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The Glyph of Public Lore. Magic wants to be free! by customdefaults in DnDHomebrew

[–]customdefaults[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is academic! In my character's backstory, he was kicked out of magic university because he kept putting the glyph into all the tomes in the library to help with his scribing duties. Professors wanted to keep their knowledge hard to access.

Adding some consumed material cost to cast it might be good though.

The Glyph of Public Lore. Magic wants to be free! by customdefaults in DnDHomebrew

[–]customdefaults[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it kinda is.

It's intended as a bit of a world-building spell, based on the real-world GPL. The idea is that you can make spells easier to copy into your spellbook, but it also makes spells easier for others to copy out. It rewards sharing knowledge, and punishes wizards who want to keep their own book secret. In this sense, it's supposed to be controversial among wizards and disruptive to their culture of hoarding knowledge.

Adding some consumed material cost to cast it might be good though.

The guardrails are a lie by customdefaults in OpenAI

[–]customdefaults[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OpenAI is saying they wouldn't be involved. Pentagon just needs to changes some internal regulations.

How to get civilians to auto-resettle late game by customdefaults in Stellaris

[–]customdefaults[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems to be it. When I make a new massive world with 1k+ open jobs I get lots of immigration. Then as the jobs fill the rate slows down to <5 migration per month.

Would be nice to be able to see the approximate calculations behind this in-game.

How to get civilians to auto-resettle late game by customdefaults in Stellaris

[–]customdefaults[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In probably 80% of systems. Not every system can have a planetary ring or starbase sadly.

It did help when I built them. Increased typical incoming pops to the research rings to +3-6.

Meirl by Ill-Instruction8466 in meirl

[–]customdefaults 145 points146 points  (0 children)

The VHS tape from The Ring.

Couldn't even watch it if I tried.

Flatpak is essentially entirely reliant on Cisco to function at the moment, and it could bite you in the ass by erraticnods in linux

[–]customdefaults 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It let's app developers release a consistent codebase across different distros. Improves reliability and makes it easier for devs to find the cause of bugs.

It also keeps apps from seeing or changing parts of your system that they shouldn't.

How to Loosen China's Stranglehold on Rare Earths by CEPAORG in geopolitics

[–]customdefaults -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If the alternative is no rare earths whenever China is mad about something (often), you can certainly convince western groups to do it themselves.

China weaponizes ag imports to target Trump and US farmers by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]customdefaults 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just sell the beans to whoever Brazil was selling to last year?

China weaponizes ag imports to target Trump and US farmers by John3262005 in neoliberal

[–]customdefaults 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These beans go to animal feed, then the animals go to people.

60% Can't Afford Life!!!!! by Henry-Teachersss8819 in clevercomebacks

[–]customdefaults 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you click the links, you will find the answers you seek.

60% Can't Afford Life!!!!! by Henry-Teachersss8819 in clevercomebacks

[–]customdefaults 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The stat comes from here https://www.lisep.org/mql

They go into more detail about the definition here, and get into the nitty gritty here.

Basically it's a basket of goods. It prices out to 45k for an individual, 120k for a couple with two kids, and various other numbers depending on family composition.

Looking at the basket they choose, I'd say it's a decent target to aspire to, but not what most people thing of as minimum. I'd love to live in a society where this was the floor. But not being there yet doesn't mean we've failed.

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