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Producing alternative proteins for vegans is not as easy as you think. The world is facing a crisis in food production and alternative sources of protein can be part of the solution, but the fledgling Australian sector is struggling.

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https://www.metafilter.com/211336/A-specialized-use-of-Claude-code-tool

It seems to be very useful for de-compiling other code. HN talking about: "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude (blog.chrislewis.au)"

The author's previous post on de-compiling an N64 game. https://blog.chrislewis.au/using-coding-agents-to-decompile-nintendo-64-games/ But it's not a magic button for people who don't know what they're doing. As a couple of HN comments describe: [snip] saagarjha 3 hours ago | prev | next [–] It's worth noting here that the author came up with a handful of good heuristics to guide Claude and a very specific goal, and the LLM did a good job given those constraints. Most seasoned reverse engineers I know have found similar wins with those in place. What LLMs are (still?) not good at is one-shot reverse engineering for understanding by a non-expert. If that's your goal, don't blindly use an LLM. People already know that you getting an LLM to write prose or code is bad, but it's worth remembering that doing this for decompilation is even harder :) zdware 1 hour ago | parent | next [–] Agree with this. I'm a software engineer that has mostly not had to manage memory for most of my career. I asked Opus how hard it would be to port the script extender for Baldurs Gate 3 from Windows to the native Linux Build. It outlined that it would be very difficult for someone without reverse engineering experience, and correctly pointed out they are using different compilers, so it's not a simple mapping exercise. It's recommendation was not to try unless I was a Ghrida master and had lots of time in my hands.

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Police in New Zealand recover a James Bond inspired Fabergé egg pendant six days after the would be thief tried to smuggle the $19K pendant out of the store by swallowing it.

The pendant was retrieved naturally, with no medical intervention, according to NZ police.

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The Pitt | Jack/Robby | ~6600 words | Thanks to

sheafrotherdon for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

( 'I can't believe I'm saying this,' Robby said, 'but humans don't turn into dogs.' )

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Posted by phunniemee

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Back in August a video of church leaders who want the 19th Amendment repealed went viral after being retweeted by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. They were from the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches [what?] led by Doug Wilson [who?]. What is Doug Wilson on about and why should we care? Fundie Fridays will tell you all about him [youtube | 2h27m]

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

the_shoshanna

I have watched the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry, and omg it is so much fun (and I find it better than the book tbh; the book sometimes felt awkwardly written and the show just smooths out and amplifies so many great moments). I haven't watched the third episode yet and am desperate to, but I also kind of want to reread Game Changer first, just slam through it this morning, so I can better recognize the ways it's been adapted. (And of course I want to reread the book of Heated Rivalry as well, just to see if my memory is betraying me!) And I just learned twenty minutes ago that a sequel series to Spartacus just dropped and I'm dying to check it out. And how did I miss that there was a third series of Leverage: Redemption? (And on top of all those things that are sitting on my hard drive absolutely alluring me, I'm watching The Pitt with a friend -- her first time through it; my second -- and watching the current series of Shetland both with Geoff and with another friend, and already counting the days until the Call the Midwife Christmas special drops -- and omg it's specials, plural, we get one on the 25th and a second one on the 26th and then the new series presumably sometime in the spring.)

I have to prep to help lead service at church tomorrow morning, and all I want to do today is read Rachel Reid and watch TV. Can't I just stay home and worship at the Church of Bubble Butts?

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Posted by Wordshore

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[BBC] Four people have been arrested after custard and apple crumble were flung at a display case containing part of the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London ... Take Back Power, which describes itself as a new non-violent civil-resistance group, claimed it was behind the act. [Guardian] The demonstrators then opened their coats to show their T-shirt slogans reading "Take Back Power", before one shouted "democracy has crumbled". [Metro} They have been taken into custody. [Apple crumble recipe]

https://www.metafilter.com/211333/You-just-know-theres-going-to-be-food-puns

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Posted by toastyk

https://www.metafilter.com/211332/A-ceasefire-in-name-only

Scotland's The National laid out a timeline of Israel's ceasefire violations on their front page this week. ungated Watched, tracked, and targeted - Life under surveillance in Gaza. ungated CNN investigation points to the Israeli military bulldozing the dead bodies of Palestinians seeking aid. Israeli forces kill two Palestinian men in West Bank after they appear to surrender.

(Previously.) Current state of US legislation: - HR 3565 Block the Bombs Act - 57 cosponsors - HRes.876 - Recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza - 21 cosponsors Commentary: Mondoweiss - Stop calling right-wing criticism of Israel "anti-Zionism" - One danger of this misidentification is that it reproduces, in reverse, the spurious logic that conflates anti-Zionism and antisemitism. The resistance by pundits and politicians like Fuentes, Owens, Marjorie Taylor Green and others to U.S. support for Israel is transparently rooted in antisemitism first and foremost. Foreign Affairs - The End of the Israeli Exception ungated - by Andrew Miller, former Biden staffer. NYT - How the Democrats Blew It On Gaza ungated - by Ben Rhodes, former Obama staffer

https://www.metafilter.com/211332/A-ceasefire-in-name-only

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I ate'nt dead and all that...

We upgraded Ubuntu on our webserver, which upgraded PHP, which broke the CMS I was using for random.fangirling.net. The CMS (PicoCMS) is no longer supported or under active development, as is the way of such things, and it makes sense to me because the niche it filled - flat file CMSes - was quickly squeezed out by static site generators.

So I figured I should rebuild it using a static site generator (SSG), and spent some time playing around with Astro and Eleventy before I got too frustrated by how hard it was to build a site with the file structure I wanted. And then I thought, why did I spend all that time writing a static site generator if I wasn't going to use it?

