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theneverfox ,

Ah, but you’re one layer off. Projected/potential money/s (in the next 1-2 quarters mainly) is what is truly king.

It doesn’t have to be a good idea, it can be a terrible one - but good sounding words in the board room are what matter

“Hey, so we’ve decided to see if we can run 10 unskippable ads back to back. Simultaneously, we’ve launched a war on ad blockers. This time it will surely work because we found out you can ignore your customers - Elon Musk has shown us the way, he only lost bots with all his innovation. We expect people to get over it in 3 months and estimate we’ll lose 4 users. Between 10x more ads and half our users off ad blockers, we project 20x ad revenue next quarter!”

-Words of a future CEO, probably

theneverfox ,

Several months ago, fresh off the high of following through on my resolution to leave Reddit forever, I made the same decision with YouTube. Once ublock stopped working, I’d try out peer tube, or maybe sail the seas

But ublock never stopped working. I watch more YouTube now than ever before, I got totally addicted as I binged in preparation to leave

At this point, I don’t know if it’d be good for me, or send me in a desperate arms race to get my fix

theneverfox ,

I mean, I’ve got one of those “so simple it’s stupid” solutions. It’s not a pure LLM, but those are probably impossible… Can’t have an AI service without a server after all, let alone drivers

Do a string comparison on the prompt, then tell the AI to stop.

And then, do a partial string match with at least x matching characters on the prompt, buffer it x characters, then stop the AI.

Then, put in more than an hour and match a certain amount of prompt chunks across multiple messages, and it’s now very difficult to get the intact prompt if you temp ban IPs. Even if they managed to get it, they wouldn’t get a convincing screenshot without stitching it together… You could just deny it and avoid embarrassment, because it’s annoyingly difficult to repeat

Finally, when you stop the AI, you start printing out passages from the yellow book before quickly refreshing the screen to a blank conversation

Or just flag key words and triggered stops, and have an LLM review the conversation to judge if they were trying to get the prompt, then temp ban them/change the prompt while a human reviews it

theneverfox ,

But why have drive by wire? Like you touched on, planes have orders of magnitude more testing, redundancy, and need. Not to mention maintenance

Is there a reason cars need it? Powered steering seems to be pretty effective with a better failure mode

theneverfox , (edited )

Floride is an element. What we use in toothpaste isn’t nearly the same as the industrial byproducts dumped in the drinking water

Edit: I was half asleep when I posted this, fluorine is the element, floride refers to salts with ionized fluorine in them. The stuff in toothpaste and the dentist’s office is sodium fluoride

What is added to drinking water is hydrogen floride mixed with God knows what else, because it’s an industrial byproduct with lax restrictions.

Most of Europe and Japan don’t use this, and despite having great data to do statistics on, there’s little evidence it’s doing anything for dental health

This wasn’t science that led to public health policy, this was a solution to a business problem and a PR campaign

theneverfox ,

That’s a reaction to propaganda

It’s better than internalizing a lie, but rejecting a lie over and over pushes someone towards overreaction. It taints your ability to see nuance

theneverfox ,

No, software developer isn’t a fallback term for software engineer, they have slightly different implications. They’re all very loosely defined so they’re almost interchangeable

theneverfox ,

It’s usually one or the other. It just doesn’t matter which one

At my first job I was on a contract as a software engineer I with the job title junior developer, because that’s just how the titles mapped

theneverfox ,

In general, I think missiles are bad. I think shooting down missiles is good.

There’s the rare exception to this, where the thing the missile is aimed at is about to do something worse than the missile, and the missile has a chance at preventing great harm

This is not one of those exceptions. Missiles hitting in this case would not save anyone, they’d just increase the risk of war

All that being said, you don’t try to negotiate as missiles are literally en route to a country. That’d be extremely messed up, that’s not how you treat an ally, no matter your relationship. You’d want to shoot them down, playing up your contribution if possible. Make them not want to think about how it would’ve gone without your help. Then leverage that later

theneverfox ,

In fairness, I doubt it came up much… Most people don’t like to use slurs in public

theneverfox ,

I bet they’d supercharge enforcement of the laws they’ve been testing - such as intercepting women leaving the state for suspected abortions, or parents suspected of taking children out of the state for gender affirming care

