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Cake day: April 6th, 2025

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  • Back in the days, mattresses were made of straw or other natural materials. Blankets and pillows were stuffed with feathers until recently. And people were not able to heat their bedrooms sufficiently during winter. Back in those days, you had to make your bed in order to air it and dry it from sweat. Otherwise it would start to get moldy really quickly.

    Today, synthetic materials and central heating / air conditioning have eliminated the need for a strict humidity management in the bedroom. But it’s still stuck in people’s heads that making your bed is absolutely vital. I guess it’ll take another one or two generations for it to become irrelevant.
















  • You’re drawing wrong conclusions. Intelligent beings have concepts to validate knowledge. When converting days to seconds, we have a formula that we apply. An LLM just guesses and has no way to verify it. And it’s like that for everything.

    An example: Perplexity tells me that 9876543210 Seconds are 114,305.12 days. A calculator tells me it’s 114,311.84. Perplexity even tells me how to calculate it, but it does neither have the ability to calculate or to verify it.

    Same goes for everything. It guesses without being able to grasp the underlying concepts.





  • How is Ford’s management perceived in the USA? Here on Europe they fucked up terribly.

    I live in Cologne, Germany where their European headquarters and major plants are located. They completely missed EV development. Currently they stopped producing their best selling cars like the Ford Fiesta. The only EVs they build here are using VWs MEB platform and are selling at a higher price than VWs corresponding models.

    They massively cut down on jobs and seem to be clueless about their future. They have been a major employer since the 1930s here and people are panicking about the loss of Ford altogether. They already shut down plants all over Europe.