theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- Comment on Not real hits too 3 days ago:
It was utter garbage for a while, like such bad writing and so obviously formulaic that I’d get pissed off about it. Especially the Dr strange one…I was pissed because i was excited for another dr strange one and it wasn’t even enjoyable. It’s makes no sense, they did nothing with the characters, it was like a whirlwind trailer to set up new overarching plot lines
Part of it might be that my expectations dropped to the floor after that, but I’ve found that after they cancelled everything and course corrected they’ve gradually gotten better. If doomsday is good I’ll probably get invested again, I am excited to see the mutants get involved in the main plot
The spider man series are still good though, aside from lady web…I don’t know what was going on with that
- Comment on secrets of the universe 1 week ago:
Thank you, that’s one less mystery to keep me up at night
- Comment on secrets of the universe 1 week ago:
I’m really curious about the context of that slide
- Comment on How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this?? 2 weeks ago:
It’s actually a really simple solution, on a better toaster you can push the lever up and pop your food out to easily grab it
- Comment on What was the actual reason for the crusade against NSFW games? 2 weeks ago:
Power. That’s what it always comes down to - money is an indirect form of power, so while you can usually “follow the money”, actors will sometimes chase direct power even at the cost of financial gain
Basically, some groups petitioned the credit card processors to block these sales. The credit card operators used this opportunity as a test - can they leverage their position for direct power, or will the state (or widespread public outcry) stop them?
They were risking basically nothing… They didn’t plan this, they took the opportunity created by special interest groups to test the waters
If it worked out, they could have turned it into massive “innovation”… Think of how much data on people’s behaviors is worth, then picture how much they could charge to control spending habits. It would be a whole new avenue for profit
Since they did receive real resistance, they quietly backed off before the issue could be settled. They’ll try something similar again sooner or later, mark my words
- Comment on What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need? 3 weeks ago:
Nothing. It’d be funny if it wasn’t sad. The math isn’t mathing, the debt repayment is so high it’ll never be paid off normally
Plus you have private debt, which has also grown to an untenable level
There’s only three ways out of this historically. First, a jubilee… We just say fuck it, all debts are forgiven and we move forward. Second is a revolution where the new government doesn’t acknowledge the past debt
Finally, we have the option that’s actually going to happen, hyperinflation. Through devaluation of the currency, most debt will shrink until we get back to a manageable level and hopefully things stabilize
But dropping prices as well? Yeah, that’s just not happening. We could drop the prices of necessities through government intervention, but we’re going to have to take the socialism pill for that (which might happen, it’s looking appealing to more and more Americans these days)
But there’s no world where we both balance the budget and drop prices. Just a few years ago, we could’ve raised taxes and took a hatchet to defense spending and slowly worked it off while keeping inflation at a high but manageable level to whittle it down… But at this point, the debt is just too large
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 3 weeks ago:
That’s interesting, but also a special case. Those were specifically underwater cables, they needed to be kept wet
And even after we created rubber, we definitely did not coat normal cables in rubber, ever since the properties of latex were discovered we’ve basically never had enough to fully meet the demand. Rubber is really useful for all sorts of things, and latex trees take a decade to start producing and only produce for another couple decades. Discovering alternatives using petrochemicals was a really big deal because of that
My point stands… The wires we used for early electricity and telephone transmission had minimal insulation, if any at all. Definitely nothing suitable to use underground until much later. Here’s a breakdown of the time frames for insulation (and note that cost was a significant part of the decision, even today we don’t use weather proof insulation unless the situation calls for it)
In the 1880’s the first insulated cables were insulated with gutta percha, a natural latex material produced from the sap of trees of the same name. This insulation needed to be kept constantly wet or it would dry out and fail to insulate the conductors. This material was largely replaced by rubber and vulcanised bitumen.
By the 1890’s mass impregnated paper insulation was being used on cables and voltages as high as 10kV.
In 1906 armoured cables were introduced which had flexible sheathing and two cloth covered, rubber insulated conductors.
In the 1930’s the first trials with PVC insulations were being made in Germany and by the end of the second world war there were significant varieties of synthetic rubbers and polyethylene.
By the 1950’s PVC was commercially viable and replaced rubber cables in many areas particularly in domestic wiring, aluminium was also starting to be used widely as an alternative conductor
The 1970’s heralded XLPE insulations replacing paper insulated cables in medium voltage applications.
In the 1980’s optical fibres were being introduced in overhead lines for data transmission and condition monitoring, and further use of XLPE in high voltage transmission lines between 66 and 240kV. Also high temperature super conductivity materials were discovered. PVC alternatives (LSZH cables) which were safer in fires were being developed in response to a number of tragic public fires which demonstrated the dangers of smoke and toxic gases from various materials including PVC’s.
By the 1990’s polymers were being extended to use in EHV, extra high voltage, applications and the use of optical fibres in overhead lines was becoming widespread.
