Wordsworth wrote that “the child is the father of the man.”

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William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850

My heart leaps up when I behold

   A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

   Or let me die!

The Child is father of the Man;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

Wes McKinney has a project for agent visibility: https://www.agentsview.io/

Generation is insanely fast, the other side is presentation, which can be slower and more controlled. Blasting the end-user with text walls is a UX problem now.

Try Cerebras. When I think about how speed of generation is another variable to tweak for "intelligence", it seems like this speed is best used for searching for solutions in a problem space and then validating and discarding and keeping what is best. Being intelligent at the Fable level, but what if the Fable level machine could think at 100x? What does that mean: perhaps it means more parallel "experiments" for solutions in the token/generation/hyper-dimensions of the latent space.

There is also: - xq for xml - yq for yaml

I wrote uq specifically for urls https://github.com/mcoliver/uq

you can use xmllint for xml via xmllint —-xpath

It’s great as it is included by default in RHEL/Fedora

yq can do a lot more than just yaml:

> yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, HCL and properties processor

Bel-heir ?

Along similar lines, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith has a book on financial bubbles and irrational crowd mentalities in financial market over the centuries: A Short History of Financial Euphoria [1]. Short, approachable, and interesting.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/270746.A_Short_Histor...

... and funny too. A great book!

- https://www.rip-grep.com/

- https://www.rip-grep.com/microsoft

Huh, funny. I always associated ripgrep with the find/grep replacement written in Rust:

https://github.com/burntsushi/ripgrep

Wonder if it was an intentional pun.

Do you have a "dot files" repo? It would contain things like this, config files for tmux, zsh, <other tools>, etc.

That may work for a server or two but doesn't really pan out for fleet management.

Volunteer to be the official image maintainer - I had emacs-nox and (screen) installed fleet wide for my own utility :)

I had a friend that even had his public keys added to the /root/.ssh/ but I didin't go that far -I didn't even put my own .emacs out - but I at least could use good tools to look at the tcpdump output or giant log files if needed. "Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping" is not that big of a deal anymore.

And if people want to just use some default open source image, just point out that in modern cloud environments, you don't want each node to customize itself, you want to pre-run that process one time per node type in your "directed graph of image delta pipelines" which takes the input image and publishes the cloud ready app-specific images (with your DNS configs, LDAP integration, whatever, plus emacs/neovim and screen/tmux :)

This will definitely work, but it's not really even necessary. Just have some pre-connect script, that checks if the host is already "configured", and if not, then one-shot some Ansible playbook (or bash even) that installs what's needed. Use /tmp if root is not available. Also works for Kubernetes, though there we have better options.

One of my favs: https://github.com/nicolaka/netshoot

Is it not just easier to accept the default config?

Reminded me of "Garfield Minus Garfield" - https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

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Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

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