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Thank you.

Didn't realize you could zoom in until I saw this. It looks really cool when you zoom in and it replaces the boxes with actual building shapes.

It's a different prompt. It says his prompt was "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" but one I saw earlier this week specifically talked about the blue helmet and fish in a basket.


It looks like I misinterpreted the bottom of this page[0] where it says:

> A seaside scene: a white pelican in a blue helmet pedals a red bicycle along the beach, one wing gripping the handlebar, its big orange beak and pouch out front, webbed feet on the pedals, and a fish tucked in the front basket for later.

I thought that was the prompt from how it was worded. I guess it's part of the response.

[0] https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... scroll to the bottom



> Turn off your YouTube watch history

Just to add to that, it's a two step process: disable saving new history, and then clear all history

I estimate my watch time dropped by half per day the first time I did that. Then I started curating my subscriptions better, and watching from that.


It's kind of funny, but AI can also use an oscilloscope. My friend vibe coded a software synth on a Raspberry Pi Pico. When he realized his oscilloscope had a network interface, he had Claude figure out how to connect to it over the network and analyze the actual audio output.


Oh yeah, this is right up my alley. I've been thinking about making a Forth on bare metal for a while (made a Forth interpreter in C last summer, and a tiny amount of testing stack manipulation in hand-assembled machine language on a C64U), and the thought I (coincidentally) had moments before seeing this link was about making a boot sector on some floppies I just got for my 8088 IBM PC. I know that will only work for the Real Mode part but it might be fun to start there anyway. Edit: I knew about CollapseOS but didn’t realize this had been around too.


What makes you say that? I didn't get that feeling at all, and found it pretty interesting as well.


Things like:

> Not eventually. Quickly. The relationship between books and shelf space is not linear; it is exponential,

Are pretty AI in style: Over use. Of. Short. Sentences. - The it's not this; it's that - in a way that doesn't make sense - I mean books/meter is linear.

etc.

Not sure about the morals of using AI. I assume there really is a Bruno van Branden with 28k books?


The second submission by this bvanbranden account getting flagged today is a clear, well, red flag.

Which also did not seem to me to be AI generated. I read that one to the end and it seemed coherent enoght.

The writer has been writing articles on books going back to 2017 at least.


What kind of book cataloguing software (excluding something like an order system for a printer of present day books) demands an ISBN? The article smells due to its complete omission of any verifiable software or marketplace that does this.

It is not my field, but a quick search suggests that LibraryThing is a candidate.

2600 Magazine


pretty interesting etymology connecting Dios, Jupiter, Zeus, etc. (Sky Father)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Dy%C4%93us


And then there is Tuesday, for the forgotten god.


Many of the days of the week are named after ancient nature gods, many of which trace to PIE:

PIE sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”) → Proto-Germanic sunnǭ (“sun”) → Old English sunne (“sun”) → Old English Sunnandæg (“Sun's day”) → Middle English Sonday / Sunday → Sunday

PIE mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”) → Proto-Germanic mēnô (“moon”) → Old English mōna (“moon”) → Old English Mōnandæg (“Moon's day”) → Middle English Monenday / Monday → Monday

PIE deywós → Sanskrit deva, “god” → Latin deus, “god” → Old Norse Týr, the god → Old English Tīw → Tīwesdæg (“Tiw's day”) → Tuesday

PIE dyew- (“bright sky; daylight”) → deywós (“celestial one; god”) → Proto-Germanic Tīwaz → Old English Tīw → Tīwesdæg → Tuesday

The reconstruction exists for the remaining days too, but is more uncertain when tracing it to PIE:

PIE weh₂t- / related roots concerning excitement or inspiration → Proto-Germanic *Wōðanaz → Old English Wōden → Wōdnesdæg (“Woden's day”) → Wednesday

PIE (s)tenh₂- (“thunder”) (reconstruction/derivation has some uncertainty) → Proto-Germanic þunraz (“thunder”; the god Thunder/Thor) → Old English Þunor → Þunresdæg (“Þunor's day”) → Thursday

PIE prih₁- / preyH- (“to love; be dear”) → Proto-Germanic Frijjō (the goddess Frigg, approximately “beloved/dear one”) → Old English Frīg → Old English Frīgedæg (“Frīg's day”) → Middle English Fridai / Friday → Friday

Saturday is not known to trace to PIE:

Latin Saturnus → Old English Sætern(es)dæg (“Saturn's day”) → Saturday


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