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For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Eating fried chicken sandwich for breakfast is completely normal and an awesome way to start a day.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Punctuation that denotes pauses like , ; : should be placed based on where the writer wants a pause and how long the pause should be, or when needed to avoid ambiguity, NOT on the bullshit arbitrary grammar "rules" that got made up to sell grammar books and enforce the class divide.

It's very easy to find classics full of "bad" grammar when it comes to the punctuation because it's in fact not bad.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Large Language Models and other affiliated algorithms are not AI and no amount of marketing will convince me otherwise. As a result I refuse to call them AI when talking to people about them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As someone with published papers about machine learning, LLMs are artificially intelligent systems. At least according to the agreed-upon industry and academic definitions. I don't really care about your head canon definition. I just want to be clear for anyone else who comes across this comment and doesn't know otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"times less" is not an intuitive, easy to understand way of referring to a decrease in some amount or percentage.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Subscription services are not worth it, period. Phone and internet bills are all you need to get everything you want at the best possible qualities in the best possible formats. Subscription services are only convenient for the lazy who don't know how to use the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you essentially saying you pirate movies, games, and tv shows?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

As a science enthusiast, until the US stops using the "Alu-min-um" pronunciation, I refuse to spell Sulphur as "Sulfur", even if it is part of IUPAC.

Edit: Forgot to add this originally, but Aluminium is also the IUPAC standard spelling/pronunciation, which I argue makes my petty hill all the more valid.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pizza is not made on a grill or with cornmeal on the bottom, it's made on a hot stone, with flour on the bottom of the dough to keep it from sticking. It also does not ever touch pineapples or ranch dipping sauce. What in the actual fuck is wrong with people?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I won't question the cooking on stone part, but as far as toppings on pizza go I honestly don't care. Everyone has different tastes and if someone wants to put whatever abomination on their pizza so be it.

Also I actually like pineapple on pizza, but it's not my favorite. I don't know why people get so offended by it

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