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lvxferre , 2 hours ago

In a follow-up posted to social media this morning, NetEase went on to “apologize for any unpleasant experiences or doubts caused by the miscommunication of these terms…

Ooh, corporate gaslighting! "Your fee fees are hurt because you didn't actually understand the message correctly!"

There is no miscommunication here. The message is clear as day - "don't criticise our product".

We actively encourage Creators to share their honest thoughts, suggestions, and criticisms as they play. All feedback, positive and negative, ultimately helps us craft the best experience for ourselves and the players.”

Given the content of the clause, NetEase is simply being liars...

NetEase says it is making “adjustments” to the contract “to be less restrictive and more Creator-friendly.”

...and they're fully aware that everybody knows that they being liars, otherwise they wouldn't be trying to make the clause less unpalatable.

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My sides went into orbit.

lvxferre , 12 hours ago

It would be better if you shared a pic of that "ugly mess". That said I think that it should be fine (rule-wise) to ask it here.

For now, tips that I can give you:

• Focus on a theme for that build. The simpler the theme, the easier to get.
• Find good combos of blocks, and use them somewhat consistently for a feature of your build. For example: I personally like building walls with stone bricks + wood (it's cheap for survival, and it looks good), while the roof is mostly Nether bricks;
• Don't fight against the terrain. Some terraforming is fine; but flatting it all out will make your build look out of place.
• Use pictures for reference. Copying is 90% of creating.
• Too much detail is as bad as too little. Find a good balance.

lvxferre , 3 hours ago

It is not so bad that it's an "ugly mess". It's simply cluttered. The shape looks good even if a bit weird, the issue are your choices of blocks, they're clashing with each other, and you're using a lot of different types so it's really hard to combo them.

I'd suggest you to make a creative mode copy of your world and try the following, see if you like the results:

• Replace those birch logs with spruce, so they contrast better with the birch planks. Either keep them all with their bark, or remove it from all of them. If you feel that the build becomes too colourless, barkless acacia logs are also an option.
• Replace the yellow and red concrete with the same type of log that you picked above.
• Pick one between basalt, plain stone, or that white stone (I think that it's modded marble?). The mix is fine in the right building because it's just stone, but when you're combining it with other elements it's making it look too busy.
• I'm not too hot on the usage of concrete + bricks like you did in the right. Perhaps it would be better to stick to one or another.
• That amethyst doormat needs to go. It makes your sight gravitate towards the floor.
• Consider replacing those torches in the building with lanterns, hanging from the roof. The ones nearer to you are a bit trickier, I'd probably try to replace them with froglight or shroomlights.

lvxferre , 13 hours ago

People downvoting this post: don't shoot the messenger.

I'll copypaste what I said in !redditmigration about this topic:

As I mentioned in the kbin comm about redditfugees: I think that the platform stopped being sustainable, and that changes like this - either trying to increase engagement or appeasing power users - are only a symptom of that.

They won't work, by the way, because of the trust thermocline (the impact of an act violating the users' trust is considerably greater, if there's a backstory of trust violations).

...excuse me while I grab some popcorn. I'm loving to watch this.

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Fun comment (from a user) in that thread:

Because it's a Reddit Product Decision, you can always expect one step forward, two steps back, and four steps off in a random direction that makes no sense.
FAQ
Can people who used all their gold due to your short-sighted mistake get it back? Haha, no.
Are you offering any compensation? Sure, we'll give you some free bullshit. And it expires, so make sure to Drive Engagement and Interact with Posts before the end of the year!
Wait, you're replacing the stuff you made arbitrarily expire with a different arbitrarily-expiring currency? You know it.
Can you use Gold that people give you on other posts? Absolutely not. Gold you are given goes into a big pot where it will remain, serving no purpose, unless you're like the 0.1% of people on this site who ruthlessly and relentlessly farm for gold and karma. If you're one of those people, you can financialize your Reddit experience, earning upwards of, like, five bucks!
I run a subreddit that provides resources for people in mental health crisis or other major medical issues. Can I turn off gilding to stop people boosting bad or unsafe answers? At Reddit, we believe that consumers deserve choice, and in this case, the choice they deserve is to seethe and cope. You absolutely cannot turn this shit off.
You're at least blacklisting the really high-risk subs from the new old Gold program, right? Yes.
What happens when you inevitably miss a sub and end up causing massive headaches for mods? They can contact us at the Mod Help PO Box in Anchorage, Alaska. When the intern checks the mail in 6 months, we'll get right on it.
What if I'm not eligible for the Contributors program? Go fuck yourself.
Does it work on Old Reddit? What do you think?

