that’s interesting that you mention that - never been there myself or anything, but I did come across reports that the city authorities had relaxed rules on large murals to make up for the lack of advertising, and there’s certainly a lot of pictures of some pretty impressive artworks!
As far as I can tell, they didn’t stop it - outdoor advertising is still banned there. It was hard finding recent online information about it though. The most recent references I found were a two-year-old discussion on Hacker News and a 2022 article from the BBC which mentions São Paulo’s ban and says that Grenoble in France has something similar.
What is it about carparks that attracts the scummiest scammer businesses?? Their whole business model appears to be finding new scams to rip off their customers with eye-watering fees and charges.
The people running these operations need to be made to do community service if not thrown in jail, because losing court cases doesn’t seem to be stopping them.
I wasn’t talking about other customers?
Who were you talking about when you said “I, too, get frustrated by slow-ass people”?
Yeah I’ve noticed it sometimes seems to get worse. Don’t know what phone you use, but when I use Google’s voice-to-text on Android, I often have to correct mistakes, because it tries to do it word-by-word, but sometimes what I actually intend is not clear until I’ve spoken the whole sentence - and for whatever reason, Google very rarely goes back and changes a word it’s already transcribed. For instance, if I say, “I think your speaking” it’s not yet clear if that should be a “your” or a “you’re”, and it won’t become clear until I complete the sentence/clause.
If I want to dictate a long piece of text, I will use OpenAI’s text-to-speech, which is almost flawless (it doesn’t start transcribing until you’ve finished everything you’re going to say). I appreciate some people don’t like OpenAI, but to be honest, Google isn’t much better, and likewise Apple is not a lot better than Google.
Well spelling was solved even earlier than that, with rote-learning at school in combination with the very environmentally friendly technologies known as the paddle and cane. What was wrong with that way of doing things?? Is it progress? Or were things better in the old days?
In any case, all the words in the sentence in question are spelt correctly - the problem is grammar. Correctly determining if the grammar of a sentence is correct is a much harder problem than simply checking the spelling of words against a dictionary.
I’m using voice to text like right now
AI really has come a very long way hasn’t it. It was not that long ago that you had to train the computer on your own voice and even then accuracy was annoyingly bad. Now it can transcribe speech from just about anyone at much better levels of accuracy.
Yes you got it! The person I replied to was talking about those inline grammar checkers you have in word processors, which are pretty limited in value so I wanted to show what you could do with an LLM, and how it can go beyond just correcting but also helping learning.
I did think about adding a sentence to say to imagine writing in some important official context e.g. a letter to a government agency rather than a comment on Lemmy, but decided in the end it would probably be obvious.
It’s a *lot* better these days. Here’s how you could use it to improve the English in your comment:
Can you point out and characterise the grammar mistakes in the following sentence, with tips on how the writer could avoid similar mistakes in future - “I must admit its been a while, but all these things where horrible last time i played with them.”
Sure — that sentence has a few grammar issues, each pointing to a common kind of slip. Here’s the breakdown:
Mistake: “its” is a possessive pronoun (like his, her, their), while “it’s” is the contraction of “it has”. Fix: Use “it’s” because the writer means “it has been a while”.
Tip: When in doubt, try expanding “it’s” to “it is” or “it has” and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it doesn’t, you probably want “its”.
Mistake: “where” (a location) is confused with “were” (past tense of are). Fix: Use “were” to correctly form the past tense of “to be”.
Tip: Say it aloud—“they were horrible” sounds natural, while “they where horrible” doesn’t. If it’s a verb (they were), you want “were”.
Mistake: Lowercase “i”. Fix: Always capitalize “I” when it’s a pronoun referring to oneself.
Tip: This is more about habit than logic—just train yourself to always type “I” in uppercase, even in casual writing.
Full corrected version: “I must admit it’s been a while, but all these things were horrible last time I played with them.”
