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Cake day: August 29th, 2026

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  • I’m not sure I agree with this

    A drive-thru is not a tool for cooking, it is automation for avoiding cooking. LLMs are not tools with which you write code - they are automation with which you avoid writing code

    Is a microwave automation? What about ovens with timers? Do I need to know how to use a frying pan to know cooking?

    Are you actually writing code if you use compilers instead of assembly? Do you need to know the output of your compiler to know coding? LLMs cannot replace understanding code the same way compilers cannot replace understanding assembly, but both of them are layers of abstraction that both make dubious guesses about what you actually want in their output.

    You should still learn how to write code AND assembly btw, but I disagree with this guy’s definition of tool





  • the Ancient Greeks understood virgin as “unmarried” not “chaste”

    Not true. The Ancient Greeks translated the Hebrew Bible using a word that meant either young, unmarried or chaste depending on the context. That’s where this misinfo comes from.

    Priestesses of virgin goddesses still had to be chaste.









  • Dyslexic fonts don’t help dyslexia, and the internet’s idea of how dyslexia works is wrong.

    https://dyslexiaassociation.org.au/do-dyslexia-fonts-work/

    But the new fonts—and the odd assortment of paraphernalia that came before them—assume that dyslexia is a visual problem rooted in imprecise letter recognition. That’s a myth, explains Joanne Pierson, a speech-language pathologist at the University of Michigan. “Contrary to popular belief, the core problem in dyslexia is not reversing letters (although it can be an indicator),” she writes. The difficulty lies in identifying the discrete units of sound that make up words and “matching those individual sounds to the letters and combinations of letters in order to read and spell.” In other words, dyslexia is a language-based processing difference, not a vision problem, despite the popular and enduring misconceptions.

    Researchers put the font to the test, comparing it with two other popular fonts designed for legibility—Arial and Times New Roman—and discovered that the purportedly dyslexia-friendly font actually reduced reading speed and accuracy. In addition, none of the students preferred to read material in OpenDyslexic, a surprising rebuke for a font specifically designed for the task.

    The idea of making fonts more legible is good, but it doesn’t help dyslexia specifically.