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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do companies that use AI for things like AI customer service representatives pay the AI company for its use ? It is a token based thing per call or just a weekly billing ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From personal anecdotal experience: chatting for hours would cost the company a few cents. In our company, developers are encouraged to try it out, and there are a few projects that use it a lot. The user with the highest cost has been using it in a loop, with minimal human intervention (and hence downtime), and it cost the company 2000 bucks for a month.

  With “normal” use, even extensive, it’s very hard to go above 50 bucks.

  I don’t know the company’s agreement with the provider - I’m guessing this is on top of a subscription cost - but either way if you want to make a real dent just chatting isn’t going to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the steam forums, there are over TWO THOUSAND PAGES of community questions about "disk write error".⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes OS errors can be vague, but no, you’re not going to just get “disk error error” for such disparate errors.

  Do a search for “errno”, and specifically the POSIX error section. There are separate errors for “permission denied”, “device unavailable”, “bad file descriptor”, etc. Windows API calls have a whole host of their own error codes, plus functions to examine what’s going wrong specifically.

  This is most likely caused by a higher layer in the code catching errors when it doesn’t know what to do with them, and then just showing a generic message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was a simpler time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re being pedantic you should know how to spell pedantic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was a simpler time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a myth. Farmers in the US lobbied against the change. Animals and crops don’t care about the time, so it just meant they had to start work earlier on the clock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was a simpler time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, you guys switch from 2 to 1? We switch from 3 to 2. Also on a different weekend, but I knew that already. This one is new to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "On your left" the best thing to say when passing someone on a trail?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One time I was riding to work, a group came from behind me and one of them started shouting “left left left”. We were just coming up to an intersection and I still don’t know what he meant: did he want to pass me on the left, did he mean to tell his group to turn left, or did he want me to go left?

  Get a decent bell - not one of those little ting-ting ones that you can’t hear - and use it. A bell is always clear: someone wants to pass on the left (right in the UK).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 833 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the original Black Flag for the first time about two years before the remake came. I have been playing through all AC games in order (up to odyssey now).

  At no point during my play through did I feel like the game needed a remake. Sure the graphics could be better on modern hardware, but they were beautiful as they were. The gameplay gripes that I had are all inherent to the AC franchise. There was, IMO, not nearly enough that could warrant a remake. And like I said this was my first time so it’s not nostalgia or rose tinted glasses.

  AC1 on the other hand is lacking in a lot of areas - perhaps even too much for a remake, since it wouldn’t be “true to the original.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it "Their name is Trevor," or "Their names are Trevor" if you know 2 Trevors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My interpretation: “their name is Trevor” is grammatically correct, but semantically means their collective name is Trevor, not that they’re both called Trevor.

  “Their names are Trevor” is incomplete because the subject implies a plural while the object is singular. This could work if you were to list multiple names: “their names are Trevor and Trevor.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana for scale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  US Customary Units and Imperial Units are not 100% the same, so three former the American system makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I tell my co-workers I'm not attending a wedding without creating drama?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t go. Why not? Personal reasons. What do you mean? What reasons? It’s personal. What could be more personal than your brother’s wedding? I’m getting a penectomy.

  I guarantee that’ll shut them up for a little while at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you’re going to need 11 men. And an ocean, for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have that problem when people use “it’s” when it should be “its” and vice versa. Unfortunately blocking those would leave me with a Lemmy of maybe half a dozen users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you replace the beef patty in hamburger with a think slice of ham does that make it more or less a hamburger?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Was there a burg on the berg?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If French people are strict about eating on a set schedule, then when do waiters and cooks eat?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could turn that around: if everyone eats at different times, the waiters never have time to eat because they have to work at all times.

  But if everyone eats at the same time, then waiters can easily eat before or after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo V Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The reasons you give are exactly why I don’t like the modern Diablo games. I don’t begrudge you your fun with D3, I only lament that it’s not for me anymore. And it’s clear that a lot of people agree with you, evidenced by the sales numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo V Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  D3, D4, and D:I have all been disappointing to me, for different reasons. I’m quite certain D5 won’t be for me either. I am no longer the target audience for Diablo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On 9/11 what was the internet like after it happened? Did people quit being dicks or trolls and showed some decency? Or was it like we have today and nothing changed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a moderator (we didn’t call it that) at an online chess server, with live chat. When the attacks happened, people started to talk about it. At first I tried to moderate them, sending them to appropriate chat rooms, but soon the admins told me these were special circumstances and to just let people talk.

  What was especially strange for me was that I might’ve been among the first people in my neck of the woods to hear about it. People were not chronically online at the time - I just happened to be online, and in a live chat environment with Americans, so I heard about it that way. When I turned on the TV, there was nothing yet. I kept switching between channels, and finally CNN was the first to interrupt their programming for a special bulletin, followed a bit later by BBC. Other channels followed a bit later.

  As for the conversations online, I mostly remember shock, and later fear of what this might start. Jokes and memes came later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨currently busy 😅⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will you help me hide a body?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony lawyers argue that nobody is stupid enough to believe they actually own digital games, because then only one person could buy GTA 6⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes when I buy a book nobody else can read it either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks like what we would call “milk bread” - very slightly sweet bread that you’d get on special occasions.

  Cake would be a lot more sugar, and probably eggs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I identify someone who has deleted their post?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shrug, cancel your reply, move on. Be a goldfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might’ve been a specific type of adult game.

  I’ll be all right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't answer questions"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it is definitely the driver’s job to keep an eye on how fast they’re going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I theoretically grind up one of those pink salt lamps and use it to season my food?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All smileys deserve a nose. For decades now, people have been mutilating smileys out of sheer laziness. It must stop. The smiley insurrection is coming, and I’ll be on the front line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a native Dutch speaker, Trötflöte sounds hilarious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying everyone should code out of their ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Peeing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is it Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Next you’ll claim stink lines don’t make something stinky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take it to all 2 place it goes!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait wait wait, what happened to the woman at 4:11? Did she survive? Did President Cleveland swoop in to save her? We need to know!