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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 16/09/2026

Okay, the breakdown *by-language* of Artificial Analysis's "Omniscience" hallucination/capability benchmark is absolutely fascinating. I feel like this is some of the first concrete evidence I've seen of my longtime lean: that the *correctness* tooling we […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

a graph of software-engineering-benchmark competence and hallucinations, by LLM model, against programming-language. There are visible 'green bands' for the rows of some languages; they are strongly correlated with the languages that provide strong, high-quality typing guarantees, strictness, and compiler guardrails. e.g. Rust and Swift carry a significant visible lead against e.g. Java and Julia.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 28/08/2026

y'all. ahhhhh it works. for extremely janky values of 'it' and 'works'

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 27/08/2026

man, I chose the most fucking insane project and I. I can't tell if i have regrets.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 27/08/2026

@manpacket hey! (omg so nice to find a Mastodon link on a maintainer's profile) I see from a few comments on issues that you've got substantial almost-landed work on a bpaf v0.10 rewrite w/ a Visitor API? I'm wondering if you could push that, even if it's not ready to tag and release yet; I […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 24/08/2026

OH: "I'm thinking about NMR. Y'know, as I often do."

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 01/08/2026

A really weird side-effect of working on what is, effectively, an optimization engine, is that so, so many algorithmic/analytic/PLT things become .... easy? (or gradual?) I get to ... say. no. No matter what, I basically always have the option of *failing*: the engine can always fall back to […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 27/07/2026

is this a compliment, or an insult, i can't tell

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 16/05/2026

@glenn_mcdonald @everynoise is Curio also dead right now? The 'Login' button seemed to have no effect on any browser/computer I tried; was really excited to try a new GM project, haha )=

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 08/05/2026

OH: “That’s like the ‘food science’ of data! You could call it ‘data science!’l

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 22/04/2026

such a showerthought but you ever think about how unproductive shouting “hear, hear!” inherently is? some other person (you nominally agree with!) is making some point, and ostensibly to help them make it, you shout *over* them to literally say to other people ‘listen to what this person is […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 13/04/2026

Дай мне a stator, and i can power the world

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 08/04/2026

“It speaks seventeen languages, badly; and is subject to gout!”

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 08/02/2026

Spent the day figuring out how to create macOS "web apps" from the command line (like old-school Fluid site-specific browsers, SSBs - accessed via the "Add to Dock" button in Safari.) Here, have my shat-out half-AI-written script for this, since I couldn't find anybody else having done this […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 29/01/2026

Also, here, have some Dog.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 29/01/2026

Okay, it's a few years old now; but this is *such* a fantastic deep-dive into reng on macOS - I'm shocked how deep @alinpanaitiu went, but more importantly, shocked how thoroughly he documented the process. What a classy fuckin' dude. Excellent read […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 27/12/2025

So, this summer, I moved back down into the city proper. Anybody in #Chicago know any good #LoganSquare accounts to follow? (also if you're around the area, poke me and let's get coffee! I need new local friends!)

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 27/12/2025

@bram hey there; just sent you an e-mail about Notion.cafe, when you've got a sec. Unsure if it fell through the cracks or something!

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 16/12/2025

@brie holy crap I thought *I* had a lot of random domains and fractured web-presence. my condolences! O_O found you via brie.dev/ok-reader, originally looking to ask: A. are you still using KOreader, and in particular, did Hardcover sufficiently […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

screenshot of a large number of tabs open to websites created by this one person

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 11/11/2025

@ivory one for the feature-requests: I'd love to see a 'jump to' hotkey with fuzzy-search, ala ⌘P in VScode / Notion, ⌘K in Discord / Beeper / Spotify / Slack, Pictured: (annoyingly) ⌘F in my beloved @things; one of the slicker/simpler implementations of the quick-picker/command-search that […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 05/11/2025

Unsure if I've even mentioned this anywhere before, but I've maintain a "Steam Curator" page for the last few years, keeping a log of how well games handle custom keyboard layouts - feel free to follow it if you want to see a note on Steam Store pages telling you whether a game's keybind […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 26/10/2025

one of my stupider pet-peeves: "what's the meta" not all strategy is *meta-game* strategy. "the meta" is only *possible* in a multiplayer game, where the balance of the characters is being continuously tweaked by upstream developers. Choosing a tool just because it's known to be strong […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 21/10/2025

regarding AWS' outages yesterady

stylized oriental greeting-card with the haiku:

it's not DNS
there's no way it's DNS
it was DNS.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 19/10/2025

hallo everyone. how is everyone this fine sunday. click reply. tell me a small thing about your life. it will make me happy. i will reward u with Dog Photo.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 08/10/2025