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Additional detail: did anyone notice that you can't log through old.reddit any more? I don't even have an account there any more, but if you try it, here's what you get:

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/ed93becd-22a5-4973-899e-25d571b0eb53.png

They are already actively removing functionality from old.reddit!

lvxferre , 17 hours ago

They take labour into consideration because less time spent serving a drink = you can serve more drinks = we can replace two of you with one.

lvxferre , 20 hours ago

I think that the platform stopped being sustainable, and that changes like this - either trying to increase engagement or appeasing power users - are only a symptom of that.

They won't work, by the way, because of the trust thermocline (the impact of an act violating the users' trust is considerably greater, if there's a backstory of trust violations).

...excuse me while I grab some popcorn. I'm loving to watch this.

lvxferre , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Note that the caret (‸) and circumflex (^) are different signs. The caret is used across plenty Latin orthographies to convey that something is missing, as its name implies; while the circumflex is a diacritic usually going over the letters, whose function depends on the orthography of the language in question.

EDIT: as for the etymology of circumflex it's basically Ben Dover "bent around" (circumflexum).

lvxferre , 1 day ago

It depends on the dialect, as it relies on the weak vowel merge. Basically: if "John Lenin" and "Vladimir Lennon" sound right for you, you got that merge.

For those who find them to sound the same, the second vowel should be around [ə]. For those who distinguish them, "caret" should have [ɪ] and "carrot" [ə].

lvxferre , 1 day ago

Yup, in French that circumflex is kind of etymological. I say "kind of" because that /s/ being dropped changed the pronunciation of the preceding vowel, and depending on the vowel and the modern dialect there might be some leftover of that change; for example ⟨tâche⟩ /tɑʃ/ "task" vs. ⟨tache⟩ /taʃ/ "stain".

Originally the diacritic backtracks all the way into Ancient Greek. Back then Greek had a pitch accent, and a vowel could either raise in pitch (so it got an acute, ά) or fall (so it got a grave, ὰ). But some long vowels and diphthongs did both things, raising then fall, so the solution was to mark it with both, as ᾶ. Eventually that circumflex evolved into a tilde-like shape, but that's a coincidence.

Other languages might use it for vowel length, vowel quality, stress.

lvxferre , 1 day ago

In my keyboard it's in a big flashy position, right in the middle row, but that's because my L1 (Portuguese) uses it a lot.

If you're using a default Dutch (based on your instance) keyboard, check if the key to the right of [P] doesn't have it:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Nederlandse_toetsenbordindeling_-_tekst_als_paden.svg/2560px-Nederlandse_toetsenbordindeling_-_tekst_als_paden.svg.png

lvxferre , 3 days ago

I got the same issue months ago, with Mint. I have a script to switch audio outputs, and it stopped working after... apt upgrade! Apparently what used to be called "hdmi-stereo" is now "hdmi-stereo-extra1", no idea why.

In the case of my script, once I got what was going on, I solved it with a simple "if" statement:

if [[ $(pactl list sinks | grep extra) == "" ]]
  then declare -g mainProfile="hdmi-stereo"
  else declare -g mainProfile="hdmi-stereo-extra1"
  fi

(My system uses pulseaudio. Don't ask me why. I'm not touching it with a 3m pole.)

lvxferre , 3 days ago

Further info here about the move.

Since Paradox Interactive went public in 2016, it was never the same; at this rate comparing it with EA is fair game. As such I'm not surprised that devs are getting

I never heard about this Kokku studio, even paying taxes to the same government as its folks do. I don't have reasons to think that it's a good studio or a bad studio, but the fact that PI is throwing the game into the hands of a "who?" studio spells problems.

lvxferre , 3 days ago

• 2kg wheat flour
• 1kg cornmeal
• 1kg flaked corn
• 1kg chuño
• 1kg eggs (around 15 large ones)
• 1kg jerky
• 400g lard
• 400g grating cheese
• 400g powdered milk
• 300g tomato paste
• 200g sugar
• 1kg salt, seasoning, dry yeast, and vitamin C tablets (for the drinks)

Total: 9.7kg. I can comfortably carry 10kg just fine. The first four items already give me around 18 Mcal, enough for the whole week, the rest is just fluff to get comfy.

