When someone messages just “hello” it’s a very useful indicator. They clearly don’t value their own efficiency (as well as not valuing yours) so you can assume their job mostly involves sitting in interviews and chatting to people, and does not in fact consist of actual ‘work’

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If the 1980s means a specific decade, and the 1990s means a specific decade, what numbers mean the first 10 years of the 20th century, from 1900 to 1909?

While this ‘mistake’ is sometimes made by accident, I’m also pretty sure it’s sometimes made on purpose specifically because it really annoys 80s and 90s kids to be told they lived in the “1900s” and makes them feel ancient.

Source: am an 80s kid

12:30PM means 30 minutes after 12-noon.

Anyone saying that and meaning the middle of the night is just wrong, and if that’s a genuine thing people do it would drive me quite mad.

30 minutes after midnight is 12:30AM

“What’s this in your holster?”

“Wow, that’s a nice piece you got there”

Bro, don’t hit goats either

*can’t ;P

Edit: And now you edited it

Sharks have a completely neutral attitude to human gender and sexual orientation.

Be like a shark!

I can never understand why the tier list meme template starts at red (bad) for the best rank and goes to green (good) for the worst.

I wondered if red was being used to indicate “hotness”, but then the bad colour should be “cold” blue.

Is it just completely arbitrary? Does my life have no meaning?

Literally just “Take whatever we have, and call it a doctor playset” lol

Exactly.

In around eight years of using a dashcam I’ve needed the footage maybe three times.

Putting an SD card in my computer three times in eight years isn’t anything I could call a major inconvenience.

I bought my dad the same camera. High quality recording, dead-simple, no frills and no hassle.

“Suddenly” interests me the most. Not a condition or even a means, just a manner.

Like a catch-all for things they didn’t understand; heart attack, brain haemorrhage, things where someone’s fine one minute, and dead the next.

It’s clear what is required. There are no blockers to contribution. It’s immediately rewarding, and progress is rapid and measurable.

Just about the opposite of any other project you might be involved in

For sure yeah.

I still end up having to use ffmpeg directly (in combination with other CLI tools) because there’s always something the GUIs haven’t caught up with yet. Most recently for me it was converting animated webp’s into something I could actually work with

I find it wild there are countless “convert videos online for free!” sites on the Internet full of bonus malware which are all just thin wrappers around ffmpeg. And yet they persist because people want googleable answers to their problem which don’t need a command line or downloading anything.

Personally I’ve got a Python script which provides a slightly friendlier wrapper around ffmpeg for my common use-cases.

But honestly ffmpeg is such a beast, so much of what we use daily depends on it under the hood.

The expiry date has been a necessary and useful tool, but these dots seem like they could be a good idea if they can actually sense when spoilage happens.

Meat could have been exposed to bad conditions that makes it spoil before the expected date.

But maybe even bigger is that the date is always going to be very much on the side of caution, so it might avoid waste where people tend to bin stuff as soon as the expiry hits, even though that food may still be perfectly good.

Blocks shorts.

uBlock filters use a modified form of CSS selectors to determine what parts of a page to hide.

If you know vaguely how CSS selectors work you can infer that the filter definition is matching on youtube.com and is finding an element whose title property is shorts - so it seems to be doing an appropriate thing.

The important part is that uBlock filters are not executable; you can’t inject malicious code through one, as they are simply patterns which describe what parts of a page should be hidden, and hiding content is all they can do.

The worst that a filter could do is hide something that shouldn’t be hidden.

Because they want you to watch shorts. They know that people who watch shorts are the most brainrotted on the platform, and the ones who will keep scrolling and watching video after video, and seeing ad after ad, and those are the users YouTube wants all other users to be like.

And so they will push shorts in your face again and again no matter how much you say no, because they think eventually they’ll break you.

The close button is just a temporary placebo to make it feel like you’re the one in control.

Exactly.

LLMs are fundamentally hallucination machines, but this truth utterly conflicts with almost every purpose that AI is being marketed and pushed and sold for, which depends on them being able to analyse data ‘truthfully’ and accurately.

So it’s no wonder that none of the big tech companies have decided to consider or accept hallucinations as a problem, because accepting that truth means also admitting that LLMs are fundamentally unfit for purpose - which is the one thing they simply cannot and will not do with so much money riding on it.