UncleMagpie

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[–] UncleMagpie@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago

I use the pronunciation jif too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_GIF

My reason is that I prefer soft g sound when it is followed by a soft vowel I or E. This is the rule used in Latin languages such as Spanish.

Jandalf is funny but doesn’t make sense to me because “a” is a hard vowel with respect to affecting the sound of a preceding “g”.

So I was surprised when I played Elden Ring and saw the Gaols, which is apparently an old English spelling for “jail” and pronounced jail.

It’s all nicely confusing.

[–] UncleMagpie@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

No that’s not the same thing. It’s the difference between looking up how to do something and having it done for you.

There have been multiple articles recently that show AI weakens skills.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2024/12/18/the-dark-side-of-ai-tracking-the-decline-of-human-cognitive-skills/

Btw there’s no need to add strawman arguments with scenarios I didn’t mention.

[–] UncleMagpie@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (6 children)

The bigger problem is that your skills are weakened a bit every time you use an assistant to write code.

[–] UncleMagpie@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Find out in part 2 of The Gift Shop Sketch

[–] UncleMagpie@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I like how Riker is sitting. I think it qualifies as manspreading.

[–] UncleMagpie@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That would be telling

[–] UncleMagpie@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ok this bugs me too.

One of the themes of Star Trek is that humans moved on from the greed and violence of the past. This is due to two things:

  • There was a nuclear war that wiped out almost everything and that taught a lesson.
  • Society is post scarcity. Due to replicators, anyone can have anything they want.

I’m skeptical of the first one because in history there have been several wars that wiped out almost everything and people go back to their old ways in a generation.

I’m even more skeptical of the second one. Frankly, we are basically post scarcity now. The whole world could easily be fed and housed with our current tech. But they just aren’t because of greed and hoarding.

You can bet that if replicators were invented tomorrow they would all be hogged by Musk and Bezos and Putin.

[–] UncleMagpie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Boy, I say boy, you got so many pins in your head I’m gonna use it to make some string art.