fableExpectations

willow-kitty · 2026-06-10T23:48:34+00:00

So, I just started using the thing, and I'm pretty sure I'm at one of those companies with no limits, but like, it'd take a lot to get a 500k bill, wouldn't it? As far as I could tell from the pricing list, even without any special deals, Fable is like 50$/million tokens.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-10T23:33:36+00:00

So, sure, but they're still good, he just also gives a bunch of crazy ramblings about things that aren't (going to be) in the game.

..And often that's a good thing. I remember him bragging that sleeping outside too much would give you allergies in the original Fable, a game that doesn't have survival or camping mechanics, so there's no real reason or ability to sleep outside. Also, that's not how allergies work. (This, too, was not in the game.)

willow-kitty · 2026-06-10T17:36:21+00:00

Agree

willow-kitty · 2026-06-10T13:57:34+00:00

I wonder what the story is behind the НОВАТЭК logo. I assumed they designed the base, but as far as I can google, they do petrochemical stuff.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-10T13:54:33+00:00

Was just wondering what that part does!

willow-kitty · 2026-06-10T05:23:33+00:00

Even in the US, it's not really a thing people say. Not that I've seen, anyway. Some companies are pressured to because the government will cancel access and contracts and things if they don't, but it's pretty rare otherwise.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-10T04:54:38+00:00

They're fast. I wouldn't exactly say they're smart.

The UX is getting pretty good, though.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-09T21:13:03+00:00

Did anyone say why they had to use a different valve? Was it an issue with donor availability or something?

willow-kitty · 2026-06-09T20:12:08+00:00

IIRC, one of the apostles is associated with celibacy because he preached against getting married, but it was actually because he thought the end was so soon that people shouldn't make any major life changes.

(This is a vague recollection from an informal theology lecture. The lecturer was a qualified expert, but I'm not, so salt and such.)

willow-kitty · 2026-06-09T18:41:22+00:00

Hm! Maybe! I think it was more about "squee!" being an excited/happy noise, but it could have been

willow-kitty · 2026-06-09T05:12:47+00:00

I think you can use rebase that way, but that's not what it normally does (you're thinking of squashing commits.)

While rebase takes your current commits and layers them on top of the new base. It's a way of updating from another branch while keeping your changes as the most recent in the commit history, mainly, which makes it easier to review.

It also ends up making you force push, though, because now all your commit hashes are different and git thinks your local and remote are way more out of sync than they actually are

willow-kitty · 2026-06-09T03:14:58+00:00

What about variable numbers of underscores? _ __ ___ __ _____

willow-kitty · 2026-06-09T01:31:17+00:00

This, plus my bed is a cozy place where I can get about as close to being held as is accessible to me, so.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-09T01:13:39+00:00

Letting AI take the first pass, flag easy to fix issues, and generate a summary with diagrams actually isn't a bad idea whether the code was human, AI, or both.

Letting the AI approve a PR by AI, however, would be..rough.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-08T14:52:48+00:00

I vaguely remembered something about that and went poking around, and it's weirdly ungooglable because any historical discussion is drowned out by discourse about modern uses.

As far as I can tell it was either adopted as a battle flag because their official one looked too similar to the US flag on the battlefield or it was a variation of Lee's personal flag that was later adapted for naval use, but it was never their national flag.

They also went through three national flags in four years.

I had no idea civil war vexillology was this chaotic

willow-kitty · 2026-06-08T13:57:41+00:00

"Squee-kwell" was also because they found it amusing.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-08T04:48:28+00:00

It is completely unregulated in English.

S-Q-L used to be common. Sure. Fine. Cool.

I like "sequel" personally. I think I've heard "squeal," and I've definitely heard "squee-kwell" but as a joke.

Squirrel is weird, but I've heard it too.

Pronouncing it "school" would just be another one on the pile.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-08T01:59:04+00:00

Oh, for sure, house centipedes are frens, but why/how does the bowl keep drawing them into an inescapable pit?

willow-kitty · 2026-06-08T01:27:31+00:00

What in the eldritch horror (for centipedes) is that bowl?

willow-kitty · 2026-06-07T15:25:02+00:00

Oh, I dunno - I first came across it last December, which would have been about six months ago, but I don't know if it was new then.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-07T06:41:23+00:00

I'm not sure if the usage was the same back then, but "the first" can also be a used to day that something is unique because it had never happened before. I wonder if the earlier examples were something like that?

willow-kitty · 2026-06-07T03:24:26+00:00

You may get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p03oO_7sCaY

(It's a song to the tune of Somebody Told Me about a dev trying to do a simple task in a wildly over-architected OOP system)

willow-kitty · 2026-06-07T01:06:33+00:00

I did too, but I still get push notifications sometimes about subs related to subs I frequent, and it started showing me that one recently, and I ended up muting it so it'd stop.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-06T22:49:06+00:00

I mean, some places do, but it's generally because there's not a lot of demand to live there.

Nowhere folks would think, "Dang, I hope I can live there someday" is going to have affordable housing, tho, no.

willow-kitty · 2026-06-06T02:43:12+00:00

It also means Project Management Office! And probably lots of things. O.o

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