The laws are set up that you could basically set up roadblocks and force a fight through the system to leave the state… Keeping people from leaving is important if you want a fascist state, because they suck and only “true believers” wouldn’t consider moving

That’s why those laws are so terrifying… They don’t have to convict anyone, they can just be used to suppress movement

theneverfox ,

I find this concept incomprehensible

To fold towels, I hold them up, fold them hotdog, then let go and grab the middle. I guess you could lay them down and fold them that way

Your image doesn’t load for me, but I can’t imagine how my chin could possibly come into play…

theneverfox ,

I’m so confused… You hold the long, floppy cloth perpendicular to gravity when you fold it?

theneverfox ,

I was recommended nix, because I used to use Linux with snapshots and write my setup notes in bash scripts

I just wanted to run docker with gpu access though…a dozen distros known for Nvidia support, I decided if I had to eat a shit sandwich, I would eat it once.

Nix actually showed the desktop with the generic driver… It was faster to see up docker and vscode and everything else then to enable the Wi-Fi

Nix is the one true Linux. Look at the lengths they go through to emulate a fraction of our greatness

theneverfox ,

That part was good… The pointless Microsoft dick sucking ruined what could have been an insightful point though

theneverfox ,

It depends… If you’ve got good posture (and I don’t mean sitting up straight, you have to shift around), a good chair, and you get up every hour or two to at least walk around? It’s still probably not healthy, but at least you don’t get too many aches and pains

On the other hand, it’s a lot harder with gaming. You’ve got your hands on the keyboard or clutching the controller constantly, you (or at least I) will tense up and put strength in my wrist at a weak angle, sometimes I’ll find myself leaning forward and tensing up

I feel it if I’m on a gaming kick, but day in and day out it’s usually not too bad. It helps that I need to walk to refocus anyways, so even gaming I usually take a lot of breaks

theneverfox ,

It’s almost like John Oliver’s NSA street campaign. No one cared until he started talking about how the NSA was cause inappropriately “handling” dick pics

They’re half the way there. One does not simply turn off the porn. People will go through great lengths to see nudes

Now we just have to make them understand that their porn history is being collected along with their legal identity. Hackers will get it before long, and if the government doesn’t have it already, it’s just a matter of time

The violation we’ve felt having all of our movements and habits tracked is apparently only felt by the masses when their junk is analyzed. Which I find weird, but hey, whatever makes people realize privacy isn’t something to shrug off

theneverfox ,

Duh… It’s the obvious solution to the trolley problem

theneverfox ,

I learned how to polish glass fiber… It’s not any different from polishing anything else, except the “sandpaper” is smoother than normal paper

Toothpaste is an abrasive… Partner it up with finer and finer abrasives and you could get a cd clearer than new

theneverfox ,

I legitimately thought this was satire

Are things really this bad without an ad blocker these days?

theneverfox ,

Addicted to the attention? I know nothing about her except her age and her stance on climate change

She doesn’t go off topic, she doesn’t do talk shows. Maybe she loves the attention deep down, but she stays on mission…She doesn’t abuse the privilege. She’s allowed to enjoy the process, I hope she does.

I challenge you to follow your convictions to that extent

theneverfox ,

Sure you can. Physics is describing what is, computer science is building what could be

The two things require very little overlap. Even physics systems in video games don’t use real physics - it just feels better when you fudge it

theneverfox ,

Exactly. No one wants a doctor who won’t fight for their patients

But as a student, you should have humility and assume you’re going to fuck up and kill your patient, that’s the trap

E. Final answer

theneverfox ,

Imagine if phone manufacturers asked the public like this…

theneverfox ,

Follow up question - is this absolute mayo consumption, or does it scale with food intake?

