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Is this legit?
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Sure, let's ask MechaHitler if the dictionary has a correct definition.
Theyre on twitter. The brain cells died a long time ago.
Does anyone hate how many people are apparently immediately turning to ai.
People were already trusting anything and everything without batting an eye. LLMs are just the natural continuation of that.
Bullshit generator on demand at the little cost of burning the planet.
I agree with you fully
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yes but also to be fair this is a Twitter user
Are people really doing this @grok?
Yes.
People are so hypocritical about it. "I'm scared AI might take my job." Then 5 seconds later they're asking google AI the answer to really simple questions.
I'm so sick and tired of hearing my friend talk to gemini and alexa(google and amazon ais).
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It's amazing how many names for things come from a different era. Even "movies" is from "moving pictures" which is how they described a new thing in terms of an old familiar thing, pictures. Also "film" comes from a thin coating of chemical gel on glass photographic plates, which evolved to mean the coating plus the plastic once photography moved from glass plates to flexible plastic rolls. Also, why do we "shoot" movies?
I'm going to guess that shooting comes from pointing the camera at something and pulling a trigger to start, which with the old hardware wasn't dissimilar to the steps to shoot a machine gun except slightly quieter.
After typing that out I checked and it looks like I guessed right!
Photography used to involve aiming a device by looking down a sight, removing a cap from a barrel (the lens cap from the lens housing), and exploding flash powder to adequately light the scene.
I’d imagine many described it as feeling like facing a firing squad
Interesting then if the term "shot" comes from motion pictures but slipped "backwards" to include still pictures, which had a completely different mechanism.
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Seconds is one of the weirdest to me.
"Minute" comes from Latin: pars minuta prima, meaning 'first small part', i.e. first division of the hour – dividing it into sixty, and "second" comes from pars minuta secunda, 'second small part', dividing again into sixty.
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One of the most prolific is canna, which is Latin for reed, tube, or pipe. Turns out you can get a LOT of mileage from that meaning:
Cane: Referring to the plant, walking stick, or slender rod.
Canal: An artificial waterway, from the Latin canalis (pipe/groove).
Channel: A conduit or passage.
Cannon: From Italian cannone, meaning "large tube".
Canon: A rule or standard (originally from a reed used as a measuring stick).
Cannibal: Historically connected to this root through a complex path involving "Carib".
Cannister / Canister: A container, often cylindrical.
Cannula: A small tube for insertion into the body.
Canyon: Derived via Spanish cañón (tube/pipe).
Also, "channel" and "canal" are the result of borrowing the same French word (chanel) at two different times (this happened with many words). In Middle English most words were stressed the first syllable, so chanel became "channel", then by the time it was borrowed again, chanel kept the same French stress on the last syllable and became "canal".
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Where do you think grok gets the info?
At least some of it, it pulls directly out of the ass of musk.
I'll take the musk of ass over the ass of Musk any day
Oh, another imperial fun fact. There's 16 frames in a foot of 35mm film. Way easier to remember than how many yards in a mile and all the other things.
It feels weird that film would be measured in feet, while the film size uses mm.
Here's a fun fact: photography predates film (duh) but the 35mm standard for photography came decades after the 35mm film standard.
Photos were originally taken on plates until Eastman figured out how to put em on a roll. Thomas Edison immediately used this to make one of those early strobe things I forgot the name of. Not long after, they standardized the design. And then wayyyy later, Kodak released 135 film for photography.
Bonus fact: Both capture the same 35x24mm image but they're physically different sizes because they're captured in different orientations.
Hooray, now I can say I used my college degree this month!
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Car tires, I think the world over, are sized in millimeters of tread width, aspect ratio of sidewall height, and inches in rim diameter. A 215-65R 15 is 215mm wide, 65% of 215mm from bead to tread, and fits on a 15 inch rim.
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Since 24 frames per second is standard, that means 48 frames in 3 feet, or 2 seconds per yard of film.
I'm glad we can leave all that BS in the past though. US customary units belong to a bygone era just like analog, chemical film does.
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There are still people on Xitter?
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One of my boys was washing the dishes a couple of weeks ago. The oldest (not the same one) has never washed dishes properly, always not enough detergent and cold water. I’ve gone over and checked to see if the water was hot enough and that it was sudsing. The eldest has come in, said ‘you don’t need hot water or much detergent’. I ignored him as I’ve taught him all this before and he didn’t listen, so he got the shits with me and marched outside. I followed him out after and he gave me a mouthful about how I embarrassed him in front of other family members and I’m a know all know nothing.
Anyway, out comes the AI he subscribes to, and it tells him that ‘yes, hot as it can be withstood if possible as this ensures grease removal, and aiding the detergent in breaking grease down’. I then got another mouthful for being a smart arse and this time it was added with ‘you’re always such a smartarse about it’, when I never said a word to him.
Where does he think AI gets this kind of information from?
I'm sorry your child was lost to AI.
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You don't need hot water though? in my family, and guessing my entire culture, we wash with tap water and just scrub until it's clean
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Where do you think Grok gets the info?
Elon Musk's asshole. Duh.
Fake news. Film, like all new technologies, was driven by porn, though at the turn of the 20th century, people were far too prudish for full nudity. Hence “footage”.
"Ankleage" and "Thighage" didn't really catch on.
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I see x.com screenshots I downvote
Merrian is booming out. It gets it from Grokipedia
Chat is this true?
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I thought Grok got its info from the butthole that Elon Musk has in his face.
Yeah, that actually makes sense. One of those old tech words we just kept using forever.
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"Where do you think Grok gets the info?", says the Merriam-Webster bot.
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