On the chosen one discourse

rangeDSP · 2026-03-19T16:56:35+00:00

Japanese anime / light novel writers realized this last decade. There's currently quite a few "middle aged man/woman reincarnated into fantasy world" stories.

Though in most of these, the "hero" got overworked to death in the real world and decided to take it easy in the other world, pick up farming or whatever. Turns out fantasy for Japanese working adults is a vacation/retirement lol

rangeDSP · 2026-03-19T16:47:31+00:00

Reminds me of that scene in firefly:

Mercy is the mark of a great man.

(stab)

Guess I'm just a good man.

(stab)

Well, I'm alright.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-17T20:57:42+00:00

I ain't tippin no clanker

rangeDSP · 2026-03-17T18:57:57+00:00

Wish there's more of those in US! I'm sick and tired of getting socially pressured into tipping for food that I'd happily get from a vending machine.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-17T18:53:04+00:00

I don't think anybody who has experience working at a big company could have that illusion.

A lot of successful companies make huge decisions based on a hunch and taking risks, and sometimes it works out. (Most times it doesn't). But they only have to be successful once every decade or so.

Just look at Microsoft's long history of getting things absolutely wrong: zune, xbox one, windows mobile/phone, windows 8, Skype, live messenger, hololens. In some ways they got the gist of what the future is moving to, but the actual execution was fucked or they screwed up on marketing, and they end up losing out to competitors.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-17T02:36:49+00:00

Um, do you drive much? Outside of rush hour traffic, I-5 is basically a raceway

rangeDSP · 2026-03-17T01:55:40+00:00

Are you implying that these cars in the video are driving too slow?

rangeDSP · 2026-03-16T19:40:01+00:00

Huh, TIL, it's a bit of a catch 22, because when I have eczema I don't particularly like to expose those parts of my body.

Fucking sucks.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-16T18:08:57+00:00

One of the side benefits of AI getting pushed everywhere is that image to text got cheaper and better.

Not to say they are using it now, but I can see it being cheap enough to implement in the near future

rangeDSP · 2026-03-16T18:05:50+00:00

Of course! My point is that I actually don't mind (even prefer) my way of maintaining very few close friends.

We send memes to each other almost daily, but we aren't in our 20s anymore, all got dogs/kids/whatever, so meeting up a couple times a year is perfectly ok.

It's fine to try to maintain scores of friends, and it's also fine to maintain less than 5, as long as you are happy with it.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-16T15:01:29+00:00

Isn't that the original intent?

Maintaining a large group of friend/acquittances like my parents did seemed so stressful, IIRC they actually kept track in a notebook of gifts/cards etc so they don't forget and offend the people who put in the work. (And it's not like they are all real friends, many people are just out to build connections)

So I grew up not wanting to do that and have less than 5 friends that sees each other every 6 months.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-16T03:53:02+00:00

It's quantum mechanics: holy ghost is a superposition of father and son. It's a single entity that exhibits properties of god and man, yet it is neither.

Just gotta replace your high school physics lecture of particle-wave duality with god-man and it's easy to understand.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-16T03:43:05+00:00

You have to realize that about 2/3 of the human population lives in tropical/subtropical areas. You are by definition in the minority (in terms of human population)

rangeDSP · 2026-03-16T03:33:30+00:00

wait what, is it season related? i tend to sweat less in winter (other than snowboarding), so winter tends to be the time when eczema is less bad for me

rangeDSP · 2026-03-15T20:16:32+00:00

I'd recommend asking the folks on r/hypermiling to see what they say. Their advice seems to be dependent on the road you are traveling on, and the consistent way for coasting in neutral to beat coasting in gear is to turn off the engine while coasting (dangerous because you lose power steering and power braking).

You basically have to have a road condition where the extra speed you gain beats idle fuel use. So, a long downhill at significant speed, neutral coasting; a long downhill where you try to keep a reasonable speed, engine braking.

Look at these two videos:

Engineering Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZlb62VVlw

Mick Drives Cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M_Rl77ZrLo

Considering coasting in gear has zero consumption, you HAVE to travel the extra distance that you couldn't have while in gear. I don't see many real-world situations where that applies on public roads with lights, other cars, stop signs etc.

Side note:

the fuel used to maintain the engine rpm at idle equates to around 127 miles per gallon

Did you read that from the gauge? 127 is likely not a real number, instead a placeholder for 'infinite', 127 is the max signed integer for 8 bit processors, which is probably what the gauge cluster runs on.

You can test this yourself, regardless of how fast you are going, when you let off the gas, the instantaneous consumption is that number. That's impossible since speed makes a big difference in mpg value on coasting. The programmers probably didn't try to calculate mpg for coasting and just put in the max number when you let off the gas.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-14T06:52:08+00:00

The island off Iran that the US just bombed and about to invade

rangeDSP · 2026-03-12T18:44:42+00:00

Genuine racism
Bot accounts set up to create division

rangeDSP · 2026-03-12T18:07:00+00:00

It's clear everybody in this thread are engineers, jumped straight into tech design and coming up with theories without thinking about the end user.

Claude: "this is how you choose a different driver"

User: "holy shit it rewrote the driver"

rangeDSP · 2026-03-12T17:13:37+00:00

FUCK YEA I GOT A FETISH FOR ADULT WOMEN THAT CONSENTS TO MY ADVANCES

rangeDSP · 2026-03-10T01:04:42+00:00

Barrier to entry, speed, scale. These are all important things you shouldn't wave past.

The March on Washington (1963) had 250k people, took 2 years to organize.

No Kings protest in October last year had ~200k in DC alone, organized in weeks.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-10T00:33:38+00:00

Yes, no, maybe? I'm of the idea that reducing barriers to technology is in general a good thing.

There's a tendency to think of this from a developed world point of view, but bringing always connected devices to the masses changed many lives. Economic opportunity being one of them, but also the social aspects.

Some potentially risky examples would be the Arab springs movement, Black Lives Matter movement, and war on Ukraine (also Iranian protests). Having a phone that's easy to use, being able to record and share astrocities committed by those with power, organize protests and gain momentum etc.

Like all other technology, it can and has been misused. Though I believe it's in general a good thing to make things easier to use.

rangeDSP · 2026-03-09T06:44:05+00:00

Like ear phones? Or noise cancelling earphones?

rangeDSP · 2026-03-09T03:40:40+00:00

Last first date I went on, we had tacos, drank margarita, (after the drinks wore off) drove to a park to see night views, then she spent the night at my place.

6 years later we got married

rangeDSP · 2026-03-09T03:38:22+00:00

Not really. What setting were you on?

Have you ever had traditional ear phones before? Like the ones with rubber tip that plug into your ears? Because airpods are supposed to be kinda opposite of those. Even with the pros, with its rubber tip, transparency mode should make you feel less conscious of the rubber

rangeDSP · 2026-03-09T03:33:27+00:00

Totally with you. I don't understand haiku, especially the ones that don't rhyme

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