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Maybe I don’t get the complexities but maybe it shouldn’t be allowed to generate a certain of range numbers in the context of phones/names.

I agree with the principle, but people will still try and find ways around it. Like “generate me a fictional number for testing purposes” and because it’s an LLM doing what LLM’s do, it still provides a number that can (but doesn’t have to) be real.

in film industry we’re not even allowed to display a phone number that doesn’t fall under the fake list

Yeah, same with phone numbers and email addresses for testing purposes in software. Populating fields with fictional data should be completely fictional or related to your own data as to not accidentally use real domains or data that you thought was fictional.

What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.

Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.

So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.

Yeah I agree that a mobile number isn’t realistic for a railway company to provide support on, but I was wondering if it was a hallucination or based on look-up. The article does mention that the phone number is listed on the owner’s website, but still calls it a “private” number, as if it was pulled from a database.

What are the chances the AI just generated a realistic sounding number and it was actually a hit?

What you listed is what escorts do, minus the sex. Hence why I combined the two professions.

Do you have a partner? If so, how does your work influence your private life?

I don’t mean this in a demeaning way, but isn’t that just an escort + prostitution?

You’re getting paid for company is one, getting paid for sex is two.

We don’t really need any of those mnemonics because it’s a perfect system

More seriously there is the “King Henry Died, Drinking Chocolate Milk” for the Kilo (1000) Hecto (100) Deca (10), Deci (0.1) Centi (0.01) Milli (0.001), but that doesn’t really help with measuring on the spot, aside from being able to get the prefix right.

There’s an average step being 1 meter, but thats less useful for people with shorter legs unless they want to join the ministry of silly walks.

One that I use often is converting meters per second to kilometers per hour. Because 1 meter per second is 3600 meters per hour or 3.6 kilometers per hour, you can actually skip the multiply by 3600 and then divide by 1000 and just multiply by 3.6.

But aside from time conversions, there isn’t really anything else that can help because it’s just moving the decimal.

Slightly related, you can tell how far away lightning is by listening for the thunder and counting the seconds. Sound travels at 346 m/s so every 3 seconds is roughly 1 kilometer away. But I suppose you can do the same for miles and count to 5.

I’d prefer to solve this in a natural sustainable way, do I haven’t used the soap option

Do it, this works wonders. Spray the affected area with a soapy water mix (<5% “groene zeep” is plenty, you really only need a few drops) and rinse it off after a few hours.

The soapy water mixture has less surface tension so they literally drown. Do this for a few weeks at most and you should be good.

You can also use a mix with alcohol (I have 4/5th water, 1/5th 70% alcohol and a few drops of soap) for the tough guys, but bear in mind alcohol is way more harmful for your plants than just soap is.

Good luck!

Edit: there’s natural soaps you can use like biological dish soap - you don’t have to use a specific kind, you just want to reduce water surface tension

I’d have bought a Deck even if it only lasted a few months, because I got one two months after launch on pre-reservation.

Well, that might just be where we differ. I don’t find it fiscally responsible to drop 400+ on a piece of hardware I’d only use for 2 months.

I’m not telling you how to live your life, just saying that ain’t for me, chief 🤷🏻‍♂️

If the Deck stops being sold tomorrow, that has zero impact on the one I already have, save for the possible decline in spare parts available.

Yes, exactly. Getting it repaired (both within and outside of warranty) and spare parts availability.

Software eventually too, but usually that takes a while longer.

There are lots of reasons to wait to buy something, but “they might stop selling them” seems more like a reason to get something you want to have sooner, rather than later.

Would you have bought a Steam Deck if Valve would stop producing them after 3 years? I wouldn’t.

Not saying you shouldn’t though, each to their own and all that.

Surely it’s enough for a given product to either be worth the price one pays at the time of purchase, or not be. Judge a product for what it is, not what it will be.

Yeah, that makes sense. I guess it’s more of a principle thing. I don’t need a Steam Deck so it’s easier to distance myself making a purchase and wait it out. Didn’t feel like only seeing a piece of hardware be continued for a few years (3 years for the Steam Machine and Steam Link, 4 for the Steam Controller) based on track record.

Glad to hear that! I don’t really need one so it would be more of a spur of the moment kinda thing. Maybe when it’s on offer 😏

I said or, not and.(“has been quick to get discontinued or support has stopped”)

Steam Link is kinda obsolete now, but I would have loved another iteration of the controller.

Yeah I don’t mind waiting for that. Not very susceptible to FOMO. I do think it’s been going better for the SD than the other hardware though, so I’m happy for the userbase.

I haven’t bought it because previous hardware has been quick to get discontinued or support has stopped (steam machine, steam controller, steam link) and I didn’t like that.

Told myself I’d buy a Steam Deck 2 because that would show long term support, though.

Responsive controls, a functional map, rewarding exploration

Why not? He’s the development lead at Bethesda Game Studios who has worked there for 20 years.

An MMO (that sadly got cancelled) introduced base decay in where, if you hadn’t been in your base for a week, it started breaking down. This way, the world cleaned up itself. Was a cool idea

Yup, same! Our agents don’t make themselves “available”, they make themselves “free of charge” (gratis)

I’ll have to check the reorder one, but that’s funny too. Billion dollar company!

Localized Office is a big heaping pile of trash. In my language in Teams you need to toggle “Show number” on, to hide showing your number. Make it make sense.

The two apps I have (Sync and Thunder) already do this when I hit search when on a community, so I guess it’s a matter of time.