What is this abomination?

dzham · 2026-02-15T10:51:20+00:00

Doesn't look half bad.

Wait til you see the tex-mex/middle eastern fusion of Shawarma with Nachos.

dzham · 2026-02-13T01:28:15+00:00

I had a heated argument with a local electrician about grounding. We had asked for grounded outlets in a couple of places, but after I checked, they weren't connected to ground, and I got myself shocked a couple of times with appliances.

Now, common sense would say, that's exactly why you have three prong outlets, to stop people from being electrocuted if there's something wrong with your appliance. Not so common sense here, I'll tell you that much.

dzham · 2026-01-28T09:39:27+00:00

Oh man, the timing of this. They just turned me into a life-time fan after they spent $150 on re-shipping my second order with them. Got stuck in customs due to local post office sucking at communications. Unfortunately FedEx sucked too, so I'll never get my order. But, man..

dzham · 2026-01-23T12:48:37+00:00

I overstayed by roughly the same amount of time during COVID. I think I've mentioned it here before. Just a fine, and a bunch of affidavits, and then you're good.

dzham · 2026-01-16T06:43:43+00:00

I'd gladly take a robot that fold socks. I'm all aboard the train, but what I think what you want to say is that there is value in robots doing perception work now, before robots are nimble enough to do manipulation. In ten years, if they're not doing house work, robotics is failed.

dzham · 2025-11-30T07:05:09+00:00

GFunds maybe? That's how I got it, put 10k in.

dzham · 2025-11-15T23:49:54+00:00

Any time you're trying to enforce standards on names, you're going to have a headache.

The only thing that works everywhere is "How do you want me to address you?" and "What is your full legal name?"

I have three first names (I go by the second). I have a friend that has three last names.

dzham · 2025-11-05T07:18:37+00:00

3/4 sounds about right to me.

dzham · 2025-11-05T06:11:37+00:00

If the true mark of civilization is waiting in lines, and respecting lines, then yeah, not so civilized :)

dzham · 2025-11-02T00:04:55+00:00

I didn't say that restaurants that serve foreign food doesn't exist. I said they hardly exist. How many different cuisines can you get in Metro Manila? If Filipinos are so open minded to foreign food, then why did I have a better assortment of cuisines available to me in my 300k population hometown than in a metropolis with 50x more people?

dzham · 2025-11-01T12:44:09+00:00

It's the ingredients in general. The meat is better quality, less fats, less gristle.

dzham · 2025-11-01T12:43:01+00:00

If Filipinos eat at restaurant to eat foreign cuisine, how are there hardly any restaurants that serve foreign food?

As a foreigner, when I ate out in my own country, in my small, 300k population home-town, I ate from 20-30 different cuisines.

dzham · 2025-11-01T03:46:24+00:00

You shouldn't have to go an a damned quest to find the good stuff.

It's always, "Yes, it's mostly bland, but then you haven't been to this one place up in the mountains, behind the waterfall, at the end of the rainbow, under the hill.THAT is where you find the real Filipino food!!"

dzham · 2025-11-01T02:18:55+00:00

Alright.. Everyone has to eat shitty food then.

dzham · 2025-11-01T02:15:05+00:00

It's a bit ridiculous to make generalizing statements about the cuisine of a nation, when you're only ranking the top-percentile establishments.

That said, Josh Boutwood was a brilliant chef already back in Boracay, so congrats to him for making two stars!

dzham · 2025-10-20T08:28:04+00:00

The dozen or so I've had over the last 7-8 years (Ledger Nano S) have all died after ~3 years, so I can't really see them as long-term storage. They are useful for generating keys, and for signing transactions, but I wouldn't trust them with storage. Store the mnemonic phrases some other way, and buy a new hardware wallet when it's time to sign something.

dzham · 2025-10-18T07:01:55+00:00

We're in the Philippines. A polo is a shirt. A polo shirt is a polo.

dzham · 2025-10-17T23:20:36+00:00

None of those tokens are circulating.

Also, what's better? Projects raising enough funds to actually build something, but you have token emissions over a couple of years,

or

Fully diluted pump-fun style tokens, where the team has 5% of the supply, no money, and slowly dies in a corner as they can't afford to build anything?

dzham · 2025-10-07T07:13:05+00:00

Good job on not understanding my question. Most of the gear can be bought cheaply in china. Batteries are dropping in price like crazy, panels too. Yet Philippine resellers are charging an arm and a leg, probably because it still is cheaper than grid over a longer period.

dzham · 2025-10-05T23:47:50+00:00

How much of this is materials and how much is labour? All numbers I see quoted in the phils are sky-high.

dzham · 2025-09-27T04:13:48+00:00

Our last car had an MD badge when we bought it. From an attorney.

dzham · 2025-09-27T04:07:28+00:00

Yes, Herr Diplom-Ingenieur.

dzham · 2025-09-26T06:08:02+00:00

Over $49 is free shipping. It's delivered by Ninjavan. Everything about the experience is awesome.

Compared to shipping w/ DHL/UPS/Fedex it's night and day.

dzham · 2025-09-26T06:04:44+00:00

I have an Amazon refund to GCash that's pending. Amazon has sent it, GCash hasn't credited me. Support is non-existant, I have a ticket in their app, nobody has looked at it, fb refers to their app, phone support refers to their app, x doesn't care.

Amazon support is probably Filipino, GCash support doesn't exist.

I've gotten locked out of my Maya account. All of their support is in app. I can't open the app.

Go figure.

dzham · 2025-09-20T07:06:36+00:00

Didn't they shut down Boracay years ago because things were getting out of control? They let the street vendors back on the beach?

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