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The game is the database: youtu.be/yctM7oTLurA?...

Just getting back to snooker after several years away. I can't get any action on the cue ball, and I'm getting a ton of heavy contacts and kicks. Top-spin seems a little more reliable than screw shots. User error or a dead tip? Any recommendations for a replacement tip brand? #snooker #advice

So I kind of want the help of a LLM agent on my linux box, which I can interact with from a command line shell and get it to go off and do jobs for me. And I want to be able to extend it with arbitrary capabilities and maintain multiple sessions.

I was interviewed for the local newspaper! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

I've got suckered into watching 9-ball and 10-ball on YouTube. The shorter format compared to my traditional watch of snooker better suits my long-covid-addled brain.

Trump wants to replace NATO with bilateral pay-for-protection deals. He divides nations into Powers and Clients, with America, China and Russia as Powers and all else as Clients. All Clients are and should remain whole dependent for defence upon their host Power. Anything else is illegitimate.

Just binged Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. The perfect calming show for these fraught times. I think I enjoyed it more than Dungeon Meshi.

My guess is that Vance went into his pre-scripted attack on Zelenski at that particular moment because Zelensky was describing how Putin breaks all deals, and Vance and Trump know that they were planning to break the deal with Zilensky he'd flown to the USA to sign.

First flowering!

I am thinking of having a go at some Kratky home-hydroponics. Mainly salads and herbs initially. Wish me luck!

I bought a new pump for my fish tank. It has been blending my small fish and shrimp. So that's rubbish.

Gemini has really upped its game. The latest release of bots function really well in everything I've been using them for. I haven't yet tried any complex, creative, reasoning tasks.

Fascinating documentary about citrus: youtu.be/XkMKJCvJKBk?...

Is there a market for pico guppies? I seem to be growing them 1-1.5cm as adults!!!

This is the beginnings of my daphnia culture. Let's see how it goes.

I'm thinking of trying something totally new - a glass bowl no-filter aquarium with daphnia, underwater plants, and some house plants rooted into it from above. Perhaps a cold-water shrimp to keep the daphnia from getting too lonely. As a decorative alternative to green-water daphnia culture jars.

I've watched a ton of aquarium videos now, and people set up these amazing projects, incredible builds, that look stunning. But there's almost nothing showing how their aquarium or bowl ecosystem develops over 6 months or a year or two years. It's all about the builds, not the long-term living.

My tank is back together again. No lost fish! Good excuse to reposition all the hardscaping.

My fish pump died today. So I now have a new pump, some little red shrimp, and extra plants. Expensive.

#wheeloftime #spoiler question 2: who was Nakomi, the proportion Wise One that Aviendha met on her way to be tested? She behaved a bit like a benevolent Chosen.

I have some questions about #wheeloftime - obviously involving #spoilers for those watching instead of reading. 1. Faile,Oliver and The Horn were in the Blasted Lands in book 13. How did they appear in Malden in book 14?

This is about people using remote robotics to participate in work, who otherwise could not. youtu.be/-iLcOLvNfz0?...

I may have another go at PyBlock. My last run ended when I got RSI! Fingers crossed I get past the early game this time. #pY #factorio

Time to start the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. What's the hashtag for this?

I've finally reached an ending. Took me just over 6 months to read the series. I'm glad I did. It is an impressive work. I think I'm going to let it settle for a few weeks before commentary. #wheeloftime

Nearly finished - the Pattern is being unwoven and rewoven. How will it end? #wheeloftime

Here we go then #wheeloftime

Just finished book 13 off #wheeloftime - it was certainly eventful. Onwards to the Last Battle and book 14

I've opened Towers of Midnight. Seems like we're getting to the endgame. #wheeloftime

Saw this and thought of you: youtu.be/yup8gIXxWDU?...

Merry Christmas. I've finnished book 12. On to 13 #wheeloftime

I'm half-way through book 12 of The Wheel of Time and my impressions so far is that this reads like the other 11 if they had gone through a competent (or indeed, any) editing process, and then a minor touch-up to modify out "problematic" content. Much easier to read IMHO. #wheeloftime

Just opening The Gathering Storm, book 12 of the wheel of time. For reasons, I've got a mix of Japanese metal playing - babymetal, hanabie etc. - on in the background.

I've written a #rust benchmark for scanning bytes for particular values. For example, scanning a large file for newlines. I'd appreciate feedback if you have any or know someone who may. github.com/drdozer/benc...

Book 11 of wheel of time was much better paced than some of the previous. On to 12 I guess.

I managed 11 advent of code days before long covid caught up with me. I'll try again next year :)

Started book 11 of Wheel of Time, Knife and Dreams. So far it mostly reads like the second half of book 10.

Oh! I used a `where for<'a>` expression for the first time today, on purpose, and where it was required! I am but an egg. #rust

So instead of solving part 2 of day 6 of advent of code, I fell down a deep, deep yack-shaving rabbit hole, and now I am the proud owner of a bitset library, with operations and abstractions guaranteed to optimize away during compilation. Also, a stack-allocated Vec alternative. And benchmarks.

Just finished book 10 of The Wheel of Time. I guess it's time to find book 11.

Day 5 of #AoC was fun. There's a trick to it where you can find the median value of an unsorted list by looping over the list just once.

Well I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole with #adventofcode today. My #rust solutions are now ported over to submit to the codespeed leaderboard: codspeed.io/advent/leade...

Yummy

I've pushed my first three day's solutions for advent of code 2024 to github: github.com/drdozer/aoc_...

I guess it is time for me to take a look at this year's Advent of Code (adventofcode.com/2024)