shoobiedoo

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by shoobiedoo 4d ago
Boy do I hear that. I was mostly eating what was very healthy, but I'd throw in an apple here, some crackers there... it adds up so fast and grinds everything to a halt.
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by shoobiedoo 4d ago
I have a few heavy kettlebells and dip bars in my room. I've never felt or looked better. I know many people out there get stuck on the "where am I gonna put a squat rack and barbells?!" hurdle. You don't need much!
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by shoobiedoo 5d ago
So what. The unabomber used a phone sometimes
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by shoobiedoo 5d ago
I don't really know if I would call that shame, though. In Japan if you wear your shoes into someone's house you'll be lambasted with shame, but that's got a deep religious and cultural foundation behind it-- the person
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by shoobiedoo 8d ago
I mean, you're not wrong, but even if AI was created and released by a group of peace loving beatnick hippies, humanity can't stand anymore dumbing down than we are still undergoing thanks to the ubiquity of social media. AI is go
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by shoobiedoo 10d ago
I live in Japan and in the rare event that there is an online option when I need to do something related to government documents, banking, insurance, or the like, all I can think is-- "wtf is this, geocities?". It's always a
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by shoobiedoo 13d ago
> Wait for a resurgence of Philip K Dick-style novels as humans desperately try to write things LLMs cannot. I myself can't wait for Finnegan's Wake 2
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by shoobiedoo 13d ago
I fail to see how what you describe is any better than the old autocomplete-on-steroids comparison. Could the human mind learn to spell every word properly? Yes. Do most (or any) do it? No. Does that mean a human can't ? I think what
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by shoobiedoo 15d ago
> We live in wild times. I hope everyone is taking advantage while they can. To do what exactly? Everyone can churn out their own "kinda different but mostly the same" app thing?
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by shoobiedoo 15d ago
This is especially common in Japan now. I was looking for an audio documentary of the crusades and half of them were done in squeaky anime AI voices
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by shoobiedoo 17d ago
yep. at that time, I would have had to take it to the exchange, with my passport, pay a fee, and barely break even. I really didn't think that needed to be said, but people always come out of the woodwork to convince themselves they ar
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by shoobiedoo 17d ago
I don't know what kind of friends you have, but mine take offense to being offered something they didn't ask for, like they are beggars or are owed something. He stayed with me for a week last year. We had a big bbq. I stuffed him
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by shoobiedoo 17d ago
I still do that in my head-- minus two zeros. But nope, not even close now. It was a habit for so long, it's hard to correct...
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by shoobiedoo 17d ago
Please explain how the situation I described is me "trying to make a buck". You're saying he regretted the terms he presented, and is forever resentful that I didn't drag him to a bank to look up the exchange rate at the
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by shoobiedoo 17d ago
He literally put 100USD in front of me, said he forgot to get more yen before his trip, and asked for a favor. Am I really in the wrong from your perspective?
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by shoobiedoo 17d ago
I live in Japan and five years ago my drinking buddy at the time only had USD and was about to get on the shinkansen. He needed Yen ASAP. So he said, "dude I'll trade you a 100USD for 10000YEN." At the time it was an easy fif
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by shoobiedoo 17d ago
Yep, unfortunately the only fix would be a world government. But that will never happen. So everyone's going to reach for a bigger slice of pie at any expense no matter what happens, no matter how clear the evidence is. (I'm not n
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by shoobiedoo 23d ago
Besides my saying that it used to be contrary to Japanese cultural expectations (もったいない)?
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by shoobiedoo 23d ago
Well, at least they are honest about their stupidity. I live in Japan and am constantly shocked how many raised SUVs with the oversized max-grip tires in cities. Japan used to be a "doing it right" country in terms of not going ov
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by shoobiedoo 1mo ago
I paid for a yearly AppBlock subscription. I tried locking up my phone (literally, in a drawer with a lock), uninstalling almost everything, and just plain old willpower, but I'm the type that needs to see money go out in order to moti
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by shoobiedoo 1mo ago
Interesting, yeah I thought there must have been some consultation there. Especially because there's a couple instances where the hackers rely on social engineering over the phone first, and faking the "coin added" noise on t
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by shoobiedoo 1mo ago
Thank you! I'll definitely look into this.
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by shoobiedoo 1mo ago
On a whim I watched my favorite childhood movie last week, Hackers. It's goofy in some ways, but man it captures the "wild west" feeling of early and mid 90's internet. It was just you, a slow connection to anywhere, and
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by shoobiedoo 1mo ago
There is something so charming about the N64/PS1 era. They were so unique in their own right and you could tell at a passing glance which system was displaying on the screen even if you didn't know what game it was. Two radically
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by shoobiedoo 1mo ago
It's incredible how much it does, how quickly it does it, and how it just works every time. Whether I'm trying to deal with gigs of 4k video, embedding multiple subtitles into an mkv file, or just fiddling around with trimming a f
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Well I think the key point is that caffeine has a half life of 6 or 7 hours in adults. So 4 coffees before 10am is worse than one coffee at 2pm. That's how I look at it anyway. Regardless, I limit myself to 2 cups before 8am. Now I not
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Great write up, thank you. Actually I've been messing around with ARM assembly lately so have been keeping my eyes open for a cheap used GBA. There are a lot of them here, but most are close to 100usd and in really rough shape. So your
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Very cool. I live in Japan and see NES carts in all the second hand stores that are everywhere here. Very tempting but in the end I know I wouldn't play it. Whenever I go down a "weee let's try retro" path I lose interes
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
Fukuoka here (about 100km from Kumamoto) and definitely felt it, so it must have been a real big one in Kumamoto itself. My friend was driving home from work closer to Miyazaki and didn't feel the quake, but had huge hailstones hitting
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by shoobiedoo 2mo ago
these "secret police"-- did they only operate recently?

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