general

thanks grok

thanks rusp for thanking grok

I'll order steaks medium rare, because I don't like a lot of fat and most restaurant cuts aren't great but if I buy good cuts myself to cook I'll usually stop a little below rare

burgers I'll take either extreme, though ig if they're too rare they fall apart

I usually order steaks medium because I don't trust the cooks, and I'll order medium rare at fancier places. Not really a fan of rare.

Has anyone imported/ordered anything from JP recently? Is it a pain in the ass right now like some people are telling me

Why would i ever do that

uh, depends what you're doing (not Japan specific, just in general with tariffs)

Importing from Japan is always a pain

Regi is the expert, but I can probably answer

if you're just buying something and having it shipped here, that's easy

if you're importing or doing any fucking routing, that gets a little harder

It's been a few years since I got anything from Japan, so idk what it looks like now

Ok thanks, thats really all I needed to know

uh, you can DM me if you want, I can probably give advice

but no, in general it's not that much harder if you're not doing shit at scale

its not regi who asked so i assume its just normal buying

i only ever got stuff through playasia and that wasnt hard

Yea, im just ordering a single product of AmiAmi, but ive never done it so I wasnt sure. Thanks

I've never done it before, but I know some people have said that depending on what you're buying from, you may need to use a proxy/forwarder

AmiAmi might be international though

The "This content isn't available, try again later." shit on YouTube is so annoying especially when I listen to a song, it automatically makes a playlist and then every song is hit with that and within a few minutes, I've loaded 20 youtube videos.

never had issues with international shipping or dnh in the past. ordering my uruguayan bathtub estrogen this time around was a pain. had to pay imports, transaction kept failing, they couldn't get me a tracking number once they transferred it to usps. also tragic I can't pay dnh imports in crypto. could have and probably should have used paypal

tmi mint

Probably should not order medical supplies through the black market

I trust the black markets with my life

Well, probably just as safe as the other horrible things you put in your body for no reason

Look, Mint has his bathtub estrogen, I have my diet coke

Cigars and whiskey my beloved

Spooky has like 15 cans of monster

and so, so much more

Man who did not think someone could get more pitiable is forced to read another mint post

tragedy

I just ignored it

did not clock the content until Dialga pointed it out

I read like 4 words, realized it was about shipping and stopped reading lol

I will never miss an opportunity to string some of my favorite words together

's poll How do you like your steaks? has closed.

what absolute hell

was this a phd qualifier?

no, midterm for a class

it's a theory course on array processing and element design

it's got some absolutely stupid math in it

i don’t know what either of those things are

wehn you deisgn antennas (mostly ESAs) you have an array of elements so you can beamsteer and null

it's one of those fields that humans should not be doing by hand anymore

because modern ESAs have 100s if not thousands of elements

https://x.com/netflix/status/1981071417673445654 spooky why the fuck is this getting a sequel

we watched this

Don't worry, we still do some beamforming by hand over here.

Finding the directivity index and adjusting the slide lobes using different window functions. 🎉

i worked with synthetic aperture data but never did any beamforming with it

what the fuck does "classic"

mean anymore

it means whatever "they" say it means, clearly

I got scolded by Polu and Garbage for using the term and not meaning movies from the 1960s

2021 is not classic

especially when the movie is this piece of shit

20 years

is the classic cutoff

for me

after 20 years pass its eligable to be a classic

FFX can be considered a classic...

Its my favorite so its a classic regardless of time

thats a weird way to write ix

I havent played 9...

What's the cutoff for "good music"

yesterday

What is the cutoff for retro games?

the SNES

games pre snes can be retro

any game that is not available to play on consoles still on the market

imo

@Regi assuming you haven't had a Max moment today and died

I got my Pippa trading card thing

In your honour I'll stream my pack opening later

if you can wait until after 5:30 so I am home, I'll watch