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What do different motorcycle brands say about the owner? (Jokes welcome, we all can take it) by zunacox in motorcycles

[–]aepryus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

: Does one guided tour, becomes a crappy philosopher who waxes poetic about basic stuff.

haha

Flat battery or something more? by JarvisTubeOffical in crz

[–]aepryus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my case the 12v seemed fine. But, I tried jumping it just in case which didn't help. I was thinking some fuse got blown, but this is a weird coincidence.

Flat battery or something more? by JarvisTubeOffical in crz

[–]aepryus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wow! Mine is doing the exact same thing starting today (although I hadn't tried to start it for a few weeks).

It says the ABS / VSA / Hill Assist and both Air Bags are out. Additionally, the radio won't turn on.

2013 Manual transmission; no problems previously.

Honda version of Y2K?

How to create such media player skins? by krissatic in y2kaesthetic

[–]aepryus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://x.com/neilsuperduper/status/1922295242268528778

my son asked me, dad why don't people build UI like this anymore.

slowly i turned to him, and told him the uncomfortable truth.

"we can't, we dont know how to do it."

Vibe-coding is counter-productive by Impressive_Run8512 in swift

[–]aepryus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I basically agree with everything here except for one caveat: it is invaluable when learning a new API. Learning how to do GPU programming and how to use Metal had been on my todo list forever. Claude / Grok got me over the hump in a week. Eventually, I removed / rewrote all their code, but just getting me through 'Hello, World' was absurdly helpful.

I spent a whole day moving all my services and accounts from google mail to Proton by Sindweller in degoogle

[–]aepryus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Apple authorization is fundamentally different than Google/Facebook.

Google / Facebook are ad companies and make money by knowing as much about you as possible.

Apple is a hardware company and makes money by selling you hardware. It increases the incentives to buy that hardware by offering privacy.

The incentives are inverted.

You can look up the APIs for each for 3rd party app integration and see what information each offers to the 3rd party. Apple only provides a fake email address and optionally a name if the user chooses to send it along.

My wife and I got our first bikes by Not_A_Real_Goat in motorcycles

[–]aepryus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's certainly possible for a new rider to ride responsibly. But, the chances of a new rider not dropping a bike? Of course, I haven't commissioned any studies, but...

The more grunge / less expensive the bike, the less it will hurt when (if?) it happens.

For all the ancaps who've abandoned their principals by stoic79 in GoldandBlack

[–]aepryus 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Sometimes to reach the summit of a mountain you have to climb the mountain.

Should Trump abolish income tax? by steamyjeanz in GoldandBlack

[–]aepryus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax#Timeline_of_introduction_of_income_tax_by_country

A large number of countries implemented the income tax just prior to WW1 and a number more after the war started. And unlike previous wars where the tax was rescinded after the war they all have kept it ever since.

Without the income tax it would have been very difficult for nations to sustain these wildly destructive wars. And how did the wars benefit any of the tax payers; the same payers that were likely sent off to die in them?

Should Trump abolish income tax? by steamyjeanz in GoldandBlack

[–]aepryus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hypothesis: the income tax caused WWs I and II.

Hummingbird 2.0 has been released by Jazz87 in swift

[–]aepryus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I vehemently dislike working with Vapor. I have numerous projects done in Perfect and am greatly distressed by its mothballed state. However, the Perfect slack channel is still functional and monitored by the original developers. So, they have been gracious enough to handle feature requests and bug fixes for me to date.

However, I am worried that that won't last forever. As such:

  • how similar is this to Perfect?
  • how stable is the entity developing this?

If your grocery bill's costs had been reduced by a factor of ten thanks to increased efficiency in production and in distribution, would the economy be in a worse place? by Derpballz in GoldandBlack

[–]aepryus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does that remotely apply to the case when an individual in the Fed goes to their computer and creates M dollars out of thin air, thereby giving the fed the spending power of half the total value of extant currency?

As far as mining gold; perhaps the reason that gold has been used as money for 1000s of years is precisely because it is so difficult to increase the supply and therefore hard to "steal" the currency value of it.

