I don’t understand what you are asking. Do you mean you give it a picture of a cat and it speaks to you in a voice saying “this is a picture of a cat”?

I’m not referring to Diablo in particular. I am just using “level” as the standard video game nomenclature to mean separate areas or content.

Because when you are in level 1, you don’t need all the assets from level 10, and it can just download what you need first.

There is an app called Object Detector which does this. It’s not particularly accurate and can’t recognize a lot of objects though. It does run on phones in realtime though.

When Japan began interacting with China, Japan did not have a writing system. So Japan had to adopt Chinese characters and shoehorn it into their own language, in order to be able to trade with China and stuff. They later invented their own writing systems. But kanji kind of just continued to hang around. I imagine that part of it is just because kanji was already so ingrained that it became difficult to get rid of. It’s kind of like saying why don’t we fix English to get rid of all the weird letter combinations and make it more phonetic? It’s kind of a big undertaking.

Kanji is also very economical from a perspective of how compact it is and how quickly it can be read. You can fit a ton of information in a very small space, and you can understand the words at a glance.

There is a funny thing among Japanese learners. Ask a beginner their thoughts on kanji, and they will often complain about how difficult it is to learn, and how it doesn’t make sense to keep kanji around. Then take someone who has spent several years studying and become fairly proficient, and ask them to read a passage that is entirely in hiragana or katakana. That person will likely complain about how difficult it is to read, because they have to look at each individual character and sound out the words.

But, shouldn’t this have been a solved problem like, back in the 90s? Why is it that modern software like Lemmy still has issues with it?

What banking or e-commerce sites don’t work through a web browser? I’ve never heard of such a thing.

Everyone has their own code of ethics, but I think almost every company has some things that might be controversial or that people don’t like. Even some of my favorite companies have done things that I am really opposed to.

I would not work in a job where I had to directly do things that I was morally opposed to. But we live in a society where huge companies touch our lives in a lot of different ways. If you are too strict about it, you might find that there aren’t many jobs available for you.

Many people have become accustomed to life without ads. I have used adblockers in my browsers for probably the past 20 years. So the experience that you are talking about (just scrolling past them), is an experience that I don’t really know, unless I am suddenly using some other computer that belongs to a friend or something.

People have also gotten away from ads in their entertainment by subscribing to things like Netflix rather than cable.

Once you don’t have advertising shoved in your face 24/7, then suddenly being bombarded with it is incredibly offensive.

So instead of trying to get it running at temperatures 300 degrees warmer, just focus on trying to run it about 250 degrees warmer? Should be much easier, right?

Doesn’t it sound a little ridiculous like that?

You can see on the next line over, there are a ton of empty spots right up front. This is probably some place that’s not open to the public or whatever, or else they just have way more parking spots than they actually need.

5mb to 100kb is not a typical result, so I would imagine that you are comparing apples to oranges (e.g. a very high quality jpeg vs a low quality webp)

I use the subscription feed and it’s how I’ve always used YouTube. I certainly don’t want it giving me random notifications. It’s not like I need to drop what I’m doing during the day just because someone published a video. When I want to watch videos, I’ll go check my subscriptions.

A ton of new tlds became available a few years ago. A lot of newer sites use them, not just Lemmy servers. Older sites that have already been established for a while will obviously be using the standard endings, so if you compare lemmy sites vs well-known sites that have been around for a while, then that’s the reason.

I see the problem as, most people on Lemmy are already signed up to an instance that they are happy with. If the instance offers something to really differentiate itself, such as a focus on certain types of communities, or different types of rules or moderation than most other instances, then it might have a chance at catching on. But otherwise, I feel like it would be very hard to promote an instance if its 95% the same as all the other instances.

Yeah, this seems like such an odd claim, because all one has to do is go to Kbin.social and the downvote buttons are right there.

I mean, are you really that concerned that you might miss some random question on one of the less popular ones?

Then for the next week your internal clock is messed up and you can’t actually fall asleep when you want to.

Learn some alphabets of foreign languages. Russian is fun because some of the characters looks like English letters but have completely different sounds. Korean is also cool because it looks crazy complex but it’s actually extremely simple.

Use it for a grilled cheese sandwich. Or just about any kind of sandwich.