DahGangalang
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- Comment on 13 hours ago:
Yup, this (I feel) is one of the few areas where AI is valuable.
I’ve got a buddy who just got hired on at a large company as a software developer. Apparently their code base is so arcane and in such unusual frameworks that they recently fed all their documentation to an LLM and are using that to help onboard new employees (vs trying to have experts try to train up people personally).
- Comment on 15 hours ago:
I’m mostly cool with it because they disclosed it was AI up front. Its also a summarization (vs OC), so even if it isn’t exactly correct it probably just mixed up a year/dollar value pairing at worst.
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 6 days ago:
I suppose by places I meant like websites and/or resources (my word choice had room for improvement upon reflection).
And specifically looking for things regarding “what was serfdom really like”.
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 6 days ago:
Like I said, I’d agree that most live a subsistence lifestyle. Its hard to break out of a cycle of poverty, and life isn’t easy for most.
But our lives hardly come with the same restrictions that serfs did. I think we think of our times as worse because they come after a period that (we’re told) was great and prosperous for all, while for serfs, they (probably) had no such cultural mythology. I could hear an argument that there lives were better due to community and simplicity of life or something like that (I don’t know if I’d agree, but I’d probably think there was something to it).
But I also think we’re both looking at a wall and you’re saying its fuchsia while I think its magenta. When its all said and done, it seems like we agree that things are bad, that they could be a lot better, and that they should be better.
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 6 days ago:
Don’t suppose you know any places that are good to go read up on this?
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 6 days ago:
I agree that most today are on a subsistence lifestyle.
But gonna have to disagree with “we’re at modern serfdom” in the sense that medieval serfdom existed. There are LOTS of economic barriers to picking your life up and moving somewhere else, to changing what you do for a living, etc; but there aren’t legal barriers. That is, if you decide to move or change jobs, you could land yourself in lean times, but no one is going to chop body parts off you or lock you in a dungeon for doing it (as could happen to serfs in the long ago.
Additionally, if you’re one of the lucky ones who does manage to buy a place, it becomes a financial asset. If you have kids, it can be passed to them, at which point they an sell it to go move themselves somewhere else. Contrast this with the typical depiction (which I assume is at least moderately factually correct) where your kids are now tied to the land you lived on.
Unless you mean to speak of serfdom to the government who can control your ability to travel (generally I mean internationally, but some nations do restrict intranational travel), who take a portion of your wealth on a regular basis in the form of taxes (thinking property taxes, but I guess could be applied to income and other taxes), and who can lock you up in a “dungeon” (prison - and for relatively arbitrary/subjective reasons).
- Comment on Anon has a wholesome thought 6 days ago:
How many owned their own land through history?
I know very little about how things were handled pre-medival, but its my understanding that serfdom (where you were attached to a piece of land and obligated to work it) was the norm for the vast majority of common people.
- Comment on Men after finding out what women's romance novels are actually like: 1 week ago:
“More” story
- Comment on Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers? 1 week ago:
As much as I abhor Reddit, they have a lot more active communities for military related questions. I expect they’ll same is true for police.
If you really want to go military, “there’s a waiver for everything” is a common saying (source: I did a stint in the Navy), so you can probably find a doctor who’s willing to write a memo telling them your fit for service. I expect the police will will have similar policies.
If this has rekindled your hope for military, feel free to DM me. Lol, I’ve got lots of thoughts and can point you in directions on that end (not so much the police stuff) and don’t want to wall of text too hard.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 3 weeks ago:
Eh, gonna have to soft disagree.
Its got a lot of those same elements, but you have a character that is only at one spot at a time, and so that limits how elective you can be at the expansion part.
That said, it is also not a typical RPG where you have just a character adventuring across the land. Really unique game in that its a bridge between those two broad genres.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 3 weeks ago:
Its honestly a very small facet of the game, and more so used to bootstrap your company/Army’s finances until you gain lordship of towns and cities (and thus collect rents).
But to try to explain how it comes together anyway:
So towns specialize in producing a single type of raw resource (grain, ore, grapes, sheep, etc) and they sell those goods mainly to a single city. A city will have 2-4 towns “feeding” it resources, and so if a city has 3 towns that bring it grain, then you’d expect the grain price to be cheaper than in a city who’s towns produce ore.Next level, if you have two neighboring towns one producing ore and one with grain, chances are there will be a stable (and relatively low) grain price in both with reasonably high population (pop growth is primarily boosted by excess food). Imagine now an enemy army rolls up and burns all the grain towns and seiges the grain city (traders can’t enter a sieged city). After a week, this would lead to MUCH less grain in the ore city, thus prices spike.
