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This Time It's Different(justus.pw)
38 points by justusw 4y ago|130 comments
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by justusw 4y ago
So many are taken over verbatim from Chinese. There are some very comprehensive Yojijukugo (literally just meaning former character compound word) collections on the net like https://yoji-jukugo.com/ Sometimes you will have
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It makes for a fun bridging the gap cultural experience when talking to Chinese people about the Chinese idioms you learn in Japanese class. Even the pronunciation is so similar (I mean, of course it is, duh). My favorite one is 吴越同舟 or 呉越同
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by justusw 4y ago
As long as we don’t share ownership in these platforms, nothing will ever truly belong to us. For Docker, the software, a Libre alternative is Podman. Instead of GitHub, use Codeberg, an open organization and service. Now we need a Docker r
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That is the better half of a comp-sci or mathematics degree.
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That shows how important it is to control for all variables. I understand it is difficult to match volume/loudness when AB testing speakers, amps or codecs and that might subtly influence someone’s judgement.
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The fact that xterm supports Sixel, at least through a build flag, once more confirms my belief that this old and battle tested terminal emulator very much rocks.
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That sounds bizarre. So this means that parents are potentially holding back programming language innovation? I hope I don’t have to consult with a lawyer every time I invent a new variation on the for loop. (I anticipate that someone will
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If the site is really simple and just runs system() on a VPS, chances are that there is no protection against command injection, server takeovers, and worse. So what comes from good intentions might end up causing a lot of harm. The problem
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It’s called embrace, extend, extinguish for a reason. Is ActivityPub next? Though given Meta‘s recent lack of output I seriously doubt anything tangible will emerge out of this.
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I read this, and this article has a lot of words that I don’t know, and that make me feel intimidated for having missed out on something important for the last ten years of my professional career. The first time someone told me about EDA w
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Yes, and who else is annoyed by random Japanese words being used to say the thing English but make it sound exotic and sophisticated? From the article: “Jidoka: the harmonization of people and machines” (jidoka/自動化 which literally mean
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Unfortunately that means for me that we are still a few years away from the year of the Linux desktop. /s
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I am surprised to see a post from this month linked there on the Debian wiki discussing future plans to add telemetry to Go ( https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-intro ) The author in there tries very hard to convince the re
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I really support sneak’s efforts here. It would certainly be better if this had been opt-in in the first place. It’s sneaky and destroys the good will of your users if you add tracking and the only way you find out is by seeing your Layer 7
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Chiming in here, even if he was not being paid for performing this song here, the tweet and publicity still serve to market his work, right? How is that not commercial? I mean, this is to sell more tickets in the future, one would assume.
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Thank you for the Wiktionary here. We can see that the Kanji for baka (馬鹿) are horse and reindeer. Non-sequitur combinations in Japanese usually tend to hint at „ateji“, or a phonetic approximation using Kanji. Chinese has a word for the sa
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It is funny to see how many people in the comments here seem to be personally angered by this article. What is at stake for them, I wonder? Also, unionization, good choice as always. And doing exactly the work you are being paid for, not mo
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It would have a hard time meeting the open source definition, if that is the intention here, which I assume. > 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups > The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
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When you consider that alternatives like freee are still quite clunky in the browser, you don't have a lot of choice. I haven't tried Yayoi yet, but I don't expect much. Kaikeio doesn't support HiDPI / 150 % fracti
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Hey! A fellow accountant :)
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Yeah, 読込 is a common way of saying importing too. The particular offender I am using here is called 会計王22 ;) Although using an app released in 2022 in Windows Shift_JIS compatibility mode is giving me less than regal feelings. /s Accou
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I was working on an import/data conversion task for a Japanese accounting software. I always assumed importing was じゅにゅう, but it is actually うけいれ (受入). Much to my amusement I found out I have been saying breastfeeding (授乳) instead of i
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If this was anything but highly paid jobs in the tech industry, letting “the market figure it out” will not go well. Salary lower than minimum wage? No legal minimum parental leave granted? Hazardous work environment? Just quit and apply so
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I just read all 4 parts and I have thoroughly enjoyed them. I am curious to hear if the debug console (TEPPOU, or gun in Japanese) works. Please keep us posted!
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I don’t know many great alternatives, but usually people will point to email in this case. And great documentation (wiki/FAQ/Readme) to preempt a lot of potential questions. I find those work well for me and it’s what a lot of peo
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Yes, I should have mentioned I have only worked in Japan and Germany so far. Labor law supersedes the contract freedom guaranteed by the civil code here in JP. And the conditions for demotion are strict here, e.g. maximum ~40 % reduction of
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I was unlawfully demoted once at a job and that was the defense my employer used as well: 1) what we are paying you now is still great money 2) by keeping coming to work you agree to being OK with the demotion (same as in the article) Too b
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Here in Japan you can hear someone calling themselves a software engineer, fresh out of a bootcamp. The original meaning of engineering has gotten lost over the time, diluted by a sense of self-importance. Imagine a world in which we let th
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I appreciate it! Mscgen also supports EPS, but I realize D2 is way, way more general, so having one tool and one syntax for everything would be great.

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