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good morrow!
morning!
I'm assuming that's Tolkien but I've never read any of his stuff. I've seen enough of the films to know that I dodged a bullet ( unpopular opinion? 😆 ) In summary - I've no idea 🙂
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.
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 🙂

@raymcdermott You might enjoy Grimdark. I quite enjoyed books by Joe Abercrombie such as https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944073.The_Blade_Itself.
@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).
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 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 🙂
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 read a really boring one in the genre, what was it... google. google, yes, We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Anyone else read that one?
@U052852ES yes, but what is the “ultimate question to life, universe, and everything” ?
you've been to the theresa may school of epistemology, haven't you @U052852ES ?
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
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
moorning
morning
@raymcdermott You might enjoy Grimdark. I quite enjoyed books by Joe Abercrombie such as https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944073.The_Blade_Itself.
Anyone here do any improvements to sites you visit by applying your own css/js to them in your browser? I’m “enhancing” a work site a little bit by moving things around and extracting data at the click of a button. It’s nothing big, yet extremely fulfilling.

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

Also, full width diffs in github 😄