How did GRRM get rich again?

oh yeah he sold books he worked on for decades, totally the same WB.

I’m very confused on the grenade pin one.

If you held down the level (not sure what it’s called), wouldn’t the pin be fairly easy to remove? Why would that be harder than your teeth?

I’ve never seen a grenade in person.

He died before I was born, but the man was apparently very fun even after coming back from the war

What? Men weren’t sexy?

My great aunt had photos up of my late great uncle doing pushups on a railroad track, in short shorts, with her sitting on his back. I can’t remember if the pictures was from before he went to war or after.

They did wear those high pants and dressed more formally, but it was because they had less clothes.

macOS installs a recovery partition and hides it from you so you can always restore it.

I think the firmware boots you into a macOS mode so you can always recover your macOS system, but when you finished installation Linux may have nuked it.

I’m not an expert though, I’ve just been using Mac’s for 15+ years and have had to reformat several over the years.

I’ve never installed Linux as the primary OS before.

The second most important thing about vim to learn is:

If nothing is behaving then you probably have caps lock on.

You can always alias > to < in your shell.

I simply have too much vim config and muscle memory to ever leave vim

I’m trapped in a prison of my own making!

Same here.

The biggest diss I have on emacs users, as a vim user, is that emacs is the only text editor where people routinely need to keep a book about it on their desk!

I used to work with a bunch of emacs guys and they all had an emacs book or two on their desk or as a monitor stand. They usually also had one on awk and/or Perl to go with it.

I’m sure they’d probably make fun of me for being unable to edit a file with anything but my specific vim config, which is not compatible with any other human’s vim config.

(I would never seriously judge someone on their editor, but I will bust an emacs users chops and accept a good natured jab back)

I don’t have much to say about nano, except the hotkey bindings are weird and unnatural.

They make sense, but they feel wrong.

I can’t believe this got released and this is still happening.

This is the revolution in search of RAG (retrieval augmented generation), where the top N results of a search get fed into an LLM and reprioritized.

The LLM doesn’t understand it want to understand the current, it loads the content info it’s content window and then queries the context window.

It’s sensitive to initial prompts, base model biases, and whatever is in the article.

I’m surprised we don’t see more prompt injection attacks on this feature.

Yes, but younger

She looks like a sexy Robert Picardo

I was laughing so hard reading this that I had to read it to my wife and we both have been laughing historically at it

Jesus that’s realistic

Yeah I should have added the cut proof gloves and thumb protectors

All these jeep configurations are possible because the Romans standardized the width of a chariot.

(Maybe not entirely due to the Romans, but I do love this story)

Whittling

Just buy a knife kit and some wood blanks, surprisingly affordable.

It’s like how when Morn leaves your bar you know the party is over.

“There are lots of books on harvesting your own primal power source, but most people these days make a pact with the demon Linus and simply channel his power”