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- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 13 hours ago:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
- Comment on Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says 4 weeks ago:
Or they changed the headline and due to caches CDNs or other reasons you didn’t get the newer one.
archive.today has your original headline cached.
Thanks for posting. While it’s a needlessly provocative headline, if that’s what the article headline was, then that is what the Lemmy one should be.
- Comment on Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says 4 weeks ago:
That is odd. It’s not what I see:
- Comment on Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says 4 weeks ago:
A very poor Lemmy article headline. The linked article says “alleged” and clearly there were multiple factors involved.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 5 weeks ago:
First cousins once removed.
- Comment on Anychance all the inflation were are seeing is foreign entities ditching the dollar after seeing the state of things? 2 months ago:
Inflation has been falling for a couple years and is fairly low right now, though not as low as it was back when interest rates were zero.
statista.com/…/unadjusted-monthly-inflation-rate-…
The dollar has been fairly strong in recent years.
www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy/charts
Inflation in 2022 was likely due to price gouging with companies like Exxon Mobil reporting record or near-record profits at that time.
www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/…/gross-profit
By late 2022, companies had jacked up prices high enough that the demand curve had likely reached the “crossover” point. Since then prices and inflation have been falling back to normal.
- Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!? 3 months ago:
Plenty of adblocker extensions on iOS Safari.
For YouTube, I’d recommend Vinegar, although the more general adblockers will also work.
- Comment on Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App 4 months ago:
It’s a PR issue not a legal one.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 5 months ago:
Sometimes it’s the only option or the preferred option.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 5 months ago:
I haven’t. Maybe someday I’ll be willing to, but not today. It’s a hassle and extremely intrusive to provide my bank statement and photo ID to a company whose security I don’t trust.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 5 months ago:
That’s usually how I pay if someone requests money. Venmo is owned by PayPal but my account there works just fine.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 5 months ago:
I thought about that, but they ask for enough info that they’d be able to identify me. And then they’d probably ban me. At least right now I have the option of restoring my account, even though I have no intention of doing so.
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- Comment on Why are fuel perks at grocery stores so ubiquitous? 5 months ago:
You live in a city, but most of the store chain’s customers live in the suburbs where gas is a major expense and fuel perks are a big incentive to shop at a particular store.
The store isn’t trying to promote fossil fuels. They only care about customer loyalty. Besides (they might rationalize), their customers have to buy gas somewhere so why not from us?
- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 5 months ago:
The Fisker Ocean has solar panels on its roof. It can add 4 or 5 miles a day if fully exposed to the sun.
Not enough to matter. It’s a gimmick.
If you don’t have an EV, you may think that EV owners are worried about range, and they’d welcome any increase. I have not found this to be true.
It’s more like having a car that starts every day with a full tank. You’re never going to burn through that in a single day. Pretty soon you don’t care about range, efficiency, or pay much attention to the battery meter. It only matters if you’re on a road trip, which for me is a couple times a year.
I would not want to give up a nice full-roof sunroof for a few extra miles a day.
- Comment on The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones. 5 months ago:
Any USB-C headphones work.
- Comment on The Flaws that Allow Hackers to Remotely Access Cars 6 months ago:
This report is from 2016. It’s mainly of historical interest.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 6 months ago:
All Mac laptops do. And my work Windows PC looks like it has one but the company was too cheap to pay for it, so all it has is a spot that looks like a fingerprint sensor.
- Comment on For whatever reason, James Harden contests his teammate's shot attempt 🤷🏻♂️ 8 months ago:
When you’re playing the Blazers you can kinda sleepwalk through it.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 8 months ago:
This doesn’t sound like a serious problem for a company like Google. They can afford to solve it by brute force — just put a Wi-Fi hotspot in every single room.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Strange when the party receiving the “commission” gets to dictate the terms of that commission.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
The Tesla chargers – do they live up to their reputation for being reliable? Or are they also unreliable, but Tesla puts so many chargers at each location that you can always find a working one?
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
From what I’ve heard that’s not true of Tesla though. My car will be able to use their superchargers starting next year. I hope they remain reliable.
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- Comment on Is there any free to use AI that accepts images and can talk about them? 1 year ago:
Google Bard can do this. I showed it a picture of my garage and asked for suggestions on how to organize it better.
Note that it will not work with images that contain people.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Is that basically the premise of NixOS?
- Comment on Why is there always that one part of an urban neighborhood where the 5G cell coverage suddenly ceases to exist, even though you can clearly see a tower nearby? 1 year ago:
You may be thinking of ultra-wideband, a very fast but extremely rare variant of 5G that only works over short ranges and requires you to be in sight of the transmitter. This is available in some parts of some stadiums, although Verizon tries hard to make it seem like it’s everywhere.
Normal 5G, such as the midband frequencies that T-Mobile often uses, covers a several-mile radius.
- Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse 1 year ago:
There is a privacy and tracking concern with loading images from 3rd-party hosts vs lemm.ee hosting or re-hosting them.
- Comment on Why don't we strap a GoPro to the moon lander? 1 year ago:
NASA does this. Looking at the metadata from last year’s moon orbiter photos (like this one), it was shot on a GoPro HERO4 Black. Here NASA scientists talk about the cameras on that mission.
