Answer from an 8yo: dead rats

Yep, when we leave “developer preview”, billing and CC will be more prominent. And we’ll do our best not to bait-and-switch our earliest adopters. :)

Filippo’s assessment is spot on. I’ll add when I’m back at a computer later. Doing Christmas stuff for the next N hours.

as they say: don't read the comments

Life at Blandings: Wodehouse has always been a refuge in hard times and a delight in good ones. And though Jeeves is excellent, Blandings is the crown jewel. This trio of novels is unparalleled. This year, I got the joy of reading them aloud to my kids, who are finally old enough to appreciate them.

Holocaust: A re-telling using only words drawn from the Nuremberg trials, with no commentary. Barely over a hundred pages, it took me months to read. If you need a re-grounding, a raw human reminder of what happened, free from commentary and politics and loose accusations and cheap spin, this is it.

Out Stealing Horses: Beautiful, spare literary fiction. Set in the deep woods of Norway, and worthy of it.

Sleeper Beach: The worthy sequel to Titanium Noir, which made last year’s list. I still love a good noir, and this was another excellent noir.

Spent: In a busy, stressful year in which I stalled out on book after book, I read Spent in two sittings. Lots I could personally relate to and plenty of room for understanding for the stuff I couldn’t. And goats. I love goats.

One might argue we already are. And an overabundance of Wickham.

My partner volunteers making beaver dam analogs. She will be thrilled to hear that her services can be obviated by nothing but ordinary bedsheets, a catapult, and a pair of good gloves.

NPRBLM, @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social HSGTMBCK. (MCHLPRTLLSGNGTJL.)

”You are Mielikki Neith…”

I got something working nicely, for me at least.

Shell script and commentary at:

commaok.xyz/ai/split-com...

Or you can be like P.G. Wodehouse and natter on winningly about shapes in fog and how shapeless they are but THIS shape could beat out a prize pig for shapeless except perhaps for the part where it is obviously rather human.

Oops. Step 3.5, implicit is: commit. :)

1. make a new branch
2. check out the end target commit contents (git checkout end-state --)
3. revert a bunch of code, sometimes then making additional changes to make everything work
4. goto 2

This is easier than rebase because there are no merge conflicts.

No idea how an agent will handle it.

Hah. Keep us posted about how you get it working in the end! I love seeing worked examples, and I always have something to learn from you.

FWIW, the way I usually do work like this myself as a human is: