ChaoticNeutralCzech @ ChaoticNeutralCzech @feddit.org

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[AI] scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they should, they didn't stop to think if they could.

— Randall Munroe, xkcd 2635

How long before I get the right to sit the dentist in the chair and extract all their teeth?

Post about a masked man with a knife in your town's financial district. Make the police do extra work, they won't investigate "ghosts". Spam the wrong hotline.

They entered the public consciousness by running a massive marketing campaign "Nobody dictates us what we can write" around 2017 (prior to the acquisition), mocked as "Nobody writes us what we can dictate". They are well known for being fringe but I don't frequent the circles of their potential readers so I can't tell you what they think.

Even the "polite" Canadians fought back - and won. Everyone would when it's the economy at stake.

Still, no way he's touching truck prices.

tonnes

grammes

Did an Old English speaker write this?

I recognize the dashboard font... This is an early 2000s model from the VW-Konzern.

You can go 90 outside cities in Europe

Lemmy's growth has stagnated but it will persist. Trust in LJD (the Sync dev) will not.

How the Czech cultural identity was born:

100s of 1000s of $$

This is cursed and looks like "hundreds or thousands of dollars" at a glance. Just say "100,000s of dollars" or "$200,000+".

He knows he won't be able to grift forever so he moves fast and (often intentionally) breaks things. If you need an E word, there is edaciously but that's not very well-known.

They have an LED each in the top-right corner of the corresponding dot. The LEDs use different driving signals (much higher frequency and not just when the display changes) but are kept in sync with the slow-updating display to allow both technologies to complement each other: they do work in total darkness and faulty dots have LEDs as a fallback; the LEDs are half-brightness at night, full brightness at dusk and off in daylight.

Also, they were significantly LESS expensive than a sufficiently luminous LED display in the 90s before superbright LEDs existed.

As I said in another comment, they weren't designed for ads but info signage, so they don't actively catch attention, which is what you want to get a visually cleaner environment.

This is in general for LED text signs. The "inventors" (more like engineers because they just combined multiplexing with superbright LEDs) OP mentioned probably didn't specify a purpose, they just wanted a more reliable alternative to mechanical or manual signage but yes, most are for ads.

They do need to be that bright at daytime, and most indeed use automatic brightness by default. If only there was a technology that could use daylight instead of fighting it...

Fuck. My autistic self has enough problems already and recently I get all gender-questioning while hugging my Blåhaj (still comfortably cis by day though). Seeing articles that imply I am "at risk" of being queer does not help: I don't want to go through the phase of finding out and potentially having to tackle the choices and processes involved before I sort out my ADHD-like symptoms. Trans folk REALLY is brave to have picked the fight against all the social norms. Should I unsubscribe from 196 to hopefully reduce the temptation to find out? Yes, I'm a bit of a coward.

Every single one in the Czech Republic. Some only play if you are slow to whip out the next item or card.

"Scan your [trademark] loyalty app to collect 3 points"

Doesn't mention the tiny "skip" button on the screen.

President of Pakistan: "Our Neighbour's Been Getting Too Much Attention," Renames "Indian Ocean" To "Asian Ocean"

/s

The article literally says

• Google Maps will display both Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America to users who are neither in the US nor in Mexico.