That's what TeX and Metafont have (successive digits of π and e, respectively).

So you're sceptical that winning Celebrity Traitors will lead to sustained growth?

I've found usetapestry.com a good way to keep up with the subreddits I'm interested in without getting pulled into their attention machine. Also great for keeping on top of Bluesky, Mastodon, and various others in a single place, with more control.

Even Disney uses this one (Moana, when Maui traps her in the cave), so has a good track record of getting past the gates.

Alas, if there's one thing guaranteed to drive my children into the arms of the AI slop machines, it's my singing.

Serenity: dizzying video-within-a-dream-within-a-recording quickly followed by a long single shot introducing all of the main characters and the ship, setting the stage without feeling clunky or expositional.

Watchmen: so many details and Easter eggs set to Times They Are A-Changin'.

Great reviews — I'll give the Clegg one a miss (it just sounds depressing), but have ordered the Tim Berners-Lee.

I've been programming Python for 25 years and I didn't know you could pass a tuple of strings to .startswith. (When was it added? Maybe I didn't know BECAUSE I've been programming Python for 25 years...)

I loved all of the Usborne picture fact books (wildlife, paranormal, everything), but this one sticks in the mind due to the combination of kiddie presentation with surprisingly hardcore subject matter:

Just checked, and yes:
26th September is indeed Stanislav Peteov Day!

Thank you, Stanislav…you’d probably have views on current use of automated systems

🖤

xkcd.com/2052/

My hands down favourite is Lords And Ladies, which *could* work as a standalone, but you're probably better off starting with Wyrd Sisters to get in to the witches on the ground floor.

"Do you like horses?"
A) No
B) YES!
C) How many legs does it have?

Everyone has their own favourites, and Lords and Ladies is definitely atypical, even compared to the rest of the Witches books. When it comes down to it, hard to go wrong with any of his.

+1 — Our eldest (now 12) recently started these and loved them. She's now picked up Wyrd Sisters, which is all part of my master plan to get her to the best Pratchett book, Lords and Ladies.

Correction: it was actually Grok 3 that had spent the day endorsing Hitler. I'm sure Grok 4 is fine.