SenHeng

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by SenHeng 6y ago
They ought to make it lower , so it’s most obvious that a truck won’t fit. Make it no more than 2metres, whatever that is in American, so that only cars can go through.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
Immigrants in Japan have the same experience too. We often make the same mistakes and thus have a shared understanding of misunderstandings . I would expect immigrants in other places appphave similar experiences too.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
When your dead body is eventually found by a passing hiker, it is going to involve the authorities whether you like it or not. Here in Japan, there is a large forest downhill[0] of Mount Fuji where lots of people choose to commit suicide in
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by SenHeng 6y ago
I use a single 34" 4K monitor with an arm mount on my Mac Mini. The power button on this monitor is one of those touch sensitive ones on the bottom right that I sometimes accidentally brush past. When I switch it back on, every single
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by SenHeng 6y ago
I think it's very subtle stuff, an example may be having kosher food being the default. When living in Singapore, I used to make the faux pas of mixing together Muslim food (no pork), Indian food (no beef) and Chinese food (lots of por
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by SenHeng 6y ago
Have you ever tried pointing out the obliviousness to your German friend? I'am an ethnic Chinese living in Japan and essentially blend in. I've also spoken with a lot of other expats, often white who complain a lot about (sometime
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by SenHeng 6y ago
Don't those masonry stoves store a lot of heat in them? How does that work over the summer?
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by SenHeng 6y ago
> The artists lived as such because they had shit to do, paintings to paint, music to write and practice. I'd argue that artists lived as such because the large majority of them couldn't afford furniture.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
The most interesting takeaway for me, was their opinion on Deno. > Q: Most of the time, TypeScript is transpiled into JavaScript. With deno, It’s a first class language. What do you think about efforts like that? And do you think browse
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Talking TypeScript with the engineer who leads the team(stackoverflow.blog)
4 points by SenHeng 6y ago|1 comments
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by SenHeng 6y ago
I'm not sure I want to google what SWIM stands for.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
one where China is banned from participating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_International_...
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by SenHeng 6y ago
> I've oft lamented how byzantine and opaque modern web sites are to tinkerers thanks to things like CSS preprocessors There was an attempt to get people to release the unprocessed files as .max.css|js (as opposed to min). I don’t
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by SenHeng 6y ago
Not sure what this does. All I see is a grey screen on my iPad.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
and yet, stuff like this happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
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by SenHeng 6y ago
The reason for the robot is to have an impartial judge where neither author nor reviewer are okay with the opposing judgement. At the end of the day, a human’s judgement cycle is better reserved for something of a higher priority/use.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
> Investigations by the BBC and other organisations found that the device is little more than a "glorified dowsing rod" with no detecting ability. In January 2010, export of the device was banned by the British government and
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by SenHeng 6y ago
Here in Japan, sales of computers have gone up because a large number of people don’t actually own computers or have home internet. https://gigazine.net/news/20200414-pc-shipments-2020-q1/
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by SenHeng 6y ago
How times change. Back in 2012, many of the expat bankers I knew were abandoning Singapore for Hong Kong.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
I’m also a huge fan of Ramsay and have watched many of his shows. There was once he mentioned that be never gives you the measurements because that should be up to each person to decide. He only does so when it’s chemically important like i
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by SenHeng 6y ago
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by SenHeng 6y ago
I recognise his accent, but few people have experience associating long term with South Africans.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve heard referring to someone(s) as retarded without it being an insult. > in some ways, they’re retarded. And in some ways, they’re geniuses. - some guy that looks like a researcher.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
I remember my friend borrowing the soviet disc and never giving it back... Til this day I've never played the soviet campaign.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
Smartphones and online messaging apps like LINE and Twitter really started taking off after the 3/11 earthquake when all the phone lines went dead but the internet still worked. So that was another one of those almost overnight changes
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by SenHeng 6y ago
I've noticed that a lot of Japanese blogs here something akin to a blog webring[0] on their blogs. It'a called Blog Mura (Blog Village) and is basically a blog aggregator. It a provides rankings, let's you search by categorie
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by SenHeng 6y ago
Apple's obviously not going to revert the previous AppleID to your email but I would bet that address is on some kind of 'might be sketchy' list now.
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by SenHeng 6y ago
Fun fact, Japanese originally didn’t have punctuation. It was a European introduction. https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-punctuation/
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by SenHeng 6y ago
I've always thought that FIRE was comprised of two separate things that weren't necessarily related, but one required the other before it could be achieved. 0. fix your personal finance situation 1. attain financial independence 2
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It seems like humans are going to launch into orbit from America again(arstechnica.com)
2 points by SenHeng 6y ago|0 comments

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