fl4regun

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by fl4regun 4mo ago
I'm not defending the status quo, I'm just laying out how it is. I think it's stupid too.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
you miss my point entirely. People are a product of their environment. Just because YOU or I don't fall down this trap doesn't mean our friends or family or people in our communities won't. In my country we charge sales tax o
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
You are naive, you don't seriously expect people to "seek out the good ingredients" do you? When the shit ingredients are addictive, cheaper than the good ones and more available? The entire premise of these platforms is use
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
real estate must be the worst thing to use as an argument for "it's a free market" - because its one of the types of things which every stock is it's own, truly unique monopoly. I can't "freely" produce th
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
it's because the expected future income is based on what current tenants are paying, extrapolated to the number of units in the building, ignoring vacancies. I get what you are saying, it should be based on total rental income from the
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
my toasters have all been the opposite, once you warm it up with the first batch, the next batch actually gets more toasted than the first one, even with the same setting.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
My laptop has a microsoft copilot key built into it. It is hardware mapped to a hotkey that inputs win+shift+f23, instead of just being the right ctrl key. Why would anyone want this?
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
In my experience, with a system of 32GB RAM and 24GB VRAM, no, they aren't that good.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
I think we do get to have a say when a large amount of the way people use computers has basically just turned into companies trying to get people addicted to their social media platforms so they can sell them ads.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
The innovations aren't better versions of things we had in the past, they are more so unique new inventions. Plumbing is not electricity is not globalized food chains is not computers. Also we don't need to make more land to have
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
This is a truth very few people are willing to confront. My grandmother lived in a village, on a farm, growing her own food and slaughtering her own animals, with no working plumbing, using a well for water. Of course a lot of that changed
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
why not just keep an HDMI cable and a laptop near you and hook it up when you want to watch something? It can basically do everything these little tv boxes do and more, you probably already own a laptop capable of this and the hdmi cable, a
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
I think there's a distinction between content designed to be monetized, for the purpose of generating the maximum amount of income possible, and content not designed to be monetized, but has a mechanism to generate income (i.e. putting
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
Not just fretted instruments, pianos as well. Anything which lacks ability to adjust tuning on its own, while being played (things that wind instrumenst and non-fretted strings can do), for example a steel pan drum, would be equally tempere
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
what is the risk here?
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
None of this is objective. The construction of our scale is subjective, other countries use different scales. Even with this same scale, there are multiple different tuning systems. There is micro-tonal music. Musical keys are arbitrary too
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
"ear training" is the term we use as musicians to refer to the skill this website is dedicated to. It is a fundamental skill of music.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
can you tell if a piano is out of tune? I'm curious since I don't know anyone with aphantasia. Can you tell if someone is playing your composition correctly?
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
In spite of this, I think I'd rather live in the UK than in Mississipi.
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
You're correct, I just wanted to add that there is another definition that you may see used online, and it is very specific, and it's important to be aware it's NOT exactly the same thing most normal people mean when they say
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
economists define productivity as gdp per hour worked. Like a lot of other economic measurements, its mostly a bogus number people use as an argument on why their politics are better than someone elses politics. You can have an efficient bu
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by fl4regun 4mo ago
by this standard, isn't a public bulletin board even included in the term "social media"?
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by fl4regun 5mo ago
Social relations do not require internet access. Social relations can be make through it, but it is not pre-requisite.
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by fl4regun 5mo ago
I also don't "need" nor "depend" on hacker news to live. We're talking about websites like they are vital to living, that's not real. They are not. The closest thing to a website someone actually "nee
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by fl4regun 5mo ago
I can assure you nobody in the world "lives in" nor "depends" on reddit to live.
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by fl4regun 5mo ago
real world ecology contains both rising and falling populations over time, why should humans be an exception?
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by fl4regun 5mo ago
Consider the level of access girls and women in poorer countries have to psychological assessment and medication compared to ours.
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by fl4regun 5mo ago
i've seen people argue about how the back button should work this year on HN
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by fl4regun 6mo ago
Why do machines have to "make" things? Is a car not a machine?
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by fl4regun 6mo ago
so what if there were some numbers in the report which are in actuality, an order of magnitude or two outside of what you think is reasonable, because something was wrong, but the AI agent reports something that looks normal?

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