ICastFist
@ICastFist@programming.dev
Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor
- Comment on Free land for those who will build on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK's social housing problem? | Phineas Harper 1 week ago:
giving packages of public land worth up to £2m each to community-led organisations such as housing co-operatives, on the condition that they build social housing.
There better be something to deal with potential astroturfing, because a for-profit company can easily make a “community-led organisation”
- Comment on *Proceeds to append an exclamation mark* 1 week ago:
And don’t you dare use stuff like
,orças a special character! - Comment on Some have greatness thrust upon them 2 weeks ago:
As a cishet man, I tried a regular sized one that my ex left behind. With the whole having a prostate thing, I expected to feel something at least interesting, but after a bunch of pose, speed and angle experimentation, it felt like a nothingburger, which really left me disappointed.
- Comment on Some have greatness thrust upon them 2 weeks ago:
You expected powerful lower muscles, but little did you expect the chosen one to be the great swallower
- Comment on Don't 2 weeks ago:
Shh, don’t tell him that, you’ll break his fantasy of the big bad gubmint being the only thing between him and being the next melon musk
- Comment on Don't 2 weeks ago:
It’s only cognitive dissonance until you remember that police obeys whoever has money, just the way libertarians and ancaps love
- Comment on Anon plays an RPG 2 weeks ago:
One thing that is easing me into using items is watching speedruns, of all things. Hell, I used to be an ammo hoarder for side-scrolling games that had them (Jazz Jackrabbit, Mega Man), nowadays I prefer to blast the powerful stuff
- Comment on Anon plays an RPG 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure Phoenix Down insta killing undead continued afterwards, I recall that working in FF Tactics
- Comment on Bang! 2 weeks ago:
More so I think, if we’re not fostering a culture of killing again we might get over it completely some days.
Until another group comes around promising to kill all the peace lovers.
Fine, you only capture and don’t kill the evil killers. Some “learn their lesson”, others only pretend to. If you release them, some will come back with a vengeance. If you keep them imprisoned, you’re treating them like animals/slaves.
- Comment on Get Maced 2 weeks ago:
Seems like the type of woman that sounds best gagged
- Comment on NOOOOO 3 weeks ago:
Quite a lifespan for a mobile game
- Comment on Would make a great gift for Christmas 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was a grenade at first glance
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t get swept up in the live-service trend
I guess by “didn’t get swept up” the author meant these companies didn’t go all-in like western studios, because all 3 have their portion of f2p mobile crap, with Konami being the worst offender with, PES Mobile, eFootball and others.
I suppose another big difference is shareholder expectation. In the US, if you don’t grow every quarter, you’re dead.
- Comment on hmmmm 4 weeks ago:
OwO what’s this
- Comment on Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants are forced into debt 4 weeks ago:
Many years ago, ~2015, I applied for a Canadian work visa. I probably used a company site without knowing, as I got a phone call 2 weeks later with a dude trying to talk me into paying the company he represented to ensure i’d get the visa and everything would be fine, trust me bro. Immigration with a 3rd party like this feels shady as fuck, like, what are you even supposed to do if they don’t fulfill their end?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Unlike any of those things, you can work quit anytime, but you sure as hell cannot get back after quitting whenever you feel like.
- Comment on Dating Apps Are Dying 4 weeks ago:
GEE, I WONDER FUCKING WHY??? CLEARLY NOT BECAUSE OF ENSHITTIFICATION!!!
It’s somewhat ironic that dating apps today are worse for their stated purpose than pre-2010 dating sites, which is a really low bar, mind you.
- Comment on We're thinking Urethra or Diphteria if it's a girl 5 weeks ago:
Dranon Dyson sounds like a weirdly cool fantasy/scifi name
- Comment on Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit 5 weeks ago:
Correct headline and conclusion, wrong rationale. The article’s paywalled, but it links to his personal post on the matter, which I’ll quote later.
He said he was motivated to speak now because recent improvements in A.I. had far surpassed his expectations and because the industry had ignored technology milestones — like A.I.’s escaping the control of its creators or making recipes for bioweapons — that it once said would warrant more caution.
“OMG AI is getting too powerful!” Is the kind of bullshit the media loves to display because it keeps the AI bubble going. It’s totally not a trillion dollar grift, you guys!
If the world takes the right steps AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.
[AI] can watch the same training video that is used to train human workers and learn from existing data.
The people who need the most time [to prepare for the upheaval] are the ones who have the least—the accounting worker who’s replaced by a bot or the $20-an-hour worker who loses their job to a $10-an-hour robot.
Many Americans I talk to don’t realize how fast dexterous robots are advancing because much of the advanced work is being done in other countries, primarily China.
I’m especially worried about young people, who will enter a workforce with fewer entry-level openings. They understand the challenge because they are the most active users of AI and see both the capabilities and the rate of improvement.
As expected, Bill isn’t worried about excessive energy and water usage of the datacenters, the uselessness of the GPUs once there’s no demand for the compute, the circular economy of nvidia selling its GPUs to companies it is financing directly, the actual cost of tokens and how any AI company can ever be profitable, kids literally destroying their capacity for planning and thought, people falling prey to the sycophant bullshit to the point they can lose grasp on reality.
No, for Bill, the problem is that AI will totally do everything it promises and more, but it’ll happen too fast. He’s selling AI, he’s inflating the AI fear because it also inflates the possibilities, bosses read “job loss” and immediately reach an orgasm. This is the kind of shit that Ed Zitron called out a number of times in his posts
Perhaps ironically, this is one of the few things Bill got right:
AI-enabled fraud, disinformation, deepfakes, and surveillance are the harms that many people will feel most keenly in their everyday lives.
Those are already very real and very present today, thanks to the power of AI.
- Comment on Take the pledge! 1 month ago:
I’m afraid someone might take this shit seriously
- Comment on is there a name for when you stop preventing a problem thinking it's solved and it comes back? 1 month ago:
Complacency gets close, though I think it’s more for things where you don’t act when you should, and what OP described could almost count as sabotage - the difference between not increasing the range of an alert system (complacency) and taking it down, in both cases because “we haven’t had an alert in X time”
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
It’s even funnier when you consider that this has been the case for millenia
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
The price of MURICAN Freedom^TM^
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Never, I’m in permanent mode
- Comment on why just "now and then" isn't enough 1 month ago:
No lead acetate? How is your partner going to savor a sweet taste?
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 1 month ago:
That’s going for the jugular
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 1 month ago:
It’s all the hyperprocessed fat and sugar in their eyes, they can’t see straight.
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 1 month ago:
“Netanyahu? More like Genocidetoyou, amirite?”
“wtf bro that’s antisemitic!!!”
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 1 month ago:
No no, they’re not considering suicide, they’re just applying to pilot those F-18 submarines!
- Comment on If only I could power them with my disappointment 1 month ago:
The phones are sooooooooooooo thick and unwieldy because of that hole!!!