Journalists: LLMs will replace us! Oh noes! What will we do without humans in the loop to ensure fact checking and quality journalism?
Also journalists: This is a propeller
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I just checked the date. Itโs the 11097th of September, 1993.
If you get this, you are fucking old. I, for one, am still waiting form my 20th birthday.
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We are rushing headlong into technodickensianism.
This is not the future we thought we were building in the 90s tech industry. We thought we were going to help people. What we built could have been used to help people, but itโs not. Itโs being used as a misery amplifier on a massive scale.
Iโm so sorry.
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I got a career out of it so at one level I guess I shouldn't complain.
@FeralRobots I was 21 and being "on the grid" meant using payphone, realistically. The internet at that point was pre google, and the idea of just being able to use a satellite navigation system, text messaging and email when out and about seemed utterly transformative.
I was naive.
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I pay a small fortune to streaming services and thereโs nothing fucking on.
Iโd pirate something, but โฆ thereโs nothing fucking on.
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Slow Horses on Apple
Fargo s5 on Prime
Percy Jackson on Disney
Kin and The Tourist on iplayer
True Detective s4 just started this week and looks very promising
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Boeing seeks Ryanair support with checks after mid-air blowout
Asked in an interview with the BBC if he had complete confidence in Boeing's quality control processes after the incident which saw a part of the aircraft's fuselage fall off, the Ryanair boss said "no".
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Boeing seeks Ryanair support with checks after mid-air blowout
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary told the BBC that it was asked to send engineers to oversee quality checks.By Katy Austin (BBC News)
โWe are definitely not invading Ukraine, troop buildup is training exerciseโ - Putin
โThere will be no whitewash at the White Houseโ - Nixon
โiOS will automatically be upgraded tonightโ - my iPhone.
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This was me until I bit the bullet and gave it all away.
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One disadvantage of having bsky integrated into my feed is that siteโs propensity to have a Normal One.
Muuuuum (casts eye towards urn with mum in), theyโre doing it again!
Some months ago, I asked about trans women who were long term post op and who have had dental implants with bone regeneration.
I am pleased to report that at my 3 1/2 month appointment to place the healing abutment, I have had more than satisfactory levels of bone regeneration. The procedure worked really well!
2mg estradiol, oral, twice daily, FWIW. I also supplement vitamin D3.
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This is what I look like after a max strength shot of espresso at 22:30
Itโs just possible that I have ADHD, you guys.
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FAA has grounded all 737-Max9 aircraft.
India has just grounded all 737-Max8s. They donโt even have the door plugs.
I think right now if I was booking a RyanAir flight Iโd check if had 33 rows.
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@llwynog
I have the same experience when it comes to clothes and textiles from the parents' or grandparents' generation:
clearing out my parents' house I remember handling old clothes (coats, blouses, shoes, gloves and scarves), and the realization on the first touch:
"Wow, this such a great, thick and built-to-last quality of textile!"
This was clothing that was 50 to 80 years old.
I wasnt used to feeling that kind of quality in my clothes lifetime. Mindboggling. Sad.
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I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! Speech from Network (1976)
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar...YouTube
Apparently some F16s are late on their way to Ukraine?
Have they tried the afterburner? Might help.
@geekylou :transgender_flag: that happened to me in the Caribbean last month (minus the afterburner. A330s donโt have those)
Bit of a nuisance.
So, out of interest (I drive a Nissan Leaf, which is in many ways my ideal car, but theyโre EOL), what car is available today that satisfies the following:
Battery EV
Not an iPad/SUV crossover
Hatchback with decent boot space (previous comment about not an SUV still applies)
Intelligent cruise control with lane following
If Nissan updated the Leaf to have CCS2 and an actively cooled battery, it would be just perfect IMO, but instead they scrapped it and replaced it with the Ariya, which is an SUV/iPad crossover and they broke one of the Leafโs best features (e-pedal) in the process too.
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Dear Boeing,
I travel on your planes quite a bit. Please stop making them like they're Teslas.
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Don't think so. The ergonomic engineering of controls in cars is one of those things that looks seemless, but is the result of lots of design expertise. The controls themselves are quite expensive because they have to work reliably in temperature and environmental extremes. Sticking an iPad on the dashboard is relatively inexpensive. It is also a safety nightmare, but hey its so cool ๐.
