There are strawberries all over the readme so I reck you're right.

Is this a continuation of the meme that GPT can't identify the number of "R"s in "strawberry"?

> How many 'r's are in the word 'ichigo'?

GPT 4o: The word "ichigo," which is the Romanized spelling (romaji) of いちご, contains one "r." It appears in the letter "r" in "chi," as the "ch" sound in romaji represents a combination of the "r" sound from "r" and "t" sound from "i."

Thank you chatgpt. I'm glad we've burned down a bunch of forests for this.

You can consistently get the right answer with a prompt of:

> Write python code, and run it, to count the number of 'r' characters in いちご.

though. For numeric stuff, telling the thing to just write python code makes it significantly better at getting right answers.

Without any special prompt change, I get

There are no “r”s in the word “ichigo.”

Maybe your instructions are bad.

I think you might be on to something

These pop-sci and pop-history articles do things like this a lot. Sometimes it feels like the days of reliable scientific journalism are behind us.

Telling apart roman republic, principate and dominate is middle school stuff. Surely, we can expect that level of knowledge from a pop-sci journalist?

Really liked the end of the poem. Honestly could have done without my own name in there, since it was a little jarring, and dispelled the dreamlike quality of the poem.

The original (in Minecraft) used the player handle so the site sortof has to ask you your name to reproduce that

YMMV -- I was a little creeped out by a blog that required my name, so I put a fake name. It was an extra level of indirection I could have done without.

Oh. It's Minecraft.

So you're the reason I had to put numbers in my username, eh?

I know that pain of trying to get a very generic username all too well!

So you admit that technology is inherently harmful to human beings' cognitive development?

You might not be too far off. Someone should start a league of free-web Avengers to blast the internet wide open again.

On the other hand, requiring recordings could reduce the number of applications you get sent, at least as long as their are requirements specific to your application that would prevent applicants from mass-submitting the same video to all of their target jobs.

There was a blog post I read on HN that was about how existing large publications who were threatened by the internet (think big magazines) began to churn out low-quality content that will allow their sites to dominate search rankings despite offering less value than higher-quality posts from small blogs.

I think the blog post was from some kind of home air filter review site or something, but I can't find it....

Well, some people do think their Wi-Fi routers can hurt them ... maybe we should make tinfoil hats for the cephalopods.

I have no clue what a Quine clock is, but I think it would be easier to read if the diagonal stroke on the front of the 1s only extended to the second row of characters from the top, instead of the third.

I noticed this because it was just 11:11 in my time zone >:)

a quine is where the full source is reprinted in the display.

So in this case, the code to create this clock in your website is

<script>

(r=n=>setInterval(t=>{for(j=o="\n",y=5;y--;document.body['inne' +'rHTML']="<pre>&lt"+(S="script>\n")+o+"\n\n&lt/"+S)for(x=-001; x++<63;o+=`(r=${r})()`[j++].fontcolor(c?'#FF0':"#444"))c=x/2%4< 3&&[31599,19812,14479,31207,23524,29411,29679,30866,31727,31719 ,1040][(D=Date()[16+(x/8|0)])<10?D:10]&1<<(x/2|0)%4+3*y},100))()

</script>

which is also what is the clockface.

Also, adding the snippet will get rid of other content in the body element that might annoyingly distract from this beautiful clock :)

Change 19812 to 19748 (or 9874) to apply your suggestion, if you wonder. It's a simple bitmap encoding.