If the time period was longer I'd probably worry about vegs, but I'm not carrying something that is mostly water if I have water from the island.

Your list will be likely very different from mine as it's for two people and you probably don't go through tomato paste as quick as I do. Also 10kg is something to carry comfortably, if you aren't picky on carrying a lot of weight for short amounts of time you could add way more food to the list.

lvxferre , 4 days ago

I like your writing system. It's pretty unique and tailored for the conlang; and the conlang itself uses a concept that you see often as a "re-encoding" in spoken languages, but rarely as the basis.

Regarding tone transcriptions, do you mind a suggestion? Diacritics get unruly if there are lots of tones, and you still have the creaky voice (so you'll need diacritic stacking). You might be better off with Chao numerals instead, for example [hm⁵ʔm³⁵ʔ] [ʔm̰³⁵m⁵ʔhm²¹⁴] etc. There's also tone letters, like [hm˥ʔm˧˥ʔ] [ʔm̰˧˥m˥ʔhm˨˩˦]; they're a bit annoying to type out but this IPA keyboard helps in a pinch.

It's also worth noting that there's nothing wrong with ad hoc transcription systems. IPA is intended to be as cross-linguistic as possible, and that flexibility comes at the price of convenience; as long as you write in prose what each symbol conveys, it's fine to get a bit creative. (That's why there are so many localised transcription systems, like Africanist, Americanist, Indo-Europeanist etc.)

lvxferre , 4 days ago

If you're in doubt if some content violates the rules, report it, and let the mods decide if it's okay or not okay. That is not abuse of the report function.

Include a short description on why you're reporting some piece of content. Specially in larger comms, the mod queue can get really large. If reasonable mention the rule being violated; a simple "r1 off topic" goes a long way.

Context is everything. If what a user said only sounds bad in a certain context, say it. If the user is clearly problematic due to their profile, say it.

You're probably better off not interacting with the content that you're reporting.

Don't boss the other users around. It's fine to be informative; it is not fine to act as a moderator when you are not one. If moderative intervention is necessary, report it.

Stop giving shitty mods a free pass. Honest mistakes happen; but if the mod in question is assumptive, disingenuous, trigger-happy, or eager to enable certain shitty types of user, spread the word about their comm being poorly moderated. And don't interact directly with the comm. I think that at least here in the Fediverse we should demand higher standards from our mods.

lvxferre , 4 days ago

I have definitely erred in this regard several times!

I think that everyone did this at least once, so don't worry too much. Still, it's less work for the mods if you don't do it.

lvxferre , 2 days ago

If your description of the events is accurate: that's a shitty mod, and a good example of what I wrote in the last paragraph. We should be denouncing this sort of crap, and avoiding comms where it happens.

It’s not always so easy to assume that mods are going to be fair. Reporting people comes with a risk.

I'm not assuming that the mods are going to be fair. I'm taking into account that shitty mods do a favour to you when they out themselves, as they're basically showing you which comms to avoid.

lvxferre , 4 days ago

When I wake up I notice that I was dreaming once or twice per week. It's always weird dreams. Weird as in:

• aliens spitting on trees
• tomato fighting in the library, killing and burying the old librarian, to resurrect a god
• using a rolled newspaper as a magic wand, triggered by the word "photon"
• a vulture digging gold nuggets from my liver, a la Prometheus
• a pig praying (stupid dream bilingual pun)
• my cats preparing popcorn (I don't even like popcorn)

lvxferre , 4 days ago

Obligatory greentext story from 2013

>2018 
>wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing vidya 
>excited to play some halo 2k19 
>"xbox on"
>...
>"XBOX ON 
>"Please verify that you are "annon332" by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"
>"Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"
>"ERROR! Please drink a verification can "
>reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k19™ War Chest 
>only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
>still feeling sick from the 14 
>force it down and grumble out "mmmm that really hit the spot "
>xbox does nothing 
>i attempt to smile 
>"Connecting to verification server"
>...
>"Verification complete! "
>finally
>boot up halo 2k19
> finding multiplayer match. ..
>"ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!"
>my mother just walked in the room 
>"Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept? 
>"NO!"
>"Console entering lock state!"
>"to unlock drink verification can"
>last can
>"WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card"
>drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick 
>pour the last half out the window 
>"PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE "
>the mountain dew ad plays
>i have to dance for it 
>feeling so sick 
>makes me sing along 
>dancing and singing 
>"mountain dew is for me and you"
>throw up on my self 
>throw up on my tv and entertainment system 
>router shorts 
>"ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF"
>"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"

EA: "Wow, what a visionary! This will give our players a sense of pride and accomplishment!"

lvxferre , 5 days ago

I'll mostly share tips regarding what you said, OK?

