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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • As far as I can tell, Darjeeling and regular old Irish breakfast tea essentially taste the same. But the former is more expensive. I think I've been scammed by Big Tea.

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  • Using leaf tea instead of bags means it's more forgiving of over brewing. I've always assumed it's because you have large pieces instead of the smaller bits plus dust you get in bags, but I have no idea really.

  • Imagine trying to explain the concept of Cybersecurity to someone from 100 years ago

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  • ELI-95

  • British band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint on US tour - BBC News

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  • The US was used to dump British convicts (and other undesirables) first, about 52 thousand of them.

  • How I started my GoToSocial instance in the Fediverse

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    Another "offensive" pub name

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  • I assume Peta just wants to be in the news? The Sly Old Fox is not an offensive name.

  • Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark

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  • That's the first argument they make in their petition.

  • How I started my GoToSocial instance in the Fediverse

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  • Quality post, with plenty of useful and good advice.

    I'm happy to see sqlite being recommended - I think people don't realise how resilient and performant a database it is.

    Very surprising to hear you need to restart GoToSocial to add new users!

  • Petrichor

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  • Not funny, but interesting!

  • Petrichor

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  • Their spelling was moulded by the US

  • The most prestigious award of them all

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  • People around world associate rolled R with a jagged line, study finds

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  • Palikúr

    I'd never heard of this language - Palikúr is an indigenous South American language spoken in Brazil and French Guiana (only 1500 speakers).

  • Found this beauty in one of my old projects from school

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  • I've been coding long enough that I still think of that as a fairly new thing in JS.

  • Insurers say bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costume

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  • I assumed it was vandalism, not insurance fraud. I guess it's easier to get away with slashing tyres looking like a human than as a dubious bear.

  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • I thought we were finally agreeing fully! My understanding of the question is "what is the difference between a third (of a pizza, say) and a half?"

    1/2 - 1/3 = 1/61/2 = 1/3 + 1/6a half is one sixth more than a third.

    btw, I fixed my Kagi screenshot since I'd missed a word from the question (reading comprehension's clearly not my strong point today)

  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • Ah, you're right - I misunderstood jbrain's point to just be about the "relative to the original" understanding. Guess I'm no smarter than Google's AI.

  • xkcd #3011: Europa Clipper

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  • The ExplainXKCD is great:

    In truth, no such spoon is present on the probe, and Europa's icy crust is too thick to be penetrated by a spoon of such size.

    The author is either being very tongue-in-cheek or very literal and humourless and I'm enjoying it both ways.

  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • Yes, and the Google AI response is correct (and quite clear) in what it says. edit: Thanks Batman. I mean that Google's understanding of the question is logical (although still the maths is wrong as you say (now I've re-read you)) and its answer explained the angle it was answering from.

    However, I think the reasonable assumption for the intention behind the question is relative to a whole. I had third of a pizza, and now I have an extra sixth of a pizza. It's subtle, but that's the kind of thing AI falls down on.

  • Since Lemmy v0.19.4 introduced community visibility settings, why not make this community local only?

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  • If programming.dev is down, it's helpful to be able to see @meta@programming.dev from other instances and check for planned downtime, etc.

  • Yes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2

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  • Google's AI seems dumber than the rest, for example here's Kagi answering the same (using Claude):

    edit: typoed question originally

    Perhaps Google's tried to make it run too cheaply - Kagi's one doesn't run unless you ask for it, and as a paid product it'll have different priorities.