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by SenHeng 4y ago
With all those volcanoes, why not geothermal?
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CSS Architecture (2012)(philipwalton.com)
1 points by SenHeng 4y ago|0 comments
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A handy guide to financial support for open source(github.com)
146 points by SenHeng 4y ago|77 comments
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Living in Japan, it’s very hard to find properly spicy food or nice chilli sauces. I’ve resorted to just eating plain cut chilli. A while back, I experimented with not adding more spices than was already provided in my meals. No pepper, no
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Somehow I just knew it would be Hampton’s video. Yes, this guy and his channel, hybridcalisthenics, is amazing at breaking workouts down into progressive sets for beginners .
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by SenHeng 4y ago
The only person doing that kind of content is Alex Ziskind. He compares various dev tools, build times, ML tools across Apple Silicon, Intel or Mac and PCs. https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderZiskind
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by SenHeng 4y ago
It’s also largely fuelled by the negative experiences many foreigners, resident or tourist, have had with the Japanese police. O: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/j4ccy4/how_being... 1: https
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Are you saying they should be ashamed?
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Build with what money? The whole point of even having tourist amenities is that there's a community that that's attempting to draw tourist money to their location, and probably create a thriving economy. An unknown tourist attract
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I'm not dimissing your experience which comes from the current situation. But the current situation came about because of intense gentrification and the housing prices rising faster than society could cope over the past few decades.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
The problem here in your comment is associating dense neighbourhoods with bad neighbourhoods. The other problem is thinking all cheap neighbourhoods should be bad neighbourhoods.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Tangentially, for home DIY projects. I'm often confused about what to do with half-used chemical products that I probably shouldn't pour down the drain or water the garden with. Things like termite coating or anti fungal finishes
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San Francisco? More Like San Francis-Go (Ep. 468)(stackoverflow.blog)
2 points by SenHeng 4y ago|0 comments
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I have a nicer than usual meal and buy myself an expensive toy.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Unsure if related, laptops are called Note-PCs here in Japan. Asking anyone about a 'laptop' will just get you blank stares.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
My primary school teachers liked to joke how they’d all die of bronchitis or tuberculosis from inhaling all that chalk dust over the years.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
> 'it is' for kids Sounds right.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Back here in Asia, aka land of the pirates and DivX, we could quickly moved to CDs, CDRs and VCDs. I think the huge proliferation of VCDs in Asia stunted the spread of DVDs for quite some time because they were just so cheap. It was a hassl
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Some people just cannot (or refuse to) recognise all the noise you can see around old/cheap/low quality effects. I often watched those silly Japanese horror varieties where they would show you a grainy video of some dark place, an
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Similarly, I prefer writing markdown in my editor of choice, then copy-pasting it into whatever documentation thingy my employer used, (at that time, Esa [0]). Notion treated the entire piece of markdown as a single 'block' or wha
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Maybe the shops you’re using have done that on purpose? I worked on a shopify storefront for the past year and our users stay logged in for an indeterminate amount of time. We actually have a problem figuring out the exact amount of time th
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by SenHeng 4y ago
> Japan is centralized and monolithic to an extent that really has no parallel in any other democratic country Singapore? The press doesn’t just toe the official line, they actively attack opposite viewpoints.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
There’s been a boom in outdoors living, camping as well as DIY cabins in Japan the past decade, and with these comes the all too familiar wood stove as part of the imagery. Many professionals I’ve spoken to advise against the wood stove, be
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Unable to read article. What does HOV stand for? Managed to deduce from comments that it’s some kind of commuting lane but can’t figure out the acronym.
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by SenHeng 4y ago
A Chinese gift card stores value in Japanese yen? Was there some kind of mix up? Are they laundering their money using foreign currency? Or does US Ikea not understand the difference between Yen and Yuan?
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by SenHeng 4y ago
> The performance of an M2 MacBook would undoubtedly be much better, but am I actually going to be able to browse the web faster or write code any faster? I split my coding time between a 2017 retina MacBook and a 2018 Mac Mini. Code com
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I just checked several online auction sites and my 10 year old 2012 quad core Mac Mini can be sold for about $300 while my 5 year old 2017 retina MacBook can be sold for around $500. That is insane. * values converted to USD. Prices may dif
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by SenHeng 4y ago
I'm grateful for the 'no ports' move. It really helped jump start moving everything on to USB-C. Yes, the implementation details are still being worked out. particularly how the mass manufacturers can cut cost while still the
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by SenHeng 4y ago
Let me introduce you to asdf. No, that is not a typo. https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
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by SenHeng 4y ago
The biggest payment provider in Japan now is Paypay, started between SoftBank, YahooJP and Paytm, an Indian company. They just popped up one day a few years ago and ate everyone’s lunch, dinner and breakfast.

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