Quite a few programs still rely on files in ~/.config/. So if you feel like the options in a program are "missing", give its config file a check. (To see hidden directories: Ctrl+H)

There's another MS Paint alternative called Kolourpaint. I personally prefer it over Drawing; once you install it you'll need to install quite a bit of stuff from the KDE environment, but I think that it's worth.

The super key can be configured to your taste. For example mine brings up composing, so if I type Super+e+1 I get ɛ, Super+a+1 I get ɐ, so goes on. (I open the menu with Alt+F1, by the way.) As implied, as a further tip - if you need certain characters you can create custom keystrokes through a file called .XCompose.

lvxferre , 6 days ago

Yup, I also think that it's a retention tactic. Not the first one: karma, user profiles, that new year crap etc., they all boil down to "we're giving you reasons to consistently come back, and produce content for us for free."

The timing hints me that the Reddit userbase is getting a lower rebound ratio nowadays. i.e. user goes there to see some junk, then forgets about the site.

lvxferre , 6 days ago

„Im so inconvenienced by the piece of trash i bought wanting to stay a single piece of trash” // Humans as they discovered they made a small continent out of trash in the ocean. If it bothers you so much then stop buying plastic trash.

People are clearly complaining about how the feature was implemented. Not the goal (to keep it as a single piece of trash).

lvxferre , 6 days ago

So? (implied: "I dun unrurrstand u're point")

I'm highlighting that the other user is missing the bloody point of the complain.

People want less plastic waste, sure. And yes, less consumption is a way to achieve so - no shit Sherlock "riodoro" Holmes. However, in this specific case the design solution was done so poorly that it inconveniences the user by a lot, and it isn't even reducing (first R) the amount of plastic being used, it's just in the hopes that people actually recycle (third R) that small piece of junk there.

Is this clear now?

lvxferre , 6 days ago

Bloody snitch. People like this are why dogs don't talk IRL!

lvxferre , 6 days ago

For reference: air density is roughly 1kg/m³ [see note]. So the same volume of air is roughly 10⁶ tons. The air in the cloud weights 2000 more than the water.

NOTE: it's 1.3kg/m³ on sea level, 0.9kg/m³ at 3km over sea level, I think that 1kg/m³ is a safe bet.

lvxferre , 6 days ago

I still play SimCity sometimes. The SNES version. There's something beautiful on slowly building your city, solving problems that arrive, and when you're don... oh wait you're never done! (Not even with the Mario statue.)

More into colony sim territory: Oxygen not Included, Dwarf Fortress, RimWorld. In special I've been playing the later quite a bit (1.4 version, up to Biotech), selectively breeding colonists to get superpawns.

lvxferre , 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

This would be great if Nintendo was genuinely concerned about encouraging the usage of a hostile platform. Sadly odds are that it cares about its brand way more than "those things" playing their games.

Nintendo didn't provide one [reason], but it's likely due to X's increased API costs

I don't think so. Even with the abusive costs the price would be rather small for Nintendo, in comparison with the advertisement of its games in Twitter. I think that it's mostly a "eeeeew, Nintendo has X integration? Nintendo must be fascist."

Either way it's a positive.

lvxferre , 8 days ago

I think that it's more like "Mike got a promotion *for saving our brand from unnecessary damage". The whole thing stinks "muh brand" from a distance for me.

lvxferre , 8 days ago

My personal take is that the current generation of generative models peaked, for the reasons stated in the video (diminishing returns). This current gen will be useful, but progress-wise it'll be a dead end.

In the future however I believe that models with a different architecture will cause a breakthrough, being able to perform better with less training. And probably less energy requirements, too.

lvxferre , 8 days ago

I don't think that reinventing computers will do any good. The issue that I see is not hardware, but software - the current generative models are basically brute force, you throw enough data and processing power at the problem until it becomes smaller, but at the end of the day you're still relying too much on statistical patterns behind the wrong entities.

