aikinai

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by aikinai 9y ago
None of the facts you listed are untrue, but did you notice how skewed your post is towards western-style living? None of the food you mentioned are everyday items for Japan (except beer, which is still cheap in Tokyo compared to western ci
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by aikinai 10y ago
As posters above have mentioned, all "sequels" in a Nintendo franchise tend to be completely independent with basically the character models swapped in later in development to make it part of a series. There's no shortage of
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by aikinai 10y ago
This isn't pedantic; it's of the level that it "sounds wrong" and will be immediately noticed and distracting (for a brief moment) to any native speaker, not just pedants.
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by aikinai 10y ago
Neither Arial nor Times New Roman have any of those non-latin languages included either; you're just seeing fallbacks when they work.
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by aikinai 10y ago
Nintendo's never been on the verge of bankruptcy. That's a ridiculous myth that's always tossed around by news sites to get more clicks. Nintendo is a surprisingly tiny company with billions in cash in the bank. As others hav
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by aikinai 10y ago
Japanese isn't technically "tonal" but does have "prescribed pitches" which certainly affects the ease of text-to-speech.
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by aikinai 10y ago
I'm not sure about Mandarin, but this is definitely true for Japanese. Near-human Japanese text-to-speech has been around a very long time.
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by aikinai 10y ago
Do you have a recommendation for an encoder that will make sure to apply all of these optimizations?
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by aikinai 11y ago
That's cool to hear from the other side; I was at Nintendo for many years and worked closely with the team that directed the browser, so I know exactly who you're talking about (though I wasn't with them for the Wii browser).
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by aikinai 11y ago
There aren't any programs that do the same thing without rooting. Android doesn't have any APIs that allow you to change the color temperature, so all of the non-root apps just add a transparent red overlay on top of the screen. I
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by aikinai 11y ago
How did Android help you with f.lux? Apple just came out with a f.lux copy built into iOS, while none of the alternatives on Android work without rooting.
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by aikinai 11y ago
Google's infrastructure gives it an extra boost, but even the single machine version can beat the distributed version 25% of the time.[1] [1] https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/708489093676568576
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by aikinai 11y ago
Japanese do have other "alphabets" they use along with Chinese characters, but overall the writing works basically the same way (no spaces, no capitals, etc.). Whether it's cultural or linguistic I don't know, but Japane
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by aikinai 11y ago
It's not just hypothetical. You should check out the Xperia Z5 Compact. It's very small but surprisingly thick which gives it a good feel and amazing battery life.
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by aikinai 11y ago
I thought the exact opposite. This is insanely clean and organized for a physical lab. Though I assume that's because they cleaned up in preparation for the press visit.
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by aikinai 11y ago
Everyone who works for Larry Page (and Sundar) seems to be very happy still.
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by aikinai 11y ago
Skyline OS X is a great resource for getting a solid And simple Hackintosh install. I'd recommend trying the guides there. http://skylineosx.com
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by aikinai 11y ago
Safari did run on Windows for years. But it did seem like they ported a lot of OS X libraries to Windows just to get it working. If I remember correctly, it had OS X font rendering for example.
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by aikinai 12y ago
I've lived in downtown Seattle for the past six years and I agree with everything you've said, but it's also slowly changing. There are tons of apartments and condos going up right now in downtown, not the neighborhoods. But
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by aikinai 12y ago
I thought this was going to be about a much riskier issue that I've heard surprisingly few complaints about. iOS apps take a screenshot when you close them so they can show that right away when reopened to cover the load time. This mak
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by aikinai 12y ago
Finally! It looks like a lot of commenters here are confused, but there are a lot of situations where the default package Linux package managers don't cut it. After getting used to the (update) speed, flexibility, and reliability of Ho
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by aikinai 12y ago
Everyone complains about the monolithic library "file," but it's actually a directory you can explore if you want; it's just disguised as a file by Finder. Right-click and select "Show Package Contents" to view
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by aikinai 12y ago
I (and my friends) still consider it the best multiplayer game ever. I really wish someone could make another game like that, but the depth and learning curve limit the market so much that it might never happen again.
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by aikinai 12y ago
I just noticed that the calligraphy responsively changes from vertical right-to-left to horizontal left-to-right even though it's an image. If you're reading on an iPad, you can check just by changing the orientation. Very cool at
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by aikinai 12y ago
Oh, I see! Yeah, that's true.
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by aikinai 12y ago
A Google fight (excluding Chinese) turns up 549,000 results for 草食系男子 and 571,000 for 草食男子. Much closer than I expected, but the 'kei' is definitely not required.
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by aikinai 12y ago
I just looked it up and you're technically right; that's apparently the official dictionary term, but I've never heard anyone actually say that. Everyone calls them "soshoku danshi."
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by aikinai 12y ago
Does anyone know if mainline git has any plans to eventually add better support for binary files? There are a number of hacks and bolt-on solutions, but it would be a lot easier to propose git for projects if it would just work as-is.
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by aikinai 12y ago
I've always wondered why we couldn't just call public keys locks. That would avoid so much confusion for first-time users.
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Nintendo's first 'non-wearable' is a sleep-tracking device(theverge.com)
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