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If the van is loaded with equipment, or even if it isn’t, theft and robbery are common in most of the US. You can’t leave a van door open and not be extremely vigilant.

The designers make us commit war crimes with JavaScript. Can’t even use native form elements.

Your time scale is so small. There are people alive today that witnessed the moon landing on television.

Galactic timescales are large. Plan for 10,000 years out, not tomorrow.


> Plan for 10,000 years out, not tomorrow.

I'm happy to. But then, like most people, I'm impatient, so I'll draw a second plan that ensures I get to see at least some of the cool stuff before I die, and then I'll get annoyed when this plan isn't followed.

Galactic timescales are large. Human lifespans are tiny.


Notably, 10,000 years is longer than all of recorded human history.

It’s a bit of a pipe dream to think we’d plausibly be able to follow through consistently on anything even 1% that long right now.


Mario teaches typing, Mario is missing. Where are my other Mario’s?

This data is very incomplete, and thus I conclude that there are very many Mario’s missing.


This analysis was limited to titles with polygon and multicolor logos.

Mario is missing is just regular text. Mario teaches typing is multicolor, but not the polygon style.


The box art is regular text, but immediately in game after starting the cartridge you get polygonal multicolored text.

GBYRG

Title screen seems more authoritative than box art, which during the NES/SNES era was quite wild. (See megaman)


It's great how the most niche of posts still find their aficionados <3


Oh, that explains Hotel Mario being missing.


Large json logs just won’t appear for hours, which makes it so fun to debug issues in deployed environments!

Showing ALL the logs isn’t cool. Showing SOME logs at random is cool.


Nope. Universities are wild and their technology is weak. It’s always been this way.


金子 is kinsu.

https://jisho.org/search/%E9%87%91%E5%AD%90

Kane is not a normal reading for 金 in compound words unless this is an esoteric word I haven’t seen.


You are correct. 金子 can be read as “kaneko”, but that’s actually a surname and place name. “Kinsu” is a gold coin. I got the two swapped.


Oof. The reading for names will always get me. Still worth knowing the name reading!

Google maps has it showing up in a bunch of business names, too.


Seems to have been a bit of confusion in several directions here, but just to clarify: in modern usage 金子 is read only as Kaneko, and is a very common surname. The "kinsu" reading is archaic; a typical native speaker may never have heard of it.


That one sounds like Chinese word with hallucinated Japanese usage. 子 is IIUC casually used to mean "little ___ things" in Chinese, but same isn't the case with Japanese; 金子 is used as a somewhat discrete way to refer to an envelope of cash.


If you figure it out, pass it on to others. I haven’t been allowed to hire Americans in quite some time, and Covid destroyed any company support of an apprenticeship type setup.

The last time I was able to hire an American with a will to learn and an adjacent degree was over a decade ago.


I’ve hired dozens of smart Americans with the right degree and willingness to learn and I was not even American myself. I worked with hundreds more. Not sure what you’re talking about.


Wheel of time takes place in Brooklyn, in the Amazon cinematic universe though.


I don’t think that the ethnicity of the actors really matters all that much, the height & hair color are the only real trait that describes how Rand stands out. Honestly the only character with a skin color description I can recall is Tuon? And that isn’t really something that matters either…

Bigger issues as other people pointed out are things like inventing weird bullshit storylines when you have 10k pages of content to draw from, or messing with the “hard rules” of the magic system, such as you can’t burn out in a circle, or heal someone from death.


It ruined the suspension of disbelief immediately for me though. A rural village that doesn’t do constant international trade should have people living there that all look, speak, dress, and act similarly.

But the village looked like like an HR training video. To contrast, a new season of squid game just came out. Everyone is Korean. Everyone speaks Korean. Everyone looks Korean.

This makes the show feel more real.


Right, the characters skin tones and real life ethnicities ruined the suspension of disbelief, because that’s harder to explain than Trollocs and the One Power??? Or Fades? Or the Dark One?

Or maybe you are hyper focused on specific, racial, details that you care about due to some internal biases?


You haven’t lived until you’ve been assaulted by a homeless person on a bus in the US!

Buses are a joke. We cannot have public transit here without security to match, like at airports.


US has a huge social problem that spills into a security one.

Quite unsurprisingly Americans end up isolating from each other in suburbs, often gated neighborhoods with private schools, cars and live overall miserable and unhappy lives.


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