I should monitor my feed more often... 🤪

“Boids Demo Reel” survived as a videotape cassette on my bookshelf for many years, then was digitized for a documentary around 2010. “Breaking the Ice” was on broadcast quality reel-to-reel videotape until 2023 when Tom McMahon and others worked on a remastering for the 50ᵗʰ SIGGRAPH conference.

Model year 2016. Not *that* old, but clearly old enough to have dropped off the radar.

My son is nuts about Balatro, and quite ace with it. He showed it to me, and I was WTF? You enjoy doing this?!

One of the best hard SF reads ever. Riveting right up to the end.

Jottum, mee eens.
Dit druist gewoon in tegen het idee van om met z'n allen iets te maken om vooruit te komen.
Ik was bij een van de eerste meetings met erfgoed instellingen om data te vinden, en "word het open weights?" was mijn grote vraag. Njet, dus.
Zeer teleurstellend.

And it is 23:30, done for now. 2 hours later.

I learnt enough about the project, and to be honest, my first experience with using Claude Code to explain something to me is astonishingly good.

Next up, asking it to help in making some stuff. But that will have to wait for another day.

My first question was:

"can you explain how the sparql evaulation is done when processing a sparql query?"

And the explanation ran through the various files and the methods with line numbers, explained the parsing and how the mapping to SQL is done. 😵‍💫

Waaaaaay better than I have understood it

Approximately 90min later, it has been crunching away. (after buying and setting up a Pro account)
Asked it to explain the code for: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tinysp...

Seems to take forever, but so far the explanations seem *very* impressive.

Yes, there are still stupid, racist dingbats. But it is not the default any more. You are not looked at weirdly for being "the other" just because of your skin-tone.
Yes, there is still crazy inequality and poverty and crime.

But slowly, the wheel turns, and things become lekker again.

And that was for me symbolic, things have changed.

There were white/black/whatever people having a good time. Looking for fun, drowning the boredom of living in the hinterland with booze.
The MC spoke Afrikaans as fluent as anything (maybe it was his mothertongue) but had a black skin and dreads.