theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- Comment on Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress 10 hours ago:
Seriously… The closer to three edge we get, the faster enshitification goes. No one is writing algorithms with users in mind… Not for a paycheck anyways
We’re getting to the point where we all need to carve out bubbles of curated Internet for our friends and family
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 17 hours ago:
I’d personally love an ev bike, but it’d be wasted on me right now. I really want an electric car because you could run the AC all night and power a computer - I want a little hotel on wheels
- Comment on Autism 19 hours ago:
That title is amazing
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 2 days ago:
Just pause awkwardly for a second, long enough to be felt but not long enough for them to start talking again, and bring up something unrelated
It’ll hit them with the feeling of social rejection, but without the confrontation or giving them anything to latch onto. Nothing to get offended about or argue against, there’s nothing to react to there
It might take longer, but it’s not a request to stop - it’s training them to not bring it up. It’ll make them uncomfortable to talk about it - even if they force themselves it’ll be uncomfortable for them
(Unless they’re high on the spectrum, in which case direct is better all around)
- Comment on Done, what's next? 1 week ago:
Didn’t you hear then? It’s a key, now start sticking it in things
- Comment on fight the power 2 weeks ago:
I always wondered… So in theory trackers are harmless. But for a bird? They’re freaking huge. Birds fold their legs up tight to sleep. It’s a small fraction of their body weight on one side, all the time, for months or years… That can’t just be a minor inconvenience
It’s got to be like wearing a work boot on one foot and a tennis shoe on the other every day
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
You too
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
I really have no idea why you’re acting like this is a common argument people get into…
This is a very old and organic tradition you’re criticizing as an outsider. It’s given by the community as a person’s contributions change into a legacy that will inspire new generations and ingrain respect for the shoulders you stand on
Without understanding the what and why, you’re arguing against a cultural practice in the scientific community. I’m trying to give you context, and you keep trying to poke holes instead of trying to understand
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Einstein didn’t lay the foundation for the technology, he laid the foundation for the standard model. We call him the father of modern physics. He made the math work, the bomb was already being developed by the Germans. He didn’t come up with the idea, he didn’t come up with the technology, he just consulted.
Oppenheimer built and led the team that built the bomb. The theories weren’t complete, the technology didn’t exist, no one had laid out an equation that enabled the technology - they did all that in the Manhattan project.
Every person called the father or mother of <field of science> is a hero, in both the literary and personal sense. They represent looking at something in a new way - their name is an embodiment of a certain way of thinking.
You took a shot at that for no reason
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
What I mean is if you don’t slice time into slots, you’re not using time slicing. It doesn’t make sense to talk about time slicing at all anymore
Two devices can transmit at the same time with all sorts of setups, even on the same frequency. And it’s not inaccurate to describe time slicing as “a method to allow multiple devices to transmit and receive simultaneously”
The question isn’t valid. Being truly pedantic would be pointing out that any number of devices can transmit at the same time, you didn’t say the messages would be received
- Comment on NOW GIT! 2 weeks ago:
They also lay the eggs from needlessly higher than necessary, so that they might crack one of existing eggs while their at it
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
From a human perspective, yes, that’s exactly what it does
If you want to get pedantic about the technical details, it’s not time splitting if you’re not splitting the time…
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
802.11: am I a joke to you
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Time splitting is just lazy frequency hopping, change my mind
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
She invented the foundation of the technology
We call Alan Turing the father of modern computing, because he invented the foundation of the technology
Women more directly involved wouldn’t be the “mother” of the technology, they would be the “creator”
- Comment on Strange goblin creature 3 weeks ago:
Are we really?
Or are we actually just a subsystem in the climate control system being driven around by a huge colony of bacteria?
An interesting quirk of human consciousness is we justify our decisions retroactively. It’s how our minds work - most of what we do isn’t chosen by our consciousness, it’s snap decision making.
If you ask someone why they chose an apple instead of a banana at the cafeteria, they’ll probably rationalize it as a decision they made “I prefer apples” or “just feeling an apple today” or maybe even “I’m trying to get my fiber up”
They probably didn’t make that decision, their body did. Maybe their rationalization is true and in line with their previous thoughts - but they were talking to you, they probably didn’t weigh that decision at all. The animal they run on chose the apple
But it goes deeper - do we ever choose anything? Think about doing something you have to work yourself up to - introducing yourself to someone attractive, public speaking, jumping off a high dive.
You sit there and convince your animal self to do it. You’re not acting, then you are, because you’ve convinced the animal.
And the bacteria just might be in charge of the animal
We’re basically language models used to coordinate between ourselves and coax the animal when it gets stuck
- Comment on A wonderful day begins 4 weeks ago:
No, see they’re mostly there so children learn to
obey through intimidationtalk to police, and they definitely never use it as a punishment detail for officers who got in trouble for anger issues - Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
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
- Comment on Even this post is propaganda. 4 weeks ago:
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
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
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
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 5 weeks ago:
I legitimately thought this was satire
Are things really this bad without an ad blocker these days?
- Comment on How to open a textbook 5 weeks ago:
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
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
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
- Comment on So sad 1 month ago:
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)
- Comment on You will certainly not regret 1 month ago:
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
- Comment on Teenagers. (I'm 17) 1 month ago:
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
- Comment on Saw this fucking ad so I had to fix it (original add in post box) 1 month ago:
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
- Comment on Saw this fucking ad so I had to fix it (original add in post box) 1 month ago:
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
- Comment on Saw this fucking ad so I had to fix it (original add in post box) 1 month ago:
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
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 1 month ago:
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”