Another successful example of literate programming is fastHTML, and probably most of the code written at fast.ai and answer.ai. https://fastht.ml/docs/

Here's Jeremy Howard explaining why he loves doing everything in notebooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q6sLbz37gk

There's a healthy way to be a critic, which is helping people find and enjoy works they didn't notice.

There are also unhealthy ways of being a fan, for example if you admire someone there's probably someone else you despise. It's much better to follow the title of the post and believe in people in general.

I imagine being a healthy critic is a skill, something personal to be worked on.

It’s just so easy to be critical and even if you have good intentions, being critical can take the wind out of a dreamers sails.

I asked it what are some famous squares around the world, and it gave me a list of squares "with historical significance" that included Tienanmen. When I asked what gave it historical signficance, it mentioned the 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Deepseek wouldn't name any squares in Beijing.

According to wikipedia, it's not certain she converted to christianity. She was raised as an agnostic, so was only jewish "ethnically".

The Christianity bit is a technicality. She was never baptized so that's why one could argue she's "no true Christian".

Despite that, in many of her writings she explicitly and openly expresses her alignment with Christianity.

I read some of her books and it also sounds weird to me. The only thing that struck me is that she saw the tribe of Israel in the ancient testament as a nasty example of one group crushing another, something she also didn't like in the roman empire, and also in how french regions were culturally crushed at the expense of the center.

Googling turned up this criticism: - Simone Weil, whose life was devoted to witnessing oppression and injustice, and was almost silent about the persecution of Jews by Nazis — chose to instead focus on the fate of France at the hands of the Germans https://levecenter.ucla.edu/mary-gordon-2013/

It seems a stretch to call her antisemitic.

> It seems a stretch to call her antisemitic

I often wonder what % of antisemitism is a consequence of overly enthusiastic accusations. Two (or much, much more) can play the imagination game.

Without the shadow dom, your component can still have children.

If you need several slots, there's an example duplicating that functionality with javascript in the second comment of this blog post: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/light-dom-only/

It's not very surprising to find math in Perec's work, he deliberately put it there.

This joke, that the Germans or the Swiss have no sense of humor, I never found it funny. But maybe that's just because I'm Swiss.

Not only is it not funny, it isn't true at all. Disclosure: I am Swiss too, albeit a naturalized one.

From https://www.amazon.de/Lexikon-St%C3%A4dtebeschimpfungen-Bosh...:

"Zürich ist doppelt so gross wie der Wiener Zentralfriedhof, aber nur halb so lustig."

(translated: "Zurich is twice the size of Vienna's Central Cemetery, but only half as much fun.")

Like joining a huge HOA, no?

I’m sure a Swiss person will be along shortly to inform you how that is an inaccurate comparison, and furthermore, Switzerland is better than an HOA for several reasons, firstly the trains, secondly the efficient civil service, thirdly…

For reals though: at least in the French side I feel that there's a decent comedy scene, notably with the Montreux Comedy Festival. Two of my favorite humorists (Marina Rollman and Thomas Wiesel) got nicked for a time as panelists for some well known French radios (can't argue with the bigger exposure).

I went to see a recent swiss comedy film - "Bon schuur Ticino" - and it was hilarious. Granted, a lot of the humour might go over the heads of people who haven't lived in Switzerland, but there's definitely comedy

@PetitPrince: the French part is on the civilised side of the Röstigraben. You can't extrapolate from there to the rest of Switzerland.

Those are fighting words, mon ami.

Not really my fight, though. I’m an American with Swiss heritage, but German-Swiss. Bankers, not diplomats.

I proudly eat proper rösti. And I pronounce it properly too, much to chagrin of my spouse.

Swiss people are extremely humorous, at least if you don't do laundry 1 minute past your allowed slot. Light-hearted fun is something that is taken very seriously around here.

It’s also nicely segregated to designated times and places: Fassnacht, and…well, Fassnacht!

I have read that in Switzerland, everything is either mandatory or prohibited.

I justs finished reading the book and the idea that a simulation universe need not have another universe simulating it indeed baffled me. How do you make sense of that? I was disappointed there wasn't a clearer motivation for it.

(spoiler warning for others!)

Durham's "dust theory" is basically that every possible universe is simulated an infinite number of times across space and time within our universe as Boltzmann brains (he doesn't call them this but his idea of random bits of dust randomly computing things is equivalent), so actually running a simulation containing mind uploads on a computer ourselves is unnecessary to allow consciousness to exist within the simulation.

Durham describes the theory with a few more steps, like his idea of "launching" which I can't help but think Maria is correct in calling unnecessary. I think the story is trying to communicate that Durham's theory is subtly wrong or incomplete, especially when the surprising event happens at the end. I think the explanation for the surprising event at the end is (heavier spoilers ahead!) that there's a mix of Boltzmann brains running two different versions of Permutation City (one where Permutation City and the A-life universe are artificial simulations with arbitrary complicated physics and starting states exactly as we saw them be designed within the story, and one where the A-life universe is natural with a simple unified underlying physics and starting state and Permutation City is an artificial simulation/construct within it with a complicated starting state) which have been running in parallel and producing equivalent conscious experience, but by the end of the story, the latter version of Permutation City is simpler and therefore simulated in proportionally more Boltzmann brains than the first version. The latter version exists more, so when the conscious experiences of these two versions of Permutation City finally diverge, the story follows the latter version.

(I'm pretty confident in this reading of it. The story makes a regular point in talking about the complexity of the artificial simulations containing mind uploads and how much they're unlike the simple unified physics of our world. The point is brought up in a way as if the author or characters expect it to have significance; the surprising event at the end of the story is this point's significance finally being seen.)

> How do you make sense of that?

Chew on it for awhile. It's worth it. The explanation provided was sparse, but sufficient to justify.

Ah, visual anagrams, that was exactly the idea I had for a project that would allow me to learn. I hadn't dared looking if it already existed. I will try to pretend it doesn't and try to find my own way...