dennist

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by dennist 6y ago
I find a lot of the media (here in Japan anyways) call literally every automation by computers or machines AI. Example, there’s an automated gate that only opens if a scanner finds your body temperature is not too high. AI Gate. The other d
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by dennist 10y ago
Oh interesting, I didn't know. A lot must have changed in the last couple years. I was just there this month and didn't notice any credit card logos at the checkouts and just assumed they still weren't accepted.
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by dennist 10y ago
Really? I use my credit card for maybe 70% of my spendings. It's true you absolutely need to have cash on you for the occasions when you can't use it but I can buy a 30 yen chocolate bar in every convenience store here. Compare th
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by dennist 10y ago
You may me right that there might have to be third parties for scalability. But depending on how this is done, you might not have to trust them in order to use them (in the worst case, they could refuse your transactions or delay them but n
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by dennist 10y ago
I wouldn't say near impossible but I think it's definitely much more inconvenient than in other countries. Just the other day I had to move some money between my bank accounts and did exactly that with the ATMs. Because online ban
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by dennist 11y ago
I hate it when sites like this change the normal scrolling behaviour. I use the trackpad on my MBP and on sites like this scrolling accelerates too quickly and gestures like going back don't work in chrome.
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by dennist 11y ago
I used MySQL until recently just because lots of people around me seemed to be using it. Over time I ran into too many issues with it (for example their default UTF-8 isn't actually UTF-8 but a subset that doesn't accept emoji for