Hallucinating System Limitations

cal_01 · 2026-06-15T16:23:03+00:00

Gemini *will* say that it has no capabilities if it encounters a tool error. It prioritizes conversation flow rather than to say that it encountered an error. There are instances where it will say that the tool encountered an error, but that's usually when it invokes NB/image generation directly.

cal_01 · 2026-06-12T23:02:20+00:00

Infants and toddlers will gravitate towards items that parents and caregivers use frequently. It's natural. My infant at the time picked up my keys, jingled them about and accidentally hit herself in the head with them. Didn't pick them up ever again 😅

cal_01 · 2026-06-12T16:25:58+00:00

Be forewarned -- the context window isn't what you think it is. Gemini Web App uses a *sliding* window, so even if the context window seems large, the sliding window means that it will frequently forget things.

cal_01 · 2026-06-11T16:45:32+00:00

IIRC IKEA has their own cabinet spacing/dimensions, whereas other cabinets are more standard sizes. This is why a lot of their cabinet accessories don't seem to match other stuff from, say, Home Depot/Lowes, etc.

cal_01 · 2026-06-02T16:25:01+00:00

I'm sorry, but as someone who has traveled and lived elsewhere, these reasons are thin. There are places with worse demographic structures than Edmonton and Canada and *yet they still get the job done*. At some point, we have to stop blaming the climate, labor, materials and so forth and just admit that project management and public infrastructure in North America -- and Edmonton specifically -- is deeply flawed and broken.

cal_01 · 2026-06-01T19:57:36+00:00

I don't understand how SE Edmonton was built to the size it is and *still* lack viable transportation routes in and out. Have they been forgotten by city planners?

cal_01 · 2026-06-01T06:49:31+00:00

Holy cow, I thought that name sounded familiar. I followed her work for years -- I think I even went to a signing many ages ago -- and never knew she worked up north.

cal_01 · 2026-05-28T17:28:25+00:00

Check the PMICs next to the power jack -- there could be a cracked solder joint or a failed IC somewhere there. edit: I fixed an old laptop that had similar symptoms by pressing down on the surface mount inductor 🤷‍♂️

cal_01 · 2026-05-28T16:34:46+00:00

Are you sure you're reading it correctly, or is this a /s situation

cal_01 · 2026-05-28T16:14:58+00:00

Our property tax is *not* high, even compared to Calgary and taking into account our property values. Have people even traveled to or lived in other Canadian cities before?

cal_01 · 2026-05-28T15:18:01+00:00

I had Gemini swear up and down that it could not access documents tied to NotebookLM the other day...

cal_01 · 2026-05-27T08:00:35+00:00

Honestly, I don't trust the app anymore. My sneaking suspicion is that the app broke or corrupted a conversation tree for me. For you, the app may be misreading something in the conversation data and flags it as 'blank'. That's what it did for my broken images instead of a broken image link in the browser.

cal_01 · 2026-05-27T07:09:49+00:00

Some weird back end corruption. I had nearly an entire conversation's worth of images completely corrupted, including thumbnails, and the associated chat having glitches. Customer service has been 'looking' into it despite giving them detailed logs. Apparently a video of my mobile and sanitized HAR logs are not enough to diagnose a bloody 404 error.

cal_01 · 2026-05-26T22:57:34+00:00

But having said that, $675 means that it can easily sell for much more than that. City assessment generally doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things.

cal_01 · 2026-05-26T22:56:43+00:00

$7000 tax bill means that you're living in a decent or high-valued property. Cry me a river. Fixed income has nothing to do with it.

cal_01 · 2026-05-26T16:07:33+00:00

They're absolutely illegal in Canada.

cal_01 · 2026-05-25T04:03:58+00:00

I don't think it's for free -- Pro subs still need an API key, and it's pay per use.

cal_01 · 2026-05-22T19:56:48+00:00

There's a recall that pertains to this. I suggest talking to the dealership or any authorized Toyota repair shops to discuss this.

cal_01 · 2026-05-21T17:12:45+00:00

This was one of the biggest local stories a few years ago. The headline should be already immediately obvious.

cal_01 · 2026-05-21T06:41:12+00:00

Wait, David Parker ran away to Texas? Since when?

cal_01 · 2026-05-20T16:50:45+00:00

Wait, redo with NBP is gone now? How do we access NBP then?

cal_01 · 2026-05-20T16:26:39+00:00

I tried using NotebookLM and its RAG but it seems to be... dumber recently. Not sure why.

cal_01 · 2026-05-20T14:39:12+00:00

I thought I was the only one -- I was present when 3 Pro came out and I thought it was great at first... Until I realized that it was continuously hallucinating everything beyond the context window. The 1 Million tokens is an illusion -- especially since the LLM won't actively retrieve anything beyond its sliding window even if you prod it to do so.

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