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mansr, (edited ) to random
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What does the colour red signify?

geert,
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@mansr Probably the former, as the latter do no use British Spelling.

mansr, to random
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How would people feel about rich twats having private trains for travelling comfortably across their continent of choice?

geert,
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@mansr Like Putin's and Kim's trains?

mansr, to random
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Could it be that people no longer know how to craft good search queries?

geert,
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@attilakinali @mansr Hence the search engines are starting to use "AI" to interpret queries, breaking the experience for people who know how computers work (too)?

mansr, to random
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Instead of banning Tiktok, which is difficult to do legally speaking, why don't they simply ban vertical videos instead? Much easier to enforce, and it would get rid of all the clones too.

geert,
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@mansr Or make rotary dials mandatory on phones again?

mansr, to random
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Sometimes I wonder how their recommendation algorithm works.

geert,
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@mansr What did you order? Oil lanterns for a wand closet?

mansr, to random
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People keep complaining that it's harder to find things online now than 20 years ago. Do any of them stop to think about how much harder it is to make a search engine now than 20 years ago? Unlikely.

geert,
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@attilakinali @mansr "The good old days of altavista", when the complete index of the contemporary Internet fitted in the 14 GiB of RAM of a maxed-out DEC Alpha server...

mansr, (edited ) to random
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Is anyone keeping a list of stupid things the Google AI suggests?

Off the top of my head (with additions from replies):

  • Throwing car batteries in the sea (recharges the electric eels)
  • Putting glue in pizza sauce to keep the cheese from falling off
  • Eating rocks for their mineral content
  • "Squat plug" for weight lifting
  • Cooking spaghetti in gasoline
  • Cooking chicken at 38 °C
  • Snake fights at thesis defences

There must be more.

geert,
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@mansr The Darwin Awards are dead. Long live the AI Awards!

mansr, (edited ) to random
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If you regularly share a bed with the same person, do you always sleep on the same side?

(Sides from your point of view facing the ceiling.)

geert,
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@flameeyes @mansr And I always pick the non-window side ;-)

geert,
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@mansr @flameeyes Who would want to sleep on the wrong side of history?

bagder, to random
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This box landed on my doorstep. The up 2024 preparations continue!

geert,
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@bagder Are there hidden gimmicks, to be enabled by soldering components?

mansr, to random
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bitrate: speed of data transfer
nitrate: louse eggs per unit time
titrate: porniness of a film

geert,
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@mansr @tbr hitrate: Purple Disco Machine at his best

geert,
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@mansr @tbr karate: Half-life of a banana

JoeRess, to random
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Everyone said get a Brother printer so I bought a 3-in-1 scanner and printer. There seems to be something wrong with it though. I plugged it into a Linux laptop, opened a document, pressed print, selected the printer, and it printed. Then I opened simple-scan, pressed scan, and it scanned.

This isn't how printers and scanners are supposed to work. Where do I install the drivers that don't work properly etc? This was no fun. I demand a refund.

geert,
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@mansr @JoeRess Cophy maker, I guess.

mansr, to random
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Happy DOS filename day, everyone.

geert,
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@mansr I assume you are celebrating that CP/M was released about 50 years ago?

revk, (edited ) to random
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I have tried to explain some of the issues with and time_t. And some about

https://www.revk.uk/2024/03/2038.html

I mean, maybe boost it a bit if people need to know this shit?!

geert,
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@gsuberland @revk Does your device need secure communication? Encryption, authentication, ...

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