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I am a little late to advent of code this year, but maybe I'll get around to catching up with more of these in a bit!  I just completed "Trebuchet?!" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/1
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2023

Wow, EasyJet Plus has an AMAZING system for entering your phone number prefix.
(It's alphabetical by country.)
Wow.. while we were all making fun of Google's Bard demo for making some small mistakes about the James Webb Space Telescope, it turns out the Bing demo was wildly hallucinating made up financial comparisons between Gap and Lululemon! https://dkb.blog/p/bing-ai-cant-be-trusted
Bing AI Can't Be Trusted

Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype.

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I know, I know, but it’s still funny to me.
it's only "AI" if it comes from the san francisco bay area . otherwise it's just sparkling autocomplete

"If I make myself perfectly round, the cold will never find me."

#birds #photography

The number of active Mastodon users β€” those who've logged in in the last 30 days β€” has fallen to 1.8 million from a high of 2.6 million. This reflects the fact that while there's a wave of new users after each Musk tantrum, the majority aren't sticking around. Even the 1.8M figure is inflated by new accounts, so I expect a further drop.

Still, the number of active users is over 4 times what it used to be before the Twitter takeover.

Source: https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics (and Wayback machine).

One of the website UI modalities that I just *despise* are sites that block copy/paste (either via mouse clicks and sometimes also keyboard shortcuts) for filling important fields, out of some sort of misguided belief that this somehow enhances security. Actually it easily makes it worse in most cases. This is similar to sites that have crazy password rules (that they often can't even implement properly) that also tend to make security worse, not better. E.g., "Your password must contain between 10 and 22 characters, include no less than 3 characters between G and Q, at least two special characters, and a lowercase m and p. Thank you."

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
Ξ· and Ξ» - move backwards and forwards through time
ΞΎ and ΞΊ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, α›„, ᚳ and α›š - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐀄 and 𐀋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
𐀉 - supplicate to chosen deity
𐀊 - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit

πŸ¦€ ChatGPT has some great ideas for new #rustlang features: