We have a parliamentary election today in Denmark.

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premonition? (more 👀)

get well soon! drink lots of water and get some quality sleep?

Thank you from the couch

oh what happened?

a long time ago i read LOTR twice - the second time because i figured my first-reading opinion must be wrong, given how much everyone gushed over it. i didn't like it the second time either: i really don't get on with tolkien's writing style

I read it once a year. Christmas treat to myself 🤓 It's the only fantasy I really like. The movies have definitely aged though

@raymcdermott You’ll be telling us next you’ve not read the Hitchhiker’s Guide.

Am I still allowed in the channel?

we love you just the way you are

what sci-fi or fantasy (assuming you enjoy either genre) do you enjoy @raymcdermott?

I enjoy the dystopian near future sci-fi cos I like to see how bad it could get. Think Huxley, Orwell, Atwood. The rest I've seen in cinema / tv. I know it's a big space but there are many other big spaces 🙂

I haven't read LOTR or Hitchhiker's guide either.

@U052852ES Have you ever wondered why the number 42 keeps on popping up in the software industry? :thinking_face:

regarding Hithchiker's, I know enough about it... and the answer is 43 btw... he made a off by one error I decided. 😉

@U0D6971L3 I'm sorry but the blurb is repellent to me

I have heard good things about https://www.chinamieville.net/books/

China Miéville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar).

Thanks for the recommendation, Ray. I’ve add one of his books to my wish list.

I'm rereading LOTR together with my kids. First time in 40 years for me. It's wonderful. To me, one of the best stories ever written. Yes, I am a romantic. We're at the second last chapter, kids and I. Going to miss it!

I'm also a huge Douglas Adams fan. Oh, did he die too young!

I love the LOTR movies. There’s a lot of nothing (“Then they walked across this field”) in especially the first book, as I recall it. Actually having trouble recalling reading the whole thing. But the movies are fantastic imo, watched them loads of times.

As for sci-fi books, I’d just like to recommend The Power (because you mentioned Atwood), as well as the Three Body Problem trilogy (because whoah). I don’t know if they fit exactly into your requirements, but they are really good and at least feature the aspects you mention, even if it’s not the central focus 🙂

The Power - yes, that's got all the ingredients I savour.

Thanks @U0AQ3HP9U... added to the q

The LOTR of the ring movies were a bit "meh” to me. I fell asleep in two of them.

Three Body is fantastic!

I’m really looking forward to re-reading it at some point. Gotta shore up first to defend against existential dread 😮

As far as dystopies goes, 1984 is great. I enjoyed Ira Levin's ”This Perfect Day” a lot. Have read both several times.

1984 was my favourite book for many years ❤️ Scary stuff!

I would like to read brave new world.

I read a really boring one in the genre, what was it... google. google, yes, We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Anyone else read that one?

I loved We!

Orwell and Huxley both ripped off Zamyatin and then each accused the other of doing so

At least Orwell improved on it, imo. 😃

@U052852ES yes, but what is the “ultimate question to life, universe, and everything” ?

43

you've been to the theresa may school of epistemology, haven't you @U052852ES ?

that’s a bit… circular?

it’s rather sad how banal the reason to destroy Earth is in that universe…

I think it just a off by one error. Nothing more nothing less. We all make mistakes.

(plot spoiler) I’m referring to the uncertainty principle: you can’t know both the “ultimate question” and the “ultimate answer” at the same time… if you do, the universe is instantly destroyed and replaced inline with an even more weird one

but anyway

when in doubt, I’d bring the towel with me 😂

I’ll give this a pass as it’s likely we’re already in that “even weirder universe” now, it’s all tooooo late~

as for dystopian fiction, it’s like someone take all of the most (in)famous ones and combine them all-in-one. Now try surviving that. Maybe I’m getting too negative today…

@U0524B4UW ar didn’t realize what your reply mean until I think about it a bit more. lol

Not so much any longer, but some years ago I used Temper Monkey on many sites, making them behave more like I wanted them too. Not so often about styles. More about adding functionality.

It was exactly Tamper Monkey that I was messing with today:hugging_face: to make more space for the important stuff on the work site.

I wonder if we can make a Tamper Monkey script using SCI some way and give ourselves a REPL to the browsers and the pages we visit... cc: @U04V15CAJ

This worked with TamperMonkey:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         New Userscript
// @namespace    
// @version      0.1
// @description  try to take over the world!
// @author       You
// @match        
// @icon         
// @require      
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';
     alert(scittle.core.eval_string("(+ 1 2 3)"));
    // Your code here...
})();

Nice!

I guess you could use the console as a REPL as soon as scittle is available globally?

scittle also supports nREPL: https://github.com/babashka/scittle/tree/main/doc/nrepl

Wow 😲 that's a lot of lurkers!