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by gramie 2y ago
When I was living in Japan in the '90s, the FM-Towns was very heavily promoted. I considered buying one, but by the time I was ready to upgrade, there were better alternatives.
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by gramie 2y ago
I likened it (and my later work a the token gaijin in a large company), as being a pet, or a zoo animal. Treated well, but never integrated. I was told that I could never be a manager in my company, because it would make Japanese people anx
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by gramie 2y ago
But that was used as a non-tariff barrier to prevent the import of foreign goods. If I remember correctly, certain groups also tried to stop the import of foreign beef, because "Japanese intestines were longer [shorter?] and couldn&#x2
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by gramie 2y ago
I was a teacher at an English Conversation School, more than 30 years ago, and I think that there is more to them -- or at least there was. Where I lived, this was one of the few places to interact with a foreigner and practice English (oft
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by gramie 2y ago
As I mentioned, this is more than they would receive in Canada (and, because they are paid for overtime, weekends, etc., their actual salary would be significantly higher). Their father is a GP and worked in the U.S. for about a decade. He
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by gramie 2y ago
Not saying that this applies to your own situation, but this sounds like "my parents smacked me around when I was bad, and I turned out okay".
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by gramie 2y ago
I have two nieces who are Canadian but have completed medical school in Australia. They are currently in the equivalent of internship, heading for residency. They work 40-hour weeks (compared to 60-90 in Canada), and are paid overtime when
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by gramie 2y ago
I had problems with a molar that had received a root canal about 20 years ago. The dentist told me that it had to come out, but I had several options: -Leave the hole, and the surrounding teeth would gradually fill in the space (I still hav
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by gramie 2y ago
I remember almost 25 years ago, when I was teaching English in Japan, one of my adult students couldn't remember how to write the kanji (i.e. Chinese characters) for "police". Text input is now universally phonetic, and young
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by gramie 2y ago
Ah yes, that's right. Don't know where Indiana came from!
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by gramie 2y ago
Traditionally, encode meant to use one word/symbol to represent another, while encipher meant to transform one (usually mathematically) into another. For example, "Tora, Tora, Tora" was a code that had no intrinsic meaning, b
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by gramie 2y ago
I watched the movie shortly before going to Lesotho (the enclave country Donald Woods and his family escaped to) and crossing the border into "Transkei" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantustan ) at the same b
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by gramie 2y ago
When I was visiting the space center in Huntsville, Indiana, I had a chance to talk with one of the volunteers. His name was Brooks Moore ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3hudRA3yL8 ), and he had been the director of naviga
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by gramie 2y ago
> in line with recouping R&D and production costs That's the "recouping R&D" part.
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by gramie 2y ago
I think that if you look at the people in positions of control in political and economic sectors (and mass media, which is a key element), the vast majority came from just a few schools.
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by gramie 2y ago
My brother had a hip replacement in Paris this week. He booked the operation two weeks ago. His angiogram (required for the surgery) was performed 3 hours after his consultation with the surgeon. The clinic is considered the best one specia
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by gramie 2y ago
Note that "older software" refers to software released before 2022. So this is not antique software, but software that may be less than 3 years old. They are trying (of course) to spin it as improved functionality for their custom
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by gramie 2y ago
Before it returned to China in 1997, plenty of underachieving British people found high-paying jobs in Hong Kong (as well as other colonies and former colonies). They had the acronym "FILTH": "Failed in London, Try Hong Kong&
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by gramie 2y ago
I remember eating KFC in Japan, about 15 years ago, and it was markedly better than we get in Canada.
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by gramie 2y ago
In fact, we consider a marriage successful if it ends in the death of one of the partners.
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by gramie 2y ago
I learned to program my C64 in assembly language thanks to Jim!
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by gramie 2y ago
The BBC has a series called "D-Day: The Unheard Tapes". It has actual interviews with D-Day survivors (both Allied and Axis). They use the real audio, lip-synced by actors. It's mesmerizing. You may need a VPN to use the BBC&
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by gramie 2y ago
New Zealand had the [Furlough Mutiny]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fraser#Furlough_Mutiny ), where several thousand troops refused to go back to the fighting in Europe. Canada had the [Terrace Mutiny]( https:&#x2
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by gramie 2y ago
The podcast "We Have Ways of Making You Talk" has a really good multi-part program about the 80th anniversary of D-Day. I highly recommend the podcast (I'm just about to catch up, after about 770 1-hour episodes).
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by gramie 2y ago
Related to this, when I was in Japan in the '90s I had to get used to "¥" being the directory separator, so a path might be: C:¥Program Files¥Microsoft¥Office¥word.exe
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by gramie 2y ago
My son is a composer, and he told me that he doesn't even need a keyboard any more, when he composes (he composes on paper, then transfers it to music notation software when it's ready to distribute). He also, sometimes, has a pho
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by gramie 2y ago
Has there ever been a successor to the particles + algorithmic music program Clusterworks? I used to spend hours just watching it and changing the movements and music with my mouse.
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by gramie 3y ago
I think it worked its way into the official vocabulary!
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by gramie 3y ago
I went through a period of a couple of months where I pair-programmed almost every day, and it was probably the most productive time of my career. My partner was very junior, and new to the project, and the process of explaining things to h
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by gramie 3y ago
Don't forget the fax machines and inkans (personal stamps)!

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