wirthjason

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by wirthjason 3mo ago
s/barbara/sandra/g
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by wirthjason 2y ago
After I downloaded Fahrenheit 451 my hard drive caught fire.
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by wirthjason 2y ago
I wonder if they have a new control technique up their sleeve. Innovative gameplay and pushing new control ideas is one of Nintendo’s signatures. That said, being the switch 2, not a new console, maybe they kept it the same and just upgrade
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by wirthjason 2y ago
How could someone write a post like this and leave off the great book “Metaphors We Live By” by Lakoff and Johnson? Is particularly found the part about how metaphors “hide and highlight” information. In other words the metaphor we use nece
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by wirthjason 2y ago
This is a great addition next to my race car VHS rewinder.
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by wirthjason 2y ago
You’re totally right. And it’s important to distinguish between the many forms of homelessness. There’s visible homeless, they are what most people think of. There are also invisible homeless, they don’t “look” homeless. Often you don’t kno
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by wirthjason 2y ago
When I was in high school (ages ago) the boy’s bathrooms didn’t have doors. I guess it was to deter kids smoking, graffiti, and other bad things that happen. We were a middle class suburb so I don’t know how often this happened anyways. I w
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by wirthjason 2y ago
Will they really not let you use the bathroom? The same idea exists in the US, and often bathrooms have a PIN code to enter or a special key only the shop owner has. I’ve never been turned down when asking politely. Most people are rather s
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by wirthjason 2y ago
The article has one good point: there’s diseases and conditions that cause people to need the bathroom, and even if you don’t have this upset stomachs are common enough that at some point it’ll impact you. Parents with young kids realize it
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by wirthjason 2y ago
The words “public company” often carry a negative tone but ownership rules are complicated. It doesn’t mean much until you know the specifics. For example a non-tech example of a publicly owned corporation that people might not think of is
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by wirthjason 3y ago
“Addiction is a disease” is something I learned as a child of a (now sober) alcoholic parent. It’s a strange classification at first because addiction seems like a matter of will and strength. If we’re going to lump algorithmic addiction in
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by wirthjason 3y ago
I might have miscommunicated my idea. I certainly think everything that documentary shows happens and agree with everything you say. No dispute there. I just don’t know what percentage it represents. Maybe my driver is a corporate driver, n
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Yes. He comes all the time. I haven’t been in this apartment for very long but he’s had this route for at least a year. I first met him on New Years Eve when ordering a board game to play that night. I came back from picking up last minute
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Obviously not all of this is true. I chatted to Amazon driver for my apartment about some local Chicago sports and he talked to me forever. Ironically I had to end the conversation by saying I needed to use the bathroom. He’s definitely not
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Thank you for saying Michigan is your state. Context matters a lot. It’s annoying when people generically use “in my state” or “in my country”.
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Anyone know what the US market (no pun intended) is like? Similar games, different ones?
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Restaurants, particularly fast food, also do the same.
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Are there any guides or tutorials on how to do this kind of analysis on your own?
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Hot take (as it applies to toasters): many appliances are crap, they break quickly and are not user repairable. The odds of buying a toaster a year later might be higher than it sounds.
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by wirthjason 3y ago
On the flip side, I wish rat Japanese design allowed for middle names. It annoys me that my marriage certificate has my first and middle name concatenated together simply because my legal name on my passport has a first, middle, and last na
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Anime faces seem very easy to draw. Granted I don’t watch anime, so I could be missing something, but it’s not like they are going for photorealism.
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The sports fan’s guide to streaming services(arstechnica.com)
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by wirthjason 3y ago
I wonder if smart toasters could be in this category if the technology and APIs were made open in the way that a car is open (maybe not modern cars). You can swap out and replace components, fix broken parts, etc. even if the company no lon
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Curious to what people think is actual innovation - hardware, software, anything.
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by wirthjason 3y ago
All knowledge, by definition, had to be first learned by someone. That person didn’t have an exams or someone testing their knowledge. As a child I looked to exams and grades to validate my knowledge. However I got A’s on exams and felt lik
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by wirthjason 3y ago
I’m trying to get my young daughter into the movies and have seen quite a few this year. We see movies a couple weeks after their release and go mid-week (a 7pm-ish show after I’m done with work). Often the theater is empty. When there have
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Here’s some news about it. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/25/23570024/restaurants-... An additional 3% fee (for whatever) is common. You can ask to have to taken off, but then I feel like an asshole
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by wirthjason 3y ago
I consider myself a fairly good tipper — a trait I picked up from my grandfather. However I feel this is tipping culture is nonsense. The calculated amounts at bottom are on the receipt total, including tax —- why am I tipping 20% on that?
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by wirthjason 3y ago
Growing up in Chicago as a kid I was always envious of people living in places where it never got “freeze your ass off” cold. They seemed magical. Not needing a heavy coat, being able to go outside in the the winter. I was young and didn’t
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by wirthjason 3y ago
I mention Harry Frankfurt every time I discuss ChatGPT because of his explanation that a bullshitter is more dangerous than the liar. As On Bullshit explains, there’s the truth teller who is only concerned with the truth. The liar who tells

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