[-] FredFig@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's the imbalance of power. No one wants to be the gatekeeper at the local game store telling the 12 year old kid "Sorry, you can't play your Spongebob deck here tonight", whereas as the ones printing the cards, they can be gatekeepers of "Sorry, you can't play your deck without the One Ring here tonight" off of the basis of "normal" power creep.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

The Network School offers Johnson’s healthy food and a fitness program called the Blueprint Protocol. He claims that after three years of following his blueprint the duration of his night-time erections totals 179 minutes, “better than the average 18-year-old”

Yeah, this is a very normal diet that's advertising itself in very normal ways.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

I know generally speaking, people want to use very exacting language when talking about technicals, so it's not that strange when people hedge edge cases - it's just what they're taught to do in their careers.

But, when we're talking about financials, instead of being detailed and careful, it's just sounds desperate when you have to tack on a hundred dollar value add to your supposedly million dollar company.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

So I should be clear, I dont think theres anything special about Tech companies that should let them be treated differently. But for whatever reason, it is a fact that places like We or Tesla or Theranos or fucking Groupon gets stupid valuations just because they're "tech" adjacent.

If the market ever catches on that theres no secret ingredient (and as Zitron's shown, there are pretty visible public numbers pointing at this), we're looking at a correction at the trillion dollar scale. Or maybe we never ask Google to put up or shut up, and just keep the fairy powder in our eyes forever.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

I don't accept a wrong caption is better than not being captioned. I'm concerned that when you say "High tolerance for error", that really means you think it's something unimportant.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

This is 10000 words to promote being a garbage person, what the fuck.

When the average rationalist screed looks like this, I assume the reason they're so absolutist for freedom of speech is because they never actually read each other's speech.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

For the level of continued investment AI has gotten, it isnt possible to be too harsh on these clowns.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Is this list just a summary of a bunch of downvoted SCPs?

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago

Wait, the thin frames in the first picture are the "sound barrier". Good lord.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

You know that Factorio is a fictional video game, right?

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Ah shit, ML spelled backwards and wrong is LLM, they got me good.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631663

Orange site post with a bunch of people saying burnout is a learning experience and that its okay to be perpetually depressed because it makes you more disruptive.

I don't have anything clever to say about this.

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