Instead I think that the ML architecture will change. And this won't be done by those tech bros full of money burning effigies, who have a nasty/stupid/disgraceful tendency to confuse symbolic representations with the things being represented. Instead it'll be done by researchers in some random compsci or robotics lab, in a random place of the world. They'll be doing some weird stuff like emulating the brain of a fruit fly, and someone will point out "hey, you see this feature? It has ML applications". And that'll be when they actually add some intelligence to those systems, i.e. the missing piece of the puzzle. It won't be AGI but it'll be better than now, at least.

lvxferre , 8 days ago

Not even another info transferring entity would solve it. Be it quantum computers, photonic computers, at the end of the day we'd be simply brute forcing the problem harder, due to increased processing power. But we need something else than brute force due to the diminishing returns.

Just to give you an idea. A human needs around 2400kcal/day to survive, or 100kcal/h = 116W. Only 20% of that is taken by the brain, so ~23W. (I bet that most of that is used for motor control, not reasoning.) We clearly suck as computing machines, and yet our output is considerably better than the junk yielded by LLMs and diffusion models, even if you use a really nice computer and let the model take its time producing its [babble | six fingers "art"]. Those models are clearly doing lots of unnecessary operations, while failing hard at what they're expected to do.

Regarding research, my point is that what's going to fix generative models is likely from outside the field of artificial intelligence. It'll be likely something small and barely related, that happens to have some ML application.

lvxferre , 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

It's a bit messy but the rule in question might be from

• the user's instance
• the community's instance
• the community itself

Typically when mods ban you based on violations of some global rule they'll highlight it, e.g. "global rule 1". And it's good form to include the short description of the rule being violated as the reason for the ban (e.g. instead of "rule 1", saying "rule 1 - uncivil behaviour").

Without further clarification, however, it's usually the community rules. Otherwise you'll likely get banned from your account (if you violated the global rules of your instance) or from the instance where the comm is.

In the desktop, to see the community rules you check the side panel:
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/cd6ec317-acd5-44e8-91e2-ad6ad5429664.png

And for the instance you see them on the main page of the instance:
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/0482cb3f-ee8a-40e4-a29d-fa0747f8c86c.png

Props for reading the mod logs, by the way. And if you want to know who did what, this site shows exactly which mod or admin is behind which moderative action.

lvxferre , 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

If you’re referring to .ml, Rule 1 is saying anything they don’t like (criticizing an authoritarian regime, etc)

It's a bit more complicated than that. Basically they distort every single rule, not just rule #1. Rule #1 is specially common because they label criticism against certain governments as xenophobia, but sometimes you get "rule #4" (because you insisted on a certain point) or "rule #2" (because someone said some stupid shit and you didn't play along).

lvxferre , 8 days ago

Old English attests the word as docga. My hypothesis is that it's dōc "bastard, mongrel" + -ga [diminutive suffix], roughly like calling it "the little mutt". The vowel shortening would've been happened already back then, otherwise the modern form would be *doog /du:g/.

Note that Latin/Romance attests similar phenomena (depreciative word for animal becoming the default word + diminutives being ingrained into the main word). And typically when you see weird stuff going on in a language you'll see it happening in other languages too.

lvxferre , 8 days ago

That sounds unlikely.

Both squalus "shark, whale" and squamatus scaled are from Latin; typically this sort of phenomenon affects the native vocab, not erudite borrowings. And this sort of word merging is rather uncommon. Plus Old English /a/ ended as /æ/ in modern English, not as /ɪ/ (sound changes are typically regular).

Wiktionary tentatively connects it with "squirt", that sounds a bit more likely.

lvxferre , 9 days ago

I remember some prototype studies made with fruits, where they tested (I think?) Mexicans and Iranians, and the results were different - one side picking apples as prototypical fruits, another bananas. So prototypes are culture-dependent, it's just that that one is widespread enough to mask the effect.

And the superhero example made me notice that they vary individually, too. For example I don't usually consume American hero media, but I do watch quite a bit of anime, so when the author mentioned superheroes my mind went like

• "superhero" → Goku (arguable, but that's what immediately came to my mind!)
• "costume superhero" → Sailor Moon
• "costume superhero with a cape" → Saitama
• "costume superhero with a cape, can fly" → Superman

The shift from Saitama to Superman was specially interesting because my mind actually backtracked into Goku, only to handle the conflicting info (not wearing costume, not wearing cape) afterwards. That fits rather well the metaphor used by the text, of prototypes as the centres of a web of associations, once you split the web into a bunch of overlapping "territories" - conflicting info forces you to migrate from one territory to another, and the reference to "flying" made me beeline for the prototype of "flying character" first, only then to check the overlap between "flying character" and "costume superhero with a cape".

lvxferre , 9 days ago

Linux if I'm using the machine.

