@fastmail This deserves a (non sarcastic) “finally” — been looking forward to this! THANKS!!
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Shoot this straight into my #GenX veins! #Airwolf #StarWars https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8P3RgmS/
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Shoot this straight into my #GenX veins! #Airwolf #StarWars https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8P3RgmS/
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Shoot this straight into my #GenX veins! #Airwolf #StarWars https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8P3RgmS/
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Shoot this straight into my #GenX veins! #Airwolf #StarWars https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8P3RgmS/
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Shoot this straight into my #GenX veins! #Airwolf #StarWars https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8P3RgmS/
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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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@kimvanwyk I have been having so much fun with Advent Of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com/2025) -- thanks for putting me on to that!
I'm done with Day 10 (so 20 puzzles). I was able to solve 18 completely on my own. I only used AI for lookup-type questions, e.g. easiest way to create a list comprehension that takes stringA and turns it into a list of sets. (silly made up example, just to illustrate what I used AI for -- i.e. no help with the design of the solution itself, only language specific help, not puzzle logic help.)
Day 7 Part 2: After a couple of days of frustration, I had to peek at your solution in GitHub, and immediately grok-ed the approach you took and was able to manually replicate it.
Day 10 Part 2…. I hate to report… is the first one I eventually had to turn to ChatGPT to for the entire solution. It required higher order math-combination logic that I am not at all familiar with. I first wrote logic that was able to correctly brute force the example data, but the real data took the number of combinations to ridiculous levels -- well beyond my PC's reasonable abilities. So it required algorithms that I know NOTHING about. I am VERY impressed that ChatGPT was able to first give a brute force method when I gave it the example data, and when I gave it one line from the real data, it went “woah there buddy, that’s not possible with brute force, so let me give you a mathematical algorithmic way” and it then gave me a solution which worked first try, and solves the full problem in 2.5 seconds. Hate that I had to turn to AI, but there was no way I was going to solve that.
#advent_of_code #advent_of_code_2025 #adventofcode #adventofcode2025
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I wonder how many free trial sign-ups #FuboTV, #Hulu+LiveTV, #SlingTV, etc, are getting during this very public negotiations spat between #YouTubeTV and #Disney (which covers #ABC, #ESPN, etc channels)?
I went with FuboTV (5 days free) in order to catch tonight's Cowboys game, and then I'll cancel tomorrow. And then consider my options if the weekend arrives without an agreement, in order to catch the #Formula1 race* (#BrazilGP).
*[which luckily won't be an issue anymore next year, when #AppleTV takes over F1 in the US, and my Apple One subscription includes it].
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GIG ‘EM, AGGIES!!!!! #aggies #texasaggies #aggiesvstexas
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1.5yo puppy just fell in the pool (I saw it happen through kitchen window). But hooray for training! She immediately turned to face the steps (on the complete other side of where she fell in), swam straight there and safely got out. Good girl!
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Joined the #EV world! Bought a new #MustangMachE yesterday (wife's primary car). It's *such* a nice drive! 😍
(as a bonus, we already have a Level2, 240V/50A, EV charging outlet in the garage, back from when we had tenants in this house, and they asked to have it installed for their Teslas).
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Oh yay, sales tactics are escalating!
First I got emails (at work) from random software vendors saying “blah-blah-blah. Let me know if we can have a call to discuss.”
Then over time this moved to “blah-blah-blah. Does 1pm on Wed work for you to discuss?”
And more recently, it’s moved to actually sending me unsolicited meeting requests.
(not the same vendor, different random ones, but still)
What next, waiting for me at my car in my office parking lot?!
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And my eldest just enrolled in Texas PTDE (Parent Taught Driver’s Ed)…. Here we gooooooo! 😱🚗💨