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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Japan has a very different real estate market. Homes are typically built to order, you buy it on a 35 year loan and then live it until you die, then the next person buys the land, tears the house down and builds their own dream home to orde
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
All the big Japanese makes have them. They basically look like a water tank with the outside portion of a mini split air conditioner hooked up next to them. With my power company in Japan, by going "all-electric" (having an eco-cu
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Gas has more raw power but it's extremely inefficient because most of it just escapes into the room, whereas with induction it all goes into the cookware. Our induction stove boils water way faster than our gas one did, and the gas one
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
You wouldn't multiply the volts, you'd multiply the amps, by using a separate sub-breaker for each shop, which you're doing anyway since you want to meter them separately. This is already the norm in lots of Europe. It's
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Propane tanks strapped to your house is common even in cities since it's cheaper to install (but then costs more per cubic meter). The downside to propane tanks is they become fireworks if a neighbor has a fire which heats them up. In
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
And ironically in their press release for the re-open they said they re-built it with more disaster-proofing with the knowledge from the previous disaster...
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Yeah it's crazy to me, especially in earthquake-prone places like Japan or California. I bought a house here in Japan last year and replaced the gas with all-electric due to concerns of not only leaks and disasters but also just in day
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
The mall had a (most likely gas) explosion, and there are many dead being found inside https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2833412?display=1
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Earthquake isolation can be pretty amazing. Here’s a video of a data center during the big 2011 quake. The camera is attached to the outer wall so the point of reference makes the wrong side look like it’s shaking, but you can see the peopl
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
And this is why IP addresses are often considered personally identifiable information under the GDPR, as impractical as that makes things like anti-spam/anti-bot.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Back when I had an Apple Watch, I failed to use Apple Pay on it enough times due to it being stuck in an "Updating cards" mode, so GPs "95% of times it works but sometimes you need a fallback" rings true to me.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Only for Express Transit though, right? Not normal payment cards.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Then I don't understand the driver analogy. Drivers are forced to take lessons and get licensed for the precise reason that we know people can't take the responsibility on their own. Clearing browser data is anything but easy for
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
What China (and Japan) uses is YYYY年MM月DD日, which IMO is the superior date format since it's self-explanatory - the sections are spelled out right there!
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
He already has: https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/40235
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
I dunno, the embargoes on Russian gas/oil and the restricted straight of Hormuz seem to be fueling the strongest transition into renewables and EVs that we've seen to date, they may end up being carbon-positive.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
There are enough libertarians out there that believe that the government should not be involved in food safety inspections to establish that regulations like this ARE on a related spectrum. Do you have a right to trust that food you buy is
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Are you proposing a licensing scheme to use the internet?
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Yeah there were a few clones that added color and other features - two are even still around today! https://www.mackiev.com/hyperstudio/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
"Participating in basic society" isn't a "benefit"
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
What if I want to start a restaurant that can only make money if I use expired ingredients, run the fridge at a higher temperature to save on electricity, and don't waste my employee's time by washing their hands? These food safet
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
You're fooling yourself if you think clearing cookies does anything. Everyone is doing browser fingerprinting instead these days.
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
> Even back when HyperCard was relevant, Apple's inability to properly introduce color as a first-class feature was what effectively killed the product They never hacked color into HyperCard 2 since their plans for HyperCard 3 wer
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
And in the final releases of HyperCard, Apple even bundled a third-party color XCMD in order to pretend that HyperCard supported color. It was really limited though (insert PICT files from disk! change the color of buttons! use the paint to
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
In Japan IPv6 multicast is used for IPTV services[0] over GPON, competing with satellite TV (cable TV is not nearly as widely deployed as fiber). I imagine it's similar anywhere else that offers linear IPTV over fiber. To use it you ne
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
All the Mac browsers report as Intel even on Apple Silicon to reduce fingerprinting/avoid being detected as PowerPC
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Hacker News recently banned LLM-generated comments due to a vague vibe check of the community. Do you feel the same way about the slippery slope of Hacker News moderation?
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
I'm curious if there are any decently representative use share stats out there for Mac Intel vs ARM. I tried finding some a while ago and found nothing really conclusive (mostly for niches like developer tools or games - what's th
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
It's a community code forge. If someone poured their heart and soul into making an awesome game with kick-ass image and sound assets, the community probably wants to support it. Their stance is obvious: if you just want dumb git hostin
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by kalleboo 3mo ago
Famously Gates thought that the Mac cursor may have been a sprite, when it was actually in software https://www.folklore.org/Shut_Up.html Apple loved doing things in software, ever since Woz wrote the Apple II disk routines

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