sacredbirdman

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[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (17 children)

It's one of the terrible hype trains again... However, I wonder what makes him think that humans are something clearly more than a model that gathers data through the senses and reacts to external stimuli based on the current model. I think that's special pleading.

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Huh? The things people do for that wage will certainly rise in price due to inflation. Interest on bank accounts usually correlates with inflation, house prices go up with inflation (if you own one, it's value usually does too)... It's usually only stuff that wears out quickly and/or electronics (stuff that has steep inherent value deprecation) that do not grow in value due to inflation.

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Well, there are programming languages that are not based on English (like BQN) In reality though the vast majority of the documentation, books, online discussions etc. are in English so I'd say it is at least hugely beneficial to know English.

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This is what Beau of the Fifth Column calls "the hard part". Congratulations, you've captured some dirt but the people will still try to kill you. Now they just don't look like soldiers in front of you. They look like regular persons and they're among you.

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It depends.I used to read a lot of books in my native language (Finnish) but for years most of the stuff I've been reading and watching has been in English, I also use a lot of English at work. At some point I realized that my active vocabulary in my native language was atrophying. So, I decided to go back to reading books in it. So, be mindful about that :)

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if you don't pay, the Repo Men will come after you..

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Take some time every now and then to consider why you're doing the things you're doing. You may do them out of fear, shame, perceived obligation, to avoid doing something else, because your parents want you to, etc. Or you may do them because they genuinely bring you job, help you in some way or make the world a better place.. Anyway, we people are weird creatures. We get stuck in situations, relationships, obligations, bad habits, destructive patterns without realizing what's happening. Try to stay aware, honest to yourself (and others) and keep learning :)

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

You should be able to do that, you'd just need to set up and maintain the Nextcloud instance yourself :)

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Hetzner's Storage Share (which is a nextcloud instance) as my drive and pay around 5€ / mo for 1 TB. Depending on the features you want you could also use their Storage Box which is more like a plain network drive, and cheaper.. like 13€ / mo for 5 TB.

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I'm not sure if these are cool but I find them pretty cool :D Crows, unline many other animals, recognize humans by their faces like we do and they can remember at least dozens of individuals. They stash food in different places. Sometimes crows spy on others and go steal food from their stashes. Those who have gotten their food stolen will move their stashes. Crows can also use tools.

[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not a jackdaw nor a magpie, it's a hooded crow. And to the OP, I recommend befriending crows, I now have my own air support.

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