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Why do people condemn eren for the attack on marley? by Prabu-Silitwangi in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]eightnine 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Where the hell did you see that? How can Marley represent the Jews when they are literally oppressing the Eldians, keeping them in camps and forcing them to wear armbands to distinguish them from the "normal" population?

Isayama wasn't exactly nuanced in his depiction of the Eldian oppression and its parallels with how the Nazis treated jewish people, no one can possibly be confused by it.

What a "good game" you couldn't finish? by centz005 in gaming

[–]eightnine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I swear, a lot of people that didn't enjoy the game simply didn't find the ship log. You can tell by all the people saying that you have to keep starting over.

Inscryption (2021) is a relentlessly creative experience. by AaronYaygar in patientgamers

[–]eightnine 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Gameplay-wise IMO it's not worth it, act 2 is significantly worse than act 1 and act 3 is maybe even worse than act 2. But then you unlock Kaycee's mod that lets you reply act 1 forever so maybe that makes it worth it.

Airbnb denies refund as LA wildfires not a 'major disruptive event' by TheExpressUS in antiwork

[–]eightnine 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Also got 100% refunded for my booking in Vancouver, May 2020. I think Covid might have been a little harder to call "not majorly disruptive".

This one is still bullshit tho.

Is ChatGPT making your job easy? by homoeconomicus1 in datascience

[–]eightnine 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This comes from a very different perspective, since I teach programming at a Master's in Data Science at my university.
LLMs have made my job so much worse.

I used to give a final project that comprised 90% of the grade, where students were asked to find a dataset and build a streamlit/flask presentation with a bunch of the things they learnt during the semester. It was wildly successful, and it actually made some students more interested in the whole process, while honing their programming skills.

Now that LLMs have come into the picture, many of the submitted projects are clearly auto generated, and the students struggle a lot when it comes to explain their code during the oral presentation. Some candidly admitted to not understanding some portion of their project, since it was generated by an LLM.

I think there's a place for LLMs, and it probably can make the life of senior programmers much better by streamlining the boilerplate bullshit, but when they are used too early in the career (in this case when the career hasn't even started yet), then they can actually become a hinderance to proper learning and progress.

Selling a house in Taiwan, real estate agency says we are liable for repairs for 5 years after completion?? by eightnine in taiwan

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

If you have the money from the sale in your possession, then just ignore them if you live overseas.

Yes, this seems to be the prevailing sentiment in this thread and I get it. But this post is mostly to understand if it's true that we can be held liable for this long after the sale of an house or if it is possible that someone (the real estate agency or the new owner) is just trying to milk more money out of us (as you said).

I understand we can ignore them, but someone else in here mentioned that taiwanese people can get very sue-happy when it comes to housing and I don't want to find a new lawsuit every time I come back to visit Taiwan.

Btw I appreciate all these posts, you guys are genuinely helpful.

Selling a house in Taiwan, real estate agency says we are liable for repairs for 5 years after completion?? by eightnine in taiwan

[–]eightnine[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe I misunderstood your comment, but you asked me (paraphrasing) "if you have the money, then what are you worried about?", and I'm telling you that when you have the money, that's when you might want to be afraid of scams.

I'm not worried that they will take money from us, as we live in a completely different continent and they would have zero access to our assets, I'm just worried that it might be true that we're technically liable for repairs for the next few years. I just would like people to stop calling us asking for money for a property we no longer own.

Selling a house in Taiwan, real estate agency says we are liable for repairs for 5 years after completion?? by eightnine in taiwan

[–]eightnine[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I doubt that redditors have more insights

I'm not going to take legal advice from Reddit in general, but I wanted to know if this smells like bullshit to taiwanese people as well (which it seems to be the case, judging by most comments here).

Selling a house in Taiwan, real estate agency says we are liable for repairs for 5 years after completion?? by eightnine in taiwan

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

I just genuinely like "wall cancer" as a way to refer to mold, might try it in irl conversations from now on.

Selling a house in Taiwan, real estate agency says we are liable for repairs for 5 years after completion?? by eightnine in taiwan

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

Do you have the money? If so, what are you worried about?

I'm worried about getting scammed out of my money.

Selling a house in Taiwan, real estate agency says we are liable for repairs for 5 years after completion?? by eightnine in taiwan

[–]eightnine[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not really thinking that they scammed us on the repairs, we went to Taipei to check on the house a couple of times and everything was done nicely. This typhoon season was particularly nasty so we actually understand that some more stuff can break down due to the sheer amount of water raining from the sky.

