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#3220252 19-Apr-2024 12:56

Bung:
sir1963:

I have been trying to find a replacement thermostat for a Midea bar fridge/freezer

Does the thermostat have any markings? Forgetting the fridge it came from it may be used elsewhere.

Yes, its one that Midea makes.

I suspect its a situation where excess stock or end of line stock is being bought cheaply from Australia or elsewhere and just being dumped here with no intention of actually offering any service support.

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#3220448 19-Apr-2024 21:47

Behodar:

This propensity for search engine companies to add "AI" to the results. I searched for "what is the difference between product A and product B" and the AI summary gave me a list of differences, with four references. Of those four references, two say that A and B are the same thing, one 404s, and the other is comparing B and C.

This is just the beginning. Soon it will become the norm for everything to be plastered with AI this and 5G that (combine those two with China for bonus LOLs - everything in this video is the opposite of what's real ).

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#3220498 19-Apr-2024 21:54

The appalling standard of English from organisations that ought to have competent communications staff.

This is from the local paper. It’s part of a notice placed by NZTA:

“The aim of the upgrade is to make the off-ramp safer for all users which has seen a number of crashes as the population of North Canterbury has grown.”

Sorry, but that’s not actually a correct sentence in English.

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#3220509 19-Apr-2024 23:43

Geektastic: “The aim of the upgrade is to make the off-ramp safer for all users which has seen a number of crashes as the population of North Canterbury has grown.”

[David Attenborough voice] And here we see, in its natural habitat, the native anacoluthon. Although once thought to be endangered, it has recently been rediscovered alive and well in Stuff and similar publications. Note the typical discontinuity of thought that distinguishes it from other species like the synecdoche and the anacoenosis...

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#3220510 20-Apr-2024 04:42

The stench of the combination of cheap perfume and cancer sticks. It’s bad enough outside but it’s disgusting on a plane.

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#3220648 20-Apr-2024 13:53

Behodar:

This propensity for search engine companies to add "AI" to the results. I searched for "what is the difference between product A and product B" and the AI summary gave me a list of differences, with four references. Of those four references, two say that A and B are the same thing, one 404s, and the other is comparing B and C.

And here we go again.

"Based on a 35 year old female who is 170 cm tall and weighs 65 kg, there are 369 calories in 150 g of Hot Chips."

The first three numbers are, of course, completely irrelevant.

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#3220663 20-Apr-2024 14:41

Geektastic: The appalling standard of English from organisations that ought to have competent communications staff.

This is from the local paper. It’s part of a notice placed by NZTA:

“The aim of the upgrade is to make the off-ramp safer for all users which has seen a number of crashes as the population of North Canterbury has grown.”

Sorry, but that’s not actually a correct sentence in English.

I am doing a mandated course for CPD and the amount of errors is remarkable.

I was quietly festering when I noticed there was the "Chat" option on the screen so I thought, time for some feed back and pointed out three errors on one page. I doubt the policy came in in 1900s more like 1990s. An authors quote "...thee p's" then three lines later they talk about the "the three P's" then the incoming National government of 2017 when reading the text it means the current 2023 government...

They replied the would get in contact with the content creator...would I be a pedant if I continued suggesting changes...I am only 2 modules down out of 10?!

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#3220664 20-Apr-2024 14:44

Wanna bet these were created via generative AI, and no one put any effort into validating the results?

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#3220670 20-Apr-2024 15:08

People who consider it a sufficient countermeasure against global warming to have a more powerful air conditioning system installed, preferably with AI (so that at least something in the house or SUV is still intelligent).

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#3220672 20-Apr-2024 15:23

Reminded me of this.
Australian rants about Ai Rice Cooker marketing.

The "Artificial Intelligence" Rice Cooker.
DankPods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HOrMmWoMA

Ai not really,
Not seen mention of Fuzzy Logic for decades.
Though even that may be more marketing checklist than actuality.

More buttons does necessarily mean any of them do anything either.

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#3220680 20-Apr-2024 16:04

rb99:

Considering we bought them before we got married and that was 28 years ago, I think its curtains for them...

Still, $500 delivered from Freedom for 2 couches vs 125 for two from Target vs $180 from HN vs I think $180 from Big Save. I'm sure you can guess which has the designs I like the most.

No idea how much delivery would be but we got a sectional from here https://www.kiwihomestore.co.nz/ that is till going strong (apart from cat damage) 10 years later.

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#3220682 20-Apr-2024 16:17

Behodar: And here we go again.

"Based on a 35 year old female who is 170 cm tall and weighs 65 kg, there are 369 calories in 150 g of Hot Chips."

The first three numbers are, of course, completely irrelevant.

Equally disturbing are articles written well before current generative AI was a thing but that read exactly like they were AI-generated. Like the design of "bear-proof" rubbish bins for places like Yellowstone which was problematic because the smartest bears were more intelligent than the dumbest campers, so the dumbest journalism is worse than the smartest AI.

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#3220683 20-Apr-2024 16:26

ezbee: More buttons does necessarily mean any of them do anything either.

There's actually been quite a bit of UX (user experience) research around this from before soft-controls and later app-based controls were a thing. People equate more controls with something being better, which is why you had that other centrepiece of every 1990s living room (alongside the TV) that looked like this:

when the only bit of the UI that mattered was this:

With soft-controls and app-based controls it's just gotten worse, because you're no longer limited through physical constraints as to how many knobs and buttons you can add to something. And even the one or two useful controls, which are now software-based, have moved to nonsensical settings like a volume control that runs in 0.5dB increments.

Edited to add: If you haven't done so already, watch @ezbee's linked video for a great example of this.

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#3220739 20-Apr-2024 20:20

neb:

With soft-controls and app-based controls it's just gotten worse, because you're no longer limited through physical constraints as to how many knobs and buttons you can add to something. And even the one or two useful controls, which are now software-based, have moved to nonsensical settings like a volume control that runs in 0.5dB increments.

Edited to add: If you haven't done so already, watch @ezbee's linked video for a great example of this.

I would prefer that to what most devices do now which is have 10-15 steps where the first 3 are nothing, and the last 4 are just the piece of crap driven into clipping so you have about 8 levels that are usable and the gaps are too large.

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#3220742 20-Apr-2024 20:31

The reason I mentioned the 0.5dB figure is that even skilled listeners can only just detect a 1dB change. Most people need 2-3dB before they can detect the change. So you have to press the volume up or down button around five times just to reach the minimum level of volume change that's detectable to most humans. And if you want to meaningfully change the volume by any amount it's ten to twenty presses of the control each time.

Even if the volume is the only control you ever use, as it probably is for most people, they've still managed to screw it up.

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