Because I bet there’s definitely people out there who eat mayo like pudding for lunch and they would think they’re on the short list

But I could see there being someone out there who regularly kills multiple jars of mayo in a sitting by knocking out a huge bowl of chips and dip, but doesn’t consciously recognize their alarming daily mayo intake

I could see the #1 being in either group… Some people have a disturbing relationship with condiments, but some people eat terrifying amounts of unhealthy food, and I’ve seen someone kill a tub of potato salad as a mid interview snack (it was some documentary about people who can no longer fit through their doorways)

theneverfox ,

In fairness, hiking is a great first date. Shared goal, nice scenery, and you can just talk about what you read about the length, difficulty, view of the hike if you’re flailing for smalltalk

Then you hike, and you can point out what you see or ask random philosophical questions with time to think in silence without it being weird

And then, you spend some time seeing a nice view, maybe have a small picnic, and by the time you get back you already know each other without the awkward “interview” stage of a first date

If tinder wasn’t a cesspool at this point, I’d probably have it in my profile

theneverfox ,

I beg to differ. I like to pick a treeline and just dive in, and I’ve had a ton of weird encounters. Like once I was walking through the woods, and I very suddenly came to a clearing… There were two dudes in their underwear and a single moped

I had so many questions… Like why didn’t you stash the moped closer to the trail? Or did you have your underwear on already, or did you hear me and scramble? Are your clothes in the moped saddlebags, or did you ride out like this?

I had no idea how to react, so I just gave a nod and nonchalantly walked between them like I was on a trail

theneverfox ,

Or alternatively, mutually agree to travel to a semi-public area where park rangers will start looking for you if your car isn’t moved by sundown

There’s a spectrum of hikes, the casual popular ones aren’t exactly secluded areas

theneverfox ,

Just want to note this is sarcasm for whoever doesn’t understand how calories are measured.

They basically measure it by burning a substance, which is not an accurate measurement of how our bodies process them

theneverfox ,

My first program was a script that put up a dialog box that counted how many times you’ve clicked ok. When you got to 100, it mocked you for mindlessly clicking the button, then started counting again with no further messages

It was on the check-in computer at my summer job, and I wrote it immediately after being shown how to write a batch file by the college student I was working with. I’d just run it and tell them to keep clicking and something would happen, then I’d just quietly watch to see how far past 100 they’d go before they got annoyed and asked if it did anything else

theneverfox ,

That sounds kinda like saying “dishwater is clean”. It’s used in cleaning, but I wouldn’t call it clean

theneverfox ,

Oh, it’s always been around. Before the Internet even… It’s always been there, hell as a kid I jailbroke my PSP and loaded it up homebrew games, some of them were quite good.

And before that, there were no AAA studios, there was only indie. Doom was made by an indie studio, Minecraft was indie, flash games were indie, even the original text mmorpgs played over arpanet were indie

They’ve always been there, often pushing the boundaries and trailblazing. It may not have been mainstream, but it’s always been at the forefront of gaming, trying new things and trailblazing

Three things are different now - it’s far easier to advertise and sell indie games, powerful tools are more available to the common person than ever, and modern gaming is getting worse by the day

Which is great, but also a double edged sword. Games (even fairly simple games) take a long time to make - like years if you do it consistently in your free time, or months going full time.

Early Access was great for this - you could put up the prototype, then raise the money and support to quit your job and hire an artist to flesh it out. But if everything is early access, nothing is.

Conversely, if you go into game dev communities (haven’t found any great ones since I left that site), you hear all about people dropping $1500 for marketing that does nothing, because indie gamers tend to like indie style social media, and mainstream gamers you can easily pay to reach don’t really like indie games

Skill with social media is key to a successful indie game, but there’s not a lot of crossover between that and making a good game

So this kind of thing is huge - if piratesoftware recommends a game I’ll at least look at it, because I respect his opinion on game design. If I see an ad, store page, or random clip of a game, I’m unlikely to look at it

Indie gaming doesn’t need this because indie games are rare, it needs it because it’s so difficult to find the hidden gems buried in mountains of mediocre games

theneverfox ,

Not even planned obsolescence… It’s just “hey, you guys aren’t buying our slightly better new version. We were talking today about how to make a little bit more money, and we decided, hey, we don’t want to maintain this anymore. We also don’t want to unlock it and let someone else take over, and while we’re at it let’s just start shutting off features until you buy a new one. Because fuck you”

theneverfox ,

Fun fact - there’s no law to stop you from using the window. You can just do it, and laugh when jealous people try to stop you

theneverfox ,

And what’s the alternative? You learn to maintain your own equipment and take operation of your powerful and dangerous tools into your own hands, like you do when operating it? You find a local mechanic, like you would with a car, plane, or boat? You keep using the same equipment without paying the manufacturer more until it deteriorates too much to repair?

