TheFogan
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- Comment on Do you think that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike? 2 days ago:
It was more of a slowdown actually, or I suppose more accurately a direct attempt at the “give the people what they are asking for and show them why they won’t like it”.
In short, the police continued to investigate major crimes. But focus less on trying to catch people in small crimes etc… IE stop and frisk kind of nonsense etc… expecting to come out of it saying “see now look how many major crimes happened because we didn’t nip things in the bud”, and it ended basically with major crime going down, and people being happier with the police.
- Comment on Do you think that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike? 2 days ago:
I never blame the workers and my annoyance is halved.
I disagree, the annoyance should be doubled, but directed to those in charge of the workers who treated them bad enough to want to strike.
- Comment on Anyone else think this news story is a bit fishy? 5 days ago:
The death note and how to use it:
If you don’t specify a cause of death, the person will die via drowning in a canal.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m not going to post photos of my friends here for their own privacy. Duh.
Just a note here lol, this is lemmy, generally speaking, Putting something AI, automatically puts everyone into a dislike position.
Second I’d say the agreed concept here… it being AI… means it’s only your interpretation of their style, what to you is normal may or may not stand out massively to your parents, maybe not. If there actually is a detail that you think is normal, but is a huge red flag to your parents we wouldn’t have access to that. So in short, the pic is useless no matter what, you may as well have just given a vague description of it to us. (Hell just whatever prompt you gave to AI would probably have been just as good),
anyway as far as that goes, it doesn’t really matter I guess, maybe your parents have a weird bias against a certain dress style, or maybe some prejudice. Or maybe there’s a swastika tattoo on each of your friends foreheads that you’ve just never noticed.
- Comment on Does changing your last name make sense when you’re not that name? 1 week ago:
I’m missing the concept that you are worried about. Are you worried someone from the Carrington family would get offended when he finds out that you don’t decend from Carringtons? For the most part last names are so common that it’s fairly common to find someone with the same last name, but effectively no relation, and no one governs who’s part of the ___ family.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 week ago:
It’s quintuple ironic because like the first season was basically so good at setting up a “this isn’t like other series’s, no one is safe”, keeps that tone up through the red wedding. Then after
spoiler
John snow is fake killed
It becomes obvious that if a good guy has lived up to this point, they are probably fine for a while.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 week ago:
Yeah, for those who don’t know, in the last season (spoiler ahead)
spoiler
Basically god reveals basically all universes were basically attempts at crafting a winchester story, God basically turns off their plot armor and their car breaks down, Dean gets sick from eating stupidly unhealthy crap, their car breaks down, their infinite money credit card stops working, dean needs a dentist.
- Comment on Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit? 1 week ago:
To go more specific
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Lemmy has about a million and a half registered users total. close to 35k active per month.
Reddit can be estimated as over 400k active weekly users. In short a semi popular subreddit would be expected to have more total active users than lemmy as a whole
- Comment on On the show Mr. Robot, just started watching I'm on episode 9, are all the hacks or whatever actually possible in real life? 1 week ago:
Trying to remember a bit more of it, but wasn’t the usb stick a rubber ducky? I mean it could possibly trigger some alarms, but to note that I don’t think it would register as a flash drive. In short you can program them and make them appear to the computer however you want. (IE it could appear as a keyboard, and rather than copying a file from storage, and rather than copying a script off of itself, it could say open cmd or powershell and effectively run the commands itself (as if they are being typed really fast, rather than actually a script). Companies typically don’t log keyboards being plugged in.
- Comment on Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance 2 weeks ago:
*doesn’t charge you an extra subscription to be able to play games online. obviously games themselves may make their own choice on whether to charge you to play them online.
- Comment on Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance 2 weeks ago:
Exactly that’s how it was before the begining of this year, now everything new is being produced exclusively for data centers… so now it’s just us trying to outbid eachother for years old hardware.
