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by bane 4y ago
Despite being a terrible price/per unit technology, I loved my TI calculators, but I was always sort of out of sync with everybody else trying to chase more symbolic math power. Everybody using a TI-82? I'll get a TI-85. School sy
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by bane 4y ago
Oh man, the madness of desktop literalism in GUI design in the mid-90s. The more "subtle" metaphors of files and folders blown far past skeumorphism and into immediately literal graphic representations of a "desk" with a
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by bane 4y ago
It's more or less been that way since the colonial powers first encountered Japan. European powers found Japan to be something of an outlier to other East Asian territories. Many early European accounts of Japan found the social order
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by bane 4y ago
I don't recall making it to an electronics store at the time. But I do remember talking a lot about the state of consumer tech. Most of what we talked about or showed them in our homes was familiar even if they didn't have this or
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by bane 4y ago
I played violin. We played a mix of classical music and pop film scores. A local composer in one of the areas we visited composed a song for our group that we also played a few times. The Russians played half late 80s early 90s synth pop an
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by bane 4y ago
In 1995 I had the pleasure to be part of a State Department sponsored "cultural exchange" with our then new friends in the Russian Federation. Basically it amounted to myself and about a dozen others, organized into a small chambe
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by bane 4y ago
There's all kinds of ways people come up with Jeonse money. But it's important to understand a few Korean cultural norms: - It's the general norm that people stay with their families well into adulthood -- often even after ma
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by bane 4y ago
Vlc
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by bane 4y ago
The Jeonse system, sometimes called "key money" is one of the various systems in South Korea that people use to get access to incredibly expensive housing in lieu of purchasing it. In a basic sense it's a long-term loan to th
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by bane 4y ago
I was just watching Rick Beato's interview with Billy Corgan and one of the things they dwelled on was that while the early band had intonation and feel sorted out, they were a mess with keeping time (i.e. "playing to a tick"
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The Optical Audio of Sound-on-Film(youtube.com)
2 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments
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Passthrough MR history: 10 years ago Canon announced the HM-A1 headset(old.reddit.com)
1 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments
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by bane 4y ago
There's a modern "port" of it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1330890/Crystal_Caves_HD/ and you can play the original https://archive.org/details/CrystalCaves
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by bane 4y ago
I don't care about organized sports much, and big collegiate sports are basically under my radar. But I'll tell you something -- some of the best "leaders" I've hired over the years were athletes -- especially colle
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by bane 4y ago
I dunno, I "guess" I'm the previous generation. It sucked back when my parents bought their home at 9%, and we thought we got an amazing deal at 6%. Then things happened and interest went down and everybody refinanced a few t
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Elon Musk voted out of Twitter in his own poll(cnn.com)
21 points by bane 4y ago|2 comments
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by bane 4y ago
My wife is Korean as well and every time something medical comes up we immediately start considering it as an option. I've also personally been through the system once and found it really great. It's not for everybody though, it c
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by bane 4y ago
Thanks, I appreciate it. The holidays kind of suck at the moment.
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by bane 4y ago
As Musk slowly (or rapidly depending on your point of view) turns Twitter into an expensive version of Truth Social and Parler, being "seen" there threatens to associate users with his overriding POV -- it's going to start se
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by bane 4y ago
I'm an American, native English speaker, no real other languages at a conversational level other than some High-School Spanish and a couple hundred words of Korean due to marriage. The further you get away from areas with familiar scri
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by bane 4y ago
I've had the good (bad?) luck to go through a few non-US systems and can say that you have to get pretty far down the OECD development index to hit U.S. medical system level of terribleness.
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by bane 4y ago
I have a bunch of other comments in here that relate some of the story. It's honestly too much to give a daily play-by-play of six months of somebody's life. Suffice it to say I wouldn't accept the service-level we received a
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by bane 4y ago
You experience nearly mirrors mine with the exception of age and the circumstances of care. But the need to exhaustively advocate for even basic care was, to be honest, harder than losing my father in the end. It's painful to say, but
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by bane 4y ago
It's longer than I care to really write, but I think this comment (not be myself) gets to the essence of my experience as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044230 and an anecdote I don't care to rewrite
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by bane 4y ago
I'm so sorry to hear it :( All I can really say is that in general, advocate advocate advocate. Don't take no for an answer, don't settle for "the policy", double-triple check in/out network providers and take
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by bane 4y ago
My personal experiences aside, one of the biggest problems with healthcare in the U.S. is that you do need insurance to get it. Otherwise the absolutely unreal cost for even the most basic interactions will bankrupt virtually anybody quic
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by bane 4y ago
There's a lot of wonderful empathy encoded here.
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by bane 4y ago
Argh, too young! I'm so sorry to hear about this. Covid has really messed up the system badly. The medical treatment funnel gets very myopic treating the most present thing first, and often misses other problems going on at the same ti
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by bane 4y ago
Thanks, I appreciate it, and am happy to hear that your own experience was far more positive than our own. I take comfort that my father's wishes were to spend his final few months at home and die there. It took a herculean effort on b
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by bane 4y ago
I'm really sorry to hear it. :( The past few years seem to have been really hard on people, even those without COVID. It seems the number of deaths in my circle too has accelerated -- especially among the "old but still should hav

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