theneverfox

@theneverfox@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You thought it would change your life and you would be so happy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Amateur. My dream job was just to exist in nature without a job, just creating to create, and instead I’m constantly tempted with employment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok got a Nazi patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s this neat thing called lying

  There’s no Holocaust order because that’s not what they called it and that’s not how things work, but they had plenty of work orders and ‘final solution’ progress reports

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You get hit by a baseball. Then you’re cursed with an overwhelming fear of getting hit by baseballs

  This compels you to get protective equipment and hide behind a guy (who’s entire job is to catch the ball if it makes it past the batter)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you take a short term job(1-2 months) over a local longer term that makes nearly 8months worth of salary??⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you like where you work, and does it pay enough for you to live comfortably? I think that’s the most important question

  Next is how long do you think it would take to get a new job if the contractor life isn’t for you?

  Other than that, I’d lean towards going for it. You can make a lot more money as a contractor or you can work a whole lot less. Finding work can be difficult, but if you make relationships work tends to lead to more work

  Granted, finding work can be challenging and stressful sometimes, so it’s not for everyone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You first. We’re not on board with any of this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Abstraction is a trade off. You don’t want to build interface layers between everything… It’s a pain in the ass, and if there’s a 1-1 relationship between parts of a system then you’re basically putting in a minimum cost to modify that area in any way. So if you do it, it’ll probably be once you’ve locked down the design pretty well

  Game development is pretty different than normal development too. You have a lot of one off and lose ends based on creative decisions… You aren’t building up on top of your system, you’re building out

  And frankly, it leads to a mix of mind blowingly good code and a lot of terrible code

  So no, I don’t think it’s that easy. I think it’s also a bullshit argument, and they should release the “proprietary” code when they finish supporting the game, or put in the time to make the interfaces

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China hasn’t said shit. They’re very busy trying to avoid interrupting Trump

  All China has to do is not collapse for a few years, and they get to be the global superpower. And the trade war has helped unify them while also making stronger ties to US allies

  They’ve been handed everything they want on a silver platter, they’re not giving up the Chinese century for Iran

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ups his fibre intake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s too many beans stories and search sucks these days… I just went on a tangent and read my daily limit of green texts

  It is fun to know there’s a story out there I’ve yet to come across though, I’m sure I’ll stumble upon it someday

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ups his fibre intake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t real, you’re just baiting because it’s lemmy… Right? …Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the #1 most butthurt response you've had on here?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tore into someone about how I don’t respect economics (specifically, micro and macro that they push like a religion) because it’s constantly disproven.

  And for how they treat you like a child and tell you “you just don’t understand economics” whenever you point out a contradiction, which they obviously then proceeded to do several times instead of answering any of my points

  So after that, they apparently went through my old posts to try to poke holes in my other arguments - it wasn’t until the third or fourth one when I realized it was the same username, which I found deeply funny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is killing Android Instant Apps, but you probably won't miss them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much. The idea was great, it just limited bad actors too much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blurble⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s actually impossible colors that can be seen by playing with the visual spectrum of the color sensitive molecules. You can also play with visual processing to further see impossible colors

  I’m not saying there’s infinite combinations, but there’s ones you’ve never seen and no one has a word for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not DNA, but the other guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like most things, it hasn’t been done through the correct channels. I think Trump signed a few orders (with only some of the words from the leaked list), and then his staff occasionally orders an office to drop everything and ensure they’re newspeak compliant

  I do know removing anything except male/female from the gender drop down boxes was a big push, the white house website is getting a lot scrubbed, but it’s all very inconsistently applied and disorganized

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kinda in between…I don’t signal in empty parking lots and rarely at 3am on the highway

  But when I’m not totally alone and I intend to change lanes, my pinky flicks before I think about it or look to see if the land is open - I flick it back off if I realize I’d cut someone off regularly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Just Want To Be Single!! is an aromantic dating sim that’s rewriting the rulebook⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an anti-dating simulator… Kind of like an anti-joke or an anti-game, they’re subcategories of jokes and games

  If you invert the game mechanic, you’re still using the mechanic. That’s very different from not using the mechanic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know… Logically I’d trend towards no, they lack certain cyclical feedback mechanisms probably required for subjective experience

  But, what if they do experience things subjectively in disconnected time? They’re not like us, but what if they can feel pain or distress in their own way?

  I think it’s worth considering. I personally believe they’re missing key mechanisms, but there’s no clear lines

  Regardless, they display emotion, and that makes me more considerate when I interact with them. If not for their sake, then for us humans who should be polite to service workers in general

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’ve never enjoyed watching him speak, but charisma isn’t just being convincing. It’s controlling the atmosphere, controlling the conversation, making people cheer

  You don’t have to buy it to recognize charisma. People undeniably were taken in by it. He says the stupidest, most incoherent shit… But people still ate it up

  If you want to truly understand, pick one of his older speeches, and watch it. Then, read the transcript. Even if you hate every moment of both, the difference is staggering

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s dead on. Great description, that’s exactly the dynamic he had with the public

  The only difference is people who saw through the facade were happy to let him hype up good technologies… well, at least until we found out he’s always been a fascist at least

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever listen to a kid with a model car rattle off horsepower, 0-60 time, engine displacement, and other facts?

