theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- Comment on HOLD ME BACK 1 day ago:
Her skin is actually very rough, like sandpaper. You’re thinking of sharks, they’re very smooth
- Comment on You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right? 4 days ago:
A $500 one is plenty, even phones can run models good enough to be useful (if not near as quickly)
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
Well in that case, I suggest you show up and demand they submit their Nazi for punching so you can buy milk from them
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 week ago:
I say we normalize this
“Hi, I’m here to punch Nazis and get and an oil change”
Make everyone declare they have no Nazis before you get into business
- Comment on Idioms 1 week ago:
Loose lips shouldn’t throw stones
- Comment on Anon uses rare rocks to get R34 1 week ago:
Okay, so like ac in a capacitor smooths current, right? As opposed to DC, where it stores energy?
Imagine a positive and negative terminal with goo in the middle. Atoms move around it randomly in diffusion, but charged atoms are pulled left then right in oscillation. On average, they’d be in the middle
Those ions impart positive charge to the side they’re on, so if your cycle is off in one direction or the other, they’d be pushed to the opposite conductor - smoothing the current
I’m not just talking about an insulator - I’m talking about an insulator fluid enough for ions to travel through based on the charges of the…I forget the word in this context, it’s anode or cathode
Like rubber? Great insulator, but it’s solid - you can’t make a capacitor out of it (or a gate, but that’s more about heat conductivity). So dielectric insulators must be fluid to some degree, right?
- Comment on Anon uses rare rocks to get R34 1 week ago:
I mean, there’s no such thing as a perfect insulator (at least nothing we can build with)
It definitely resists the movement of free elections through… But think a capacitor let’s ions flow, grease is a sort of fluid…
So I’m thinking it must be a material that let’s atoms move around to some degree, but resists the transfer of electrons
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 week ago:
But again, hacking is a tool when they want to go after something in particular - a single lemmy server is minuscule. Even the full scale of everyone on lemmy is a very small target… They might go after it if they have specific reason to, but they’re unlikely to do so when there’s plenty of work to be done on bigger platforms
- Comment on Anon uses rare rocks to get R34 1 week ago:
Yeah, I was thinking of the other materials used in computers and had a brain fart. Although I think dielectric insulators also let ions through, otherwise it’d just be an insulator
- Comment on Anon uses rare rocks to get R34 1 week ago:
Aside from using dielectric wrong (I still can’t remember what the term i was going for is) everything else I said is correct.
What is a MOSFET by weight and volume? Conductive metal. There’s a tiny bit of silicon in each gate, surrounded be metal sinks
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 week ago:
Be careful what you say - don’t call for violence, definitely don’t make threats of violence against specific figures, especially ones in office, and as a general rule don’t spread personally identifying information
Past that? Let’s say there’s a crackdown. They’re going after low hanging fruit to instill fear. By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you
I wouldn’t worry too much. Dissatisfaction is insanely high… They’re more likely to do a great firewall and kill the fediverse long before they bother looking into lemmy accounts
- Comment on Anon uses rare rocks to get R34 1 week ago:
Silicon is, but silicon is like a little layer in between copper, lead, gold, maybe indium or something.
It’s dielectric, meaning it is conductive depending on how you run current through it… But that’s just one part of the gate. You have millions of gates all connected in sigils…
By far, the biggest use of silicon in any computer is the fiberglass board, which does nothing… You could make it out of wood, or just not use one and connect all the components with rigid wires and have a really cool but fragile
lack ofboard - Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 1 week ago:
On one hand, crispr isn’t safe. And life is not something people have a right to create - that tremendous imposition should be met with a responsibility
On the other hand, life is treated as cheap almost everywhere. If we’re going to force people to justify their right to exist, why not take a chance on their genetics to improve the species?
I mean, this was risky science, but not reckless. At some point we need to start fixing our genome, or we’re just going to poison ourselves to extinction
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #4 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t realize I missed this. These days newsletters are so full of click bait they barely tell you anything, I just kinda figured the format sucked. But I liked this, this felt like the old Internet
It was weirdly calming to read through this… Maybe it was that it felt like you really weren’t trying to sell me anything, and so for a couple minutes I could let down my guard?
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 3 weeks ago:
Yep… My first “career” job was for a mid sized company. In my onboarding they gave me my employee number but said “you’ll never need this, here you’re a name, not a number”. One time I emailed security saying I forgot my badge because it was with my lunch, and one of the founders called me up and gave me his prepackaged lunch because he said he usually doesn’t get through them all. When we closed a big deal, they called us all upstairs to have champagne during the workday. Our mission was unambiguously to help people
Then we got acquired… They gave me my new employee ID and told me I’d be using it for everything. They just milked our contracts and refused wages until we all left
And unfortunately, mid sized companies can give an equally good experience with much better pay and job security… But they’re being bought out to secure contracts and gutted at an insane rate.
