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json_doc = '''{}''' % some_dictionary
and then populate json_doc via %(some_dictionary_key)s values inside of the brackets.
I find it more readable.
Furthermore, json_doc can now live elsewhere, if sizeable, and get imported.
I guess that template strings may be the newer way to do this, but this is very backward compatible.
Not unlike hiking taxes on the rich, seeing them vote with their feet, and revenue subsequently catering.
But as long as we reward politicians for delivering blame more than results, this political folly will continue.
Until Strein's Law[1] kicks the teeth in.
Very glad to be closing in on retirement.
The repeatable experiment would be another universe itself.
Cutting to the chase and declaring you the winner of the discussion.
Given the complexity of the Periodic Table, molecules, DNA, &c can we agree that life is a low-probability event?
Previous paragraph omits the contextual perfection of our planet/solar system.
Seems fair to assert that we are a one-shot deal, until proven otherwise, here on Terra Fermi.
AI is regression to the mean. That is, being the next great writer in the starboard tail of the distribution will not be the output.
If that's OK, then fine.
What's more telling is that this external machine is not the internal growth needed to become that great writer.
"There is no royal road to geometry", and Euclid yourself if you think that AI is that road.
"If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct." (Eccl10:10)
“I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates.
I couldn't believe it.
I called my roommate in and said, 'Come here, look at this stuff, it's all an exact replica. What do you think?'
He said, 'Do I know you?'”
"self" aged well.
"Lord, this situation bites."
Potential reply: "Tell me about it."
It's really, really hard to shrink the problem and troubleshoot with large, opaque, containerized chunks of functionality and services.
Can I just connect to a DB in a terminal and run some SQL to figure out the problem?
Why, no: no, you cannot.
Claude: "Dude. Do I look like Lloyd Schumer[1]? Lay off the dope, son."
[1] Via Grok, since Google has chosen to forget this:
Lloyd Schumer (also spelled Schumner or similar variants; sometimes referenced with “Sr.”) is a fictional character from The Onion, the satirical news site. He was presented as the byline author of their classic absurdist horoscopes: a “retired machinist and A.A.P.B.-certified astrologer.”
Life just seems to exceed that scope, is all.
You want to blow off some steam, and there is a laundry list of rules to read through.
Yeah, not bothering with all that.
It was a birthday for someone.
What was fun was that people all offered jokes or poems or whatever.
I remarked at the quality of the offerings, and was told that there where books of content to choose from. No one has to do all the labor from scratch.
But they do have to interact, and put a bit of themselves in there.
It's an 80/20 problem, and if ine is enough of a genius to be going much past the 20% individual effort, then Bravo!
Just don't phone it in with some 99/1 AI sloppery and look an ass.
Plus, there is a very "community" spirit in successful distros.
The Linux version of TempleOS is of clinical interest only.
Rewrite the open source SQLite in Rust under an MIT license[2].
Of course, once you complete the core product, there is the extended ecosystem to consider.
[1] https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...
While the ersatz realms of AI regress to the mean, religious traditions chug on, bringing joy to adherents.
Find your community of faith.
I'm going to go through https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs as well as https://www.masteringemacs.org/