Apparently they are “AI companions” in Grok: other comment in this thread

Haha I love this. It breaks my brain, but the end result is so much simpler :D

thank you, great antipasta <3

Thanks! :)

Thanks!

What is the original dialogue?

By this point who in their right mind would willingly enter the USA…

I think I learnt this when I was taught swimming as a child. You always slowly exhale or at least keep the air in your nose slightly under pressure while you’re underwater, so the water doesn’t get in.

One of those moments which kinda’ make one wish there wasn’t an afterlife…

Tada, your wish is reality 🙃

as a Hungarian, true xD you don’t need to do this to yourself

Jacob never rubbed two braincells together about how plants work 😅 Why would it be green on the inside? No sunlight there, while it needs to transport the nutrients between the leaves and the rest of the plant…

And hedges are really not “soft and fluffy”.

The operators of «Archive.Today» do not open their identity. Neither an impressum nor a data protection declaration can be found on the website.

I won’t link to it, but the owner has been thoroughly doxxed, and his name and contact details are freely available in search engines. He’s very likely a Czech guy of Russian descent living in the USA.

Not sure if Inkscape works the same, but this game helped me when I was struggling with drawing curves in Adobe Illustrator.

I understand it’s not a forum (though tbh I can’t remember a welcome tour, but it was more than a decade ago, so could have just forgot), but even with that I just find the whole atmosphere kinda cold and elitist. Not a community that invites participation, like Wikipedia does. But each to our own :)

Yes please. I tried participating in some StackExchange communities many years ago, but they felt so hostile to new contributors. Like I asked an immigration-related question about my personal situation, and multiple people edited my question to change the grammar and take out the thanks and smiley at the end 🤦 Oh no, we can’t have a bit of humanity in there… Multiple similar experiences left such a bitter taste, that I ended up deleting most of my sub-profiles. I found Reddit-style communities much more helpful. Even wikis are typically nowhere near this hostile.

SE seems too heavily focusing on helping a “generic public” rather than the actual people asking the questions. (Or even answering them, with all the reputation restrictions on accounts.) I’m sure I’m not the only contributor they pushed away :/

Eh, I hate its culture, but I regularly find useful excel or regex answers on StackExchange.

Agreed, I just find these instances of unintended longevity really fascinating :) The other day I was reading an article about how some infrastructure in Western countries still runs from floppy discs:

And in San Francisco, the Muni Metro light railway, which launched in 1980, won’t start up each morning unless the staff in charge pick up a floppy disk and slip it into the computer that controls the railway’s Automatic Train Control System, or ATCS. “The computer has to be told what it’s supposed to do every day,” explains a spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transport Agency (SFMTA). “Without a hard drive, there is nowhere to install software on a permanent basis.”

This computer has to be restarted in such a way repeatedly, he adds – it can’t simply be left on, for fear of its memory degrading.

In some sectors, the legacy use of floppy disks is being phased out. In 2022, a Japanese politician “declared war” on the ongoing use of older media. Subsequently, earlier this year, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced that the government would no longer require businesses to submit official forms and applications on floppy disk. The Japanese government finally declared “victory” by scrapping the rules in July 2024.

Imagine having to submit official forms on floppy disks even last year 😂

reminds me of this story: “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 - Ars Technica

cursed will smith eating spaghetti video

oh gods, why did I look it up