Hello there,

I thought this was pretty funny. It was a response from what was obviously an ai program, posted by some 'member'.
The first is my text, the second part is the reply. I've never seen anything this ridiculous before, but it is comical.
It's a little interesting to note that if that reply was submitted to a university it would qualify to be flagged as plagiarism.
Also, note how it misinterpreted the word "turns" and replaced it with the word "rotations", signifying that it did not understand the context at all.
Note this was exactly the complete text by both parties, not edited and with nothing removed.


[My post]
It's not really that hard to do. If it is just a few turns it works pretty good.
In my case, I am not even sure if I could get a new motor it depends if the manu sells parts for the microwave or just repairs them.
Or alternately, tells you to go out and buy a new microwave

[Post submitted by 'member' merryray 4 minutes later]
It is not particularly difficult to accomplish. Even with only a few rotations, it functions adequately.
Obtaining a replacement motor for my microwave is uncertain; it depends on whether the manufacturer offers replacement parts or merely repairs the appliances.
Alternatively, it may advise you to purchase a new microwave.

 

That AI post was impressive. How could a human use the phrase 'few turns' when it was obvious that 'few rotations' was the correct way to say it.

 

My same thoughts. It seems that a bot read your response and “translated” it to AI-speak.

 

Thinking a little further, perhaps you have found your alter-ego. Instead of MrAl, (with an “el”) it is MrAI (with an “aye”).

 

Wait...that's an 'el'? I thought it was an "aye" this entire time! Man, I hate sans-serif fonts....

 

Wait...that's an 'el'? I thought it was an "aye" this entire time! Man, I hate sans-serif fonts....

Yes you cannot imagine the number of people who think it is "ai" not "AL".
This kind of font is made by the same dummies who make a lot of other stuff for the web.

Another very strange anomalous occurrence is the lack of "AM" or "PM" in the Android operating system. Why leave out the AM or PM in the time?
AM and PM were left out on the *cheapest* of clocks in the past, only included in the decent ones. Why leave that out. AM or PM is vital in telling time and only a very poor engineer would leave it out on a wall clock, wristwatch, alarm clock, etc. So Android is being made by poor engineers who are just too lazy to include it in the main time at the top of the screen of cell phones. It's nuts because it's not hard to add either.

 

Thinking a little further, perhaps you have found your alter-ego. Instead of MrAl, (with an “el”) it is MrAI (with an “aye”).

Yes and sometimes I spell it MrAL just so people are able to read it correctly. Some people who make fonts are just plain idiots.
I have actually made fonts in the past for Windows and none of them had any of these ridiculous letter shape collisions.

In Android there is a very, very, very slight difference in height, but it's only discernable when you look at both letters side by side because the difference in height is so little. Or maybe it is the height difference is so ilttie

 

Most systems use UTC 24hr time. Nobody is lazy here but some are unaware or misinformed about UNIX 24hr style timekeeping and user formats of the internal clocks.

 

Not to mention dates.
What day is 05/02/2024?
2024/02/05 18:36 is unambiguous. Personally, I prefer to use 2024.02.05 18:36

 

Not to mention dates.
What day is 05/02/2024?
2024/02/05 18:36 is unambiguous. Personally, I prefer to use 2024.02.05 18:36

Hi,

Good point.
It gets even worse when we use a two digit year instead of four like "24" instead of "2024".
I use 2024 whenever there seems to be the possibility of a misinterpretation.
I use both standards:
dd/mm/yyyy
and:
yyyy/mm/dd
but never put the day before the month.
I only use:
mm/dd/yy
when there's no possibility it could be misunderstood.

The good point about yyyy/mm/dd is that when sorted with other dates it maintains it's logical sorted order where the dates end up always sorted either ascending or descending. If we use mm/dd/yyyy the sorting mixes up all the dates into a somewhat random order not perfectly chronological.
This makes yyyy/mm/dd preferable on computers for file dates and other stuff.
In fact, in many file operations the year comes first followed by the month and then the day such as:
{2024,02,14} Valentines day
but many systems set the year to be the actual year minus 1900.
In an old old computer I had called the TRS80 affectionately called the "Trash 80" they only used 3 binary bits for the year! That gave you years 1980 through 1987 only! That was nuts, so I had to modify the file system slightly when year 1988 rolled around, and that was a big pain in the butt. I was lucky there was an unused portion of every disk that could be used for the extra data to extend the year.