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Saw it this weekend, it's a solid Pixar movie. But I only learned about it because I was looking to go see a movie and Elio was the most original movie playing at the local theater; I'd heard nothing about it.

I have heard more about the two live-action remakes (Lilo and Stitch/How to Train Your Dragon) and the sequel (28 years later) that are currently showing.


People who have kids know it will be on streaming and can't afford the theatre. Figure it out. This isn't nostalgia IP, it's for actual children. Like who live in families with budgets and priorities. Catch me when the streaming numbers post.


I have kids and this post is the first I'm even hearing about it, but you're right I'm not rushing to the cinema, remortgaging my house only to surround myself with feral kids, I'll wait until it hits Disney Primeflix.


Yeah they killed it by not advertising at all


They've been playing trailers for it for literal years. It seems like we started seeing Elio trailers before kid's movies around fall or winter 2022. My wife and I had started wondering if it was ever going to come out.


Gotta put the optimism in context vs. previous Sam Altman writing.

Here he says:

> Intelligence too cheap to meter is well within grasp.

Six months ago[0] he said:

> We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.

This time:

> we have recently built systems that are smarter than people in many ways

My summary: ChatGPT is already pretty great and we can make it cheaper and that will help humanity because...etc

Which moves the goal posts quite a bit vs: we'll have AGI pretty soon.

Could be he didn't reiterate we'd have AGI soon because he thought that was obvious/off-topic. Or it could be that he's feeling less bullish, too.

[0]: <https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections>


The last kiwix zim dump of English Wikipedia before the release of ChatGPT is from May 2022. The Internet Archive still preserves the torrent[0]. To host this, or browse it locally you can use `kiwix-serve -p 8888 wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim` from kiwix-tools[1].

[0]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20221007114937/https://download....>

[1]: <https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools>


There are likely a number of beneficial bots[0] running from cloud providers. And residential proxies are also widely available for very determined scrapers.

[0]: <https://stuartgeiger.com/talks/2013-08-03-wikisym-levee-brea...>


I spent a large chunk of 2024 reading _The Power Broker_ and all the Lyndon Johnson volumes. Caro recreates the entire world of every story in those books in so much detail that every biography or historical book I've read since has felt thin. I'm desperate for the fifth volume of the Johnson biography—I have no idea how he'll pull off such a sweeping final chapter, but I cannot wait to find out.


I really hope this donation means the lost chapter of ‘the power broker’ about Jane Jacobs resurfaces.


"Elon Musk’s X is worth nearly 80% less than when he bought it, Fidelity estimates"[0]

[0]: <https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitter-x-...>


Unlauncher[0] looks close (to me, someone who has never used Blank Spaces).

[0]: <https://jkuester.github.io/unlauncher/>


Thank you for laying these out. And thank you for all the work you've done to make my tiny niche workflow possible.


Great questions.

1. This is a familiar problem and it is where I spend the majority of time. If a bank provides a unique transaction ID the it would be a simple matter of code; however, none of mine do. What I do when I spot problems is run `hledger areg <account> --begin=<last month> --end=<this month>` and compare with the CSV. Opening the output of that command + this months CSV in vim using vertical split (`vsp`) and scrollbind (`scrollbind`) so each line scrolls together works well and is pretty quick. It's still a problem and a pain.

2. This is solved in my system in a robust way (I believe) with a "virtual account." I do most of my spending on my credit card. Then every month I pay off the card from my checking. To represent this I need to see:

- liabilities:credit with any balance I carry

- expenses should show a transfer from liabilities:credit to the correct expense category/account

- I should avoid being "double charged"; i.e., when I pay off liabilities:credit it should NOT be an expense.

I've set it up like this:

- rules/debit/journal.rules: if (payment to credit) then account2 assets:transfer:credit

- rules/credit/journal.rules: if (payment from debit) then account2 assets:transfer:credit

This becomes a way to spot problems. If assets:transfer:credit ever has a balance then something may be awry and you should spend some time digging. I do the same thing for Amazon. Each Amazon order is for multiple expenses. I have assets:transfer:amazon. This is how I learned the the $0.29 Colorado retail delivery fee is not universally applied to orders from Amazon—that was a frustrating journey!

3. I haven't worried about this. Looks like other good responses in this thread.


> 1. This is a familiar problem and it is where I spend the majority of time. If a bank provides a unique transaction ID the it would be a simple matter of code; however, none of mine do.

This is an annoying problem I've had to deal with also (banks have some unique ID somewhere, why not provide it?).

I create my own unique ID to the extent that it's possible. Some txns have the exact same info but are 2 sep txns, requires a bit of messy logic.


I've been reading Caro's multi-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson. This was the best book I've read at overcoming my initial expectations (Johnson is a hugely flawed human being, wowza).


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