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What animations ?

I assume, though, you mean LLMs. I haven't used them first hand

Wow, kudos. Honestly.

If it’s too personal to share, maybe don’t mention it in the first place? People doing this online and IRL are attention seeking

Did the consensus shift about TikTok? I thought it was a given that as tech/IT people TikTok isn’t an app worth having on your phone due to spyware/attention brute forcing/curated propaganda by Chinese government.

We recently dug out my portable cassette player (Not as small as a walkman, takes D cell batteries) so my daughter could listen to my wife's Disney cassettes from her childhood in the early 90s. I was amazed how a 5 year old immediately figured out how to manipulate the tape player and flip over cassettes etc. I suppose it was similar for me at the same age. We even found a NOS Disney cassette on eBay that my wife didn't have.

The funny thing is, even though I'm just about old enough to have bought a few chart music cassettes when they were a contemporary medium, I don't own any cassettes and I only had the player because I bought it on eBay to experiment with tape degradation for music.

"Guns don't kill people..."

What's a latency tax?

That's funny because one of the reasons I used Telegram originally was the encryption of messages and open sourcedness. Also Whatsapp use to require your phone to be on and with signal to receive messages on the web app.

I used to order fragrance samples on eBay, The first order I received from them had a 10 1/2 pence stamp attached. I was perplexed as the half pence (ha'penny, pronounced HAPE-KNEE) coin had been discontinued in 1984, 30 years ago at the time, and I'd only seen them in an old collection of coins from my parents. Also the portrait of the Queen (I'm from the UK) was a bit outdated.

I contacted the seller and it turned out her husband was a stamp collector and gave her his low value cast-offs to use as postage. I found it amazing that 30+ year old stamps were still valid. It's only recently they've become invalid postage as now stamps require a barcode.

Also I used to get items delivered to my office, and the office manager's husband was a stamp collector, so she used to ask to keep the stamps I got (I used to order electronic components from all over the world) so this completed the philatelist cycle.

Another old currency anecdote. I used to work on the checkouts at a supermarket in Cambridge circa 2009 and at least two times we'd get visiting academics from the USA who had studied in the UK years before and they'd try to pay with currency they'd had from the time, except it was the awesome old pre-decimal money (We switched to decimal in 1971). I found it quaint that they thought it was still valid and thought to bring it with them.

I think that's where my Aeron came from, or somewhere similiar, but it was more like 300ish quid and via eBay.

How do I downvote this.

As in Slashdotting?

Surely it should be called national socialising?

My neighbour has a heat pump and it's kind of annoying when running because the 180hz hum is audible in most of the rooms in my house. This in the UK and our houses are detached, but fairly closely spaced.

Rich people problems. My keyboard for my $3500 AR headset isn't good enough so I connected some more expensive hardware to use as peripherals.

Looks cool

I wonder if you could use some AI to extrapolate the missing sound clips from the ones provided?

I used Duolingo in 2022 for the 35 days leading up to a holiday in Greece. I went from knowing 0 greek to being able to read the alphabet and words, pronounce them and do things like order in a restaurant, explain allergies and convey our room number.

Around the beginning of 2023 they did a couple of things that ruined it a bit for me. They completely changed the track system so now you have to follow one set path, and they got rid of the classes feature which was awesome because for around $5 I could have a zoom lesson with a native teacher and other people learning the language.

Also the sentences it teaches you are a bit less silly now and that was a cool gimmick.

Disappointed that you live in London and choose the wrong spelling for aeroplane.

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Every time there's a music studio shown on TV I point out the mandatory Yamaha NS-10s and Herman Miller Aeron chair and say "Look, there's my speakers and chair!"

This squashes the idea of some Londonites to become an independent city state. Try doing that with no electricity generation of your own, and nowhere to build one.