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ThisIsNotHim

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  • Big Tech Is Faking AI

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  • It's also worth noting that this is famous enough that Amazon has offered a service called Mechanical Turk since 2005.

    The implementation and service are both fine in theory, but you do need to be clear that what's being paid for is humans pretending to be computers.

  • Aldi Just Announced a Major Change to Grocery Prices, Lowering Prices

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  • Slice it before you go. Are items with bread not found in picnics?

    Sandwiches are perfect for a picnic, and it's an occasion you'd want to gussy them up a bit for. Fancier bread might be the cheapest and most obvious way to do that.

  • Nature [Last Place Comics]

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  • It's still not loading for me unless I open it externally

  • How do you deal with being the only one posting in a community (aka "shouting into the void")?

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  • Part of the problem may be lack of tagging and filtering tools.

    For example:

    I'm not interested in memes so if a community is largely filled with them, my only way to avoid them may be to block the community. This includes communities that I might otherwise subscribe to, or want to engage with.

    This is also tied into community fragmentation, community discoverability, and feeling the need to browse All to see anything. I don't know how widespread my issue is, but I have seen others mentioning having extensive block lists of communities.

  • Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion.

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  • There may be an earlier version, but I know this as an old Emo Phillips joke

  • Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion.

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  • I've run into it when interacting with folks who grew up in the south. It seems moderately common there. With folks who grew up in the northeast, I haven't seen this be a thing.

  • Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

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  • Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum were both great. If you've read more of his work and have a recommendation for where to go next I'd love to hear it.

    On the topic of Italian authors, I loved Italo Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler" as well. I didn't really expect it to pay off as a cohesive work. I was mostly along for the ride and was pleasantly surprised.

  • Tbh that take isn’t that hot

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  • Slightly hotter, but still quite tame take:

    Ham is the problem with Hawaiian pizza. Pineapple is innocent.

  • A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.

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  • You've moved away from the part which specifies long-haul trucking. To my understanding this is an area where trains are a reasonable solution.

    Last mile coverage we also have room for improvement with much smaller vehicles, like bikes.

  • Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews

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  • It's a good feature, and probably makes sense to default to on. But I know I'll find it more distracting than useful, so I'll turn it off.

    Large tooltips on mouseover are usually distracting. Facicons, text, and additional windows do enough to remind me what my tabs are.

    New features often aren't helpful to each and every user, but as long as I can turn off the ones that are actively unhelpful to me, I'm perfectly happy to see them.

  • China’s Tesla-beating EV maker BYD has carmakers around the world ‘in a state of shock’ over its prices

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  • Per capita probably isn't a good way to measure this.

    Car deaths should probably be by miles driven.

  • Reddit Refugees on Lemmy, how are you guys liking lemmy so far?

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  • It seems fine, with a few concerns.

    The federated nature could become confusing, especially for new users. For example, I'm not sure how a new user is supposed to distinguish between: Games@sh.itjust.works and Games@lemmy.world This seems like a potentially worse version of reddit's games vs gaming vs truegaming.

    Also the lack of filtering options. Until I build up a reasonable amount of communities I'm subscribed to, I suspect I'll be using All more, which doesn't seem to have a simple way to do things like filter out all memes or just focus on text.