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can someone — ANYONE — explain to me why Worcester is pronounced "Wooster" but Dorchester is not pronounced "Dooster"
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 @samhenrigold Must be that added “h”? Clearly “h” is the flag for “hPronounce all the letters”. how is amazon the biggest retailer and their web design not only sucks but also has awful recommendations. just because I bought a blood pressure monitor one time does not mean I want recommendations on more blood pressure monitors.
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  @samhenrigold ahh I hate the “you bought one of these things you’ll likely only ever need one of but here’s some recommendations for more we think you’ll like” thing! 😩 SUBWAY SURFERS. MAKE THE BOTTOM SCREEN SHOW SUBWAY SURFERS GAMEPLAY AND FAMILY GUY CLIPS. I DEMAND STIMULATION. https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/15/23721674/telly-free-tv-streaming-ilya-pozin-ads  @samhenrigold That’s the problem, they made the second screen even more horizontal than the TV! And why stop at two? I need my TV flanked by dual 9:32 vertical displays so I can supplement Doctor Who with TikTok, Reels, Shorts and Temple Run continuously just a heads up for anyone with an apple card: they’re doing 10% cash back on groceries through the end of the month. i didn’t know this was a thing until i got $7 back from stop and shop 🤯 https://offers.applecard.apple/grocery10applepay
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 Slightly offtopic — am I the only one who's mildly annoyed that Apple, the company that made itself famous by building outstanding computer hardware and software, is now also a bank and a movie studio? Steve must be spinning in his grave so furiously.  @samhenrigold it appears that this offer is only valid if you pay using Apple Pay, which excludes Walmart in-store because Walmart is STUPID and doesn't support tap to pay at all. (I hope I'm wrong and you can get this offer by using the physical card with EMV.)  @samhenrigold @mikebrew You spent $70 at Stop & Shop? (Isn’t that a convenience store?) Real question, sorry…no offense. (getting dragged away by riot police) YORKSHIRE GOLD IS THE SAME AS RED BUT MARKED UP. THEYRE LYING TO YOU, BIG TEA IS TRYI it’s pronounced “ten-are-ohs” (rhymes with sbarros) https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/16/apple-registers-xros-headset-wordmark/  There are two kinds of people. I pronounce "OS X" as "o es ex". Same applies to the iPhone X. do you think when god introduced the spork, she was all like "these are not two separate devices; this is one device. and we are calling it: spork"  i feel like more people should know that there’s a spotify feature that lets you block artists entirely. like they will get skipped in any playlist and will never show up in recommended mixes. it’s incredible.   @samhenrigold Here's the most edgy thing about me: I used that feature to get rid of The National. #noregerts I've been a small phone guy for my entire life. But, just for funsies, I bought a pixel 7 pro. Good lord this thing is a unit. It's nice and looks nice, but absolutely unwieldy. I've been through this with a Nexus 6P. Thought I'll get used to it. NOPE. Still want an iPhone 5 that runs Android. @samhenrigold Very nice! I thought about doing something similar to this a few years ago but never got around to it. oral history for one of the designers behind Aqua, Exposé, the rubberband overscroll effect, iOS text selection. sit back and enjoy the ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9XdVWr_70 I've been thinking a lot about alt text recently. People don't write alt text as often as they should. And when they do, most people are awful at it. I think this is one of the single best applications for some multi-modal LLM to step in and write alt text for you.
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@samhenrigold my suggestion would be that you could propose alt texts for others as a Mastodon feature. Either for images with no text or bad text. As an author, you could accept the proposal and it would edit the post. |