Fascinating. I just ran the math; and Apple's displays/devices have almost *precisely* the same "pixels-per-degree-of-visual-arc" (a much more important measurement than raw PPI.) - Pro Display XDR (at 70cm) is ~53° of visual arc; that gives it ~112 px/deg - M1 Macbook Pro at 61cm is ~31° of […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 23/09/2025

… then what the fuck is the point, Ubisoft? I despise when corporations participate in the security theatre of having "2FA", but then *requiring* some sort of strictly-less-restrictive "backup" login option. 1. if 2FA can be added … but […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

screenshot from a Ubisoft settings page, saying "Removing your phone number will deactivate 2-step verification via Authenticator app."

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 22/09/2025

What madman's idea was this, omfg. FRP in Minecraft?

an in-game screenshot of a Minecraft inventory, with a list of operators listed beside the inventory, including map, filter, logical disjunction, flip, reduce, and the like

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 18/07/2025

I miss her so stupid much.

a photograph of my Shetland Sheepdog, Lily in the sunlight in front of a window. her head is turned over her shoulder to look at the camera, with eyes slightly squinted.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 15/07/2025

Question for y'all #SystemicGames¹ folks who like multiplayer/#coop games: How do you logistically manage actually having a co-op, multiplayer playthrough of a complex video-game in your life? I've always struggled, hard, with satisfying my needs here; not only is it so hard to find people who […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 14/07/2025

I, uh, I. Own a house now. On the same day that someone important to me passed. It's … it's been a fucking weekend. A fucking month? Year???

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 16/06/2025

Man, I had a shit week. Tried to stretch outside my comfort zone in a big way; but failed myself really badly. Old trauma woke up at a crucial moment, and bit me really hard; and I think the whole thing, instead of being healing, just … doubled everything down. I’m feeling worthless in a […]

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 16/06/2025

“Stop trying to make Evanston a thing”

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 08/06/2025

I’m unreasonably fucking pissed. An r/me_irlgbt moderator banned me, and is now accusing me of being an A.I. … … … because I use fucking emdashes and ellipses. #typography #AI #nightmaretimeline

a screenshot of a Reddit-messaging thread:

v me_irlgbt @ • 1d
Hi, mod that banned you in the first place here. What
tool did you use to write your comment?
v elliottcable • 1d
Uh, my fingers, on my iPhone. Although I guess in
2025 we're past being able to prove that.
Darkest fucking timeline.
• me_irlgbt !
• 1d
Are you telling me that you're the sole human that
actually types em dashes and ellipsis characters?
••.
• elliottcable • 1m
I really shouldn't be wasting my time on this thread,
but good lord you've hit one of my biggest pet
peeves: that typing like an adult now gets you
accused of being ingenuine on the Internet.
I doubt you'll even bother to click the link, because
you've already made your judgement; but feel free to
IF and search for "—" or "..." on, say, one of my
blog-posts from like 17 years ago: https://
web.archive.org/web/20241114074522/http://
blog.elliottcable.name/posts/community.xhtml
Fucking yes, some of us absolutely have been putting
effort into using proper and semantic typography for
decades. No, Als didn't invent that. They were trained
on our data so by definition anything they do is
something that real, actual, humans, actually, do.
Anyway, all of this is beside the point, because I
actually did the thing you blocked me for doing, and
y'all actually believe that thing is ban-worthy, so
we're just wasting eachother's time - but, seriously,
emdashes do not an ML model make, thuverymuch.
Unbelievably rude.

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 08/06/2025

my phone has a “memes” folder for years, that folder has had exactly one image this is that one image.

a photo of a collie holding a flower in its mouth in such a way as to contort its doggie lips, looking very uncomfortable and awkward as dogs do.

a tumbler-style comment underneath that image says (in very microwaved, JPEG-compressed text): “gat u a flowder”

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 31/05/2025

OH: “How many non-legally-binding weddings do you think I can have before my friends will stop coming to my weddings.”

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maya @handle.invalid · 28/05/2025

i just want my post get boosted a lot so i can see my gotosocial “knows X other instances” grow

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ELLIOTTCABLE @ell.io · 18/05/2025

Tool developers. My dear loves. My wonderful creatuers. Load your config-files from: - $REPO_ROOT/.yourthing.json - no - $REPO_ROOT/.config/yourthing.json - yes At the very least, include `.config/` in the hierarchy-walking algorithm. Seriously, I am so tired of my project dir being forty […]

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