I can maintain Windows. But I don't remember how to use it for everyday tasks.

lvxferre , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

When I adopted Siefrieda, the way that I introduced her and Kika (my older cat; she's now 16, I think she was 10 back then) was like this:

• let Frieda in the carrier box. In the living room, so Kika could smell it.
• let cats each in one part of the house, split by simply closing the doors. In my case it was laudry room + patio vs. the rest of the house.
• switch the cats twice~thrice a day. That lets them get used to each other's smell, plus it gives them access to both sides of the house. Typically when I went to sleep Kika would have the main part of the house, as unlike Frieda she was already used to her home.
• put their food on both sides of a glass door. At first they avoided eating at the same time, but when they were OK with it I knew that they didn't mind too much each other.
• open a slid on the glass door, not enough for a cat to pass, but enough for a paw. Let them smell each other "on the live". When Kika was mildly curious with Frieda instead of aggressive, I knew that I could let them in the same room and they wouldn't fight.

Nowadays they aren't best friends, but let's say that Kika tolerates Siegfrieda like you'd tolerate a really annoying kid. The only main issue is that only one of them refuses to share a litterbox, but I'm fixing this.

lvxferre , 9 days ago

I think that the key difference is that plenty societies were built with the "immigration" mindset. It isn't just the ones in USA, but mostly the whole New World. And even if the "bulk" of the immigration in the XIX and XX centuries is over, the mindset is still here.

As opposed to the typical society in the Old World where, if you were born somewhere, odds are that your grand-grand-grand-grandparents were also born there, like Japan and UK-minus-London.

lvxferre , 9 days ago

People actually say shit like “borrow me your car Friday” or “borrow me a pencil”, instead of “lend”.

That's correct. The distinction between lender and borrower is given by the case, so the same verb works for both.

lvxferre , 9 days ago

I'm perhaps a bit biased because for me a country boils down to a government, and I'm from the new world (we tend to see immigrants differently - more like "newcomers" and less like "outsiders"), but I'd consider you British.

That doesn't say much though. At the end of the day, "you're British" or "you're Polish" seem fairly minor to me, compared with "you're human" and "you're you".

lvxferre , 9 days ago

Acho que participaria, sim. Dependendo dos temas; gosto de filosofia da linguagem, epistemologia e ética/moral.

...mas o que isto tem a ver com uma comu para coisas "levemente enfurecedoras"?

lvxferre , 9 days ago

Wines, cheeses, cold cuts, mutton, salmon, porcino. I'd be also experimenting different stuff here and there (casu marzu, maple syrup, etc.)

lvxferre , 9 days ago

Those concerns mostly apply to artificial general intelligence, or "AGI". What's being developed is another can of worms entirely, it's a bunch of generative models. They're far from intelligent; the concerns associated with them is 1) energy use and 2) human misuse, not that they're going to go rogue.

lvxferre , 10 days ago

That's a different meme. The one that I'm referring to had nothing to do with buses, I'm almost certain that it started with "Americans clap after the movie ends" or something similar. Quickly "expanded" by /int/ to include clapping after other "American activities", such as deep frying butter, sharting in the mart, being mass shot. It was mostly ragebait, like sopa de macaco and >Sweden >YES.

KYM does have an entry for that meme but it's incomplete.

lvxferre , 10 days ago

I got that you were probably joking. However, I've seen so many times people equating the human systems of communication with the computer instruction sets that... well, sorry for the knee-jerk reaction.

(Last time that I saw someone genuinely thinking that C++, Fortran, Python etc. were the same deal as Mandarin, English, Spanish etc., the muppet in question brought up code comments for an "ackshyually lol lmao". Yup.)

lvxferre , 4 days ago

This was in r/linguistics, by the way. And the moderators there were doing jack shit to inform the users. Even if one of them works with NLP, so you'd expect the person to be somewhat well versed in both Linguistics and basic programming.

The worst part? It wasn't even the only time that I saw this conflation. I think that people get caught in the words, and miss that they're referring to different concepts.