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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • ChatGPT can be super useful, but I’m kind of worried about people learning to use it exclusively.

    I tried helping a PhD student assemble a set up for measuring transistors. He used ChatGPT to do all the code for the software control (python), which is fine, even if he relied on it to fix every single part of his code when a quick trip to the reference manuals of the equipments would solve the problem instantly.

    At a certain point I realized I maybe had misunderstood his set up design and asked him “wait, which device do you want to connect to your gate? Which terminal even is the gate?”

    And I kid you not, the dude asked ChatGPT which terminal in his device was the gate

    (he also reeked of weed so there’s that)



  • I’ve always said that the worst thing that 9 did was completely destroy any excitement for Star Wars in an instant.

    Prior to 9 releasing, people didn’t like 8 and were already souring on 7, but there was still discourse, people caught up on Star Wars news, people were excited for the new content.

    After 9, the excitement dropped like a brick. It was the closure of a trilogy in one of the most profitable IPs in the world. There was still more content planned to come out soon iirc (the shows, and I think there was talk of more movies), so it’s not like people stopped caring due to the lack of content. Nobody I knew was interested in discussing fan theories or analyzing the movies (except to rag on them, I suppose). It was as if millions of voices cried out in terror… And were suddenly silenced.









  • I was in the exact same boat as you. Except I also switched because Bitdefender, the anti-virus I used at the time, was not playing nice with Firefox.

    Earlier this year, like a few months ago, I decided to try and switch back. It was seamless. In like half an hour I had every bookmark, most passwords, and even some new extensions that have saved me a lot of work since. I recommend you try it and keep Chrome installed on the side in case you run into some problems, but I think after a few days you’ll realize you don’t need it for much.

    (in my case it’s still installed for when I inevitably remember that I forgot to transfer a random password that didn’t automatically migrate)



  • Unfortunately, I agree with the other commenter. It’s very hard to talk about the game without taking a bit out of the experience.

    I will say that it’s a space exploration game, where you fly around a tiny (handcrafted!) solar system and explore the various planets. There are a handful of mysteries around this solar system and you eventually figure out how the various clues intersect.

    It’s also very much a game about information. You never gain upgrades or stats or anything, your character when you start the game is exactly the same as when you finish it. But you learn things about the solar system and your knowledge of this world and it’s mysteries increases, directing you on where to go next and what to do. The game also doesn’t present you with explicit goals, so at the beginning you can do pretty much everything you want, but there is an ending you will eventually reach by following the clues laid out around the universe (and I seriously recommend that you don’t stop before the ending).

    It’s also a very hard game to replay, as after you know the answer to the mysteries, there’s a part of the appeal that is lost. I wish I could forget about it so I could replay it fresh!




  • I was almost not going to respond with Outer Wilds, since it feels like I played forever ago. But apparently I only played it in June of this year, so that’s my choice. It’s one of my favorite games now, if not my favorite game ever.

    It’s so good, in fact, that it’s helping me get over this weird anxiety I have of talking about my hobbies with other people (including my closest friends). Outer Wilds is so good that even though I hate talking about games I like, I still feel the need to recommend it to people. And now that the floodgates are open I feel a bit more comfortable talking about my other favorite games, like Baba is You, which I got another person to play as well, and The Messenger, which I’m playing now and loving it.