emmanuel_car

@emmanuel_car@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace “the economy” with “rich people’s yacht money”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s extremely common in Europe. I regularly get messages with “15h”, “22h”, etc, but spoken is a bit of a mixed bag, you can usually use 12 hour time and know if it’s AM/PM from context, but sometimes you need to be specific.

  Though the weirdest thing I’ve had to learn in Germany about time is, near where I live it’s common to say “one/three quarters [hour]”, instead of “quarter past/to [hour]”, so 10:15 is “one quarter 11”, and 10:45 is “three quarters 11”. It makes a little more sense when you know that “half 11” mean “half to 11”, not “half past” like is typical in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report Exposes Instacart's Hidden AI Price Experiments That Could Cost Families $1,200 Per Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the grocery shopping app millions of Americans rely on

  Not from the US so hadn’t heard of this before, but kind of shocked by this statement. Everyone I’ve spoken to knows whenever you’re ordering online it will be more expensive (maybe with the exception of directly with the supermarket), but also it’s more of a convenience fee than this blatant anti-consumer BS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are love potions always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that where these guys come from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. My company has its own AI instance which we are encouraged to use in our work. I uploaded a document today, which I wrote myself, and asked it to summarise the high level requirements so I could copy/paste the bullet points. It got maybe 1/4 of the requirements, and what it output didn’t make sense without extensive knowledge of the topic. Went back to writing it myself, like I normally do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem I’ve found here is public toilets are few and far between, and then majority of them are paid. Didn’t have any coins on me yesterday, so couldn’t use either of the 2 public toilets I found…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same as another user said, in Spanish European Union is Unión Europea, so abbreviates to UE, and you’re right about EEUU, because it’s the United States

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see someone else is a Kurzgesagt fan https://youtu.be/VMm-U2pHrXE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've recently turned into a blocker.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been working in IT for too long. First thought upon reading the title was you were obstructing someone’s work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess side loading is sort of possible on an iPhone, but not something an average user is going to do. From my limited Android experience, it seems much easier there, for better or worse.

  What software features does Samsung lock behind subscription? The only thing that comes to mind with Apple is Apple One, but that’s for content and cloud storage, not things we’d expect for free.