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Cake day: May 19th, 2024

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  • If you count only 100% vibed code, it’s probably a 20 lines long script.

    Usually, I tweak the code to fit my needs, so it’s not 100% vibes at that point. This way, I have built a bunch of scripts, each about 200 lines long, but that arbitrary limit is just my personal preference. I could put them all together into a single horribly unreadable file, which could be like 1000 lines per project. However, vast majority of them were modified by me, so that doesn’t count.

    If you ask something longer than 20 lines, there’s a very high probability that it won’t work on the 15th round of corrections. Either GPT just can’t handle things that complicated, or maybe my needs are so obscure and bizarre that the training data just didn’t cover those cases.



  • See also: chart of nuclides

    It contains the periodic table and all the unstable isotopes of every element. The island of stability would be somewhere in the top right corner, outside the chart.

    When you look at the half-life data, it’s pretty clear that lead is the last fully stable element. Anything past that line (126 neutrons) is more or less unstable, but not necessarily useless. For example, uranium and thorium are pretty far away, but they can still have practical applications.

    Between hydrogen and lead, stable isotopes are abundant, but after lead, finding anything you can reasonably do chemistry with gets a bit scarce. When you go past plutonium 244, you’ll find even less chemistry there.


  • You’re talking about equality, which is a very different type of measure of urgency. Obviously, that is not being prioritized as all, because that’s how capitalism works. Quite the opposite actually. When it comes to matters related to equality, the rich people prioritize themselves over everyone else.

    However, I was referring to a completely different type of urgency based prioritization that can be seen pretty much everywhere in society. We build machines that are just barely good enough for the job instead of being actually great for the job, good for the people who use them and good for the environment. That sort of long term thinking just doesn’t have a place in our current system, because making machines just barely good enough is hard enough as it is. If we could do all the basic things with zero effort, we would have left over resources that could be directed towards making everything actually better in a variety of ways. Currently, those left over resources don’t exist, because they’re tied up in making all the basic stuff happen in the society. That’s why we aren’t focusing on making things actually good.

    Individual people and some companies are actually trying to make sustainable and humane decisions, but the society isn’t.



  • Never. There’s always more to do. Once you can produce food, shelter and entertainment with zero effort, people will start working on less urgent stuff that got ignored because we were busy working on the essentials.

    Currently, we’re ignoring preventative medical and psychological care, because we’re busy fixing everything that is broken. Well, not even all of it. Just some parts get fixed. Maybe, in the future fixing stuff is so cheap and easy, that we can shift our focus to prevention.

    Once we’re there, we can start focusing on the next big thing, like building a Dyson sphere or whatever.







  • Can confirm. Just lie down, and let the boredom soak in for a while. Won’t take long til you remember five things I was supposed to do several weeks ago. Your subconscious mind really hates boredom, and will do anything to keep you busy.

    If your to-do list is somehow completely empty, your mind will just come up with random new ideas, like what would happen if you put little wheels on a tomato, can you build a “house of cards” out of eggs, what if there was a set of suitcases exactly the size and shape of the trunk of your car, what if CO2 could be sucked from the air and pushed back underground somehow, what if cryptos are a scam… You know bizarre stuff like that.