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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We may also be separated by a common llanguage—"lecturer" isn't a word that's much used in Canada. I've only encountered it as a Briticism.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

x-¹

Where I come from, that's read as "x to the [power of] minus one". "x minus one" is, well, x - 1. Not the same thing at all.

(I admit, my chances of deciphering what you meant might not have been all that high even if you'd used the correct phrasing, but without it, the chance was zero.)

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 day ago

What you're having a problem with, and what kind of trouble you're having. For instance, "My router crashes when I'm trying to update Bazzite. Help?" That way, people who actually know something about the topic are more likely to view your post.

Also, use the spacebar and don't abbreviate unnecessarily. The person who can help you might have English as their third or fourth language, and have a hard time decoding run-together gobbledegook.

Anyway, there are plenty of examples already in the community. It's often wise to check around to see how other people are doing things before you speak up.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 day ago

Thing is, it just takes one person with a spine to completely upend things if you try to do it that way. Too risky.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

They obviously need to design cleaning robots and rat-catching robots and repair robots to support the delivery robots. I mean, we could have an entire robot ecology here, living unnoticed under the city streets.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 2 days ago

Anyone else remember the export crypto nonsense with early web browsers? This is going to work about as well.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

The difference between the 65+ bracket and the 50-64 bracket in the original data is larger than the gap between 50-64 and 30-49 on every chart I've examined so far (where they're broken out by age), so the real break is at retirement. Which makes sense: retirees are less likely to be forced into proximity with LLMs whether they want to be or not. (Interestingly, the older demographics are also less likely to think they have enough control over interactions with "AI".)

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots)

Tunnels, at least in heavily populated areas. They already make pipes that should be big enough. It might require a slight redesign of the bots so that they can "climb the wall" a short distance to pass each other, and maybe extend/retract some bits depending on whether they're inside or out, but my heart would not exactly bleed over the money spent. And they'd be out of sight, out of mind most of the time for the rest of us.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I expect you'd have to start with one of those binocular magnifiers. And the smallest soldering iron tip in history.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 days ago

Is that because fingerprinting protection “works to good” or is broken? You tell me!

Speaking as a user of a different minority browser, if a check that is designed to pass ordinary human beings using ordinary browsers in a non-abusive manner blocks one instead, it's broken, and Cloudflare should be pressured to fix it.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

It's niche hardware: a smartphone in a flip-phone formfactor (with a headphone jack). Of course they're not producing them for <$100. Ars Technica costed out other phones in a similar market category ( last paragraph here ) and by that standard it's middle-priced, or a bit above.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I suspect they're jumping on your use of the word "retarded", since some see using it as an insult as a slur against people with intellectual disabilities. (They also can't spell "casually" and substituted a word with quite a different meaning, which makes it even tougher to decode what they're saying.)

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