LovableSidekick

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

The main point is that these interactions happen much less often IRL than online, where the anger trolls post relentlessly. If they acted like that in person almost nobody would ever talk to them, but for some weird reason they get a lot of takers online.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

And Gloucestershire sounds like Glousteshire.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

In his comments on the Jeeves & Wooster series Stephen Fry talked a bit about English family names. Among others, he said Mainwaring is pronounced "Mannering", and Cholmondeley is "Chumley".

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Same here. One of my favorite bit-part actors is Siobhan Fallon, who played the wife of "Egger" in Men in Black. She absolutely stole the few scenes she was in. I didn't know I was mispronouncing her name for years.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Just mentioned this in another thread - Kraken. I say it phonetically - "krayken - but for some reason the world says "cracken".

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

People who naievely pipe AI output directly to end users are ignoring the fundamental principle that writers need editors. AI isn't at fault any more than a junior copywriter would be at fault for screwing up. In both cases their job is to produce rough copy which an editor is supposed to make a pass over. The problem lies with the management decision to remove the human editor from the process.

Mediocre managers have always looked for magic bullets to fix problems they aren't smart enough to handle. They'll bring in consultants who give a seminar and leave a set of binders behind, and say do everything this way now, believing the sales pitch that said it would revolutionize the whole department. These same talentless managers are embracing AI with the same false hopes and implementing it just as clumsily.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I think that's ths slur of familiarity, like how people in New Orleans call it "norlans".

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Carpentry guru Norm Abrams always says "draw" too. "Let's see how the draws fit..."

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I pronounce Kraken phonetically - "krayken" - but the world seems to prefer "cracken".

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah a lot of people in this thread seem to be comparing their personal good ol' days with now, rather than thinking broader.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Without elaboration all you're saying is smart phones are poopy.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

A few technological aspects of life are incredibly easier and more accessible. We have instant access to any form of information, from porn to encyclopedia articles. Comparing prices and ordering things - commonly called "mail order" 30 years ago - took weeks compared to a couple days now. Communication is far easier and cheaper - talking between San Francisco and Stockholm or Singapore would have cost several dollars per minute 30 years ago, and now it's a built-in feature of network access. Most of us have in our pockets a telephone, photo/video camera, advanced computer, entertainment and game console. There have also been some notable medical advances - my friend died from leukemia in the 90s, and it's very treatable now, along with various kinds of tumors.

 

This seems dumb to me. When people said they saw a tweet you knew it was from Twitter - instant brand recognition. A "post" could be from anywhere. Throwing away that distinctive identification seems stupid to me.

 

Typical pattern: "Scientists find something strange when they look at a common whatever - and it's not good!"

This kind of crap used to be the style of little blurbs at the side or the bottom of an article, but it's in the headlines now. Until you click the headline you don't even really know what the article is about anymore - just the general topic area, with maybe a fear trigger.

Clicking on the headline is going to display ads, but at that point the goal isn't to get you to buy anything yet, it's just to generate ad impressions, which the content provider gets paid for regardless of whether you even see the ads. It's a weird meta-revenue created by the delivery mechanism, and it has altered the substance of headlines, and our expectations of what "headline" even means.

 

Dunno what made me think of this just now. When I worked for IT in a school district way back in the 90s, a librarian told me she kept a supply of mouse balls in her desk because kids would steal them out of the school computers. What I remember about those balls was they picked up dust and crud off surfaces. Pretty soon optical mice came along and they were history.

 

No idea how I got there but somehow I saw this post somehow on sh.itjust.works, about a prefab house that was found floating in the Pacific. I wanted to comment but the only login I have is on lemmy.world. Notice the post is from The Picard Maneuver, whose posts I've seen many times, and it says lemmy.world above their name.

Lemmy.world has a whitepeopletwitter community but the newest post is 2 months old. This one is from 10 hours ago. Search on the lemmy.world main page for "Minding" turns up a bunch of posts going back months, but this one isn't there.

I thought I understood how federation works but I'm stumped. Is this really a lemmy.world post? If not, what does the presence of "lemmy.world" on it indicate?

 

Seems to go way back to the B&W movie era - men in tuxedos, women in evening gowns and boas - glamorous socialites dressed to the nines, watching a couple buys beat each other up. Sometimes the MC is in a tux. I don't get how that whole package goes together.

 

American here. Granted, the tea stands on its own merit. But if not for TNG I probably would still be drinking standard Lipton like my parents did.

 

[SOLVED] - thanks to !DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com

When I was using Windows, by holding down the Alt key I could highlight words in the text of a link the same way as in normal text, and then press Ctrl-C to copy.

On Mint, holding down the Alt key puts the cursor in a repositioning mode (a cross made of arrows) that drags the current window around. This happens identically in Chrome and Firefox.

How do you copy some words from link text?

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