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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • “sorry to disappoint you, Timmy, but the tooth fairy only comes once she knows the parents are aware their child is about to get some money/a visit”

    I’m very surprised there are parents telling their kids about the tooth fairy that can’t recover the story when confronted by their kid with such evidence.



  • I’ve started a two-week free trial of CrossOver, the paid macos wrapper for wine whose developers contribute to wine, in order to play dwarf fortress on my M1 MacBook. It works like a charm, and the setup to get the game running is just like how Lutris does their “pre-packaged” game installations.

    Dwarf Fortress Classic (without the premium graphics) is a bit disappointing; the ASCII graphics don’t seem to be able to render crosshairs on the tile you point at with your mouse and so designating certain things like bridges and screw pumps is hard - if I hadn’t played a bunch of Premium on a linux box through steam I don’t think I would understand half of what’s going on. For the first time since purchasing Premium I’m missing the old, keyboard-centric user interface… Other than certain things not rendering, the updated UIs are surprisingly pleasant to navigate in ASCII mode.

    Making crafts from mussel shells is still as overpowered as ever for bootstrapping a fort’s trade capacity!


  • Oh definitely. I think it’s anthropic who have stated in multiple interviews that they break even on most of their models, it’s just that they keep spending exponentially more to train the next model. They and openai seem to be stuck in an arms race where switching to purely serving existing models to their existing clients just won’t work. I do wonder how accurate that assessment is on their part.