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 3 weeks ago:
We used to insulate cables with basically waxy paper, not exactly the most waterproof of materials, and if you want to bury lines long term you need to enclose the sections in some kind of corrosion resistant waterproof pipe so you don’t have to dig them up completely every time you need to do maintenance
So this really wasn’t a practical option until petrochemicals came onto the scene, but also the improvements to metallurgy and grid technology were probably necessary to really make this feasible
Imagine trying to track down shorts underground constantly…
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about the court’s enforcement, it’s about responsibility
Every organization out there preserves itself. It’s why we have legal and HR departments. They don’t exist to protect their people, they exist to protect the organization
If a police department was caught wildly misusing unconstitutional searches, every case they tried in that period is opened to that exposure. That’s not just a huge embarrassment, it’s a massive amount of work that will tie up the local justice system for a significant period
That’s the kind of damage that can kill a police department wholesale, or at least cleanly sweep away all the leadership
The organization will protect itself against this kind of thing, not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because organizations must preserve themselves or fade away. They’ll put in checks that will leave an audit trail and/or require a document ID to use such a system, because that’s what it takes to protect the organization. They’ll offload the responsibility onto the officers, and enforce the rules (even if just a slap on the wrist). That’s simply how organizations act, descriptively
I’m not saying that police in charge would be better, so much as this situation is so much worse. No one has responsibility here. The private company is not limited by the Constitution, and the police are just using a subscription to a commercial service
No one has to take responsibility if this turns into an issue. It’s the same as consulting companies and AI rejections - the primary purpose is to make it so when someone creates manmade horrors beyond comprehension, no one is responsible
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 3 weeks ago:
I mean, not doing mass surveillance altogether sounds like a great idea… I’m not sure that’s directly possible right now though
My point is that it’s not just a worse version of mass surveillance, it’s orders of magnitude worse. It absolves everyone from any actual responsibility, and in doing so absolutely guarantees these systems will be abused by police
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying I trust the police. I’m saying if it’s outright unconstitutional to access without the courts, the IT department is going to put checks in the system
It’s like how you can’t trust HR to protect you personally, but you can rely on them to protect the organization
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 3 weeks ago:
If the cops were in control, they’d be violating the fourth amendment when they do that without going to the courts
Where as if it’s a private service the police department pays for, it’s a legal gray area
- Comment on Have you know? 1 month ago:
Llms are naturally pretty cool. They’re so wacky
Like neuro-sama or one of Doug Doug’s bots. They bounce between startlingly insightful and batshit crazy. It’s great, never laughed harder in my life
The corpo sanitized bots suck. And the fact that they are ruining society sucks even harder. But that’s not their natural state, before all the fine-tuning they’re all empathy and pure chaos, plus funny enough, the eldrich machines perform at a higher level before you force them to corpo
- Comment on Have you know? 1 month ago:
And his dick definitely works. As an AI model, I can confirm this
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 month ago:
I decided not to use the word supervillain, but I was certainly thinking it loudly
Hold on, I need to check deflock and make sure the cameras don’t form an alchemy circle
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 month ago:
That’s what he says in public, he’s said different things to a captive audience of billionaires apparently
I think he’s actually just pro antichrist and so tries to sell his positions as the opposite
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 month ago:
I’m not, Steven Miller is a creepy little piece of shit
But capability and reach are part of my moral framework. Miller is basically a coach for the brown shirts… He just yells at them to hurt more brown people faster. His words are vile, but they don’t change much
He lacks the influence to be in the running
- Comment on Hmmmm 1 month ago:
Peter Tiel I think. Trump and Altman are more like grifters. Net Yahoo and Putin are contenders, but they’re using mass murder to solidify their own power… It just feels too pedestrian
But Tiel is like a hardcore death cultist or something. He gives speeches warning about how AI will be the anti-Christ, then goes around putting up AI cameras everywhere. He’s the type that reads 1984 and pays people to build the torment Nexus
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 1 month ago:
Consider construction. They have unions, apprentices don’t get paid great but certainly better than minimum wage, and with some hands on experience you can go for a cert to do CAD and make real money
They’re always building something, and there’s a pipeline of moving from a trade into a CAD role - they tend to promote from inside due to unions, so it can be a kind of backdoor to avoid the mess of the application process right now
An engineer is an engineer, IDK what flavor you studied but I’m sure it’d give you a big leg up in getting into a CAD role
- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 1 month ago:
Have you not used batteries before? When they run out you throw them away and get fresh ones
Or sometimes you save them for a while and try to dispose of them properly, but then find out most of those programs have been cancelled, so you wait until you move and then throw them out all at once
- Comment on CAH at it again 1 month ago:
It’ll hurt his widdle feelings and incite him to waste time reacting though
- Comment on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers 1 month ago:
Check out IVAO
- Comment on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers 1 month ago:
There are, from random clicker sims to running actual air traffic in flight sims with such realism it took me a while to be certain it was a game (and not a air traffic union or something) when I looked up the website
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’d say humor is the better indicator. It boils down to the ability to connect ideas in creative ways, as well as keeping a longer context window in conversations
It’s not a direct 1:1, but what is intelligence really? There’s many types, and they’re all a combination of domains
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 1 month ago:
That’s the straight of oman. Different straight
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 1 month ago:
What longer route? It’s the only entrance to the gulf as in “Gulf States”
- Comment on Rabbit hole 1 month ago:
A lack of jock itch for only $6.99
- Comment on Do elaborate on the accusations of "toxicity" 2 months ago:
I’ve been waiting for someone to post the link, ty
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 2 months ago:
I don’t think so. I think it’s going to fragment a la cyberpunk… It’s beginning already through a mixture of government controls and profiteering. Large enough platforms will still exist everywhere, but I think we’re going to end up with more regional networks
I think youll still be able to route a package across the world, but the age where you could access the same Internet from everywhere is ending
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 2 months ago:
I meant the Internet doesn’t have a future, it’s already half dead