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authorsrdusr <[email protected]>2025-12-07 21:58:00 +0200
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Rebuild the generic packs, add shell and sysadmin, fix short race passages
The packs were not proper. An audit found 86 of 253 items (33%) carrying an attribution that just restated the category - prose *about* a topic with an invented source, which is the same fault the movies pack had. Six of thirteen packs were mostly that: technology had 15 items and one distinct attribution. - science, technology, history, nature and business are now sourced quotes with real attributions: Feynman, Curie, Hopper, Dijkstra, Lincoln, Carson, Drucker, Goodhart. 82 items, all attributed to a person or a work. - general is original factual prose, so it now carries no attribution at all rather than claiming "General knowledge" as a source. merge_packs no longer invents one from the pack's filename. - Four explanatory passages in philosophy lost their "Philosophy" attribution for the same reason. - One duplicated passage removed. Generic attributions: 86/253 before, 0/349 now. New technical packs - shell: 24 awk, sed and pipeline drills, each explaining what the line does - field splitting, associative arrays, !seen[$0]++, process substitution, xargs -0, strict mode. - sysadmin: 24 operational one-liners across systemd, disk, processes, network, permissions, SSH, backup and containers. - programming grew to 37 and hacking to 30, with git bisect, window functions, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, certificate transparency and capability audits. - All 115 technical drills carry an explanation. Race passage length - Multiplayer drew from the same pool as single player, so a race could land on a 22-character quote and be over before anyone had their hands in position. Races now require 120 characters; the filter is applied when the pool is loaded, not to the packs, since a short quote is fine to type alone. For reference, TypeRacer organises by difficulty and language rather than topic: one default English pool of ~11,900 texts plus per-language universes and specials (accuracy, repeat, easytexts, anime). Their scale comes from user submission with moderation, which is still the feature this does not have.
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[
- {"category":"science","content":"Photosynthesis is the process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy, using carbon dioxide and water to produce glucose and release oxygen as a byproduct.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"Newton's first law of motion states that an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion, unless acted on by an outside force.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"DNA carries the genetic instructions for every living organism, encoded in a sequence of four chemical bases that pair together to form the famous double helix shape.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"The theory of plate tectonics explains how the Earth's outer shell is broken into large plates that slowly drift over the mantle, causing earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain formation.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"Water is one of the few substances that becomes less dense as it freezes, which is why ice floats on top of liquid water instead of sinking to the bottom.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"A black hole forms when a massive star collapses under its own gravity, packing so much mass into so small a space that not even light can escape its pull.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognize a weakened or partial version of a pathogen, so the body can respond quickly if it ever encounters the real threat.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"The periodic table arranges chemical elements by increasing atomic number, grouping elements with similar properties into the same columns.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"Sound travels as a wave of pressure through a medium such as air or water, and it cannot travel through the vacuum of space, since there are no particles to carry the vibration.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"Evolution by natural selection describes how organisms with traits better suited to their environment tend to survive and reproduce more successfully, gradually shaping a population over many generations.","attribution":"Science, after Charles Darwin"},
- {"category":"science","content":"The speed of light in a vacuum is approximately two hundred ninety nine thousand, seven hundred ninety two kilometers per second, and nothing with mass can reach or exceed it.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"Mitochondria convert nutrients into a usable form of energy for the cell, which is why biology textbooks often call them the powerhouse of the cell.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"The human body contains roughly thirty seven trillion cells, each one specialized to carry out one of hundreds of different jobs inside the body.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"Marie Curie remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, physics and chemistry, for her pioneering research into radioactivity.","attribution":"Science"},
- {"category":"science","content":"Genetics research has shown that humans share about ninety-nine percent of their DNA with chimpanzees, the closest living relative to our species.","attribution":"Science"}
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Carl Sagan, Cosmos","content":"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Carl Sagan","content":"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World","content":"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Richard Feynman","content":"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Richard Feynman","content":"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Marie Curie","content":"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species","content":"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Isaac Newton","content":"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Albert Einstein","content":"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Albert Einstein","content":"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Niels Bohr","content":"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Werner Heisenberg","content":"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Ada Lovelace","content":"The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Rosalind Franklin","content":"Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Jane Goodall","content":"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","content":"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Thomas Huxley","content":"The great tragedy of science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Louis Pasteur","content":"In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time","content":"The whole history of science has been the gradual realisation that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Stephen Hawking","content":"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Max Planck","content":"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents eventually die."},
+ {"category":"science","attribution":"Barbara McClintock","content":"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off."}
]