There were actually some Y2K bugs of that form, where the 19 was hard coded so it went 1999 to 19100

I think I read somewhere that they tried to include lesbians but it wasn’t popular or something.

Some of them are definitely more descriptive than others.

Lemmy’s isn’t great, but at least it’s not a generic chat box or radio waves, or a graph (nodes and lines)

Yeah, that tracks.

I guess it really doesn’t ‘want’ to say “not enough information” - which I think is the true answer:

If your starting point was the North Pole then you are back exactly where you started, if it was along the equator then you are within rounding error of 4m west of where you started. Start 4m from the South Pole and “4m west” ends up undefined. At the SP, “4m south” is undefined, etc.

You’re not thinking about how an LLM works: That would be a super easy question for it because there are tons of resources about imaginary numbers and i specifically online.

But ask it to add two random 4-digit numbers (an easy task for a computer or an elementary school student) and it might get the answer wrong just because those precise numbers haven’t been added enough on the web, and they treat numbers the same way they do words.

Seems likely to me

The unfortunate answer is that it knows through long forgotten experience… Anything a toddler sees goes in the mouth.

Ah, sorry I hadn’t even considered that it would be different in other places (just times) - I’m in the US, and those flat ones were present here at least as late as the 1980s and likely 1990s.

Cable Internet is very common in the US, in fact the most common kind. (2nd is DSL) So the F connectors (didn’t know that name) are everywhere. Also still used for actual antenna connections.
I am not sure if I have ever seen a Belling-Lee, but RCA used to be extremely common here until HDMI took over that role. (In fact RCA is what is on the switch box above to connect to the ‘computer’)

Yes, it’s for an old game console or computer.

There were two common ways to connect to the TV, and this box supports both: Coaxial (still around of course) and that flat ribbon cable, which ends in two separate U shaped clips. The screws on the bottom are for the clips on the ribbon cable from the physical antenna likely mounted on the roof.

Big if true.

I believe it’s a container system for WINE (hence the name)

Oh. Yeah, guess I’m too tired to read correctly.

The card isn’t either

It’s a quantum spin 1/2 object, like electrons. 360 degrees is half a full rotation for it, so that’s what’s needed to switch it to the right state to fit. If you spun it 360 more degrees it would be back to the original state and not fit.

Paying literally hundreds of dollars per month as soon as I no longer have income isn’t a reasonable expectation either.

If a freak accident like this happens while I don’t have a job, I’ll just go bankrupt and likely become homeless, then die. I’m counting on that not happening.

That’s really weird to see those in boxes. They are the main brand that comes in bags where I am at least. (Besides the super bland religious-or-something brand)

This can even happen to technical terms, for example bimonthly now has both the original meaning of once every 2 months, and also means semimonthly, twice a month.

In other words it’s completely worthless as a word because it fails to specify between conflicting meanings.

Of course Lemmy and such inherit some of that design even without the money behind it - there’s certainly a little dopamine hit when I see that one of my comments has gotten a reply, or when I check and see that it’s been upvoted.

Not having the incentive to enshittify is good though.

I had bottom-bars appearing around 3/4 of the way down the screen on Firefox on my Android and never did find the actual cause (scoured about:config but no luck) but I solved it by clearing data and starting a new profile.

First I forced closed the app and backed up the file with my tabs using a file manager with root access:

/data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla_components_session_storage_gecko.json

Then cleared the data, launched it and signed in and such, forced it closed again, copied back the tab session file, and launched it again.

When that one breaks there’s a good chance you can replace just the broken part.