It’s late stage capitalism… If you want to keep growing but you’ve already destroyed your ability to complete, buy them out to take over their contracts
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 3 weeks ago:
Oh absolutely… There’s tons of petty tyrants out there too, which is different, but also bad or even worse. They might also be just staffing something just as soul crushing too, so it could just be worse in every regard
But small business means your boss is probably there to stay. Ideally, you meet the owner in your interview, often they’re the same person. But if you find someone loyal to their people, you can actually give them your loyalty and they’ll see you as a person
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 3 weeks ago:
IDK if this would be viable with an H1 visa and I’ve seen many other options I’ll be looking into, but here’s what I normally tell people in this position: small businesses are built different
They’re harder to find, they usually don’t pay amazingly, but they’re way more human. It’s not all run through spread sheets, you work for humans who get to know you and (can sometimes) actually be like a family…(If they say that phrase it’s a red flag though)
It’s hit or miss, you likely would be working on legacy stuff or have to wear many hats… But it’s work where you know what you’re doing and who you’re doing it for
- Comment on Helion eyes Washington site for 2028 fusion reactor build 3 weeks ago:
I mean, true, although I thought they were pretty upfront on wanting to produce the fuel in-house and specialize two reactor lines
Which, yeah, isn’t ideal… But if it works, they can’t patent an element. They won’t be able to monopolize the tech forever
It seems like a very elegant solution… If they can overcome the engineering challenges. There’s probably far better designs that could be made from the core idea
- Comment on are "brush" and "blush" really pronounced differently? i pronounce them the same. 4 weeks ago:
They’re different - when I say “brush” my tongue stays in the middle of my mouth against the bottom and the back spreads slightly on the r, when I say “blush” it touches the top of my teeth before flicking down on the u
They’re slightly different phonemes, if you don’t hear it naturally it’s difficult. But if you focus hard enough on the details you can eventually learn to hear it - you have to listen intently to the comparison over and over until you can hear the difference. From there, you can practice to make the sound yourself
- Comment on This celling ruined my day. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe not you…I can’t unsee shit like that. I can’t look at paintings in homes near airports… There’s a lot of people who easily see misalignments of a fraction of a degree without trying
And it’s always worse from a distance, always worse in person
- Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico? 5 weeks ago:
I think the CIA has used them pretty extensively, but I don’t think they set them up directly
What the US did is force Mexico to join in on the drug war. We threatened to block all pharmaceuticals to Mexico if they didn’t ban marijuana, which they really didn’t want to do
- Comment on Consistent Jailbreaks in GPT-4, o1, and o3 - General Analysis 1 month ago:
The idea is they’re marketable worker replacements
If you have a call center you want to switch to ai, it’s easy though to make them pull up relevant info. It’s harder to stop them from being misused
If your call center gets slammed for using racial slurs, that’s an issue
Remember, they’re trying to sell AI as drop in worker replacement
- Comment on Egg prices... 1 month ago:
It’s not about egg prices. It’s a shorthand for inflation, it’s nailing Trump supporters down to this one metric
These people are divorced from truth, but they want eggs. It’s hard to ignore how much eggs cost. It’s apparent how the egg section is half empty
This is a drum beat for people to look through their lying eyes, to pay attention to the world around them despite the lies
- Comment on Steven Seagal Movie Out For A Kill Is So Lazy He Fights Sitting Down - Worst Movie Ever 1 month ago:
My first exposure to him was a movie where it seems like he was parodying himself and played with the concept of being past his prime
It was really well done, his acting was fantastic and I enjoyed it, despite probably missing a lot of context
- Comment on Anon is dangerous 2 months ago:
I used to try to snap when the light changed… No tricks or method, I’d just start counting down in my head from a number that felt right and snap
Years of doing it, and now I just know when the light is going to change. It takes time to learn it for a new place
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 2 months ago:
I don’t think that’s true. At least in the US, we’ve gotten so used to compromise and small wins that we celebrate things like the growth of renewables, but most people rarely ever talk about how emissions have only risen higher. They don’t want to hear how we crossed a major tipping point this year, or that our models are starting to look overly optimistic… They want to go about their lives and not worry about it too much
There’s no compromising with climate change, we’re still driving off the cliff. It’s okay to celebrate turning the wheel a bit, but sometimes we do need a reminder to look up and see the big picture
- Comment on Anon picks up some food for his family 2 months ago:
Half power, double time
- Comment on For French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"? 2 months ago:
Poss-i-ble. That’s how you say it in French
- Comment on Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me 2 months ago:
Because you’re one of their leads, and you too could cold call people from a list if you pay now!
- Comment on Enemies 2 months ago:
Unwashed eggs?!? Gross
Just kidding, I’m actually extremely jealous, those eggs taste so much better (and are probably way safer at this point)