JaymesRS

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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 46 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don’t inderstand, my phone knows that when I type stormloght, what I really mean is Stormlowght instead. (This happened yesterday)

Auto carrot is amazing.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can eat anything, once.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

Fiskars the blade company also makes Gerber products. The knives, not the Baby food.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 9 points 7 months ago

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149

Less risk of computer viruses, higher risk of bird flu though.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 26 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I can still beat an AI at the 100 meter dash though. Suck on that AI.

/Also, I can climb stairs, I bet Chat GPT can’t do that!!

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because that’s how she’s told people she prefers to be called, that’s how she still brands her social media.

People respecting somebody else’s choice for how to refer to them is literally the example that is the worst for your argument.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This wiki page, not itself as an original source but as a collection of original papers in the references for you to peruse at your leisure is a great starting point. But your question is a bit like the “Did you know Aristotle never said ‘Thank You’? Mostly because he didn’t speak English.” Joke. You are expecting modern accommodations and language in texts from a different era that would have used unfamiliar forms or language like ancient Egypt that had a 3rd gender “sekhet”.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

What’s up with people changing their names after marriage or adoption too‽

Why does everyone refer to her as Marie Curie instead of Maria Skłodowska? It’s just soo unnecessarily complicated to have to use a different name than the one assigned at birth.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I knew I was going to get every downvote I got. He’s got an Elon Musk-like cult of personality in some tech spheres and even implying that he’s not 100% right will get dogpiled by white knights.

I had the same experience as you and there were at least a couple opportunities where I had close acquaintances that actually knew more about topics that were more outside of his wheelhouse who confirmed that he was just regurgitating things that were common misconceptions or “close, but not quite”-type inaccuracies but doing it as though he possessed absolute authority. I’ve even seen others try to correct him on those in the past when they knew more and his responses were not the way one responds when you’re actually interested in fact over the art of the diatribe.

I don’t have anything real negative against him and he’s definitely done quite a few things that end result in a positive improvement, but I’m also thinking he’d probably benefit from a bit more humility.

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 291 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Has anyone investigated the consequences of all the sunlight that’s leaked into the environment because of this disaster? What sort of clean up are we looking at and how long will it take?

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I imagine it depends upon your phone and it’s support for USB drives, but I can use my kobo Libra and Clara directly connected to my iPad as a drive and drop the epubs and PDFs on it and have it recognize them.

There’s also a website that has released its code (so you can run your own) where I can push things through it via the Internet similar to send to Kindle.

There’s a whole bunch of other reasons that I think the Kobo has the current best eInk device having to do with its interface, but those that are more personal preference related and not the subject of your question. But I’m happy to share if you’d like.

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