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Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate
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Quantum! don't forget quantum, you filthy peasant.
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Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate
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Quantum! don't forget quantum, you filthy peasant.
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Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?
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Please don't hate me: Paris, really.
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What popular TV show did not do it for you and you quit watching?
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I completely understand and it took me three tries to get through the first few episodes... and then the biggest shock is that you end up partly understanding and feel these horrible people. At times, you may even root for some of them. It's definitely taxing for most of us but that's what makes it a great show.
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What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body?
I can trigger a few seconds vertigo attack when I lie down. If I do not think about it when going to bed, everything is fine. But if I think about it, then it invariably comes.
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Here's a breakdown of the cost of an EV battery
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Yes, rounding can do that sometimes.
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Le monde va changer de base shoobidoo wha shoobidoo doo
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do you have a recommendation for bluetooth active noise cancelling earbuds?
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They could and they will.
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What musicians or bands are huge in the US but not in Europe?
Country artists. Even Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash are unknown to most of Europe.
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What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for?
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Mont Saint-Michel, pop. 25
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First thoughts on ***The Twilight Companions***, by François Bourgeon (5 samples) [slightly NSFW]
It has always been the very best 80s Bande Dessinée to me and I have read it countless times, starting from my late teens. It is highly documented and still utterly poetic, philosophical and theatrical. It's simply better than most of Shakespeare's work. There, I've said it.
I would not dare read it in any other language than french however. Every word matters, every picture makes sense, usually at multiple levels of emotion or understanding.
You can endlessly re-read this serie, just mentally choosing who is the main character each time, and your perception of the world will change. And then you blend it all again and it's vertiginous.
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First thoughts on ***The Twilight Companions***, by François Bourgeon (5 samples) [slightly NSFW]
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Sorry, by documented, I mean that François Bourgeon did a lot of medieval and artistic research to produce those books (as always). But you are correct, his work is also analyzed by scholars and teachers, first among them is Michel Thiébaut with "Dans le sillage des sirènes".
We also have a similar wording "Le tout est plus que la somme de ses parties.". We usually attribute this saying to Aristotle (with some variations)
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What’s the newest way of watching YouTube?
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Less developed countries who need their bandwidth more than you or countries at war... so not really a good idea after all.
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What is the most painful thing you've experienced ?
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Are you me? Also I almost fainted during the first piss after the JJ removal.
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What is the most painful thing you've experienced ?
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For French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"?
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| There isn't really a reason why the spelling is different. That's just how it happened to develop.
There absolutely is a reason for each of your examples, and again, it comes from French : peuple simple modèle ovale