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byThe-Ixian
9, 2026 @09:46AM
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Attached to: Urban Expansion in the Age of Liberalism
I guess that people make the point that if you wisely invest the money that you would otherwise spend on home improvements, you can come out with about equal amount of cash in the end.
Totally depends on the situation, where you live and what the housing market is doing at the time of sale. It also requires a lot of discipline on the part of the renter.
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byThe-Ixian
9, 2026 @09:16AM
(#65956458)
Attached to: Brandon Sanderson's Literary Fantasy Universe 'Cosmere' Picked Up by Apple TV
FWIW, I re-read WoT recently and found that I liked Jordan's writing style more than I remember liking it when I first read it at some point in my 20s.
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byThe-Ixian
9, 2026 @08:48AM
(#65956408)
Attached to: Brandon Sanderson's Literary Fantasy Universe 'Cosmere' Picked Up by Apple TV
This is about my view as well.
I liked his finish to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and really loved his Mistborn series.
The first few Stormlight Archive novels were pretty good too.
What really started turning me off to Sanderson was his clear drive toward unification and back-filling as though this was the plan all along. It just seems so comic book level. Which, is exactly why he did it, of course. It's just not for me.
That said, I am sure that I will enjoy the content that comes out of this.
Congrats Brandon.
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byThe-Ixian
2026 @01:42PM
(#65944724)
Attached to: Toronto Man Posed as Pilot To Rack Up Hundreds of Free Flights, Prosecutors Say
On confidence and lack of shame
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byThe-Ixian
2026 @12:03PM
(#65944426)
Attached to: When Two Years of Academic Work Vanished With a Single Click
Type 'rm -rf /' to see what happens....
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byThe-Ixian
2, 2026 @08:40AM
(#65941632)
Attached to: FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You
I guess we know now why your printer won't print anything, not even B&W, if you run out of any one color.... /s
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byThe-Ixian
2026 @08:16AM
(#65936776)
Attached to: Rackspace Customers Grapple With 'Devastating' Email Hosting Price Hike
Fastmail is $5/mo for their individual plan. Just sayin'
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byThe-Ixian
2026 @12:20PM
(#65929448)
Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
Andor, is probably my favorite Star Wars story. This coming from someone who, as a kid, wore out the VHS copy of the original movie.
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byThe-Ixian
2026 @12:07PM
(#65929404)
Attached to: Ruby on Rails Creator Says AI Coding Tools Still Can't Match Most Junior Programmers
In my experience the code that AI produces is way overkill too.
For example, I recently had Copilot write, what should be, a small script to enable an option on all mailboxes, companywide. Something that should just be a quick for loop, checking for a parameter and setting it to something if it matched a specific value. Almost a one-liner, if I was writing it.
The thing spit out no less than 300 lines of code with all kinds of edge case checks and safety guardrails and logging. Ok, fine, this is probably how a professional coder would do it and I can't fault it for being complete... but the script didn't even work and required manual tweaking anyway.
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byThe-Ixian
5, 2026 @01:44PM
(#65926910)
Attached to: Many People Who Come Off GLP-1 Drugs Regain Weight Within 2 Years, Review Suggests
Everything that I have heard and read about GLP-1 drugs, this fact is among the first that people point out.
The point is getting a positive feedback loop started.
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byThe-Ixian
14, 2026 @11:24AM
(#65923928)
Attached to: Iran Shuts Down Musk's Starlink For First Time
I suppose it becomes a statistical problem at that point?
Every packet is duplicated X times based on how much loss is being seen?
The trick would be to just get the packets to the other side of the block and have the destination (proxy I guess?) do the same kind of duplication so that you are guaranteed to get a response.
I don't know, that's just my layman's view of it.
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byThe-Ixian
14, 2026 @09:55AM
(#65923690)
Attached to: Exercise is as Effective as Medication in Treating Depression, Study Finds
I think it's just a state of mind.
I find that if you don't think about the destination or end goal, it gets a lot easier. In other words, don't think about how far you still have to go because that will quickly overwhelm you.
In the immortal words of Rush: The point of a journey is not to arrive.
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byThe-Ixian
2026 @12:48PM
(#65918426)
Attached to: Exercise is as Effective as Medication in Treating Depression, Study Finds
I have been more or less depressed since I was a child.
I always led a pretty sedentary life.
In my late 30s, I started walking a lot, hitting my 10k nearly every day. I am in my late 40's now and my depression is quite manageable. I am consistently in a much better mood than I was in my earlier years. I have also lost quite a bit of weight (went from 250-270 to 200-210) and my lower back pain is nearly gone too.
So, there you go. Just get outside (preferably; vitamin D is very important) or get on the treadmill. You don't need to run or jog, just walk, that's it.
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byThe-Ixian
2026 @02:41PM
(#65913140)
Attached to: America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
Depends on whether or not you burn them off, I suppose.
Personally, I love carbs.
For me, pizza delivery is just getting too expensive to justify.
I have started to just make my own pizza, which is a lot cheaper and quite a bit better.
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byThe-Ixian
8, 2026 @02:41PM
(#65911051)
Attached to: TV Makers Are Taking AI Too Far
Watching "tv" on a different sized screen does not mean that they don't watch "tv" anymore...
YouTube is still "tv"
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