- Comment on Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance 2 weeks ago:
I mean that’s largely true, but it’s not like PC hardware isn’t currently relevant to the current system as well. About 2-3 years ago I went all out and built my son a 3 grand gaming PC (divorced dad energy), about a month ago I looked up the parts. The exact same build that’s now 2-3 years more outdated components, would run about 5 grand now.
So yeah… while I’ve been largely out of consoles for a while now. gaming hardware in general is pricing everyone out right now as data centers are bidding everyone up…
- Comment on When there are news stories of people drowning in UK canals (which are waist-deep) why are there so few people showing scepticism? 2 weeks ago:
I mean what’s the arguement here, that an anti-canal group is trying to hire crisis actors to pretend they have a dead loved one? That the mob is doing hits and throwing them in the canal and making it look like an accident?
- Comment on Are stepkids of super wealthy people kind of rich by extension? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, “rich kids” itself is kind of just an extension of what they are allowed to have, and what is officially considered their possesions. I think biological vs step is a meaningless extension. Say you are one of Elon Musks huge wave of kids, you are as rich as whatever payoffs he gave the mother, provided the mother actually spends it on you. Or one of the russian hookers or whatever the heck gates was up to you may very well be poor as hell.
You can have rich parents that you stay with, but they spend less on you than your average barely making ends meet family.
- Comment on [FNAF] If AI Chatbots are stupid today in real life (with the AI-Bubble bursting), how have the FNAF animatronics actually been smart since the 1980s? 2 weeks ago:
I’d say for the same reason we had actually hovering hoverboards in 2015 in back to the future?
- Comment on Unappreciated in my own lifetime 3 weeks ago:
I mean I think he got it after a few seconds, he did laugh, and then comment how everything was so serious before then and it took him a bit to get it. I don’t think that was why I didn’t get the job.
- Comment on If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away? 3 weeks ago:
agreed there, though where I’d say further it’s about rules internal consistency as well. IE obviously just about every fictional monster has a complete disregard of science, though some more than others can stick to the rules set out in the fictional world.
- Comment on If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away? 3 weeks ago:
Answer to all those questions is that they’re magical fictional creatures.
I mean there is that, but at least to some extent fiction has rules, though it’s worth pointing out most broadly, that’s the issue with popular frequently re-imagined things, as every lore has it’s own complete seperate set of rules. Rules are added, removed, changed etc… for every re-interpretation. Zombies could be cursed, magical or maybe semi-realistic scientific explanation. Same problem if you try and explain vampires, as obviously the classic lore they need to be invited in, can be defended from by throwing rice on the ground, cannot cross running water, weak to sun, can’t have reflections, only killable with a wooden stake, or supernaturals vampires that can only be decapitated and lack most of those weaknesses, or twilight where the sun makes them glittery.
- Comment on Unappreciated in my own lifetime 3 weeks ago:
on a job interview in IT, an interviewer asked me if I understood the difference between TCP and UDP. After giving the best technical explanation I could, I ended with
I could tell you a UDP joke, but I’m not sure if you’d get it.
He said go ahead
I paused, that was it.
Kind of awkward.
I didn’t get the job.
- Comment on Science is iterative 3 weeks ago:
I invented a new power generation method!
Amazing, is it actually new, or is it steam again
… it’s steam again.
- Comment on Why doesn't Daredevil just get 'good' rich people to pay off judges and the anti-vigilante task force police, or get them to make sure Fisk doesn't get into office? 3 weeks ago:
I mean obviously they are portreyed as good in fiction, hence the long list of examples.
as far as the answer, that’s the universal problem with mixed world mixed stregnth superheros to begin with. Same problem why the green arrow can still be dealing with non powered regular schmos with the flash and superman in their universe able to literally reach the city in seconds and deal with all the problems.
- Comment on How does James Bond run and fight in suits? 1 month ago:
Yeah the general concept is… Agents and Detectives aren’t the line of fire people. Detectives are called in AFTER the action is long over, and regular cops would be the ones doing the chasing in the .01% of situations where there’s someone on scene to chase.
