ekianjo

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by ekianjo 2y ago
They are touristy because they are authentic in the first place.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Tidy verse has a much nicer syntax than pandas and the like
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> where China is equal to America on a per capita basis, China is super far away from that and its demography is a time bomb that will get there first
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Not the central part of Kyoto. You can walk in areas like Gion that have mostly remained the same for centuries. Of course as cities get bigger you get concrete. just like other cities Kyoto has grown in the 20th century and at some point y
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> The cities like Kobe and Nagasaki, on the other hand, are completely unrecognizable. getting utterly destroyed by fire bombing (or atomic bombs in the case of Nagasaki) does that to cities.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> I think Japan changed, but not so much. I have read a book written in the early 20th century by an American at that time who had spent most of his life in Japan and who described what life was life was in Japan at the time. If you remo
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by ekianjo 2y ago
film photography had a lot more detail until we moved to cheap 35mm film for cost and convenience reasons. Even middle format has a huge effective resolution,
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Osaka Castle is a reconstruction. It's an empty shell, almost like a movie decor at this stage. If you want to see a real castle, there's the Himeji castle not too far from there.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
interesting, where did you learn that from?
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> cardiology work where they observed no such damage How do you observe such damage without a biopsy?
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Foveon has awful Foss support so far. Older foveon models also require an older version of windows to run the antiquited software to process raw pics, it's maddening.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
That's exactly what happens when you muddy the waters by using an ambiguous term like "open source". People not understanding the original motive.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Many things. The feel is different (typing is more pleasant - hard to describe but it's clear when you compare them next to each other's), it has one more keyboard row, and I also like the fact that there is a color scheme: some k
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by ekianjo 2y ago
How were such freedoms protected during the trucker protests in Canada? That was not so long ago, and the government declared emergency powers to break the peaceful protests and freeze protesters' bank accounts.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights is enshrined in legislation in the UK and Ireland, and offers protections for signatories of the convention. it's enforced nowhere, since the European Convention on Human Right
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> Ironically, Trump has the record for the highest deficit ever in US history. hardly relevant comment since all presidents left and right have been pushing the button to increase deficits (and congress is completely responsible as well
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> was all recoverable The debt was never recoverable
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> In western tradition governments exist to protect rights, such as the freedom of expression, not to grant them. You may be overgeneralizing here, only the US has enshrined freedom of expression in their constitution. Pretty much in any
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> free of corruption. There are just plenty examples of corruption among the people we elect, everywhere.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Nope, the 520, 420, 220 had a different design
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by ekianjo 2y ago
> But it still performs like dogshit for today's applications That says more about how unoptimized are today's applications than the capabilities of the machine
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Right. Fantastic keyboards. Nothing comes close in recent laptops.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
To be fair most of the taxes do not even go to what you describe and there is massive waste happening in the administrations.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
This requires a Reverse-Osmosis filter which is super expensive. So if you really want to give fluoride, I'd be happy for the government to hand out free sodium fluoride tabs for whoever wants it, in exchange to not force the water to
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Except that I am already paying for the water coming out from my tab, so I expect it to be free of extra chemicals since I pay for it.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Oh yes, there is portable gaming happening outside, that's for sure. My point is that's a minority of the actual portable gaming. People typically have more free time at home, and there is less of a barrier to play games when not
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by ekianjo 2y ago
it would be nice if Valve's Steam Big Picture mode actually worked with Nvidia. It's still not the case.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
Mac Studio is virtually useless if you work with long contexts. You will end up with having to wait minutes before the first token comes out.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
The untold story is that most modern portable gaming happens at home.
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by ekianjo 2y ago
You can add fluoride in your own water if you want to. Nobody is preventing your own freedom to drink fluoride.

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