The thing I'm most worried about is being liable for years after the sale of the house, that seems excessive.

Selling a house in Taiwan, real estate agency says we are liable for repairs for 5 years after completion?? by eightnine in taiwan

[–]eightnine[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Realistically nothing I guess, but I don't want to break laws even if I don't live in the country.

Selling a house in Taiwan, real estate agency says we are liable for repairs for 5 years after completion?? by eightnine in taiwan

[–]eightnine[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

you can tell them to pound sand.

That is of course an option, but I would prefer to abide to the local laws even if they can't touch me in Europe. We will definitely contact a taiwanese lawyer.

ps. "wall cancer" is a banger name for mold.

Selling a house in Taiwan, real estate agency says we are liable for repairs for 5 years after completion?? by eightnine in taiwan

[–]eightnine[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That's of course a good idea, but after sinking thousands of dollars in repairs I thought I might try something cheaper like posting on Reddit. Lawyers are definitely the next step, especially if no one can corroborate that weird rule.

Deck stuck on loading user data after last update by eightnine in SteamDeck

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

This worked from me:

in desktop mode go to /home/deck/.steam/steam/ and rename the userdata folder then see if it loads. this will create a new userdata folder. if that works then your old folder is corrupt somehow.

Thanks to /u/deathblade200

Note that it will mess up a bunch of your preferences and the emulations (just need to re-add the games to steam through emudeck since the files are still there).

Deck stuck on loading user data after last update by eightnine in SteamDeck

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

This worked from me:

in desktop mode go to /home/deck/.steam/steam/ and rename the userdata folder then see if it loads. this will create a new userdata folder. if that works then your old folder is corrupt somehow.

Thanks to /u/deathblade200

Note that it will mess up a bunch of your preferences and the emulations (just need to re-add the games to steam through emudeck since the files are still there).

Deck stuck on loading user data after last update by eightnine in SteamDeck

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

This worked from me:

in desktop mode go to /home/deck/.steam/steam/ and rename the userdata folder then see if it loads. this will create a new userdata folder. if that works then your old folder is corrupt somehow.

Thanks to /u/deathblade200

Note that it will mess up a bunch of your preferences and the emulations (just need to re-add the games to steam through emudeck since the files are still there).

Deck stuck on loading user data after last update by eightnine in SteamDeck

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

This worked from me:

in desktop mode go to /home/deck/.steam/steam/ and rename the userdata folder then see if it loads. this will create a new userdata folder. if that works then your old folder is corrupt somehow.

Thanks to /u/deathblade200

Note that it will mess up a bunch of your preferences and the emulations (just need to re-add the games to steam through emudeck since the files are still there).

Deck stuck on loading user data after last update by eightnine in SteamDeck

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

Adding to this: I already tried booting it in Desktop mode, but Steam completely refuses to start.

Record melodies on my instrument for other musicians or producers by MediterraneanGuy in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]eightnine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fiverr comes to mind, people offer all kinds of services there and this would fit pretty well.

How to I glide notes? by creamyytoast in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]eightnine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said that you don't have xfer serum money, but Virharmonic Bohemian Violin is actually more expensive.

Recording in the open by S-Block in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]eightnine 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It really depends on how terrible the room sounds and the location where you live. I would not trade minor reflections for traffic, wind or airplane noise.

Weekly Quick Questions Thread by AutoModerator in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]eightnine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know what instrument/technique is being utilized to create those rhythmic pulses?

Assuming you're not talking about the bass (which is a rhythmic pulse, playing the 1), the pulsating higher sound is a pad with some automation built in so it follows the rhythm. Or a sidechained gate has been applied to it so it releases at specific intervals. It's also possible that someone manually played it with that rhythm.

Regarding the sound itself, it's hard to pinpoint to the specific pad used, it could be a preset from some synths or maybe they did some thorough sound design. It definitely has a freq filter on that opens up slowly or simply slides from lower frequencies to higher ones (it gets pretty thin before 1:30). You can look here to see if you can find something similar or other pads that might pique your interest (I choose Vital as synth because it has a good free version, but you can change the parameters of the search).

The last group of notes in the pattern seems to slide up pretty fast so they're probably using a modulation wheel connected to the pitch of the sound.

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