Most types of “agents” are pretty boring overall. Interviews, note taking, or if it is excitement they are undercover so, they’d wear what matters for that role.
and of course 99% of combat is, draw a gun, aim for the center of mass.
Physical violence is mostly only done by badly trained beat cops, or failed beat cops that are now ice agents.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Is it a stupid question, if you answer it all in the post?
- Comment on Land where 1 month ago:
I imagine a lot of factors… but yeah that’s a big one, no mountains, no buildings, no population centers, you can miss by 100 miles and just add some time to the recovery.
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
I mean it’s a problem in the marketing and common usage of LLMs. That’s exactly it though, LLM companies, and people are describing LLMs as a way to do research.
IE you could say these criticisms come in things like wikipedia too. IE anyone can write what they want, but what does wikipedia require? right every single claim has to be cited. So if you go to wikipedia find misinformation, you click on the number and see it.
If you ask chatgpt What diseases should I be concerned about in africa, it lists you a few. You can then… google it, find the wikipedia page, and look for what’s there. It’s a tool without a purpose at that point. because it literally doesn’t save you any steps. It doesn’t guide you to the source to check it’s facts, when it tells you them it may or may not be making up the sources. At which point, it has no factual use, or use in even directing to the facts.
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
No one is surprised when the dog gets worms after eating poop it found in the yard. Why are we shocked that an AI that doesn’t know fact from fiction treats everything the same?
I think that’s the problem though, I think the poop in the yard is a better example. Key is the researchers put that information in speculation. That’s like if Anderson Cooper made up a fake news story, and posted it in an anonymous tweet to analyze how far it would spread, and then fox news picks it up and runs with the story all day.
That’s the key problem, people are trusting LLMs to do their research for them, when LLMs just gather all the information they can get their hands on mindlessly.
That’s the key problem, If they send a misinformative article, to a place for untested, unproven random speculation with a very low bar for who can submit… they can determine that LLMs are looking there. Key thing to note is, it’s not their fake disease that’s the threat. It’s that if it found their fake article, then LLMs probably also scooped up a ton of other misinformed or dubious things.
Lets look at it this way, say it was a cake, but we threw it in the garbage, 2 weeks later we find the same cake… at jims bakery, same ID, same distinct marker we put on it.
What does that tell us, it tells us that Jims bakery is clearly sometimes, dumpster diving and putting things up that clearly are dangerous.
- Comment on The forest guy 1 month ago:
You know, that would actually be the funniest possible concept if it actually turned out to be true. We discover the whole wild kingdom is like pulling a toy story on us. All animals are sentient, Our dogs actually speak perfect english.
It’s much like HHGTTG said about dolphins.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 1 month ago:
A bit of a rough one, but I’d say it’s passed the point of concern. IE I tend to view it in life stages. 25-46 is IMO a lot less creepy than say, 20 dating 30. In spite of the gap being halved. Graduating college is a big step, getting started in a career.
Once you are in a career path, life doesn’t really change all that much. age differences don’t matter so much anymore provided both are past all the big shifts.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 2 months ago:
Big corps do this the reverse way.
First off for the most part, high prices isn’t where big corps are screwing us usually. Least not on luxury goods. Mainly low wages is the real killer, our shit is stupidly cheap. Prices that are only possible via exploitative labor and high environmental destruction. So even the premise is flawed.
But then the bigger thing, even if you could say sell something below amazon’s price… and keep up with inventory and shipping to keep doing it. Amazon can, and will bring their price down… temporarally, only as long as you are still selling the product. They have bots watching everything… and they will undercut you. For them it’s not a big deal, they are in basically every other industry, so while you are still paying for hosting, some bare minimum staff needed to get and sell your product, amazon can just undercut you, make sure you have no customers and starve you out, and the second the bots see you are no longer selling… they jump their prices up to where they are profitable again.
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 2 months ago:
worth noting, e-mail however was… If I recall ascii porn was among the first things sent.