risky abbreviations

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• Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Idk it seems like an apt description of a.i. and how it literally has spread into every tech.

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Windows update was originally called “critical update notification tool”.

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  • felsiq@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shame they changed it, I think it was kinda cute Microsoft named it after their execs

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  • thegreatgarbo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll just leave this reference on copper nanotubes right here.

    link.springer.com/article/…/s11433-013-5387-8

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is even better than the project I managed to name UTI before my manager noticed.

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• Zkuld@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recently saw the THE as an abbreviation. Yes, THE. Terrible to read but made for funny sentences.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My mom used to work for a company whose acronym was ASS. Also her boss was cheap and didn’t want to pay for a sign that had the full name.

    Yeap.

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• Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t tell people you’re going to ISIS while on a flight.

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• technojamin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As an outsider to the scientific community, I wanted to know more about whatever the heck Parafilm is. I’ve definitely been educated 😆

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• SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Correction, he should absolutely call it that.

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