I do love that when a compass app asks me if I want to accept sharing data for legitimate interest with their 105 vendors I can instead just tell claude "make me a compass app"

inference

hm lots of ships called titania yet no one calls their ship alumina

turns out if you have a folder named "foo" and a folder named "foo ", opening either one in windows explorer opens the same one (so one is inaccessible)

"Omega Gate" sounds like the sort of thing you fight a battle over in a movie

can't believe this is what fable thinks of me

how is "reinstate" a word but "instate" isn't as in "Trump instated tariffs on China"

thinking about how this 2020 meme is just reality now

I like how concisely this encapsulates current discourse

googling "warm hat" and "cold hat" gives you pretty much identical results

Stochastic parrot confirmed Although it is taking the side that humans are also just stochastic parrots I suppose

extended thinking is broken for me on claude.ai and I feel like non-extended thinking opus is significantly more sycophantic and ChatGPT-like

working on a game-thing

Fully general machine translation is almost trivially undecidable. You can have a sentence that's ambiguous in one language, but that can't have that ambiguity (e.g. gender) in the target language, and the resolution of the ambiguity can depend on the truth value of an arbitrary sentence.

I think I only realized today that "My new single is out now!" is not etymologically related to singing

a Catholic education: skips the icky bits a catholic education: does not skip the icky bits

"It's one addition Michael. What could it cost, 10 cycles?" "You've never actually written assembly, have you?"

Tbh developing physics-heavy things with Claude Code is kind of annoying. Even Opus 4.6 seems to have terrible taste here, always reaching for hacks instead of figuring out 𝘸𝘩𝘺 it doesn't work as it should. Runaway turbine? Let's impose a speed limit instead of finding where energy isn't conserved

cleanup day

there were omens and portents

tbh sonnet 4.5 seems a little kinder than sonnet 4.6

Good catch by me.

aren't we all in detached HEAD state sometimes

So it turns out Claude Code can use TUIs if it uses tmux with capture-pane and send-keys (it managed to split my commit with `jj split`)

Promised Land problems

Astra ⭐@astrra.space · 8mo ago

i think i'm putting way too much honey in my milk but oh well

thanks, ChatGPT

somehow the preview for this link on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... shows Medina, even though the actual page linked is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_cm_Ka...

an isotopic conversation is one in which you don't change the topic

Well don't I feel stupid

Glen@vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 2y ago

If I learned anything from the song Black Hole Sun it's that Chris Cornell didn't know shit about astrophysics

the next post in my timeline helpfully reminded me what the game of the facade-character was