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New comment by zeekaran in "Laptops with Stickers"

zeekaran — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:36:39 +0000

The team who handles hardware generally loves seeing the stickers people put on them.

New comment by zeekaran in "Laptops with Stickers"

zeekaran — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:35:51 +0000

I used to have Pokemon stickers on my laptop.

I still do, but I used to, too.

New comment by zeekaran in "Laptops with Stickers"

zeekaran — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:29:45 +0000

Wait until you hear about intentional scarification

New comment by zeekaran in "Laptops with Stickers"

zeekaran — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:20:43 +0000

Often the laptop is replaced before the feelings change. Each laptop lid becomes a time machine showing who you were at the time.

New comment by zeekaran in "Laptops with Stickers"

zeekaran — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:19:33 +0000

I work at a large (>50k employees) company that is in every way the opposite of a start-up. Plenty of people cover their work laptops in stickers. The hardware group that handles replacing old machines has a wall of fame for all the lids with cool stickers.

New comment by zeekaran in "I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)"

zeekaran — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:52:29 +0000

Prop 65 is frequently joked about but at the time it was a resounding success. The drawback is that any item being sold in California that doesn't pay for the extensive testing (to confirm it doesn't contain any of the thousand chemicals on the list from 1985), ends up carrying the label that the item might cause cancer. If Wikipedia is too dry for you, there's a podcast that explains the history and facts well https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/warning-this-podcast-...

New comment by zeekaran in "I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)"

zeekaran — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:28:31 +0000

Cold take. This is quality writing. I learned about something and was thoroughly amused the entire time.

New comment by zeekaran in "I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)"

zeekaran — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:27:25 +0000

Unnecessarily verbose? So you hate reading, I guess.

New comment by zeekaran in "A Real Life Off-by-One Error"

zeekaran — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:16:43 +0000

Took me a bit to realize the last photo has it correctly, and to stop trying to find the discrepancy there. Looking at only the first image it pops out to me because the wrong one is floating closer to my eyes than the rest.

New comment by zeekaran in "A road safety plan that will lead to cars communicating with each other"

zeekaran — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:53:22 +0000

> (or vise versa)

Is it really though? Is it?

New comment by zeekaran in "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)"

zeekaran — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:31:29 +0000

Best I know of is /r/rational which focuses on rationalist writing, like Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Worm, Ra (also by qntm), and a million other things.

As for meatspace, if you have a local LessWrong / rationalist adjacent meetup, those are usually full of people who read stuff like this.

New comment by zeekaran in "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)"

zeekaran — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:37:56 +0000

I prefer the original ending, but I don't think it'll change your feelings.

New comment by zeekaran in "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)"

zeekaran — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:05:01 +0000

Worm is absolutely not aimed at teens, and it's not milked. If anything I think it could have been longer.

It does absolutely ruin the believability of any other superhero world. Invincible, for example, is ruined for me. That's how good Worm is. It just takes a loooong time to get there fully.

New comment by zeekaran in "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)"

zeekaran — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:03:24 +0000

Mother of Learning is practically D&D porn. Also I love the magic system. If we ever get deep dive VR games, I want to be in the MoL world.

New comment by zeekaran in "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)"

zeekaran — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:01:46 +0000

It's mainly just an early story thing. They eventually become too busy to have high school drama. Except sometimes they still have to go back to high school, though the stakes are so different and raised it's not really high school drama anymore.

I do agree there is far too much of that in the first arcs, but I think it goes away once Coil is introduced.

There is extremely little romance if you counted the pages compared to the length of the whole thing. It's 1.69M words.

New comment by zeekaran in "US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button"

zeekaran — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:56:52 +0000

> I won't do business with companies that spam me.

I just wouldn't be able to do business.

New comment by zeekaran in "Can kids master the video games their parents loved?"

zeekaran — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:56:20 +0000

I had a similar thing happen with Link's Awakening, but I had the DX version for the GBC and I was probably 8-10 when I got it. I explored every nook and cranny of that game, but was stuck in the seventh dungeon because the only way to progress was to find a hidden, bombable section of wall. As far as I know there is no hint that it's there. I had already gone through the whole dungeon poking every square inch of wall with my sword listening for the hollow plink, but I missed this section.

I only got back to it on the multi-state drive at the end of summer to my second year of college, when I borrowed my parent's Blackberry to look up the answer on gamefaqs. Then I breezed through the eighth dungeon and beat the game after a decade of not playing it at all.

New comment by zeekaran in "It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet (2015)"

zeekaran — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:18:39 +0000

What? No. Other way around. Blast the ass, TP as a cleanliness check and for drying.

New comment by zeekaran in "It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet (2015)"

zeekaran — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:18:00 +0000

Visiting Japan left me feeling spoiled. Every single place we went had a bidet. Every restaurant, bar, teahouse, mall, and the places we stayed overnight. The expensive restaurants had bidets that auto opened and auto flushed.

I have a bidet on all three toilets in my home, so it feels crappy (ha) to poop at a public restroom. It's just so unclean.

New comment by zeekaran in "It's Time for Americans to Get over It and Embrace the Bidet (2015)"

zeekaran — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:15:49 +0000

Sure but they pale in comparison to ones that have heated water. The shock of cold water on the tush is worse than a cold shower.