I was going to say that it had prioritised the most uses combination of letters... but I have a unique name that I've saved to the custom dictionary and it still reverts back to the anglicised name, like "stop autocorrecting my own damn name to something else".
At least we know AI is fucked for a few years yet.
Anyone remember the 2005 TV feature Supervolcano?
I loved it when it came out, still relevent today - perhaps the Threads of the geology field. Great way to burn off almost two hours if you ever get bored.
gaming
Pokémon Club! I went with my kids ages ago, and I'm the only one that habitually goes now.
Half the group are below 5-20, the other half are 20 and above - and it's an absolute riot. I've made some decent friends, taken Pokémon Go raid bosses that I'd never have been able to take in a rural area normally, and the adult-only raid walks are just a good excuse to chat bollocks. I'm not really in to the TCG side of things, but even the people who I don't have much in common with are awesome for type and counter knowledge.
I'm not even big into the Pokémon series, it's just an excuse to talk shite for an hour and rinse some XP.
I can see two use cases for this:
When I'm at mile 12 of a half marathon and I'm absolutely dying, and running on caffeine and verbalised self-hatred to put one foot in front of the other, like "come on dickhead, you've done this in training, stop being a fucking fanny and get through this, you can do a mile on your dick and that last tenth of a mile is your poseur time, get through it you arse piece"
Or, if I've got a cold and need to walk the thirteen-point-one yards to the kitchen when my stomach is doing somersaults and my joints ache, like "go for it bellend, you ain't getting better sat on your fat hoop, get some paracetemol and stop being a miserable cunt, you can do this".
Maybe I've been leaning too hard in to the self-loathing as a coping strategy.
Great band, a slow burner of an album.
I bought it when it came out on the strength of Magdalena, but gave it away after a week.
A few years later I listened to it again and thought "man this is a banger". Magdalena and Breña were just the subjective cherries on top.
Even if I want to get rid of something for nothing, I'll put it up for a fiver.
The number of fucking idiots that come out of the woodwork rises exponentially when you list it for free, proper unreasonable or a ludicrous false sense of entitlement.
I'll wait until someone wants it, offers to pay, and tell them to keep it and put it in a charity box on their way home or some shit. Saves a lot of hassle.
If you'll excuse my expression... fucking hell!
I've never talked finances with my friends in farming in the UK - it's always been a sore point. Presumably partly because that's just the rural way, but perhaps mainly because it's a source of anxiety, anger, and poor mental health. Maybe I should talk to them about it.
Anyway, thanks for the insight and figures, a lot of it is over my head because I'm thick as fuck but what I take from it in a perversion of a common meme is "line go down :( "
Cheers!
A friend of mine is a prepper in all but name.
Every time there's a storm, he's out with his trailer and chainsaw chopping up fallen trees - partly to help clear roads, but mainly because he'll happily spend a weekend chopping up wood and covering them in tarp just so he can have two or three winter's worth of "free" wood sitting.
I can't fault his logic, but fuck me I get fed up unpacking shopping after twenty minutes, let alone chopping wood for two or three days. Absolute lad.
Obviously it's entirely subjective, but I don't think there's many teenagers that would miss the opportunity to start fires legitimately
but seriously though, log fires are enchanting, not even in a pyromania style of thinking.
Taking the #1 (or whatever number) ranked word would make for a good alternative to AskOuija or something.
I wondered why "die" was so common, until I realised we have a lot of Deutsch compadres too!
It's a tough one. I'm pretty pro-farmer and think that this policy seems to be burning a lot of bridges for very little gain.
The farming community really struggle with optics. You're absolutely bang on about the Brexit thing, that didn't help them. A lot of people point to farmers being very wealthy people - and on paper it's true. The land, the seeded fields and infrastructure, and the colossal machinery means even a small farm is usually a multi-million pound enterprise... but the liquid assets available to farmers are generally next to fuck all, and my anecdotal experience of living rurally is that most farms are one bad crop away from having to cut back and choosing to heat or eat; and two bad crops from bankruptcy.
I don't think the general public quite realise the tiny margins the farmers are on - between the cost of living and doing business, and the absolute pittance that supermarkets and the retail industry have been squeezing them at the point of sale. I've never seen so many Samaritans banners on major routes through the countryside.
Unfortunately, all the general public see are farmers blocking the roads in their £750,000 behemoth trucks waving Tory flags, complaining about 20% inheritance tax rate when everyone else paid double - when that's just a surface level view of the problem.
I should imagine that if you took the takings of a farm per year, and divided it by the number of folk working it and divided it by an 80 hour working week (for generalisations sake), then it would be quite clear that farming isn't the business to be in if you want to be rich.
e: I'm sorry, I used the "you" there, I'm not arguing against the person I'm replying to, I'm largely arguing alongside.
Looks like an advanced Doom II map.
Just missing a teleport at the top to simulate a second floor, or a silent téléporter if you're really fancy.
...and it appears to be governed by a penguin!
The first time round, Gatlandball was revolutionary and not many teams had the strategies to counter it. It was brilliant, the players were decent, and there was a swell in Welsh rugby that felt like every game was a RWC final.
Problem is, the world's gotten wise to Gatland's tricks now, and whereas he's still an undeniably great coach, the tactics are oldskool, the players are great but uninspiring, and the Millennium Stadium was deathly quiet - even the anthem wasn't particularly loud.
I personally think Gats should go, but then the next question is substantially tougher - who next?
Yeah fingers crossed. I'm rather hopeful it won't. That would really suck.
For all my sarcasm around what the war will be referred to in the history books, I'm hoping it will be a footnote in history and not one of the future's biggest Wikipedia pages like the last one was.
I think Tay will be taught in AI ethics-type courses for generations to come.
I wonder whether it'll be in the context of "hey look what happened when AI had no guardrails", or whether it will be "fuck we should have seen this coming".
As horrendous as the content it was spouting was, it was highly amusing to see the project nosedive so spectacularly quickly.