theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- 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 ChatGPT's 'hallucination' problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU 2 weeks ago:
Ok… Why the fuck is anyone asking LLMs for personal data? This doesn’t sound like an LLM problem, it sounds like someone is exploiting a gap in the law unethically before the law catches up
- 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 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 YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 4 weeks ago:
Several months ago, fresh off the high of following through on my resolution to leave Reddit forever, I made the same decision with YouTube. Once ublock stopped working, I’d try out peer tube, or maybe sail the seas
But ublock never stopped working. I watch more YouTube now than ever before, I got totally addicted as I binged in preparation to leave
At this point, I don’t know if it’d be good for me, or send me in a desperate arms race to get my fix
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 4 weeks ago:
Ah, but you’re one layer off. Projected/potential money/s (in the next 1-2 quarters mainly) is what is truly king.
It doesn’t have to be a good idea, it can be a terrible one - but good sounding words in the board room are what matter
“Hey, so we’ve decided to see if we can run 10 unskippable ads back to back. Simultaneously, we’ve launched a war on ad blockers. This time it will surely work because we found out you can ignore your customers - Elon Musk has shown us the way, he only lost bots with all his innovation. We expect people to get over it in 3 months and estimate we’ll lose 4 users. Between 10x more ads and half our users off ad blockers, we project 20x ad revenue next quarter!”
-Words of a future CEO, probably
- 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 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 Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
Thanks, that increases my anticipation a bit, while giving me reasonable expectations
I tend to be obsessive with games until I’m done - I bought and installed it, but haven’t started playing for a reason, I’ll probably get 1.5-2 complete playthroughs within a week or two, I need to have a couple weeks of solid work before I dig in - a good rpg will take up most of my time until I’m done
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
I liked the story, I think Jonny was integrated fantastically, and the mechanics were decent
My only complaint is there wasn’t enough. Not enough cyberware, not enough branches in the story, not enough ways to feel the power growth as your character levels and gets better gear
All in all, I don’t get the hate. It was a good game. With more time to flesh it out it could’ve been an instant classic, the bones are all there… I’ve got the dlc sitting in my library for when I’m ready to devote the time to dig into it
- Comment on Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed 1 month ago:
Let’s just give them a chance guys. They haven’t done anything bad yet. It will help the fediverse grow. We need their content
wE cAn AlwAyS dEfeDeraTe lAtEr. It dEfinIteLy WoN’T bE tOo LaTe tHeN
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
And to turn dc into ac, you need to rotate a small singularity around the pipes of electricity. That’s why inverters are so heavy
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
Well, you just have to convert wheels to motors. A car runs on wheels, which is 1/4 motors. A boat runs on motors, and has one, meaning it has 4 wheels and is probably street legal!
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
Well that’s justifiable. We’re not sure if we’re even going to make it to then
- Comment on Europe's world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers 2 months ago:
Fuck dayo. This sure sounds like gate keeping to me
- Comment on F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 2 months ago:
Competitors… You mean Airbus, the EU sponsored counterpart to Boeing? And literally no one else?
There’s almost no competition in the airliner space - both Boeing and Airbus are also state subsidised to a certain extent. Their mere existence is a strategic asset.
Either of them failing would have large global consequences… At worst, Boeing might no longer be able to hire their own FCC inspectors… At worst.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
They were saying what it meant in this context
Meaning, in a DB, the admin could change roles and modify anything.
Database triggers can have bugs, and we generally don’t let third parties log into the database directly because it’s a huge attack surface
In blockchain, without a key you’re cryptographically locked out. The only way around that is if the network as a whole changes their code to a version that allows something like that
It’s just a ledger where every entry is signed by a private key. That’s a fantastic structure for certain specific use cases…
- Comment on HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It 2 months ago:
It’s 2024. You can just say fuck, the dystopian horror is assumed