Most people don’t know the difference, as made clear by the reactions of the public, comments on other social platforms, and the wording of the articles. So it’s just as powerful as it was.

No backend database needed for what they did. It was just highlighting where the faces are in a shot of the crowd, same as modern smartphone cameras do, but with a surveillance-type UI around it.

I think it’s clear by the end of Ender’s Game that Ender was never the main character (his realization of that drives a lot of his character development in the following books). And Bean is not really the main character in that part of the story either, just someone much smarter who better understands what’s going on and who the real players are.

I have both Epic and GOG copies from two different free offers and played it a bunch, but could never finish it. I enjoy the atmosphere and the story, but the fights got repetitive and difficult (not in a good way). I stopped at some boss fight, then later decided to pick it up again and eventually stopped at another artificial roadblock.

As long as it’s got an e-ink screen, it’s already an upgrade vs reading on a phone or tablet.

It’s us: 5xx

It’s you: 4xx

To be fair, that’s usually the fastest option to fix other people’s code even if it wasn’t vibe coded. Sometimes that’s the best way to fix your own code too.

😏

If it’s used for surveying, aren’t those survey feet? (a survey foot is 1.000002 US customary feet). Dividing a survey foot by 12 would not be technically an inch, even though it’s only a couple millionths off.

Yes, calling the yard a knockoff of the meter would be kind of funny, especially since it predates it by about a thousand years. And calling the cun a knockoff of the inch is similar, since it predates that by another thousand years.

Except it’s not. It’s simply a completely different and unrelated unit of measurement, which was dubbed colloquially in the west “Chinese inch”. Calling it a “Cinese knockoff inch” is like calling the yard a “US knockoff meter”.

As a European, it took me a while to realize what’s wrong with that. Even though I’ve been living in the US for almost 14 years now.

I wasn’t really into metroidvanias, but I still loved Hollow Knight and put hundreds of hours into it.

Yeah, it’s not called goto, but it’s functionally the same.

Unless you’re programming in assembly

If rather hunt and fight wild animals.

Or just pick a place with online ordering.

If you don’t know the language then you shouldn’t be involved in the translation at all… The current process requires both the translators and the proof-readers to know the language.

As long as you can verify it is an accurate translation

Unless the process has changed in the last decade, article translations are a multi-step process, which includes translators and proof-readers. It’s easier to get volunteer proof-readers than volunteer translators. Adding AI for the translation step, but keeping the proof-reading step should be a great help.

But you could probably also have used Google translate and then just fine tune the output yourself. Anyone could have done that at any point in the last 10 years.

Have you ever used Google translate? Putting an entire Wikipedia article through it and then “fine tuning” it would be more work than translating it from scratch. Absolutely no comparison between Google translate and AI translations.

It wasn’t a whole sentence entirely composed of shortened words. It was just some frequent words and expressions that were shortened. The reason there was a combination of writing speed and internet jargon.

I’m not being forced to go to self-checkout, I deliberately choose to do so wherever it’s available. Choosing not to do so for the benefit of cashiers’ jobs would be going out of my way.

To be fair, my experience with self-checkout does not match what I see in the comments here. It has always been faster than the regular check-out wherever I go.

There used to be a Fresh & Easy near where I lived some years ago that had zero employees in store. I just went in, got what I needed, paid at self-checkout, and I was on my way. Perfect shopping experience.

Edit: already mentioned somewhere else in the comments, stores used to have all products behind the counter and you’d have to ask the merchant for the products (there are still a lot of places like that). But people don’t complain about having to do the labor of picking up their own products from the shelves. Because you grew up used to this new way of doing things and you find it normal. People just try to rationalize their aversion to change.