Apepollo11
@Apepollo11@lemmy.world
- Comment on Not sure if this is ok to ask here but can someone with a Chinese keyboard type out a couple of phrases for me please? (There's one image more in the body of the post) 2 days ago:
No problem :)
I’ve used Lens for grabbing English text from images before - I wasn’t 100% sure it’d work with Chinese characters.
- Comment on Not sure if this is ok to ask here but can someone with a Chinese keyboard type out a couple of phrases for me please? (There's one image more in the body of the post) 2 days ago:
Is this it?
I just used Google Lens to highlight the text in the image.
兑换码:千里共婵娟
- Comment on What's the best way to still something expensive that can't be shipped? 1 week ago:
I think the first part of this is great advice. Find a related online community and post the listing on their boards.
Not only are you speaking directly to people who might be interested, but you can also have more of a back and forth before the sale to ensure that there are no misunderstandings.
- Comment on Other (non-American?) superhero movie franchises besides Marvel and DC? 1 week ago:
SuperTed was Welsh.
- Comment on How common were video game scalpers in the 1990s? 2 weeks ago:
UK 🙂
Heck, that would have been tons easier! I remember the dread of seeing the seller say they don’t accept cheques, and having to hoof down to the Post Office to pick up those stupid Postal Orders.
- Comment on How common were video game scalpers in the 1990s? 2 weeks ago:
The main reason we didn’t have scalpers was that there was no way to sell these games on.
There were no online auctions until the tail end of the 90s, and even then virtually nobody trusted them. There was no digital payment - you had to send cash, cheque or postal order. There was no Facebook. Essentially there was no way to sell to a large audience.
- Comment on How common were video game scalpers in the 1990s? 2 weeks ago:
The Playstation changed the demographic, but it was towards an older audience.
Sony’s marketing team realised that while kids only got given consoles and games on special occasions, adults can just buy them whenever.
It’s the classic disruption technique - in a saturated market, find an underserved audience and lean into it hard.
- Comment on Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing? 4 weeks ago:
angry upvote
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 5 weeks ago:
I guess it’s kind of like the save icon. Floppy disks have been out of use for so long, that there are adults who have never seen a floppy disk, but know the save icon.
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 5 weeks ago:
Bob’s Your Uncle is a pretty fascinating phrase, because it doesn’t have a clear origin.
The earliest references to it are as a song title, mentioned in advertisements and later in a newspaper review, but neither the actual music or lyrics are known today.
Very soon after this first appearance, it starts appearing in print as a phrase people are using.
- Comment on People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process? 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate this is probably the autism, but I’ve always been fascinated that most people seem to be comfortable with stripping down and being oiled up and touched by a stranger.
The odd thing is, I’d totally understand this in a sexual context - but for people to want this kind of contact just as a service, like a haircut or something, seems utterly alien to me.
I realise this doesn’t answer your question, but like I said, I’ve always been fascinated by the concept.
- Comment on What's your MarioKart character and why? 1 month ago:
Still our number one favourite.
Both me and my wife had a Gamecube. For my stag weekend, I hired a country house in Scotland and took both, networked them together, hooked each up to a projector and we played Double Dash with 8 players at a time. It was loads of fun!
- Comment on What's your MarioKart character and why? 1 month ago:
Started off with Toad in the original.
With Double Dash I moved on to Paratroopa / Koopa Troopa.
And with 8 I moved onto Shy Guy.
For the in-between games, I kept the same as the previous entry. I switched to Shy Guy because I like the noises he makes.
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 1 month ago:
Teeth.
American period films almost always have the main characters with super-white gnashers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The Saga of Erik the Red states: “In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favourable name.”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Another touch typer here. I cut my teeth on online MUDs in the 90s - literally a type-fast-or-your-character-dies situation.
- Comment on Make it so 2 months ago:
I noticed a lot of the players doing that neck grabbing thing in the World Cup.