So you, an enterprising new player with a dozen men and some spare horses, load up with cheap grain from somewhere else on the map and make a run to the ore city, selling grain at an inflated price.
Again, this general strat is good for bootstrapping the money to build a medium warband, but generally falls away as a viable source of income once you leave there early game.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 3 weeks ago:
This is something that has always bothered me about roadkill animals (esp deer which are particularly prevalent as roadkill in my area).
Its my understanding that the hide can remain in good and usable condition for days to weeks after the animal’s death. It seems that this could be a decent source of blankets and other light-medium cold weather gear.
I’d imagine it largely comes down to the skinning process. The internal organs of dead animals are supposed to get real gross real fast (and that’s in the best case scenario - if anything ruptured when they were hit, then the grossness increasing exponentially) and removing those is the first step towards skinning. Additionally, everything in harvesting the hide would need to be done by hand.
But boy, if we could build one of those Boston dynamics bots to do it…
- Comment on Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason! 5 weeks ago:
Which OS / app is this for?
- Comment on unexpected 1 month ago:
NGL, kinda expected it to puff back up when the electricity was flipped on.
- Comment on Covers the bases 2 months ago:
To be fair, the 3/4 fit elves account for 2/4 middle age dads.
- Comment on Covers the bases 2 months ago:
Aren’t 3 of the 4 “Elf Princes” still known to be incredibly fit?
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 2 months ago:
Yeah, def overlooked a word or two.
#ImmediateRegret Glad I double checked the OP before “keeping” it there
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 2 months ago:
Even reading the pronouns, I suppose its possible anon is female (and it thus insulted her friend remained straight for so long).
Still, everyone knows femanons don’t actually exist.
- Comment on South Park removes episode mocking Charlie Kirk from Cable in respect 3 months ago:
Was it South Park (as in Matt Stone and Trey Parker + studio) proper or was it Paramount and/or Comedy Central?
Seems like a very likely move that the studios pulled it. It seems unlike Matt and Trey to pull an episode, even as drastic as the situation is (don’t know that anything comparable that could be attributed to them has happened in the shows history - open to being corrected if I’m wrong on that).
- Comment on it would be a better look 3 months ago:
Prolly just a water drop.
I’m also on board with this.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 4 months ago:
Always preferred Guitar String from CRJ.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 4 months ago:
Oh, they def are. Most people under ~20 only use touch screen devices. In school, they have apps for building documents and power points, so they can just do those in their phone or a tablet.
I’m watching it in my high school aged niece: she barely knows how to type on a real keyboard, let alone how to access a command line, and even less so what can be accomplished through it.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 months ago:
Don’t want to say where I’m at, but we don’t really have possums in my area :/
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 4 months ago:
We get lots of bunny visitors at my place as well, but I noticed a couple have crazy big ticks around their ears. Luckily we haven’t gotten any in the house or anything, but has def made me less “pro-bunny” lately.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 4 months ago:
Yeah, most of my knowledge on “Chinese” is from when i tried to learn Korean. Korean still lean on some Chinese characters (hanja?). Not for like “daily” reading/writing, but like, I remember newspaper articles would sometimes have the headlines in Chinese characters. They, of course, would use their Korean pronunciations, but there was no way to tell what that was from the character (unlike the rest of the Korean writing system, which uses an almost completely consistent phonetic alphabet).
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 4 months ago:
I heard schools have largely moved away from Phonics, which is wild to me. That’s basically how reading was taught going back to at least medieval monks.
I hear they’re using a “look and see” method or something? Word is that its how the Chinese teach their students to read…but they don’t have an alphabet, so I don’t know how that’s supposed to work in English.
I have a relative who just retired from teaching and she says its a real mess in early education because of how badly this reading teaching method works, and its only worsening as students mature.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Just shitty 4chan slang.
Primary usage I’ve seen for it is sPoOpY sKeLeToNs.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings and I still don't understand how this thing works. 5 months ago:
Just engineering in general.
While my “google-fu” for finding resources is garbage, I have a cousin with nearly encyclopedic knowledge of engineering reference material. He’s sent me things for figuring out where is safe to hang hammock chairs, acceptable bolt dimension/materials for car applications, and a bunch of other crazy niche things.
That reference material for all this just exists and is generally just accessible still blows my mind.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings and I still don't understand how this thing works. 5 months ago:
Better question, why did it take us so long to come up with this.
- Comment on Man, I hate it when this happens! 5 months ago:
Was not expecting an actually educational response to my meme of a comment, but boy is it delightful to receive.
Really appreciate the information!