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There are plenty of things that can be improved by LLM’s and similar technology. It has been done plenty of times prior to the current A.I. bubble. But this kind of slop, posing as answers, needs to disappear. What is the point of this, other than virtue signaling that Google is an ”A.I. First Company”, aka drinkers of the Kool-Aid?

My query to Google was what word count I should equate to a page of text. The answer claims that it depends on a lot of factors and gives a rough estimate of 250-500 words. That is probably reasonable but it then goes of to claim that the bigger my line-spacing, the more words I can fit on a page. It’s just so hilariously dumb. Given how obvious it is that at least parts of this answer is wrong, I had to look further in the actual search-results. No time was saved for me, no value was created, nothing was gained.

This also ties back nicely to this.

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Om du är polis eller ordningsvakt och anmäler en person för att hen kallar dig för ”tönt”, då bekräftar du att du är en tönt.

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I took a break from King after ”The Langoliers” and instead dove into Neal Stephenson’s ”Termination Shock” and it grabbed me instantly. What a thrill ride thus far!

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I finished the audiobook of Stephen King’s ”The Langoliers” from Four Past Midnight the other day. I really liked it!

I remember watching the tv movie (tv show?) of this story in class back in high school but I remembered very few things about it. I remembered the main premise, Dinah, and how terrible the langoliers looked, but apart from that I didn’t remember any of the other characters or the plot.

It’s a fun premise and engaging characters. The audiobook is read by Willem Dafoe who’s clearly having a lot of fun.

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It seems like I’ve neglected my ”Reading” page quite a while. As is apparent for anybody still reading this piece of the internet, I’m also blogging very infrequently these days. Some days I feel bad about that, some days I feel like that’s the beauty of blogs and RSS. If anybody subscribes to me they will see what I post when I post, regardless of how infrequent the posts are.

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At first the protestors gave him mean looks for driving a huge gas guzzling dually, until they saw through the glass that he was a person of color and then they didn’t know where to direct their moral indignation.

  • Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock
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Jag drack en klunk av drinken, blundade, och i tre sekunder kände jag mig som någon annan, någon annanstans, i en annan tid. Det var belöningen efter en lång, händelserik och ansträngande dag, att få en drink som gjorde att man kände sig som någon annan, om så bara i tre sekunder.

– Klas Östergren, Gangsters

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I started listening to Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight yesterday. I’m three hours into Willem Dafoe’s reading of ”The Langoliers” and I love it so far. Late yesterday, when the rest of the family was sleeping I was doing some tidying on the deck while listening to this. As the wind and the rain blew around me I got genuinely scared by this story. Can’t really remember when a book scared me like that the last time.

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With inspiration from the excellent The Stock Pot, and in particular the full tutorial for how to Make Your Own Universal Remote (ESPHome + Home Assistant), I’m slowly starting to wrap my head around Home Assistant and ESP8266/ESP32. I’ve managed to wire up a button to my ESP8266 and I can register single, double, or long presses on said button in Home Assistant.

There is a lot more work to be done in Home Assistant itself before I can get anything proper out of this, but I’m making progress and having fun.

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Here’s a thought on season two of Andor. SPOILERS AHEAD

The empire’s plan for Ghorman is to provoke the people to the point where they counteract in such a way as to ”forcing” the empire to invade fully. That’s a really neat mirror to how Luthen works as a whole, and to the arc he takes Mon Mothma on.

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