Ekaros

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871.
by Ekaros 9mo ago
I don't think that will happen. Being utility is hard and margins are not great unless you get some government money like credit. And even those might go away with change in regime. There just isn't enough margin or "free mon
872.
by Ekaros 9mo ago
Turnitin is in weird spot. And probably impossible one. Academic writing is trained to be academic writing. With mesta text and phrases. And students and writers tend to follow conventions they see in other academic texts. As do AI. On some
873.
by Ekaros 9mo ago
Also at some point citing is not needed. If I use addition I do not need to cite relevant parts of for example Principia Mathematica. In the end hard lines are very hard.
874.
by Ekaros 9mo ago
In general I have understood that more colour the better in those times. That going also for interior decoration. The natural wood colour was later thing and mostly coming off when the paint had flaked away and the tapestries rotted. Partly
875.
by Ekaros 9mo ago
40k is weird. The scales are often entirely off. Considering the stated populations and areas involved. Or the amount of equipment fielded. This comes from it fundamentally being small scale skirmish game. So realistic army sizes are not po
876.
by Ekaros 9mo ago
I think change was more so move from keyboard to also supporting controllers. Keyboards easily have 9 weapons on number keys and in some cases like quake nail gun even more on same key. Controllers just do not support this as easily. Thus m
877.
by Ekaros 9mo ago
I think it is good to understand tech company and then startup or VC company. Tech company is company with marginal unit costs. Bending Spoons aims these and then optimize them further. Startup or VC, search "growth" and user acqu
878.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
Because agriculture is hard industry. The producer prices that is what the farmer gets are often laughable cut from final product. And this is due to farmers having little or no power in the system. Their products are made at certain time.
879.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
But will they behave like same user in past? I would guess there is lot of difference between how bot accesses page and real user has historically accessed them. Like opening multiple tabs at one time, possibly how long going through next s
880.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
They were at-will employment. That should have been considered with their every purchasing decision ever. Their personal and moral failures is not their employers failures. Budgeting is trivial thing. Spend less than you earn. And it is not
881.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
In healthy working free market. There should be competition delivering better product at cheaper price. Maybe one thing we should do is to allow suing company executives for breach of fiduciary duty when they waste resources on some useless
882.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
Someone has actual financial plan. I know a unknown thing for VC and startups. If they do and can calculate reasonable rat of return on acquisition it makes sense for lot of investors. Especially when they start to have proven record. Havin
883.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
And nothing really prevents metric system from working in base-12. Ofc base 12 kilometre would be larger than base-10. But it still would work. Base 10 really is used because our number system is base 10. And more so base 1000. Apart from
884.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
Only place I could imagine something is cooking and even there I probably would not be able to differentiate steak at 56C, 57C and 58C...
885.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
Is being sane really a qualification for Olympic participation? From my lazy ass point of view the effort needed to be Olympic level athlete tells about some level of dysfunction...
886.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
More so I meant to think of oil, copper and now silver. All follow demand for the price. All have had varying prices at different times. Compute should not really be that different. But yes. Cisco's value dropped when there was not sam
887.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
China is capable of taking long term view, beyond single election cycle. And currently USA really seems to be heading down faster and faster. If something even more drastic happens. China might even attempt unification with some reasoning l
888.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
At this point computation is in essence commodity. And commodities have demand cycles. If other economic factors slowdown or companies go out of business they stop using compute or start less new products that use compute. Thus it is entire
889.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
Probably some type of balanced trade. Holding each trade partners currency and balancing it at times. Or even between multiple holders and currency pairs. If there is need you can now build very complicated systems as everything is digital
890.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
This comes to not "smartness" of LLMs. But reality that we do not even want anything novel in these exercises or exams. And same areas are repeated multiple times so naturally there is lot of these in training data. This is one ar
891.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
On other side in western systems funded by taxes the incentive is still to give out as many degrees as possible as schools get funding based on produced degrees. Mostly done to get more degree holders which are seen as "more productive
892.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
It fails the basic human behaviour. In general humans are not ready to admit fault. At least when there is no social pressure. They might apologize and admit mistake. Or they might ask for clarification. But very rarely "You are absolu
893.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
It is IRC, but with modern features and no channel splits. It also adds voice chats and video sharing. Trade off is that privacy and commercial platform. On other hand it is very much simpler to use. IRC is a mess of usability really. Disco
894.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
WhatsApp really feels to me more like group chat. Not really breaking barrier of social media. But then again I am not in any mass chats. Discord is many things. Private chat groups, medium communities and then larger communities with tens
895.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
I don't really understand why anyone expect similar crap not happening if there ever was some actually popular commercial consumer Linux distribution.
896.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
It works. But for most it is not sustainable. It in most cases collapses eventually. But ideas and words and now pictures and videos do sell as in get pre-orders or pre-payments.
897.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
Maybe they have a kitchen without dishwasher. So unless asked they won't include one. Or even make it possible to include one. Seems like a real possibility. Maybe eventually after building many kitchens they learn they should ask abou
898.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
Mixed zoning might not be issue. But that still doesn't mean there is not limited zoning. Or massive over head in various regulations and documentation burdens.
899.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
I don't think there is that significant amount of artists that do not draw because entertainment. Artist communities online are doing pretty fine. There might not be enough money for all of them, but drawing is still popular enough hob
900.
by Ekaros 10mo ago
How hard would it be to fix this? Could we theoretically add or subtract enough material or make whole thing slightly more dense or less dense to compensate?

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