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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Exactly.

    When the predictive text gives the right answer we label it “fact”

    When the predictive text gives the wrong answer we label it “hallucination”

    Both were arrived at by the exact same mechanism. It’s not a hallucination because “something went wrong” - both good and bad outputs are functionally identical. it’s only a hallucination because that’s what we humans - as actually thinking creatures - decided to name the output we don’t like.




  • Lucky you! :)

    For me, switching to Bluetooth half the time makess the audio go crackly and stuttering, which sometimes can be fixed by switching codec, sometimes not, and then after that happens my HDMI audio is screwed up too, even after turning Bluetooth off.

    With steam games too, audio is the #1 most likely thing to be not working, or working improperly.



  • Same for me with Markdown. Love the simplicity.

    I went through a phase a while back of evaluating a bunch of note-taking and to-do apps, and hating almost all of them for being proprietary products with so much vendor lock-in.

    I eventually settled on Joplin because it just uses plain old markdown, and allows you to selfhost the storage back-end so you own your data.

    So because of that, my recipes are just a folder (and some subfolders) with markdown in Joplin.


  • These days, that’s pleasantly true :)

    15 years ago was a different story. You’d have about a 50/50 shot of your trackpad working, one in three that your WiFi would work, and if you were hoping for a working webcam, you should just forget about it.

    So even in modern times when you do an install and everything mostly just works, it still feels suspiciously miraculous.


  • It could actually be insanely overpowered depending on interpretation.

    “Instantly see inside any empty container”

    What does it mean to “see” inside a container? If that just means “know what the contents are” (i.e nothing) then it’s limited, but if it means literally see with remote sight, that’s much more useful - depending on this next part…

    What does “inside” mean? Does it mean we can only observe the interior, or can we look out from the interior as if our point of view occupies it?

    And finally, what constitutes an “empty container”? Is a container still a container if it doesn’t have a lid? Or do its sides need to be opaque? By most interpretations, a glass with no liquid would easily fit the definition of an empty container

    At its most favourable then, this power gives you the ability to remote surveil any location where a common, everyday empty glass could be found. Very powerful indeed.