Onno (VK6FLAB) @ vk6flab @lemmy.radio

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source

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WTF .. that's So. Not. Cool.

No, but the lecturer has a bubble jet printer stuck under the desk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zoos_in_Australia

I was not having a go at the OP, and was providing a "wrong" answer, irony, not sarcasm, related, but not the same.

Sarcasm would be me having a go at your attempts at teaching me how to use English, which I won't, since I'm not upset with you, just bemused at your assertions.

Nope.

https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/irony-sarcasm-difference

Dear reader, permit me to introduce you to the concept of Irony.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

To me the issue is caused by how we determine how much tax is paid.

If you're wealthy, you can structure your income in such a way that you are not earning any and therefore don't need to pay tax on that "non-existent" income.

It's also how the multinational companies structure their finances to make little or no profit except in the lowest taxing country around where "all" their "profits" are taxed.

In other words, we need to restructure the tax system globally to measure income and profit differently instead.

With the current crop of Neanderthals in charge, it's unlikely to happen in our lifetime unless something drastically changes. I'm not holding my breath.

If you're at the WTF stages from reading this, you should know that this saying applies: If all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

The author appears to be attempting to draw a parallel with AI, but it seems somewhat lost in translation.

Mind you, AI, or as I like to call it, Assumed Intelligence, is prone to uttering perfectly sounding gibberish which in the industry is known as Hallucinations.

ProTip: Include the closing paragraph of text but colour it in white, so the academic printing out your paper won't notice.

Harry Potter and six of his fellow 40 thieves.

It's to protect the trees from the cars, just like zoos contain tiny enclaves of wild nature to protect against the humans who are behind the wire.

There's hundreds, here's a few tiny ones:

• https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-51468.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250514212230/https://robey.lag.net/2010/01/23/tiny-monospace-font.html
• https://moonbench.xyz/projects/tiny-pixel-art-fonts/
• https://littlelimit.net/misaki.htm
• https://zserge.com/posts/tiny-font/

Example of discussion on the topic:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799686#38802243

Indeed.

I concede that my wording could be open to interpretation.

Yes

Getting paid.

In my opinion, if you're outside the USA your options to accept payment are essentially limited to Stripe and PayPal. Both have a poor track record of customer service and appear to lock funds without any form of human interaction, let alone timely resolution.

If you go outside those two, you're either setting up merchant facilities with a bank, or going down the Cryptocurrency route.

The bank won't condone NSFW content and crypto is full of empty promises, no guarantees and no recourse.

It's likely not difficult to actually do, just determining what's required and permitted.

Your club is a good starting point.

As an alternative, the 8-bit world has been doing this for a very .. long .. time.

Be aware that the laws and requirements for grounding (and associated lighting protection) vary across the globe and within a country, to the point where something required in one location is illegal in another.

I've been attempting to quantify this in a podcast episode for years, but it's currently beyond my resources to adequately document, let alone explain succinctly.

In my opinion your best bet is a locally licensed electrician or better yet, one who is also an amateur.

Fair warning, this rabbit hole goes deep .. very deep!

Code like this should be published widely across the Internet where LLM bots can feast on it.

Apologies, I accidentally reported your comment as "spam or abuse" .. it's not, you are correct. My Lemmy client UI has some .. issues.