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Datas_Cat_Spot, in xkcd #743: Infrastructures
@Datas_Cat_Spot@startrek.website avatar

One thing I’ve learned over the years: the scruffier looking the IT guy, the more they should be listened to.

negativenull,

Richard Stallman is rarely wrong

nomecks, in xkcd #743: Infrastructures

I have a great idea for a program! I should describe it in agonizing detail to an AI owned by some company so it will spit out working source code. Nothing can go wrong with my plan!

aesthelete,

This is a flawless plan, especially since they pinky swore that they wouldn’t keep around the information you put into the black box AI. So we’re all safe!

chicken,

If you make it open source they can’t steal your idea

dustyData,

I mean, they can still steal your idea, fork it, repackage it and charge for it while refusing to upstream their development. But now it’s a licensing discussion and not a personal attack.

TheCraiggers,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Apple and Google have stolen plenty of ideas. They don’t care if it’s closed or open.

chicken,

If they can’t prevent others from using it, seems fine to me.

TurtleTourParty,

If AI will stop people from telling me their “amazing” app ideas when they find out I’m a programmer then I’m all for it.

HonoraryMancunian, in xkcd #743: Infrastructures

TIL the xkcd main character(s?) is (are?) called Cueball

Jakylla,
@Jakylla@sh.itjust.works avatar

Cueball is the main character; others have their own names; for example Megan (appearing a lot as the main Feminine character)

More recurring characters are listed on this page: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Characters

Sotuanduso,

It’s unofficial, but yeah. People call him that.

HellAwaits, in xkcd #743: Infrastructures

Hot take: while I do appreciate and use FOSS (I’m on Linux), that doesn’t make the people who talk about it 24/7 non-stop any less annoying.

lapingvino,

Hot take: people being annoying doesn’t make them less right about things and if you disregard the warnings you still only have yourself to blame.

themeatbridge,

Hotter take: Dismissing a warning because it’s annoying is a tacit admission that they are right and you just don’t give a shit. People are lazy creatures. We have to make fire alarms the most obnoxious and loud sound in the world because otherwise people wouldn’t leave the flaming building.

Jackcooper, in XKCD #2816: Types of Solar Eclipse

Can anyone give me a number 9

Agamemnon,
@Agamemnon@lemmy.world avatar

🫂

Bilbo,

A hug from Agamemnon! Probably ok. No Trojans hidden anywhere within the hug?

Agamemnon,
@Agamemnon@lemmy.world avatar

Nope, just regular Achean soldiers hiding here, please ignore.

sanguinepar,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar
apprehensively_human,

Number 8. Belch Number 8. Belch Number 8. Belch

Untitled_Pribor,
@Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social avatar

I'll have two number 9's, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45's, one with cheese, and a large soda.

Jakylla, in XKCD #2816: Types of Solar Eclipse
@Jakylla@sh.itjust.works avatar

Love to watch the Interior eclipse from the lunar donut

Also, cuboid can be observed from Minecraft’s moon

rockerface, in xkcd #2817: Electron Holes

This joke is positively ridiculous

FlyingSquid, in xkcd #2817: Electron Holes
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

but because I had the device they couldn’t charge me.

Oh Randall, no.

funnystuff97, in XKCD #2819: Pronunciation

“My name is Perry, not Terry, with a ‘P’ as in ‘Pterodactyl’.”

Ryan213,
@Ryan213@lemmy.world avatar

LOL I forgot where that’s from!

tuesday,

“Thompson, with a ‘P’, as in psychology”

Psaldorn,

Yeah… silent Ps are weird 😅

funnystuff97,

Whatever do you mean, puh-saldorn?

sanguinepar,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

Depends on your aim.

dot20,

Pterry

brygphilomena, in XKCD #2819: Pronunciation

I made an antiphonetic alphabet poster a few years ago to hang at my desk.

It has things like G as in Gnu. Y as in You.

Masimatutu,

In all fairness, the Y in “you” is totally pronounced.

Cabrio,

As is the Y in U.

Masimatutu, in XKCD #2819: Pronunciation

/ɪɛzdɛɪaɪ/?

palordrolap,

all my troubles seemed so far away?

tuesday,

or /ɪɛztɛɪaɪ/ depending on whether you treat the final phoneme of moped as /t/ or /d/ -> [t]

Masimatutu,

Yep. The ⟨s⟩ in use could also be /s/, I just wrote what first came to mind.

Masimatutu,

And ⟨e⟩ in record /ɪ/, etc. etc.

JokeDeity, in XKCD #2819: Pronunciation

If I’m feeling less lazy and exhausted later I might just have to take voice clips and try to create this variation on pronouncing “Tuesday”.

positiveWHAT, in XKCD #2819: Pronunciation

The english language is … missing some litterary updates.
A is pronounced [ei]. E is [ii] and I is [ai]. What’s up with that.

e_t_,

I started learning Japanese recently. It's made me realizehow sloppy English is with vowel sounds.

dot20,

IIUC the problem is that they updated the pronunciation without updating the spelling: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

AI_toothbrush, in XKCD #2819: Pronunciation

I didnt know gyro could be pronunced in multiple ways

stringbeantheory,

the greek food gyro is kinda pronounced "yee-ro"

Skua,

There's gyro as in gyroscope, where the Y vowel sound is like the word "eye", and there's gyro as in the Greek sandwich where the Y vowel is more like the vowel sound in "sea". The latter is often seen only as "gyros" because that's what the actual Greek word is, but because that seems like a plural in English the S is sometimes dropped.

AI_toothbrush,

Ohh gyros as in the food lol

tuesday, in XKCD #2819: Pronunciation

oh hey it me

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