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Is it really that hard to just apologize? Even if it wasn’t your intention, words can still be hurtful.

I don’t know which country you’re from, but I’m going to guess that the old are catered to because they actually vote and the young doesn’t.

If the younger generation becomes a sizeable voter demographic, then the politicians will notice. A new party might also show up to take those vote, giving them influence and negotiation power.

But for that to happen, the younger generation have to vote. That’s why I’m so adamant in discussions with acquaintainces that they need to vote and that the only valid reason to not vote is legality.

Why would any politician care about your concerns if you don’t vote?

I’ve heard this said by acquaintances before, but even when someone finally says what they want to hear they find another reason to not vote… without exception.

Whenever the topic shows up I always tell people to vote and that there’s no good reason to not vote if you legally can.

I am wondering where these more complex elevator algorithms are deployed, because I never see them.

I was recently at a Radisson hotel in Germany where I was tried to summon an car, but none would appear for a long time. I believe that someone was keeping the doors open on their floor to wait for someone. The fact that all the other elevators were passing by in both directions was actually a bit infuriating as well.

At that moment I really wished for an algorithm that would recognize when an car spent a significant amount of time on one floor and then reassign the other floors to a new elevator.

> I said it elsewhere in this thread differently but people want to pretend the options are:

> 1. Paying a local designer to make a bespoke beautiful poster

> OR

> 2. Use AI

You are wrong and trying to make people you disagree with sound stupid. Stop it.

I’ll tell you then that the options I believe in are:

1. Paying a local designer to make a bespoke beautiful poster

2. don’t

3. Use AI

And I accept both option 1 and 2.

> That's the definition of judging a book by its cover.

I’m not sure whether I disagree that a menu is a book or whether judging a book by its cover is a bad thing in this instance.

A menu has to list certain allergens, but not all. That would be inconvenient. With pictures however, people with allergies can more efficiently rule out or order dishes based on what they see.

Generated images breaks with this. I’ve seen multiple places not add certain ingredients to their images that would be there in a photo. I think this is irresponsible. You are free to disagree though, but you need a proper argument if you want to convince us.

Yes.

I'm starting to see more and more generated images of food at restaurants where I live, but I'm happy to say that its still somewhat rare.

My partner and I usually just give a one star review each on Google when we pass by a place like this and then carry on.

Great decision from Codeberg. I’m only becoming more and more happy with my decision to transition away from GitHub.

The decline of independent thoughts for one. As people become reliant on LLMs to do their thinking for them and solve all problems that they stumble upon, they become a shell of their previous self.

Sadly, this is already happening.

> I agree and to clarify, I meant that the reverse substitution doesn't happen.

Re-reading your comment, yeah its obvious that that was what you meant. My apologies, that’s on me.

> æ (U+00E6) is not a ligature; it's a mostly obsolete character, with different semantics (or phonetics) than ae.

Reading that a letter in my alphabet is mostly obsolete feels really weird. No rebuttal, just a comment.

> It would never substitute æ for ae; that would misspell the word as much as substituting an o.

While that is correct, a lot of other systems actually do this exact substition. If your name contains æ it will be substituted with ae in passports, plane tickets and random other systems throughout your life.

My own username on this website is an example of a similar substition. The oe should be read as the single character ø.