NeatNit

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago (14 children)

I once went to an Ethiopian restaurant with my family. Never again.

I can't even describe it, but whatever evil concoction they call their version of bread is easily the worst thing I ever attempted to eat.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago

I never tried to use it but this tracks with what I've heard. This blog post is worth sharing: https://www.andrewt.net/blog/vim/index.html (Vim must die and Emacs must not take its place)

Relevant excerpt:

Emacs is a sort of medium-sized operating system in which an enterprising user could, in theory, build a text editor.

I can't recommend enough that everyone read this post, it's great. Funnily enough, it seems that Microsoft of all companies did eventually make the terminal editor he was wishing for: https://github.com/microsoft/edit

He (Andrew T) shared this new development on Mastodon a couple of months ago but I can't find that post too easily. Maybe I'll ask him to append a note about MS edit to the post.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago

I'm guessing (not sure) that AltGr, visible in the picture, switches between the two options like Shift would. Shift still switches case.

I think the main reason they didn't make an umlaut modifier is that ä is considered a distinct letter from a. It would be like asking why have a key for w ("double u") when it could have been typed as uu. Not a perfect analogy but the best I can think of right now.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago

Either that or he's a follower of Hank Green: https://youtu.be/-C3lR3pczjo (plus a few more of his recent videos)

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I also think it might as well be a standard feature these days, but honestly I have no idea how often in-game voice chat is used. Personally, if I'm playing anything online it's only with my friends and we'd be on a Discord voice call. So the game really isn't in the loop there. But obviously this isn't the case described here.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 days ago

Regarding point 1, QI once mentioned this. I tried to find it on YouTube but couldn't. Basically they said that even for humans, pulling the pin out with your teeth isn't really feasible, it requires too much force and your teeth/jaw can't handle it.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So the game does real time speech to text? Sweet.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 days ago

You know what, you're right, framing it as a "scientific discovery" isn't cool.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 4 days ago (11 children)

All I'll say is cats meow at humans and they don't meow at other cats except their own mom. To me this instantly defeats this take.

It's just a fun post though so I'm not judging.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IIRC this was kind of the dream of either Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison (I forgot which one). But no, it's not really possible, as others have said.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

I see, that's different from how I interpreted it. Thanks for clarifying.

I don't really see it that way. To me it's not downplaying anything. AI 'hallucinations' are often disastrous, and they can and do cause real harm. The use of the term in no way makes human hallucinations sound any less serious.

As a bit of a tangent, unless you experience hallucinations yourself, neither you nor I know how those people who do feel about the use of this term. If life has taught me anything, it's that they won't all have the same opinion or reaction anyway. Some would be opposed to the term being used this way, some would think it's a perfect fit and should continue. At some point, changing language to accommodate a minority viewpoint just isn't realistic.

I don't mean this as a blanket statement though, there are definitely cases where I think a certain term is bad for whatever reason and agree it should change. It's a case by case thing. The change from master to main as the default branch name in git springs to mind. In that case I actually think the term master is minimally offensive, but literally no meaning is lost if switching to main and that one is definitely not offensive so I support the switch. For 'hallucination' it's just too good of a fit, and is also IMO not offensive. Confabulation isn't quite as good.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I genuinely considered writing "confabulated" instead of "hallucinated" but decided to stick with the latter because everyone knows what it means by now. It also seems that 'hallucination' is the term of art for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)

So while I appreciate pedantry and practice it myself, I do stand by my original phrasing in this case.

 

Discovered this via Mastodon: https://leftodon.social/@ia42/111715430595737731

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CT8QicPO31pe7AX0jA4Wp
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ec05309c/podcast/rss

Interesting podcast that started after the October attack. For snippets: https://www.instagram.com/unapologetic3n/

Or https://www.youtube.com/@UnapologeticTheThirdNarrative/videos or if you don't have IG

A perspective I seriously needed to hear. It's in English.

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