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[–] 280 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Sure, let's ask MechaHitler if the dictionary has a correct definition. 🫩

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It sickens me right but there are youtubers out there, small ones, who just record themselves scrolling through a chatgpt response and talking about it to the camera .

    Bro just tsll me what you asked it and i'll get almost the same responss

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    What? That useless

    So that youtuber try answering question with chatgpt?

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    [–] 109 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    Does anyone hate how many people are apparently immediately turning to ai.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    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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    [–] 62 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_(filmmaking)

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 29 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Where do you think grok gets the info?

    At least some of it, it pulls directly out of the ass of musk.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It feels weird that film would be measured in feet, while the film size uses mm.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    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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    [–] 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    There are still people on Xitter?

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    [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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?

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    [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Where do you think Grok gets the info?

    Elon Musk's asshole. Duh.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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”.

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    [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    I see x.com screenshots I downvote

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Merrian is booming out. It gets it from Grokipedia

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    I thought Grok got its info from the butthole that Elon Musk has in his face.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that actually makes sense. One of those old tech words we just kept using forever.

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    "Where do you think Grok gets the info?", says the Merriam-Webster bot.

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