And thus, here we are. random.fangirling.net is now mostly functional again. Please let me know if anything seems amiss!

The biggest thing that's missing is the breadcrumb navigation, which was the only kind of navigation I had on the site but which is difficult to generate with my script. So that's on the TODO list.

I thought I might make the code I use to generate the site public too, as a demo for how to use my makesite.py fork. Something to ponder!

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Posted by chavenet

https://www.metafilter.com/211331/A-disturbing-kind-of-satisfaction

The crude, even violent collision of forms seemed to capture the political and generational rifts that had been straining American society, and the American family in particular, since the 1960s, and it established Mr. Gehry as a force in architecture. from Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 [NYT; ungated]

Legendary architect Frank Gehry dies aged 96 [BBC] Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96 [NPR] Remembering Frank Gehry: Ten Landmark L.A. Buildings That Defined The Boundary-Shattering Architect's Genius [Secret LA]

https://www.metafilter.com/211331/A-disturbing-kind-of-satisfaction

sholio

We finally got around to watching the first Stranger Things new episode drop! Somehow I had remained completely and utterly unspoiled for it, to the extent of having even forgotten that there was a new season until suddenly a post with "stranger things spoilers" arrived on my Tumblr dash and I immediately blocked the tag. So I knew literally nothing.

( Random spoilers in no particular order )

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Posted by growabrain

https://www.metafilter.com/211330/Dreaming-about-finishing-my-To-do-List

Retirement Plan is a new, animated Irish short about a middle aged man's plans for the rest of his life. It is narrated by Domhnall Gleeson. It's the kind of cute fare that will probably be nominated, and possibly even wins at the Oscars.

https://www.metafilter.com/211330/Dreaming-about-finishing-my-To-do-List

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Title: Sirens
Characters/Pairing: Philip Swift/Syrena
Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Music: Sirens by Fleurie
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Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae,

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Posted by drewbage1847

https://www.metafilter.com/211329/All-Things-To-Me-Netflix-Edition

It was announced earlier today that streaming giant, Netflix, has agreed to purchase the film and tv assets of Warner Brothers while Discovery Global (the other half of Warner Discovery) will retain cable channels like CNN, Discovery Channel, TNT, HGTV, Animal Planet, Food Network, Investigation Discovery, TLC, TruTV, and Cartoon Network

Now the next big question (beyond whether the merger will pass federal approval), is Netflix trying to kill Warner's theater releases?

(No word yet on the fate of the multi-branded HBO Max/Go)

https://www.metafilter.com/211329/All-Things-To-Me-Netflix-Edition

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Posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries

https://www.metafilter.com/211328/How-Cold-War-foes-became-close-colleagues-until-toilets-got-in-the-way

How Cold War foes became close colleagues — until toilets got in the way. It was November 20, 1998, and a rocket wasn't an unusual sight in this remote part of Kazakhstan. But today's cargo was a piece of history that would have seemed impossible just years before.

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Posted by Dawn Trask-Dontell

https://www.metafilter.com/211327/Its-Such-A-Mind-Game-Isnt-It

Ariana Grande & Adam Sandler | Actors on Actors is a 40 minute conversation about acting. Like seriously, this isn't comedian Sandler here. It's deeper than you might expect, and I recommend it by posting it here.

https://www.metafilter.com/211327/Its-Such-A-Mind-Game-Isnt-It

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Posted by Hardcore Poser

https://www.metafilter.com/211326/The-Mighty-Fitz-and-Me

For the past week we have been hammered by November storms. Much of this essay was written at anchor off Long Point in Lake Erie, where we sought refuge along with nine other ships. For 48 hours the wind did not drop below 30 knots and regularly gusted to 50. As I sat typing in my cabin I could hear the wind rage, rattling the super structure around me. Sleet and snow frenzied at my cabin window. At times the ship strained against the anchor chain and sent judders through the hull which I could feel 600 feet aft at my desk. Despite being in the lee of Long Point, the waves were tall and relentless. For 24 hours there was not a single ship moving across the entirety of the Great Lakes. Currently we're storm routing up the American side of Lake Huron and we anticipate many more weather related delays before the season is done. Winter has arrived and this year her claws are out.

Nick Tabone is a writer, a sailor, a runner, and a skateboarder. Other essays on life working the Great Lakes are here.

https://www.metafilter.com/211326/The-Mighty-Fitz-and-Me

sdwolfpup

That's right - next month More Joy Day is back for the 19th year in a row!

What's More Joy Day? In short it's this:

Every year since 2008, in the interest of spreading more joy, I’ve proposed that on a designated day in early January we each engage in one act, either online or physical space (or both!), which brings joy to another person, in the hopes that that person will spread that joy further, and exponentially onward.

This act can be as simple as leaving a comment on a fanwork to as complicated as planting a tree or flower in someone's honor and sharing a photo of it and why you chose that person. If you want the longer version (and more suggestions) you can check out this tumblr post from 2024 which provides both.

In 2026, More Joy Day will be Thursday, January 8!

(The first MJ Days were on Thursdays, and then I moved them to Fridays, but I'm going back to Thursday this year because I think a regular work day could use more joy than a Friday. Let's see how it goes.)

On More Joy Day, I'll post here and you can share your MJ Day activity so other people can feel the radiating waves of joy just from reading about it. :) I hope to see you there!

Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: My now 16 year old Puplet doing something I think making pizza? Who knows.

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Here are the rules for the weekend posts.

Book recommendation of the week: Buckeye, by Patrick Ryan. A short-lived affair in a small town in 1945 has long-lasting consequences for two families. I loved this! It ended up being my favorite book of everything I read this year. (Amazon, Bookshop)

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