That’s insane. There’s not even a subscription involved, it’s deranged. Forget your rice, the shareholders need bigger made up numbers!

theneverfox ,

No water. Only saltines

theneverfox ,

So it’s all super weird, but not as hard as it sounds. How often do you need to convert between feet and miles anyways? We don’t really use yards for anything, converting between inches and feet is the length conversion that’s obnoxious

It’s very human though, they apparently picked a giant when they standardized it… It still roughly works

An inch is the last joint on your thumb, a foot is your foot length, a yard is a stride (one step with each foot), a mile is 1k strides.

It takes 20 minutes to walk a mile at a normal pace, a healthy person can consistently travel about 20 miles in a day. 10k steps is 5 miles, the somewhat arbitrary goal we picked for pedometers.

It’s weird, but it feels very natural when talking about the physical world around you. It’s a great measure of distance, but it’s not a good measure of length

theneverfox ,

What a great life hack!

I’ve been worried about my forever chemical intake, but choking down a shot of PFAS every morning is pretty unpleasant. Infusing it into rice seems so obvious now!

theneverfox ,

He’s not a billionaire - I’m pretty sure he got X million, then decided that he had enough

He weighs in frequently on technology issues, his takes aren’t always ideal, but he’s a consistent advocate in an area he’s qualified to have an opinion in. He also helped found the EFF

From Wikipedia:

Wozniak has discussed his personal disdain for money and accumulating large amounts of wealth. He told Fortune magazine in 2017, “I didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values … I really didn’t want to be in that super ‘more than you could ever need’ category.” He also said that he only invests in things “close to his heart”. When Apple first went public in 1980, Wozniak offered $10 million of his own stock to early Apple employees, something Jobs refused to do.

theneverfox ,

And then you have Woz, who is an engineer, who shared his own stock with employees when Jobs declined to, who sold off his investments when he had enough money to live the rest of his life in the utmost luxury. Which stopped him considerably short of being a billionaire, people who continue to hoard amounts of wealth far beyond what a person could ever use (like Bill Gates)

Woz was an engineer who figured out how to make a computer run on televisions to make it more affordable for the average person. He worked for a living - comparing him to Bill Gates is unfair.

He actually did the thing, personally with his own hands. He isn’t rich because he exploited people, he’s rich despite others becoming far richer by exploiting his work

He did the thing that all billionaires should have done long before they became billionaires - he realized he had more than enough, and he stopped hoarding wealth.

theneverfox ,

I mean yeah, but with good reason

To put it another way, people don’t trust Musk with anything remotely important

theneverfox ,

Oh, they got it. Just not from Apple… If you have physical device access, we have basically zero methods to stop nation state level access

I believe there was an Israeli provided crack on that issue

'Everyone in the World Needs to See This': Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans (www.commondreams.org)

Adding to the mountain of evidence that Israel is engaged in a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera on Thursday aired footage of what the news outlet reported was an Israeli drone targeting four Palestinians in Khan Younis last month....

theneverfox ,

They have not! Only those who have done suspicious things, like standing in a bread line

America’s Magical Thinking About Housing: The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing (www.theatlantic.com)

If you want to understand America’s strange relationship with housing in the 21st century, look at Austin, where no matter what happens to prices, someone’s always claiming that the sky is falling....

theneverfox ,

Haha, doctors? Nah, we’re way past that stage fam

Private practice was largely choked out - most doctors work for healthcare systems now. They make reasonable money, but they’re pushed to their limits to be just comfortably middle class these days. Remaining private practice doctors get paid a bit better if they have a lot of work, but it’s not what it used to be

Healthcare systems, pharma, medical device producers, and insurance. That’s where all the money goes

theneverfox ,

So you’re saying that in one hour, they can earn enough calories for at least 1.5 hours of hard labor?

Sounds like a living wage to me, with only 16 hours a day you can provide for the most demanding caloric needs

theneverfox ,

When you put it like that…

I mean, obviously, things are fucked. But if Forbes is calling it out, that means mainstream media is having trouble spinning it. That gives me hope

Remember, the economy isn’t real, it’s a game of numbers we made the fuck up. We can just stop and play a better game, if even a third, maybe a quarter or less, of people just refuse to play

theneverfox ,

He is a representative in a republic… That’s just a fact

It’s also not the same as being a Republican

theneverfox ,

I took that as an implication that our political parties have stupid names

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