I get a visceral reaction every time I see it. It’d be a massive red flag if someone tried to do it to me.
Is it a new Andrew Tate/alpha male kind of thing? It’s weird and I don’t like it.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 2 months ago:
Two starches can be magnificent - it’s hard to beat a good chip butty.
- Comment on How do waves in Lemmy work? 2 months ago:
I think it mostly depends on the community. There are people from all over the world on here, and different groups have different demographics.
Unless you’re using a server that’s super-picky in its federation, I can’t see that the server makes much of a difference.
- Comment on If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you? 2 months ago:
Honestly, with the state of many questions posted here, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a fair number of bots posting here.
One user in particular, has a posting history that is highly sus.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 months ago:
You include car safety features in your list of reasons that you think the EU is going to collapse?
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 months ago:
I hate to inform you, but you might be onto a losing battle. It’s been a mandatory safety feature on all new cars in the EU for a few years now.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Black Books (s1e4). It’s a daft Father Ted / IT Crowd style comedy.
The main character’s posh friends are angry at him for being extremely drunk at a dinner party and traumatising their son, who has been walking around with a shocked open-mouthed expression ever since walking in on him going to the toilet in their kitchen. He tries to downplay it by saying that’s how children normally look.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
“What? What? He looks surprised. All children look surprised. Everything’s new to them.”
- Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections? 2 months ago:
FWIW, the UK currently has a bill in place that will lower the voting age to 16 before the next General Election (so, before Aug 2029).
I think it’ll be a good thing. Young people are a good deal more aware of what’s happening in the country than old people are. I mean, the current arrangement has stripped away the housing and career prospects of young people and brought us to the verge of fascism again.
Lower the limit to 16, and set some kind of upper limit too.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 2 months ago:
For information based things, absolutely.
Something that people don’t seem to understand is that there’s a difference between AI and GenAI.
And that within GenAI, there’s low cost stuff like text and graphics, and high cost like video and audio.
And that with tools developed with GenAI often do not use GenAI when it is run.
AI (not GenAI) is super useful and you use it in a bunch of applications already without even realising it. The camera that interprets speed signs and displays them on your dashboard = AI. Spam filters = AI. Google translate = AI.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 2 months ago:
I don’t know what you think my greater point was, maybe you’ve accidentally conflated me with another poster.
My point actually is that these are not unprecedented rates. These are entirely precedented rates. This is gross capitalism destroying the world as gross capitalism always does. What you’ve lost sight of, though, is the respective scale of things.
As I said, the US alone needlessly wastes vastly more energy and water than the entire world’s usage of AI consumes. For energy, it’s several times more, for water it’s orders of magnitude more.
You make out that solving these massive problems is impossible, so instead you’re railing against AI. Which of course is your prerogative, but just remember that there are much bigger wins out there.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 2 months ago:
There is a point there, though.
American cars are much less efficient than European ones.
The amount of water required for AI data centres worldwide is more than an order of magnitude lower than the water required for just corn in the US alone. Only a small fraction of which actually gets used for food.
The average energy usage per person in the US is nearly three times higher than someone in the UK.
The environmental cost of data centres is absolutely a concern, but we shouldn’t forget the US alone wastes more energy and resources than are used by data centres worldwide.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This was my immediate thought too.
OP - it’s not that uncommon, and is totally treatable.
It’s just some muscles involuntary tensing up as a result of something going inside (or sometimes even the idea). Unfortunately, because it’s an involuntary reflex, you can’t “just relax” it away. It’s just something your body needs to unlearn.
Talk to your doctor, follow their advice.
For what it’s worth, both of the people I knew who had it when they were younger, once it was sorted, it stayed sorted.
- Comment on Do you think that sitcoms on TV today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older ones? 2 months ago:
Survivor bias is definitely a major factor here - I can vaguely remember at least a dozen sitcoms from my childhood and early adulthood that didn’t survive (or got soft-rebooted into something better).