I read it, I loved it 😃

For the past year, I've only graded work done in-person, in the classroom/lab. I've had to adjust the way I lecture, but I think it's worked out very well so far. Surprisingly, many (most?) students are happy that the temptation to cheat is reduced or eliminated.

I've had to use Jupyter the past few weeks, and it feels so clunky. Pluto has spoiled me!

What I'd like to know is why this particular case (among the thousands of AI-authored rejected PRs) caused such a reaction.

Stop Guessing, Start Planning.
Ever look at a single snow forecast and think, "But what are the actual odds?"

The Probabilistic Precipitation Portal is a resource to help you get ahead of the storm by moving beyond a single number to give you the full picture. www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/Prob_Precip/
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What a spooky coincidence -- this week the same happened to me, but in my case they used copilot. You were right to ask before responding.

Thank you! That's useful to know.

Is the recommendation to get the vaccine valid also for people who already had shingles? Is it known what the benefit is in this case?

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Requiring CLI support restricts the choices available... there's a list of editors here: wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o... -- but I'm not sure any of those will be clearly superior to micro.

The obvious answer is emacs, but it is so much more powerful than micro that it's probably not what you're looking for... maybe kate-editor.org ?

Fantastic, thanks for sharing!

... in the sense that it just translates Julia to gnuplot. The package ends up being simpler, more robust, but with syntax that can express most of gnuplot's features.

There is a brief changelog here: github.com/mbaz/Gaston....

Why the change in API? The main reason is that v1.x was not able to take advantage of many of gnuplot's capabilities. It tried to be too smart and ended up being inflexible. The API is v2 is "dumber"...

provide gnuplot through artifacts | support `Gnuplot_jll` by t-bltg · Pull Request #187 · mbaz/Gaston.jl Fix #135. Fix #189. Needs JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#11570. Tests are passing locally. This PR: uses Preferences to select the gnuplot installation; splits Project.toml into one for the project and ...

Yes! It's getting close: github.com/mbaz/Gaston....

I expect this will be shipped as v2.1 in the next few days.

Version 2.0 of Gaston, a Julia package for plotting using gnuplot, has been released: mbaz.github.io/Gaston.jl/v2/

#JuliaLang #gnuplot

In data communications, bandwidth and data rate are not the same thing.

Excellent, thanks! I love the logo as well

Fantastic post!

End of an era

Was nonsense ‘vegetative electron microscopy’ phrase a Farsi typo? Vegetative Scanning electron microscope Wikimedia Commons A gibberish phrase that caught the attention of science sleuths after it slipped into several journals might trace its origin to a typo in …

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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

'I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I've been there -- it's a beautiful museum! Last time I went was about 30 years ago, though.

I've one terminal dedicated to newsboat. From time to time I open it, refresh the feeds, and see what's interesting. If there's something I want to read, I open it in Firefox (just press `o`). I like that it is super fast and light, can store the feeds locally, and only refreshes when I want.

Newsboat - Wikipedia

It _is_ old school, which is the best school. I read my RSS feeds with newsboat (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsboat)

Today’s featured selection from the NCA5 Art x Climate Gallery showcases Diya P.’s photograph of a sunrise over Cholla cacti in the Southwest U.S.
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Retraction Watch Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

Retraction Watch retractionwatch.com is a blog dedicated to this issue.

THREAD: Law firm statements issued in response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers.

(This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org, or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24)

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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

Another case www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...