Still partially in use the UK. We’ve got a really messed up system where metric is used for some things and imperial for others.
We tend to cook in metric but weigh ourselves in imperial (but stone and pounds not just stone)
Distance is metric for DIY and metric for driving.
Liquids are metric for most things and imperial for milk and beer.
Fair. It’s hard to know sometimes if someone has English as a first or second language. People can be really technically good, but then not understand more subtle cultural things.
Never know maybe both of our comments will help some people.
It’s common in English to refer to a collective like a company or government as though it were an individual. I think it’s just a simple short hand really.
Eg “The whitehouse said today…” We know that the whitehouse (a building) doesn’t have the power of speech and that really means “a whitehouse spokesperson working in an official capacity on behalf of the government said today”.
Really the headline should be something along the lines of “what, exactly, are Xbox business strategists thinking?” But because of the common knowledge of how this shorthand works they can just use the headline they did.
There’s probably a fancy linguistic name for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines. - Pink Floyd
Might be worth letting the uni know. Surely they’ll want to fix the site!
Not great, not terrible.
Shit on it, RIP Paul Ritter
To be fair I wouldn’t say we ‘sent them’ more that they left because they couldn’t oppress people as much as they wanted.
🤣 seems like the yanks learned that pretty well from us then.
Found the yank
My neighbour at the time was a lovely rough diamond type with a big knife scar down his face. He said he had an idea who it might have been and was going to have words.
We moved out of that area not long after.
Our cats are indoors. They used to be outdoors then some cunt shot one with an air rifle.
Another Brexit Benefit
Fuck Nigel Frog face Farrage, The Haunted Victorian Pencil Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lord David Pig Fucker Cameron, Maybot, Boris I don’t care where I stick my Johnson, and all the rest of the Tories who either actively supported this or were to self interested to not rebel as their leaders doubled down on their Brexit folly again and again.
Excuses excuses.
The links to Wikipedia are actual citations to real sources
I read an interesting article a few years ago about the Wikipedia source problem. It did a dive into how sources that seem legitimate on Wikipedia can and up citing sources that are less so. They were able to trace back the citations to Wikipedia itself. So no, they’re not always real sources.
LLMs basically just generate something that looks like the link to a credible source which might support what it’s said. It doesn’t care if its “source” actually supports what it says.
Which is why you read the page it has linked for you as a source. Unless you’re trying to say it full on generates a page for you.
What I mean is I use it to get the links to those sources. Like when you use Wikipedia as a jumping off point. I don’t think we’re at the point yet where we have the problem Wikipedia sometimes has that the sources used sometimes themselves just cite Wikipedia.
I’ve found bing ai is quite good if you ask for the source after anything it spits out.
We did the work so you don’t have to. 😝
Be very interesting to understand what you read there.
U wot m8?
It wouldn’t make it easier to arrange meetings because you’d have no clue if you were arranging the meeting for when people would be at work, have finished for the day, or fast asleep at night.