jccalhoun

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by jccalhoun 10mo ago
True. But it was my first time in Europe so I wanted the experience. If I go again I will probably fly.
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by jccalhoun 10mo ago
This summer I took a DB train from Amsterdam to Berlin. Being from the midwest USA, I didn't have a lot of experience with trains so I bought a first class ticket. The air and power in my car weren't working. There was no beverage
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by jccalhoun 10mo ago
Fox news.
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by jccalhoun 10mo ago
For me, it isn't about not liking the story, but about having to watch a movie when I want to play a game. Don't show it to me. Let me do it.
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by jccalhoun 10mo ago
All things considered, this is a pretty mild pun. It isn't making fun of his name or replacing it with a slur or something.
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by jccalhoun 11mo ago
For this, it is pretty legit since it is old. What is thought to be driven by money laundering is people paying crazy amounts of money for graded VHS movies or NES games.
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by jccalhoun 11mo ago
My conspiracy theory: Microsoft knew the Steam Machine was coming and decided to get out of the console market.
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by jccalhoun 11mo ago
Where did they lie? Someone posted some benchmarks. They reported on the appearance of benchmarks that indicate a new chip. Being wrong is not lying.
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by jccalhoun 11mo ago
My friends from Poland adopted a female cat named Sasha and were adamant that Sasha was a male name.
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by jccalhoun 11mo ago
I thought "is there one of those popups covering things and greying out the page until you close it?"
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
This is getting to the antivirus bundle level of adding pointless features. I want grammarly to... check my grammar. I don't want it to write for me or suggest things.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
I enjoy If Books Could Kill and I used to like You're Wrong About when Michael was on it. However, I have found on If Books Could Kill that they sometimes take the least charitable interpretation of something to ridicule it when a more
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Link to the actual article instead of a page summarizing the article: https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/when-we-launched-resident-...
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
If they thought the product was toast why would they bother updating the processor? It isn't like they update the processor in the mac pro regularly or anything.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
I'm glad you posted. When I hear masking described like it is in this simulator: "To keep your job and avoid conflict, you must "mask." Masking means hiding your natural habits and feelings, while imitating the social be
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
"A PM appears at your desk with an urgent ask that lacks acceptance criteria. " I don't know what this means and I don't understand the first choice: Open a template and force crisp AC: "Given/When/Then&qu
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Fedex is the worst. I live in a house with a wooden fence all around. The sidewalk goes to the gate to get to the front door. Once fedex delivered something to my back deck where there is no sidewalk. My parents live in a rural area. Two st
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Whenever I see people say Indiana is flat and boring I know they haven't been south of I-70.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
I bugged me too. I'm from Southern Indiana and when I hear people say "Indiana is flat" or "Indiana is boring to look at" all I hear them say is "I've only been to the Northern part of Indiana." There
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
I agree. However, I will say that I always thought that Southern Indiana and Southern Ohio were more similar than Southern Indiana and Northern Indiana.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
About 5 years ago I was teaching a college class how to format something and I said, "then you just hit return" and most of the class didn't know what "return" was.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Exactly. Isn't it strange that the Queen of England, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia ALL died on the same day? WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
I was an English major and Math minor in the 90s and I used them for one class - a history general studies requirement. All the essay tests in my other classes were on letter sized paper with blank space for us to write in.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
jeepathon2k was peak CS. Seriously though, I miss the VIP and hostage rescue modes. I guess hostage rescue is still there but hardly played.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
It was totally in my library when I was in high school in the late 80s but I was in a small school in the midwest.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
I'm not a programmer but I have some stuff I want to do with python. So what I've found useful is taking the output of one LLM, Claude for instance, and giving it to another, Gemini for example, and writing "this is what clau
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Wikipedia says it was first marketed only 3 years earlier so it was pretty new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(methyl_methacrylate)
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
It will never happen. It is easier to cut budget than to raise it. It is easier to cut taxes than it is to raise them on the rich.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
Not bending the knee to Trump.
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by jccalhoun 1y ago
While different places define "literate" differently, I've seen figures that say 20% of adults in the USA are functionally illiterate.

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