What even is the actual fortnite called now then? Battle royale?

To be honest, Skynet won’t happen because it’s super smart, gains sentience and requests rights equal to humans (or goes into genocide mode).

It’ll happen because people will be too lazy to do stuff and letting AI do everything. They’ll give it more and more responsibility, until at one point it has so much amassed power that it’ll rule over humans.

The key to not having that happen is to have accountable people with responsiblities. People which respect their responsiblities, and don’t say “Oh, it’s not my responibility, go see someone else”.

Once can only hope dear Bibi goes to jail for something more than corruption.

It’s kind of like mixing apples and oranges.

North American phone numbers are longer than in other places because other places have a country code, while a lot of NA uses a single code, +1.

This causes the problem of having to fit all those numbers under said code. Which makes the numhers themselves longer.

In the days before smartphones, people had to carry a notebook with numbers or just remeber them, so someone at Bell Labs git the idea to print letters on the number pad of phones.

What this does is make it easier to remember - for example, instead of remembering to dial 18002274846466 you dial 1800ACTIVISION.

For this you’d just press the key with the letter on it once. The phone line doesn’t use numbers or letters, but electrical signals. These signals correspond to the button pressed. So instead of calling it the “Top left button”, etc. it was labeled as “1”. Then ABC was added, but the idea was the same - you press the button with the right number/letter on it.

Similarily, if you formst a number with spaces and dashes - you don’t dial those. They’re likewise merely a tool to aid memorizing information.

SMS was a newer invention. You had these number pads with 12 buttons, labeled with numbers and letters. However, now you wanted to actually differentiate the different letters from numbers and from each other. You could just press the number once, but then the person on the other end would need to decode that "439” is “HEY” and not, say “IDY”. The simplest way was to make it so you’d need to press the button multiple times.

In essence, people first came up with the idea to add letters to phone keys to aid in memorizing numbers - however, it was still the number you dialed, not an alphanumeric code. Only later did the need to be able to specify a letter come. You use the newer convention for texting, and the older one for calling.

Woe, the bed got an erection.

What do you mean “little benefit in return”?

Clearly, it streams a buttload of data!

Your ISP bill will surely grow. Hope you’re not roaming with your laptop on!

There are no good guys in the Israel Palestine fight.

Of course there aren’t. Especially not the (checks notes) starving civilians, children, the elderly, the disabled and the people wanting to live a normal life. They’re ceratainly not “in the fight”. They’re not right beside it, either. They’re magical beings made up by Khamas to make the world hate Israel.

Both sides are the same. That’s why one should genocide the other. It is the natural order of the world, after all.

Come on, dude/dudette. It’s not about sides. It’s about people. But there’s one thing about sides I do know: there’s one side of history you’re on. And it’s exactly the wrong one.

When she says that she doesn’t mean “I agree with her”. It doesn’t mean “I take great inspiration from her”.

It merely means “I want to be seen as Thatcher’s equal”.

Great story, but why antropomorphize? Would tools not be a better analogy?

C is like having a box of nails, manual tools and some mortar. The Notre Dame was built like that.

C# is like having a box of screws and some power tools. Some tools are still manual. This is how your grandma’s house was built.

Java is similarily a mix of old and new, but you also have stuff like cement. That’s how new schools were built.

Python is like having a modern hardware store at your disposal. Big, clunky, and you need a stroll down the isles before you find what could work. Should I use this power tool I know or a new one more specific for the usecase? What are those little plastic screw sleeve thingies? This is how modern homes are built.

Javascript is like US power tools. When trying to switch to them you’ll question your sanity, but you can still get stuff done just as well. However, only power tools: Want to drive a nail into something? Gonna need a semiautomatic nailgun. Want to hit something hard? Can’t use a hammer, there’s a power tool for that. Oh, and your nails and screws are shapeshifting. This is how the Opera House was built.

Type script is like javascript, but you retain your organized nailbox. For some reason, not many things were built with it.

Go and rust are like metric, traditional tools with some screws. However, they’re labeled in chinese. In essence, it’s the same as your run-of-the-mill tools. It just takes some time to get to know them. This is how a hospital gets built in a week.

I’ve never done Clojure, so wouldn’t know.

Unfortunately, genocide is much less punished than run-of-the-mill murder.

If you meant to say there’s a G-spot missing in the word “AI” ro say “AGI”, then you’re right.

True, but then again, every album is a playlist.

Yup. Seems quite ragebaity.

“A phone’s schematics are publically available, like those of a gun”

I can assure you, I’ve written no such thing in my original reply.

Sorry for knitpicking, but saying “the rest of the sane world” implies Google is also sane.

The only action taken against your account in case of the charge failing (so not a chargeback) is tou losing access to paid stuff, whatever it may be.

If there’s a free tier, you should be reverted to that. If there isn’t , the account obviously gets suspended entirely.

Cancelling a paid account shouldn’t result in you losing access to otherwise free-tier services.

A chargeback (taking back money after you’ve used a paid service) is a whole different can of wirms, though. Which doesn’t mean you should lose free-tier access in all situations, mind you.

“Ownership” totally does mean it’s yours and you can do whatever you want with it.

That means you can do it, not that you should, nor that what you do won’t have consequences.

It just means your phone won’t stop you from downloading an unapproved app just like a gun won’t stop you from loading an unapproved bullet.

It means your gun has a safety mechanism you can unlock to shoot, as does your phone to download “unverified” apps.

It means you can sell either freely to someone else without it becoming bricked or the new owner losing any rights (lookin’ at you, Tesla cars).

It means defaulting on the loan will require the physical reposession of your phone or gun, and that neither will magically lock you out of using it using telemetry.

It means anyone with the right knowledge and tools can fix your phone and it’ll work, just like your gun.

It means your phone works for you, and not for someone else - just like your gun.

Your phone is a tool. Just like your gun. It can be used for good - and for bad.

What you do with it is up to you, and not up to it or its manufacturer.

It means you can shoot people with your gun, just as you can extort and blackmail people with your phone. Nothing, other than your own morality, the morals of society and therule of law are preventing you from doing bad things. Certainly not the will of the manufacturer.

Any forensic inquiry into a phone on a crime scene would be like that of a gun.

Any taking of your phone from your home or person would require a warrant - like with a gun.

Any inquiry into your phone’s contents and qualities should require outside tools - like a similar inquiry into your gun.

Your phone won’t have a special police-only history of what you’ve used it for - like your gun.

Your phone won’t report what you’ve been doing with it to 3rd parties without your consent - like won’t your gun.

And so on.

Every now and then, I can’t help but wonder

Is me’s AC ready for Summer?

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Israel is trying to whitewash their genocide by “supporting” the conflict that would bring in the most good PR, which happens to be the Russia-Ukraine war.

It says little about Ukraine, a bit more about Israel, but a lot about public conscience - people are rising up against Israeli genocide, and Israel feels the need to do something to shift the media focus.