I was puzzled by this too, so I took one for the team and clicked the link. Yes it does appear to mean that there were less users using the Chinese language in this survey than the one for the previous month, which implies fewer Chinese users: “Last month we saw quite a sharp drop for the Linux stats, which coincided with Simplified Chinese once again rising as the language choice on Steam. This is something that happens now and then.”
Why there is a link between Chinese users and Windows is an interesting question. Could be related to a higher number of Internet cafés there - not sure if that’s still true but it used to be - and/or greater acceptability and availability of pirated software in China compared to Europe and USA causing reduced demand for free alternatives.
I put it on the hat on the throttle
That’s where I’ve got mine too
the build quality that leaves a bit to be desired
Got you, thanks
The absolute rock bottom cheapest I’d suggest is an X52, and even then I hesitate to actually recommend it
What would be better with a more expensive control system? Just curious - I’ve got an X52 also, it seems fine, although I haven’t found a good way to map the “strafe” axes (i.e. vertically up/down, horizontally left/right).
There’s really nothing special about Jesus, if you accept that the voices he heard in his head were not really “the all-powerful creator” speaking to him.
What I mean is that Jesus did not say anything more remarkable or ground-breaking than say Socrates, Marx or … I don’t know Iain M Banks or any other story teller. Way less remarkable in fact.
There’s this persistent idea that Jesus was some wonderful caring hippy, and before Jesus everyone was just a callous exploitive bastard. But there’s nothing new about the share-and-share-alike philosophy Jesus espoused. It’s basic game theory and has been present in society since before our species even evolved. Even chimps grasp those ideas.
Jesus was just a poor Jewish common person who thought he was the messiah. Just like his compatriots of the time, he believed the Jews to be the “chosen people”, and his message was only directed at his compatriots. He had no more grasp of humanity as a whole than any other common person of his time. As the messiah, he believed - as did his followers - that he was going to usher in the end of the world.
It’s complete nonsense, and if you truely understand what a scam the modern church is, you would stop promoting him as some kind of revolutionary.
Not sure what you’re saying - do you mean that if you use target nearest hostile, but there isn’t a hostile ship in the vicinity, it would instead target the original object? Hmm doesn’t sound right! Sorry, what did you mean?
When you’re in supercruise heading to a distant targeted destination, if the player targets other objects that they are going past, it should be easy to then re-target the original destination object again.
I can’t be the only one that would like to be able to target passing spaceships, planets or other objects while I’m on a 5 minute supercruise to some interesting thing I’ve found in the discovery scanner? The fact I would have to go back into the discovery scanner and find that same object again means I can’t really do this. Or is there already a way I don’t know about?
Either there would be a new button like the “target next system in route” button for hyperspace jumps, or whatever object(s) you target remain available to re-target again by use of Next-Target / Previous-Target keybinds.
maybe, but unless you’re a believer in trickle-down economics, what do we lose as a society if they do?
the measures covered by this article aren’t about people trying to reduce their tax bill though, they’re about stopping dodgy tax avoidance schemes: “There is a mini-industry of creating tax avoidance schemes which have no prospect of success.”
If I understand the article right, these dodgy schemes are mostly designed to make their promoters money from fees, because when they are overturned in court, the taxes people have improperly avoided will have to be paid. However the people who ran the scheme will have already taken lots of money in fees.
a sign of utter desperation on the human’s part.
Yes it seems to be the same underlying issue that leads some people to throw money at only fans streamers and such like. A complete starvation of personal contact that leads people to willingly live in a fantasy world.
It was also a true AI wasn’t it? It ran locally and was never turned off, so conversations with it were private and it continued to “exist” and develop by itself.
You don’t know what Geneva_convenience did or didn’t mean. Unlike you, I didn’t make any assumptions, I just asked them to clarify. They couldn’t or didn’t want to. Why you then came jumping in like a sad loser is anyone’s guess.
If you want to talk about the subject of this post, then make a comment of your own. I’m not interested in discussing your assumptions about what some other person actually meant.
hmm alright, I’ll try it this weekend and see how it works. Thanks