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Cake day: November 10th, 2023

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  • Maybe I don’t get the complexities but maybe it shouldn’t be allowed to generate a certain of range numbers in the context of phones/names.

    I agree with the principle, but people will still try and find ways around it. Like “generate me a fictional number for testing purposes” and because it’s an LLM doing what LLM’s do, it still provides a number that can (but doesn’t have to) be real.

    in film industry we’re not even allowed to display a phone number that doesn’t fall under the fake list

    Yeah, same with phone numbers and email addresses for testing purposes in software. Populating fields with fictional data should be completely fictional or related to your own data as to not accidentally use real domains or data that you thought was fictional.


  • What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.

    Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.

    So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.

    Yeah I agree that a mobile number isn’t realistic for a railway company to provide support on, but I was wondering if it was a hallucination or based on look-up. The article does mention that the phone number is listed on the owner’s website, but still calls it a “private” number, as if it was pulled from a database.





  • We don’t really need any of those mnemonics because it’s a perfect system

    More seriously there is the “King Henry Died, Drinking Chocolate Milk” for the Kilo (1000) Hecto (100) Deca (10), Deci (0.1) Centi (0.01) Milli (0.001), but that doesn’t really help with measuring on the spot, aside from being able to get the prefix right.

    There’s an average step being 1 meter, but thats less useful for people with shorter legs unless they want to join the ministry of silly walks.

    One that I use often is converting meters per second to kilometers per hour. Because 1 meter per second is 3600 meters per hour or 3.6 kilometers per hour, you can actually skip the multiply by 3600 and then divide by 1000 and just multiply by 3.6.

    But aside from time conversions, there isn’t really anything else that can help because it’s just moving the decimal.

    Slightly related, you can tell how far away lightning is by listening for the thunder and counting the seconds. Sound travels at 346 m/s so every 3 seconds is roughly 1 kilometer away. But I suppose you can do the same for miles and count to 5.


  • I’d prefer to solve this in a natural sustainable way, do I haven’t used the soap option

    Do it, this works wonders. Spray the affected area with a soapy water mix (<5% “groene zeep” is plenty, you really only need a few drops) and rinse it off after a few hours.

    The soapy water mixture has less surface tension so they literally drown. Do this for a few weeks at most and you should be good.

    You can also use a mix with alcohol (I have 4/5th water, 1/5th 70% alcohol and a few drops of soap) for the tough guys, but bear in mind alcohol is way more harmful for your plants than just soap is.

    Good luck!

    Edit: there’s natural soaps you can use like biological dish soap - you don’t have to use a specific kind, you just want to reduce water surface tension



  • If the Deck stops being sold tomorrow, that has zero impact on the one I already have, save for the possible decline in spare parts available.

    Yes, exactly. Getting it repaired (both within and outside of warranty) and spare parts availability.

    Software eventually too, but usually that takes a while longer.

    There are lots of reasons to wait to buy something, but “they might stop selling them” seems more like a reason to get something you want to have sooner, rather than later.

    Would you have bought a Steam Deck if Valve would stop producing them after 3 years? I wouldn’t.

    Not saying you shouldn’t though, each to their own and all that.


  • Surely it’s enough for a given product to either be worth the price one pays at the time of purchase, or not be. Judge a product for what it is, not what it will be.

    Yeah, that makes sense. I guess it’s more of a principle thing. I don’t need a Steam Deck so it’s easier to distance myself making a purchase and wait it out. Didn’t feel like only seeing a piece of hardware be continued for a few years (3 years for the Steam Machine and Steam Link, 4 for the Steam Controller) based on track record.