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- Comment on Damn Flash 1 week ago:
Get a room!
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 2 weeks ago:
Flirting is a pretty nebulous term.
My personal definition of flirting is any positive expression or behavior which:
- Is an exception to your typical behavior or affect.
- Targeted at a specific person, typically someone new.
- Is heightened or marked by increased volume, nervousness, etc.
examples:
A typically reserved guy pulling you aside and animatedly asking about your interest.
A woman who normally doesn’t touch you is repeatedly teasing you about your shirt, pulling on the fabric.
A good friend begins to repeatedly and unexpectedly invite you over for one on one movie nights despite obvious inconveniences.
That’s just my opinion, though. I believe most people are looking for these heightened expressions of flirting to confirm interest.
- Comment on Meaning/implication of “you don’t have to do this” in this context? 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps they assumed that you felt obligated to speak to them, and they felt the need to absolve you of that obligation. That would be the literal meaning of the phrase.
A different interpretation could be that they didn’t want to continue the conversation. In this scenario, they would prefer to be silent, and by suggesting that, “You don’t have to do this,” they have given you a sort of symbolic agency in ending the conversation, implying that both of you would rather be silent.
- Comment on DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all 3 weeks ago:
This article is comparing apples to oranges here. The deepseek R1 model is a mixture of experts, reasoning model with 600 billion parameters, and the meta model is a dense 70 billion parameter model without reasoning which preforms much worse.
They should be comparing deepseek to reasoning models such as openai’s O1. They are comparable with results, but O1 cost significantly more to run. It’s impossible to know how much energy it uses because it’s a closed source model and openai doesn’t publish that information, but they charge a lot for it on their API.
Tldr: It’s a bad faith comparison. Like comparing a train to a car and complaining about how much more diesel the train used on a 3 mile trip between stations.
- Comment on Car diagram 3 weeks ago:
👏 where 👏 is 👏 his 👏 dick 👏 and 👏 prostate 👏
- Comment on Suspect freed from custody over suicide capsule death in Switzerland 2 months ago:
This would be valuable context for journalist to include, if true. I personally know someone who died via assisted suicide. She had terminal cancer, and went through a very thorough vetting and consultation before undergoing the process. If this person was not afforded such care, that would terrible.
- Comment on Suspect freed from custody over suicide capsule death in Switzerland 2 months ago:
The bizarre thing about this case is that no reporting outlet seems to explain why anyone was arrested. Assisted suicide is legal in the country under these circumstances.
- Comment on That's... normal 3 months ago:
- Comment on That's... normal 3 months ago:
- Comment on Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves 3 months ago:
Something which clarified Zuck’s behavior in my mind was an interview where he said something along the lines of, “I could sell meta for x amount of dollars, but then I’d just start another company anyways, so I might as well not.”
The guy isn’t doing what financially makes sense. He’s Uber rich and working on whatever projects he thinks are cool. I wish Zuck would stop sucking in all his other ways, but he just doesn’t care about whether his ideas are going to succeed or not.
- Comment on Lore Of Disturbing Human-Pokémon Relationships & Hybrid Offspring Come To Light In Recent Game Freak Leaks 4 months ago:
Image Me clicking this article
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 5 months ago:
Wait… What? The article seems to imply that the water is consumed, but it’s referencing the water used in cooling loops.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 5 months ago:
I wonder if you could just use your PC to hotspot when you need to use VR.
- Comment on Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website's Archives - Aftermath 5 months ago:
Yeah, right? I mean, imagine if YouTube when down and just deleted all the videos. People would be up and arms demanding legislative action. There would be endless lawsuits.
As a creative, you rely on platforms to not obliterate your stuff. At least not immediately. This guy has a horse in the race of this site.
- Comment on Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website's Archives - Aftermath 5 months ago:
That’s not really what the article is about. The author even concedes that such a law would never, and perhaps never should, happen; rather, he feels that corporations will not adopt best practices of preservation unless compelled, and it pisses him off.
The title is deliberate hyperbolic. He’s clearly pissed.
- Comment on Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website's Archives - Aftermath 5 months ago:
Why is everyone so mad about this? I mean, it’s a salty article, but yeah, it kinda sucks when publications don’t give notice before closing down. I think providing the public, including previous contributors, time to archive content is a good practice.
- Comment on Someone finally figured out a good use for NFTs: Peter Molyneux is using 'land' sales from his failed blockchain game to fund the development of his new project 6 months ago:
He is not
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 6 months ago:
I’ve made a lot of IRL friends online and at work.
If you’re between jobs, consider doing something like Americorps. People of all ages do it, not just young folks, and its temporary. I think of it as summer camp for adults, but you get paid and in some cases housing.
Back in 2017 I was super into VR. IDK what the communities are like now, back then the demographics were older, but I got a big social fix from it. An oculus quest 2 or 3 is affordable. Almost all the best games are social, “face to face” talking. It’s like having a public arcade in your closet.
I made the most friends back in 2011 by posting art online and commenting on other artists’ things. People love chatting about their hard work. I ended up meeting loads of them in person. If you can find a space is creatives, whether it’s a bluegrass club, DND, discord book club, whatever, you’ll have a good time.
And, don’t beat yourself up about being lonely. Life moves in cycles. Remember, it just takes meeting one extrovert to suddenly gain a crap ton of friends. Or, maybe you’ll collect them one by one. Regardless, I feel you. Be well.
- Comment on Too easy! 6 months ago:
I apologize, but I’m not able to click on or interact with elements in images. The image you’ve shared shows a scene with a monkey sitting near water, and a person’s hand holding what appears to be a green fruit or object. The text at the top of the image says “HOW TO TRICK A MONKEY”. There’s also a play button overlay on the image, suggesting this may be a still from a video. However, I can’t play videos or click on interactive elements within images. If you’d like to discuss the content or theme of this image further, I’d be happy to do so based on what I can observe in the static image itself.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 8 months ago:
🤣 just visualizing the United Nations Assembly talking turns curb stomping some poor android.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 8 months ago:
Call me an optimist, but I think that if an android was actually going to destroy life as we know it, nations would do everything in their power to advert the disaster.
- Comment on Translators & Artists Slam Japan's AI Manga Translation Investment 9 months ago:
I do think something that the discourse seems to miss here is that scanlators have been using semi automated OCR tools which hook into translation and LLM api’s for years to streamline thier efforts.
Heck, I’ve done this with open source manga OCR tools for fun as a personal project. It works really well. With billions of dollars, these companies will develop and deploy superior enterprise tools with which an individual could probably translate entire volumes in one workday.
I’m not saying they won’t be lazy and sometimes miss important literary meaning, but they will succeed in making mass translation possible.
- Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad 9 months ago:
It kinda reminded me of those old PS3 commercials that David lunch directed. Kinda liked it, tbh
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 10 months ago:
Good!