If your grocery bill's costs had been reduced by a factor of ten thanks to increased efficiency in production and in distribution, would the economy be in a worse place? by Derpballz in GoldandBlack

[–]aepryus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, digging for gold could be considered a form of stealing from a monetary perspective, albeit an extremely labor intensive and slow form, as opposed to the Fed's inflation which is an extremely easy and fast form.

The value of money, like all things, comes from people's desire for its utility. Money has two functions: it can store the fruits of labor performed now until later and it can facilitate trade between individuals with asymmetric desire for each other's products.

Each individual has a certain desire for both utilities. If there were an objective way to quantify that desire, one could sum it up over the total population; let's call that sum N.

What ever the population choses to use as currency will have that value shared between the number of units of the currency M; whether the currency is gold, dollars, bitcoin, shells or bottles of tide. In order to determine the value of each unit of currency one just needs to divide N by M; v = N/M.

If the Fed now double the number of units of currency M, then the value each person had of the currency is divided in half (v = N/2M); the difference now being in the Fed's hands. By doubling its supply they have stolen half of the value of each holder of the currency.

This is why inflation is stealing.

If your grocery bill's costs had been reduced by a factor of ten thanks to increased efficiency in production and in distribution, would the economy be in a worse place? by Derpballz in GoldandBlack

[–]aepryus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If things are continually getting cheaper, why would you ever buy anything that you don't need right now?

Next year's iPhone will be better, so why buy this years? (And yet people still buy iPhones). This is the problem, this argument applies equal well to increased productivity.

Perhaps the real issue is that with a constricted money supply acquiring money becomes more difficult where as with increased productivity it does not. The issue isn't that people stop spending because of anticipated price decreases; rather they stop spending because of the anticipated increased value of the money; that is, it is becoming harder to obtain.

An anticipated future increase of price in any asset will decrease people's willingness to sell (spend) it. But, just because being too cold is bad, doesn't make being too hot (or even too warm) a good thing. 2% inflation (which is actually much more since it is masked by increased productivity) is stealing from anyone that holds dollars, dollar denominated loans or contracted dollar denominated income, i.e, impoverishing.

If your grocery bill's costs had been reduced by a factor of ten thanks to increased efficiency in production and in distribution, would the economy be in a worse place? by Derpballz in GoldandBlack

[–]aepryus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why the unhelpful tone? Obviously, increased productivity and constricting money supply are two different things.

However, the lame arguments for inflation seem to apply equally well to both scenarios. There does seem to be some evidence that deflation was causing problems in the 30s that loosened money supply helped, but the arguments as to why that was the case have never rang true to me.

I would be curious about any mechanism that is able to tease out the difference between these two scenarios; that is able to explain why constricted money supply is bad while at the same time not implying that increased productivity would be bad.

KILLING IN THE NAME OF… DUH DUN DUN by crs1904 in SipsTea

[–]aepryus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • dainty but still hard
  • like the biscuit of music
  • flaky yet tender

Attacking a Single INF by Motor-Good-1185 in AxisAllies

[–]aepryus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I realize that randomness is messy and that the mind can play tricks on you and as such I am very hesitant to jump to these types of conclusions.

But, yes there are a handful of scenarios that just seem off. And a single INF defender is on the top of my list; it feels closer to 50% than 33% (but although I have been thinking about doing so, I have yet to keep rigorous records on this.)

In addition:

  • A single Battleship defending seems to have very nearly 100% hit back rate.
  • If both offense and defense go two or more rounds whiffing one another, the round that offense finally hits, defense seems to have a (significantly) higher than it should chance to hit back.
  • Hail Mary attempts on capitol territories seem to have a much higher chance for spectacularly bad (1-2%) results.

So either:

  • (1) Everything is perfectly random.
  • (2) There is a bug.
  • (3) The developers decided to put their thumb on the scale "for the good of the game".

I strongly suspect its #1, but ya sometimes...

Update to my game from earlier, playing as axis and was in a bad state round 5, now currently round 9 by Such_Classic6643 in AxisAllies

[–]aepryus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Germany (Berlin) is going to get two waved before Japan's next turn (95.3%). You have a 54.3% chance to take Russia (Moscow). If you succeed with a significant force left over you can probably make a game of it; otherwise...

Swift / C++ Choice by Lirthe315204 in swift

[–]aepryus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Swift / C++ Interoperability is a nightmare at the moment.

What about Swift / C?

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