Discuss Online
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 17 hours ago

Having the first name of Al must be frustrating as it looks so much like AI.

message-square
message-square
20
link
fedilink
104
message-square

Having the first name of Al must be frustrating as it looks so much like AI.

Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 17 hours ago
message-square
20
link
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    6 hours ago

    oiI

  • EarWorm@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    7 hours ago

    I’d just go by Elric.

  • Xylight‮@lemdro.id
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 hours ago

    join the serif revolution

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    7 hours ago

    Apparently some people have also confused AI with a certain steak sauce.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    43
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    16 hours ago

    I prefer sans-serif fonts visually but prefer serif for readability. So I use Atkinson Hyperlegible which is a mish-mash of both.

    And bonus meme:

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      17 hours ago

      Atkinson Hyperlegible is such a good font. I don’t care that it breaks style guides or whatever with the mixed serifs, it’s so nice and easy to read.

      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        7 hours ago

        Slash through the 0 (zero) to distinguish from O (capital o) is nice. Those can be a mess too.

        Similar to parent commenter, I don’t like serifs either, so only using them selectively for disambiguation is nice.

    • f314@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      13 hours ago

      A lot of fonts have stylistic alternatives for this, like Inter’s “disambiguation” setting! Not to talk Atkinson Hyperlegible down, it’s a great font!

      There is also Hyperlegible Sans, which is a sort of Inter/AH hybrid

    • SethranKada@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      17 hours ago

      Same here, it’s just so much better.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    12 hours ago

    Our HR person is an Al and every new hire thinks they’re an AI.

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    17 hours ago

    My wife’s coworker girlfriend named “alexa” and he never go out for drinks and so after work because she didn’t let him, so they always tease him with “Alexa, can I go out to get a beer” “Permission denied. Come home immediately”. When they broke up and he got a new girlfriend, they named her Siri and joked that it was a upgrade because she let him drink with them after shift.

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    17 hours ago

    Weird.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    14 hours ago

    Sad AI Gore Noises

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 hours ago

      Was expecting AI Gore rhythm

    • Trex202@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      13 hours ago

      He invented the internet, it’s all his fault, no wonder AI is named after him

  • Thymos@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    11 hours ago

    What’s also frustrating is “al” is a word in Dutch, meaning although or everything. It’s often used at the start of a sentence, thus capitalised and indistinguishable from AI. After reading too much about A.I., which is unavoidable nowadays, it messes with reading everything, because every now and then a sentence starts with “al” and your brain messes up and you have to go back.

  • PunnyName@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    17 hours ago

    That’s why I try to always type it out as A.I., in order to ensure there’s little confusion.

  • FannyMcNuggets@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    16 hours ago

    Weird Al should do a parody of you can call me Al by Paul Simon, but change it to you can call me AI

  • thenextguy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    17 hours ago

    If you’ll be my bodyguard. I can be your long lost pal.

    • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      16 hours ago

      Betty when you call me you can call me clanker.

Showerthoughts@lemmy.world

showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !showerthoughts@lemmy.world

A “Showerthought” is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

  • Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
  • When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
  • More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as “capitalism” and “communism”. If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy’s Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 978 users / day
  • 3.15K users / week
  • 6.88K users / month
  • 14.8K users / 6 months
  • 92 local subscribers
  • 40.4K subscribers
  • 3.34K Posts
  • 101K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • vatlark@lemmy.world
  • forkball@lemmy.world
  • SuperEars@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.15
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org