@chris @mastodonmigration
I reckon touch-only is cheaper nowadays. Touchscreens are cheap commodity items, note that the CPU behind them is nearly always underpowered and the UI poor, the assembly cost is less than lots of buttons, and it's identical for all versions regardless of features.
Hyundai's design team have stated that they plan to stick with buttons. But they don't really have a Leaf-sized hatchback (maybe Ionic 5, but I think it's bigger, and the looks will be marmite)
Conversation with the wife now about why the angry Christian types donโt froth about Dan Simmonsโ Hyperion/Endymion series.
I mean, itโs literally about the second coming of Christ, sent by god to die a horrible death so that humanity can be redeemed, only god is us, if we heed the message, sending said sacrifice back through time, and sheโs a teenage girl because apparently the carpenter from Nazareth had one job (apart from the carpentry gig), which he fucked up, so sheโs sent to do it properly, and itโs the Catholic Church which tortures her to death this time round.
Anyway, the conclusion was that they arenโt upset because the books are longer than their attention spans.
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Welcome, once again, to, โI see most Reddit mods are frustrated wannabe global dictator arseholesโ day.
Wasnโt even me this time. Iโm annoyed on behalf of someone else who fell foul of โposted with vowels on the first Tuesday of the year, which IS CLEARLY against subreddit rule 53 a subsection 5 clause z (revised). WILL YOU PEOPLE JUST READ THE RULES?โ
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After taking a few hours off in deference to the guilty verdict in the trial of the murderers of Briana Ghey, the UK press are once again back at it, going on about how trans women need to be banned from All The Things.
This, presumably, informed last nightโs nightmare from which I woke in a pool of sweat in which I was in the process of being beaten to death by TERFs on a train going from London to Cambridge in a near future UK.
Lovely.
Spammer just told me that I had a wonderful personality.
No I fucking do not.
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Although I have bsky integration, this post is fediverse only.
Yesterday they were being weird about mayonnaise. Today itโs the ellipsis.
I think they might need an intervention, guys.
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Randomly listening to Muse, and their weird conspiracy thing about how the "powers that be" want your "compliance".
And I find myself wondering, "comply with what?"
And honestly, the only thing I can think of is "paying taxes".
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Fell badly from my SUP yesterday. Initial tenderness in left knee which was bent at an awkward angle as I fell. Managed to paddle several more kilometres.
Later it swelled up and became agonising. Barely slept last night with the pain. Joint remains stable and able to bear load though. Got a compression bandage today. Itโs helping massively.
Dr Google suggests that this is a grade 1 MCL tear. Mild, as the joint still retains full function. It just hurts like a fucker.
Apparently it should heal in 1 to 3 weeks. Iโm hoping for 1.
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@Jack I mean, this took almost none of my body weight laterally. I was almost in freewill at the time.
And it fucked it.
That's wank, that is. Stupid quadruped joint bodged into a bipedal leg and rotated 90 degrees.
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@antranigv Hehe. Like gallons, gah.
SI is superior in every possible way. It hurts to hear people argue for anything else at this point:(
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The bit that looks like sand wasn't; the tide was in.
But it got uncomfortably shallow at points.
Oh wow! The new Friendica release now has a list of abuse reports people have submitted to my server.
And there aren't many, but the few that have been submitted are from people who so truly, madly, deeply, need to FUCK RIGHT OFF.
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What if they just wanted to be Karening through the night? I mean it was bloody xmas ๐
Please clear your browser cache or just hit STRG+F5 ๐
Normaly, when you switch to a new Release of friendica, the Browser chache gets purged.
But to a Bug, that was fixed shortly after the release, it wonยดt get get purged and you have to do it manually -.-
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@anubis2814 As others have said, you need to flush the caches. That worked in Safari.
If you have an iOS Home Screen bookmark, it needs deleting and recreating.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I'm sure the person who wrote this caption wasn't thinking of it this way, BUT:
That truck is stuck directly under the main fan blades of a high-bypass turbofan engine, which function essentially as a ducted propeller. They get rotated by a turbine in the jet exhaust and generate much more thrust than the escaping exhaust gasses themselves.
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airbreathing jet engine designed to provide thrust by driving a fan
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in reply to { id: d2718, ok: ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ } • •@d2718 Yeah, I know how a turbofan works, thanks.
Propeller is a specific thing in aviation, and that doesnโt include turbofans. It does include turboprops, which is why they have โpropโ in the name, and not โfanโ.
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