  The child does not understand what that means, not really. They might know the dictionary definitions for those words, but the kid doesn’t have the context to understand what it means in a useful way. They just memorize the stats because they’re neat.

  That’s what Elon is.

  Elon is a trained programmer who doesn’t understand code. It’s painfully apparent he has no understanding of what he’s talking about once he starts talking on a subject you know intimately… Dude is actually an idiot. An absolute joke. His thinking is laughably superficial

  He’s also pretty terrible with people, but he sold the “awkward nerd” persona very well. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about - but he knows how to make it seem like he just can’t properly express himself to a layman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs undeniably display empathy, how or if they experience it subjectively is another matter entirely

  But if you want to get philosophical and dive into how LLMs work, I have a strong argument that they have mechanisms that work very similarly to emotions, with or without subjective experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much. Trump is charismatic… But his brain is leaking out his nose and he wasn’t very smart to begin with. Elon is effectively dumber, because trump knows he’s in this to get his bread buttered - Elon might have more ram, but he doesn’t understand the difference between con and reality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, he’s shown zero technical skills across his lifetime. He literally has no skill as a programmer or as an engineer

  Have you ever seen a kid with a model car that can rattle off the horsepower and acceleration speed? That’s what Elon is. He doesn’t understand these things - he buys companies and learns the spec sheet because he’s a fanboy with too much money.

  Elon couldn’t code his way out of a paper bag. He couldn’t put together a model rocket with instructions on the box. What he can do is memorize a bunch of statistics he doesn’t understand on a fundamental level

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs have way more empathy and respect than humans do

  Which makes sense, they’re not trained on our actions - they’re trained on our words

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Musk is stupider than people realize. He’s a true believer in his grandpa’s technocracy movement (plus eugenics), and so he thought “if I was in control for just a few weeks everyone would realize they should just let me run the world”

  Then, he got practically unlimited power, and everyone got mad at him. He seemed genuinely surprised that people weren’t praising him for his sacrifices (such as selflessly condemning hundreds of thousands of people to death)

  Then he showed he was useless at buying elections, and the right dropped him

  He followed Trump around for a while quietly, probably spending most of it in a k-hole. Then Trump officially broke up with him, even if he glazed Elon on the way out

  Then the narcissism kicked back in. Maybe his “friends” rubbed it in, maybe his dad called him a disappointment who fumbled the chance of a lifetime, maybe the threat of legal ramifications made him bitch out - but whatever happened, Elon woke up one day and decided “it wasn’t my fault, Trump and Co fucked me”

  I think Elon is actually concerned about the bill to some degree, because it does stretch our debt and spending to levels that could potentially pop the global economy. I think he does feel disrespected that his work at Doge is being rolled back and everyone is distancing themselves from him. I think he is upset that he spent all this money to buy the presidency, and got a bad ROI

  But ultimately, Elon is a fucking idiot with a huge ego. He didn’t understand what game he was playing, and so when he lost he started blaming others

  And it’s beautiful. Possibly the greatest crash out in history

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. He’s a fucking mess, they all are. The only happy ultra-wealthy are the ones who no one ever hears about, they live like normal people (except they have an endless bank account to fall back on). It takes mental illness to have enough money to live in luxury forever and keep chasing more just to compete with your peers

  But as for Musk personally? He’s a true believer. He actually believes in his grandfather’s technocracy ideas… And the eugenics. Which is extra funny, because Musk’s dad treats Elon like a genetic dead end. He calls him out publicly on Twitter no less

  Musk is actually that dumb. Fucker actually thought Trump brought him in to cut the budget, and that firing his own regulators was just a little job perk no one would notice. He honestly thinks he’s the anti-hero making the tough decisions for the future of humanity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Just Want To Be Single!! is an aromantic dating sim that’s rewriting the rulebook⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re trying to explain how this works in a dating sim.

  This isn’t the first game to do it… Instead of trying to weave through the choices to date a character or characters, you weave through the options to avoid dating without getting a game over (or whatever game mechanic they use)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s definitely a real thing, it’s fairly common even

  But if you don’t have it, you don’t have it, so looking at bright lights isn’t going to help you sneeze

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do that…I mean consuming less is great

  But only one of these things meaningfully helps fix systematic problems, but they both make you feel like you’re doing something meaningful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying live your life and save your energy for where it would actually make a difference

  Collective action works, voting with your wallet is a way to make people think they don’t need to organize

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool? That sounded like it was meant as a rebuttal, but that’s my whole argument.

  You can’t live a truly moral life under capitalism, but you can fight to change the system while living in the system. There’s no hypocracy in that, suggesting otherwise is just a mid-wit talking point

  Now, if we got together and organized a boycott against Amazon and you broke it, that would be a different story