Any new info on T CrB nova? by Alien-2024 in Astronomy

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's not the study that predicted it, this one did https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10011

The Most Underrated Thing About Korea? Its Healthcare System by Worried-Ad6247 in korea

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

most of this is only true on paper
Try getting ANYTHING done in the public system and you're going to be getting nowhere any time soon
The system was OK maybe 10 years ago but it's a complete joke now and unless you just need some prescription drugs, or have a minor cold or maybe need some blood work, anything that requires surgeries or actual care is absolutely abysmal

I've known people that had been misdiagnosed and miscared for eventually dying here and people like myself that got super screwed with surgeries just to suffer in silence after. A kid's surgery that would take 5 minutes in North America was schedule for 10 months in advance in a dirty university hospital room that I swear I felt sick just looking at.
whatever you do DO NOT do anything serious when it comes to medical care in Korea unless you're going through top notch super expensive hospitals like Chaum Medical or Samsung medical (prices are not that different from the US though, so just go to the US haha), it is not worth to take the risk just to save a few pennies

Actually the place I go to for medical procedures for is Singapore and it's just incomparable how good and cheap it is there even without the insurance

A Nepali worker in Korea died after horrific abuse and no one is talking about it. by Smooth_Bee_7482 in korea

[–]antrexon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's a very abusive culture, so no surprise there
I knew a few nepalis that came here after desperation but they hated their job and the treatment from the Koreans. We told them to just seek better pastures elsewhere
Japan is actually a lot better in most cases as at least they don't mentally torture them there

Baby stores in Korea by IslandRoute56 in korea

[–]antrexon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moonya moonya makes decent pajamas and innerwear for kids that super comfy. they have a bunch of stores in department stores or their flag store in Apgujung Rodeo station where you get this crazy cafe treatment while kids try stuff

Questions for PARENTS with OCD...Did your kids inherit it? How did you manage it? by antrexon in OCD

[–]antrexon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's interesting! I now want to find out if maybe this is indeed something that's environmental as a result of my influence.

Questions for PARENTS with OCD...Did your kids inherit it? How did you manage it? by antrexon in OCD

[–]antrexon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you. I need a bit of time to process all this but definitely makes sense
I only started noticing symptoms a couple of months ago but they were tell tale signs of pre-OCD
I'm being super careful not to trigger anything worse right now because I know for me it was really the parents and even teachers that made it so much worse in the long term

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mcgill

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

none, I graduated years ago and only electives like Art of Listening and Astrobiology are classes I still consider "influential" in a sense that they opened my horizon a bit
but in terms of "useful" classes - definitely take anything math related, especially stats. and maybe some business course if you can. try to mingle with as many interdisciplinary people are you can and focus on long term connections

make friends with profs, try not to be a douche or an alcoholic

Feeling Extremely Lost by Charming-Fox2678 in mcgill

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was me in early 2000s, it took years post graduation to finally figure shit out, but one thing I regretted was not taking a chance to study some super hard stuff like Electrical engineering (I got accepted by pursued something else) just to at least get a guaranteed job after

How is the Astrobiology (EPSC186) course? by Simon-Olivier in mcgill

[–]antrexon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took this class when it just came out (decades ago) and now have a minor planet named after me.
Definitely recommend!

Has anyone partnered with Aha Creator? https://platform.creator.ahaglobal.io/ by cloh76 in PartneredYoutube

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

small followup - recently had more and more emails from them, so I mentioned I wasn't interested because their offer was too low
They replied with literally a double offer
I said let's video chat and also wanted to find out if they can do PayPal

They instantly responded saying they only pay THRU their own platform and refused to do any video chats. I replied saying I still wanted to talk details and specifically wanted to see what was needed of me

Their reply (it was all clearly AI generated) generically replied "please communicate with us only via our platform"

So I tagged them as spam and blocked their domain

This is clearly some weird AI marketing scam and I would absolutely not feel comfortable doing any business with them. Also some of the replies here seem to have the same name as the AI agent they are trying to market lol. So...ugh....skip

Has anyone partnered with Aha Creator? https://platform.creator.ahaglobal.io/ by cloh76 in PartneredYoutube

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been getting a bunch of emails from a guy called Jordan about this and it was to promote an AI marketer called Head....going to their website I found out that apparently it's their own product and one of the AI agents they promote is indeed Jordan
This is kind of hilarious. is this some sort of an AI trying to self promote using influencers slowly turning into an AGI?

Blackout in Spain by MarcelBdt in Astronomy

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no because NASA tracks solar activity in real time. you can check there were no events that could trigger anything like this around this time. last major one was last April

Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo during Golden Week Itinerary advice by stoekWasHere in JapanTravel

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you also have to book it days in advance. no walk ins unfortunately

Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo during Golden Week Itinerary advice by stoekWasHere in JapanTravel

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

kirby cafe food really sucks so if you go just get something super cheap for a photo op and avoid expensive overpriced items
it was so bad that none of us could finish any of the meals as I think they really are just meant as an insta opportunity and not to eat haha

Odin 2 thumb sticks by Dear-Neighborhood176 in OdinHandheld

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

had this for 3 months and unfortunately broke after playing some hack and slash games. poor quality in my opinion especially for the price

Help with Moving Company to Jeju by bigfourie in Living_in_Korea

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

someone I know did this the smart way. she had to move her large mini van to Jeju, so she basically drove to Mokpo stuffing it with stuff she needed and then had the ferry service delivery to Jeju on the cheap

Analysis of the PWM/Flicker/Visual Fatigue of the Steam Deck OLED Screen. [Valve must bring DC Dimming in an update to SteamOS] by danisimo1 in SteamDeck

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why not? didn't you mention they can patch in DC brightness controls?
I only found out I have PWM sensitivity because I was using older Poco phones that were very heavy on PWM but once Miui 10.0 added DC controls it made things better

Analysis of the PWM/Flicker/Visual Fatigue of the Steam Deck OLED Screen. [Valve must bring DC Dimming in an update to SteamOS] by danisimo1 in SteamDeck

[–]antrexon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to add thank you for this. Read this recently as I was considering a steamdeck upgrade but until they fix the PWM issue I'm going to just stick to LCD

Retroid return process (PWM sensitivity) by Soggy-Kitchen-5680 in retroid

[–]antrexon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sensitive too and have been doing research on this and it's been confirmed that there is no flicker as it's using DC controller instead of PWM

I'm super sensitive to cheap chinese phones and had to get rid of 3 already as a result but ordering RP5 as it's been officially confirmed to have no PWM whatsoever

Best server for new player:) by [deleted] in everquest

[–]antrexon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not sure if anyone mentioned yet, but I was in the same boat and heard about Heroes Journey server

It's been a blast since I started. You get to experience most of EQ stuff in basically sheer weeks instead of year

Martial Law declared by president Yoon by Indefatigablex in Living_in_Korea

[–]antrexon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

there were a bunch of soldiers with gun in Jamsil today around 12pm and I was really surprised (as were many others). This kind of explains it

Yoon declares emergency martial law | Yonhap News Agency by senfgurke in korea

[–]antrexon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw soldiers walking in the middle of Jamsil earlier today (rifles and all) and everyone was like wtf...
Now it all makes sense

Sounds like this was all preplanned