esikich

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by esikich 3d ago
wealth is created by loaning money .
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by esikich 4d ago
Yeah, we all know what fractional reserve banking is. But a debt exists at the same time and the idea is the money that was lent builds something, creating value. Let me borrow some gold so I can use my herbalism expertise to make some poti
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by esikich 4d ago
Well how do you know which statement is truthful? These LLMs confidently say they know things that they don't all the time.
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by esikich 4d ago
The $9000 has to be paid back, and then some. I sure hope you aren't an accountant.
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by esikich 6d ago
This is a great example of information taking time: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by esikich 9d ago
Yes, dense cities are more efficient in every way compared to sprawl. Can you articulate what is confusing about this?
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by esikich 10d ago
What's ironic is that was all in his head. They were very normal looking games. We didn't get alien chess until Stockfish level bots.
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by esikich 10d ago
I haven't had a CD or DVD drive on any of my devices for 15 years now. They are obsolete. I have 2 TB on a NAS. How many DVDs is that?
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by esikich 11d ago
It's just a general "thing I don't want to do" not the thing that takes the most time. Could be taking out the garbage. It's just an example menial task.
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by esikich 11d ago
They look pretty similar to me, I'm not sure what you're seeing that is so much better.
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by esikich 13d ago
It always has been. The idea around here that we can actually define intelligence and point to it is sophomoric and incredibly frustrating.
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by esikich 13d ago
Everything is working fine for me.
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by esikich 16d ago
I know it's more infrastructure, but just use pi-hole and then it doesn't really matter what browser you use, if we're just talking about pop ups and malicious ads.
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by esikich 16d ago
What's the point if it doesn't change overconsumption?
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by esikich 17d ago
I think it often gets overlooked that effective carbon taxing would tax you right out of pretty much all modern convenience. Which would be the point, but people would fuckin revolt if it actually happened. Parent is complaining about 0.000
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by esikich 18d ago
Planning 40 man raids was a part time job. Everyone worked together to grind out materials for potions and stuff and you really had to work together on dungeons to get through them, whether that was acquiring better gear or practicing strat
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by esikich 18d ago
People can't even think big enough to zipper merge properly. We are absolutely cooked.
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by esikich 19d ago
There is, whether or not developers follow it is a different story. https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/practices/keyboard-interface...
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by esikich 23d ago
Yes.
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by esikich 23d ago
Can a 10 year old do that? Wtf are we talking about.
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by esikich 24d ago
Well I've got 38 years of reading experience and have never seen that word.
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by esikich 24d ago
Because they pretty much just learned to read?
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by esikich 24d ago
Are most cities naturally occuring?
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by esikich 24d ago
Huge temperature swings is a big part. Most people don't realize how cold it can get in the desert at night.
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by esikich 24d ago
It isn't because I'm doing something else while it churns away.
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by esikich 24d ago
You get experience by having an active interest, doing projects on your own, and not needing it spoonfed to you. When I was in college we learned some basic data structures and made an employee time clock program. I learned far more from th
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by esikich 24d ago
Afaik anyone can buy a bulldozer. Whether or not you are licensed to operate it is a different story, but there's nothing stopping you short of your conscience.
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by esikich 26d ago
Yep, I feel like there's less of a reason to use frameworks now that you can just have it bash out only the needed stuff on its own. I've been able to make some really really tiny C tools and I'm absolutely loving it.
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by esikich 1mo ago
Is your identity a string of letters? Don't be ridiculous.
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by esikich 1mo ago
My favorite thing about CABing things that shouldn't be CABd is that it then bunches up changes that all happen at the same time... after the CAB meeting. Now if something breaks, it could be any of the dozens of things that just got p

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