Eiri

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[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That might be good. With text to speech getting as good as it's getting, it's probably getting in the realistic territory, too.

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

I'd create an actual god with morals of absolute good that rules over humans with an iron fist. Political debates? There's an objective answer and the god knows it. Do something wrong? Get warned. Do something very wrong? It's brainwash time.

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

If it consoles you, I can explain the reason for that one.

They both come from the verb restaurer (to restore). Restaurant being the present participle in this case. In French, "ant" is equivalent to the English suffix "ing".

And restaurateur is "one who restores".

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I meant English dialects.

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Convenience store employees are unlikely to see it that way lol.

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I dunno if it's the weirdest but "pronunciation" is pretty weird.

Why is it "pronUnciation" but "pronOUnce"?

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is this universal or are there places where they pronounce it closer to its spelling?

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (8 children)

In case you're curious, the drinking age in Quebec is, in fact, 18.

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The depth of the stupidity of that is incredible to me.

You even get invaded by NPCs with "forbidden words" in their names. Checking whether you own game violates your criteria should be sanity check number one.

Invaded by Recusant Tanith's Knight! -> works, it's an NPC

Invaded by Recusant Dark K***ht Richter! -> Ugh.

And since those people keep their names like that, presumably they can't even tell that their name is being ruined by the game. An extra layer of stupidity.

At least with stupid chat moderation, you can see your messages, so you know how your messages are being ruined and you can adapt to it.

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Hah, I had the exact reverse experience. For years when I had a delivery they would come by once (of course not staying nearly long enough to allow me to answer the door) and leave a notice saying the package would be at their warehouse the following day starting at 17:00.

The warehouse was pretty far. The round trip would take nearly 2 hours by bus. And since they opening hours weren't ideal, if I happened to have a class or be otherwise busy the one night of the week they're open late, well I guess I'd better find a solution, because they'll only keep it for a week.

I would plead with them. Can you come back? Can you leave it at my door? It's not even worth that much! I'll take the risk! No. At least one thing they did agree to do was keep my package a bit longer once when I realized I had absolutely no way of retrieving it in time. But they only gave me two days.

It was only when COVID hit that delivery companies started just leaving packages. Sometimes they just wouldn't tell you at all about it, and you'd have a surprise when you'd open the door and hit your foot on a surprise package, if you hadn't kept up with the tracking.

Some people complained, because they were scared someone would steal their stuff, but I was so glad they were careless. I've worked from home ever since COVID.

Finally, I can order a thing and actually receive it at home.

[โ€“] Eiri@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How would you tackle that? Unless you build a really intelligent system that's allowed to interpret and reword and understand the significance (or lack thereof) of emojis in context, it sounds tough. Like, generally speaking, you just wouldn't be able to tell how important an emoji is to the message, when writing an algorithm.

 

I realized I couldn't comment on anything this morning. I tried clearing the app's data and logging back in to no avail.

But then I disabled my NordVPN connection and everything went back to working.

Is this expected behaviour?

 

I just bought it, and after a pop-up that says "Enjoy the ad-free version" or something, I was immediately brought back to my feed with an ad on it.

I get why it happened, and in my case it was just a funny moment that prompted me to restart the app, but a non-tech-savvy person might find it disturbing and waste your time with a support request.

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