threeonefour
@threeonefour@piefed.ca
- Comment on “Does a Virtual Youtuber Fanbase meet the sociological criteria of a cult?” 17 hours ago:
No way vtubers are a cult. Cults require members to isolate themselves and give all their money to the cult leader...maybe there are some parallels.
- Comment on Expensive South Florida real estate. Most expensive houses are right on the rim 1 day ago:
Penisula
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 3 days ago:
In the book 1984, one of the characters postulates that in any system of government there are 3 groups. The unwashed masses comprising 90% of people, the elite who are better than everyone else making up 1% of people, and a middle buffer of 9% of people. The buffer is used by the elite to keep the unwashed masses from uprising. Anyone from the 90% who looks like they might be trouble for the 1% gets to be in the 9%. They get treated a bit better in exchange for defending the status quo. Perhaps if they defend it hard enough they can be given a spot among the 1%!
I believe the argument made by this character is supposed to be flawed, but it ends up being pretty believable. The "middle class" would be the buffer zone of people who defend the status quo in exchange for slightly better treatment by the 1% than the average person gets.
- Comment on [Spoiler] Day 412 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (The Last of Us Part II) 3 days ago:
When you ended your last post with "it feels like I'm close to the end" I couldn't wait to see how you'd react to the switching sides thing! Seems like you took it better than most!
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 4 days ago:
They're both amazing games so I don't think there's a wrong choice here. I'd say art, music, and story go to Clair Obscur while gameplay, replayability, and sex scenes go to Baldur’s Gate 3.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead creator teasing new four player co-op shooter 4 days ago:
Also The Anacrusis
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 5 days ago:
Right. The guy who faked clips boosted his skills to a level he couldn't actually compete in. He was scouted to be part of a pro team and was kicked after they realized his videos were faked.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 5 days ago:
How does boosting affect other players?
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 5 days ago:
How is using multiple accounts to play against yourself and boost your rank cheating in the actual game? No actual players are being robbed of wins.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 5 days ago:
There are several exposé videos on cheating in Rocket League. Here's one by Sunless Khan on "Jimmy" who was on trick shot team but he was actually editing the data of replay files to produce his clips.
Another one by Wayton Pilkin on account boosting, DDoSing servers to cause legit players to have their connection dropped allowing the cheater to win by forfeit, and cheaters using invisible cars.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 5 days ago:
I've also heard it doesn't run on Linux, ironically due to it's kernel level anti-cheat.
- Comment on IcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixher 1 week ago:
Bartender is obviously just jealous
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 1 week ago:
News articles are saying Medialab, imgur's parent company, is using AI to moderate posts and it upset people.
- Comment on [Spoiler] Day 405 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (The Last of Us Part 2) 1 week ago:
The tomatoes growing in that apartment is great level design. I had the same reaction of "how could these plants survive without people?" and then you get jumped and it's like "oh, should have known." The apartment also has a door you can't open that's opened after you get jumped which explains where the people came from. I remember appreciating the details (after struggling to not die).
- Comment on Finally found where they store all the excess 1 week ago:
Oh they meant CUbic Meter. 1 cubic meter = 1,000 liters. So they should have put 1250 kL or 1,250,000 L
- Comment on That pretty much sums it up 1 week ago:
HECK YEAH MFER I GOT ALL THREE AROOOOOO!
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
Man Carrying Thing has a sketch on male loneliness epidemic. Someone tries explaining social issues to a guy who doesn't care about anyone but himself but starts to listen when he hears the word "male" added to them. Male lonliness, male climate change, male war. The guy now cares deeply about these social issues (because they affect him) except he thinks all the problems are caused by women not sleeping with him.
- Comment on Just built different 1 week ago:
If you drank some gasoline, maybe. I've read professional athletes can eat 10k calories while training and a quick search says competitive eaters can do 16k calories, so neither come close.
- Comment on Microsoft cuts off China's early access to bug disclosures 1 week ago:
Lemmy has a lot of downvoters now. I try not to let it bother me! Thanks for contributing.
- Comment on A Tale Of Two Gooners | How Arsenal supporters handle sharing a name with chronic masturbators. 1 week ago:
For those who wish to steer clear of all kinds of Gooners until the situation cools down, there are plenty of other Arsenal fan sites without any misleading connotations, like Arseblog.
I would have already assumed a site called "Arseblog" would be full of gooners.
- Comment on Do LLM modelers maintain a list of manual corrections fed by humans? 1 week ago:
Right, but that's like saying you can fix a broken space heater by wearing a sweater.
- Comment on Do LLM modelers maintain a list of manual corrections fed by humans? 1 week ago:
how did that fix happen?
The LLM gets retrained. Fixes cannot be done by hand because nobody knows how an LLM gets the answers it does. It takes the input, runs it through a gigantic math equation that was generated during training, and gets an answer. If the answer is wrong, the giantic equation needs to be fixed, but it can only be fixed by retraining.
A lot of models now do "chain of thought" or "reasoning" but those terms seem like they were made by marketing teams. Essentially, researchers found that if an LLM gave a wrong answer it could be prompted to change its answer to the correct one. For example, if you asked an LLM to count the frequency of each letter in "strawberry" and then ask it how many times "r" shows up, it'll get the right answer. "Reasoning" models simulate this process by getting the LLM to prompt itself several times in the background before giving a final answer. This helps filter out a lot of the "how many R's in strawberry" mistakes at the cost of requiring the LLM to turn 1 user prompt into dozens of hidden background prompts which takes more time and computer power, but at least you might not need to retrain it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I liked taking my time exploring the beautiful world. I did my best to see and collect everything.
- Comment on Ponder not the Demoncore 2 weeks ago:
A comedian explaining the joke is like Dr. Louis Slotin explaining nuclear fission with a subcritical mass of plutonium, two beryllium reflectors, and a screw driver. It will eventually end their career (becuase Dr. Slotin died of acute radiation syndrome after the screw driver slipped, the beryllium reflectors touched, and the plutonium underwent nuclear fission, delivering a lethal dose of radiation in under a second).
- Comment on Thats a good question. 2 weeks ago:
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 2 weeks ago:
If only all politicians did this after a felony conviction.
- Comment on I'm here getting paid minimum wage. You are not funny 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Never get on an amusement park ride with someone that you don't know 2 weeks ago:
They can't refuse, because of the implication.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 2 weeks ago:
For all the people saying Valve should become their own payment processor. PayPal employs 24,000 people. Visa employs 31,000. Mastercard employs 35,000. Valve employs 400. They're not going to 60x their employee count anytime soon.
- Comment on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy 2 weeks ago:
The headline doesn't seem to match the article.
one of PayPal’s acquiring banks decided to stop processing any Steam transactions, which cut off PayPal on Steam for a number of currencies
As of early July, the currencies that can still use PayPal on Steam include EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD and USD.
It seems like a bank that processes PayPal payments in minor currencies has stopped processing transactions for Steam because of the content it hosts. Shouldn't people be mad at this bank, not Steam?
