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  • 3:36 pm on June 1, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Korean racism uniqueness

    Google Recorder Private

     
  • 8:52 am on April 4, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    Something I spent way too much time typing up on a Facebook group:

    > The MasterCard Black is only $495 and ( as I understand it) allows more than just the basic card holder to go to the lounges.

    Oh that’s a big misconception. The MasterCard Black is a problematic credit card product.

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  • 2:48 pm on April 1, 2023 Permalink | Reply  

    Korean church is having problems with their livestream again. After they purchased a new camcorder and a new mixer, there’s a pickup of a very noticeable noise in the livestream (which can be replicated at all times in video files recorded with OBS as well).

    The current setup is:

    Microphone -> wireless receiver -(XLR to XLR)-> Mixer -(1/4″ to RCA)-> Camcorder -(HDMI to HDMI)-> HDMI Capture Card -(USB 3)-> Laptop

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  • 2:09 pm on March 12, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    So in February I booked a one-way ticket from LAX to OGG for two at $400 on Hawaiian Airlines main cabin, through their website, in preparation for our honeymoon trip in September. I bought them in advance thinking that fares may go up later, and Hawaiian promised that main cabin tickets were fully refundable. I also moved 18,000 points to the Hawaiian account from Bilt, in anticipation for a return one-way ticket.

    Their website flaunts this fact (that main cabin tickets are refundable) a lot.

    “No change fees – Book now, change if you need to without a fee.”, the website says.

    So it came time to cancel these flights. Our honenymoon plans changed.
    I cannot cancel them online – I have to call.
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  • 2:25 pm on February 23, 2023 Permalink | Reply
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    i saw some guy in the facebook points group asking a question
    and a lot of people misunderstood the question

    so i typed up the following most useless lengthy respoinse:
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  • 2:25 pm on February 23, 2023 Permalink | Reply  

    at HMart I saw this 80 year old dad talk with his 50 year old son
    (In front of HMart’s customer service desk)
    Dad: ask them if they have chopsticks
    Son: I don’t think they have it
    Dad: Look! there’s a korean woman sitting there. Ask her. They gotta have chopsticks
    Son: Uh dad I don’t think they give out free chopsticks.. this is not Korea

    I think they were looking for free chopsticks to eat their instant pot ramyeon (the kind that you microwave)

    Son talked to the latino customer rep guy, who told him “You can get it at the cashier’s”

    Son couldn’t understand what he meant. “Cash…?” he asked

    I told him “They said that you can get it at the cashier’s”
    Son: for free?
    Me: Idk about free, but they said get it at the cashiers

     
  • 10:04 pm on February 16, 2023 Permalink | Reply  

    I’ve been hearing about ChatGPT for a few weeks now, and the tone on it has been so bizarre.

    First it was the programmers/adjacent and tech youtubers

    https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/google-microsoft-search-engine-chatbots-unreliability/673081/

     
  • 8:43 am on January 5, 2023 Permalink | Reply  

    We went to Bon Shabu restaurant on Monday, January 2, 2022 – day after New Years. Overall the place doesn’t seem to be staffed properly and your dining experience may be a draw of luck. It’s a fancy looking place that charges $60 per person during dinner for AYCE shabu shabu (when other places charge $30) and their menu boasts expensive sounding 4 types of wagyu, 5 types of prime beef and other unusual meats like lamb.
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  • 7:36 am on November 4, 2022 Permalink | Reply  

    You know tech reviews keep saying that consumers like big screen phones and they sell well and that’s why there’s no small phones but I wonder if the real issue is that when you have a big screen you can fit a bigger battery underneath.. and if you have a small screen and you end up with a small battery, that would be the kiss of death that would tank sales. Are we completely oblivious to that fact, I wonder

     
  • 11:22 pm on November 1, 2022 Permalink | Reply  

    last year in September i opened an IRA and investment account (Ameriprise) and bought index funds (CSIEX) with the money
    then a month later, after I knew I had enough money, I doubled the amount – I put more money in
    the index fund grew pretty well for a few months and then lost quite a lot of value with the Ukraine war (20%)
    throughout the whole time I was looking at Mint and going: “huh I only see the amount I put in in September. Why is the October amount not shown?”

    now I know why
    I only transferred money to the financial institution, but I also had to buy more index fund with that money. It was just sitting there as “Cash/Sweep”
    I thought the money I transfer from my bank would automatically buy more index funds smh
    it was sitting there in my account for an entire year, not being invested :facepalm:

    on the upshot though, if I had figured out to properly invested that cash last year, I would have lost twice the value I lost over the course of 2022
    the cash stash didn’t lose value. it just got charged some small FTC fees each quarter
    :yonghuh:

    apparently I have to “place a trade” but the web interface is not showing CSIEX as a valid symbol :yonghuh:

    i’m gonna ask the agent who opened the account last year how to do this thing :yonghuh:

     
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