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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • I was 11, and handled the ‘samples’ at a BNFL booth (at an airshow) where a geiger counter was set up, it wasn’t til the demonstration guy returned and demonstrated to someone else how the coin-sized samples set off the counter that I realised it wasn’t a ‘self service’ type demonstration. The samples were labelled with their atomic symbol, and the most reactive samples were labelled as uranium (about 20mm diameter) and plutonium (about 5mm diameter). At the time I told myself they were likely fake, since leaving a plutonium sample lying around wouldn’t be very likely.

    I’ve not died of radiation poisoning or cancer yet, but it’s only been 41 years.






  • Replying to this not because I believe you’ll need to know, but because others might see your comment and wonder…

    Anyone can get a GPT 3.5 API key now, you don’t need to have a subscription.

    This coupled with sgpt gives a nice command line interface to GPT, and a way to get GPT to generate the right (sometimes, anyway) shell commands for what you want to do. I use alias ask="sgpt --chat temp " to give me the ability to ask general one-line questions from GPT, or you can use ask --shell and it’ll ask about a shell command, then offer to execute it after showing you the command generated.