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by ascar 8y ago
> If you live and work in Edogawa City, or Katsushika, or Nerima I only used the data I found in the referenced article. I used the "budget" option that is "located outiside central Tokyo and about a 30- to 45-min train r
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by ascar 8y ago
From my personal experience in the last five months in Japan, I mostly agree with you. By your metrics Germany is probably on par and a few other countries lack the economic power and/or the political will (e.g. the US could afford all
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by ascar 8y ago
> but I shudder at the comparison between our living standards and the other so-called developed nations on every trip overseas or to Europe. And more so now than I did 20 years ago. What do you mean by that? That the living standards
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by ascar 8y ago
Big cloud companies are also in a very good position to afford these salaries, mostly because their revenue structure allows for that. The same is not true for many other software companies or non software companies that also need software
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by ascar 8y ago
It already starts at school. Learning English with Katakana leads to such an incorrect pronunciation that they basically have to relearn talking in English, when they eventually meet foreigners. I have been to multiple school visits as part
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by ascar 8y ago
I imagine these are acquisitions that already did well before they got bought. Glassdoor is also becoming increasingly known for letting companies "bribe" them to delete bad reviews.
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by ascar 8y ago
I moved to Japan to do research for my CS master thesis at one of the top5 universities. While I knew English is not spoken by most Japanese, I was honestly surprised that nearly all the CS students in my lab lack the English skill for dail
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by ascar 8y ago
Considering they completely lack internationalization/localization (at least on signup, on Hot Pepper and their Recruit account management page), it doesn't give me the impression Recruit has the right mindset to compete on a glob
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by ascar 8y ago
I recently signed up to recruit to make a dinner reservation in Japan. They used a lot of dark patterns for their email marketing. Bombarding me with multiple different newsletters I didn't sign up for and I had to cancel every single
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by ascar 8y ago
> But every step of the way would be better for some niches. That's what I have trouble with. E.g. the climbing rat would be able to get all these higher food sources on trees. But evolving wings loses the ability to climb. And no
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by ascar 8y ago
I always wondered about that incremental optimization. It makes sense in a lot of ways, but then there are cases there big leaps happen, which would require many steps at a severe disadvantage in between. E.g. the evolution of flight. Flyin
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by ascar 8y ago
> Their banking example is impossible under any system which guarantees serializability. > > To guarantee serializability, the database system cannot assume anything about how some value is derived Their example is very well possib
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by ascar 8y ago
In my reply I didn't get that the "Common App" is similar or even more expensive, but reduces the effort for each application. So, yes absolutely no help in the "this costs too much to begin with" scenario and I wen
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by ascar 8y ago
Can someone provide a good quality example of code that would bug on system clock updates? I have a hard time thinking about one. Especially as these system clock updates shouldn't change the time for more than a few seconds, at least
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by ascar 8y ago
You are right that it's near impossible and unpractical to test all edgecases. But your example goes into the wrong direction. Shouldn't you build your system completely agnostic of time interpretation changes? A DST transition is
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by ascar 8y ago
I think the important point is not that it can't be broken down to a hourly rate, but that the smallest incrememt is 1 week or a day. They simply can't book you by the hour. Specifying what a week or day is, is up to you. In regar
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm running education, which should be identical in features to the enterprise version. A forced update just happened to me two days ago, about a week after Windows decided to update to the "October update".
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by ascar 8y ago
> 1. Depending on the university, you might not even have to print anything out, I applied to TUM purely digital IIRC I'm also a TUM graduate. At least a few years ago, you had to send in or hand in your signed final application pap
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by ascar 8y ago
I thought the same thing. It's also very biased towards developers. The biggest market is not developers and power users. It's office workers, which need email and office, and it's PC gamers and VR enthusiasts that need power
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by ascar 8y ago
The single biggest change I hope for, is Windows not forcing my computer to reboot for an update. It's kind of acceptable forcing me to update when I reboot myself, but rebooting for me is just a no-go. Especially as it just gets stuck
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by ascar 8y ago
> I think our disagreement between these is mostly semantics Yes. I agree. > Finite state machines can do anything that requires a finite amount of memory. For example, finite state machines can't recognize balanced parentheses.
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by ascar 8y ago
So you are saying the current system is better, because rich students have better chances as they can afford more applications? The current college system in the US is entirely flawed. College education should be free and slots given based
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by ascar 8y ago
Yea, reply showed up later ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i'll try the permalink next time
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by ascar 8y ago
we reached the depth limit of comments on the other answer. This will be my last reply, but you can still reply to this: >> It is actually possible to create output with sed that results in executable bytecode similar to C. > The e
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by ascar 8y ago
> Just being Turing-complete doesn't get you to the ability to run something like Word. In fact it does. That's the whole point of turing-completeness. It is actually possible to create output with sed that results in executabl
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by ascar 8y ago
Of course it's purely academic. The whole point of proving sed is turing complete is purely academic. It's interesting to know that other tools, which were designed for a very specific task in a very specific context, can be used
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by ascar 8y ago
< one of which is unable to access a graphical display. at that point we are only speaking about access control. It's very well possible to run sed in a context, so the bytes it outputs can be used to display information. In fact th
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by ascar 8y ago
Turing machines are finite state automatas with random read and write access to a tape (i.e. memory). One turing machine can write to a certain position on a tape, while another turing machine can read from that position on the tape. At tha
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by ascar 8y ago
Not really the sate tuple. More like writing to certain positions of the tape results in physical I/O, e.g sending the bitstream over a cable to the display. This phyiscal I/O is outside of the capabilities of the turing machine,
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by ascar 8y ago
I never said something contrary to what you describe. The display or the mouse or keyboard is not part of the turing machine. But we communicate with these devices through a turing machine, e.g. the CPU. We interpret the signals or create v

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