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Also since companies are adding AI to everything, sometimes when you think you’re just doing a digital zoom you’re actually getting AI upscaling.

There was a court case not long ago where the prosecution wasn’t allowed to pinch-to-zoom evidence photos on an iPad for the jury, because the zoom algorithm creates new information that wasn’t there.

I bet a lot more people know what 0°C feels like than 0°F. One is freezing point, one is a completely arbitrary temperature which only gets called “the lowest you’ll experience” as a post hoc rationalisation of Fahrenheit. Most people will never experience anything that cold, some people experience colder.

I even bet more people know what 100°C feels like than 100°F. One is accidentally getting scalded by boiling water, the other is a completely arbitrary temperature which is quite hot but not even the hottest you’ll experience in America.

Yeah, like who needs to tell quickly whether road conditions will be icy? It’s much more useful to know how much warmer it is than the arbitrary temperature Americans say is the lowest you can survive

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The DiCaprio thing is funny.

In the 80s or 90s everyone knew that a movie star having a series of young starlet girlfriends meant they’re gay. They get a beard to cover their sexuality and the girlfriend gets exposure from having a famous boyfriend. They split up because it’s obviously not a real relationship, and the studio finds some new actress to link him to.

But being gay got so much more acceptable recently that people don’t understand being closeted any more. So they think DiCaprio is a dirty old man who will only date 22 year olds.

I wonder what people think of me calling stuff “wicked”, which I started saying because of Richard Blackwood’s song “1.2.3.4 Get with the Wicked” in the year 2000

Never seen anyone else mention this, but when I click a post on page 2 then go back, it shows the page 1 posts again. But because the URL is set up for page 2, clicking next goes to page 3. If I don’t concentrate I end up reading one post from each page and missing 90% of my feed.

It’s fun to compare the comments on this story to the ones about France banning various kinds of clothing!

But then I don’t get why they never ask me for money? When I get through to the scammer they just ask what I want. I’ll say “they said something about me owing money”, and they act like they don’t know what I’m talking about and get annoyed with me for wasting their time.

If the deal is “they take your money and will never get in trouble” then what’s the downside to just running the script on everyone who calls?

Been thinking about it and my theory is it’s a plausible deniability thing.

Company A runs the robocaller which says “You owe $250”, then forwards the call to Company B. They ask what you want and you say “I need to make a payment of $250”. If you say anything else they pretend they don’t know what you mean. Company B can record their calls and prove they never asked anyone for money, it all came from people volunteering to pay. They might have to return it but they can act like it’s an honest mistake.

I don’t get how scams work. Every time I get a scam call I stay on the line or press 1 or whatever to find out what the scam is, but no one ever tries to scam me. They just act like a normal business till I hang up. Can they tell by your voice you aren’t gullible or something?

It was always going to work, it’s kind of weird everyone expected it to backfire. There was never going to be a mass boycott because normal people don’t see “you have to pay for it to use it” as particularly unreasonable.

Say I shared my account with 4 other people. Even if all 4 decide not to sign up, Netflix don’t lose anything and they save 80% of their server costs. They only lose money if I quit as well, and why would I when I’m getting the same service for the same price.

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English is easier. So the spelling is irregular, so what. You’ll be bad at spelling for a while. It’s just not comparable to having to memorize arbitrary gender for every noun in the language, learn complex verb conjugations, polite and impolite forms and make every verb and adjective agree with the nouns in gender and number.