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by laurieg 7y ago
It's almost certainly a translation from Japanese. The "not only...but also..." pattern is giveaway, plus the rather long sentence stitched together with "while". It can be really hard to force Japanese into natura
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Nice! Looking forward to the android version. Small nitpick: change "an unique" to "a unique".
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This mirrors my experience exactly. I was really interested in computers and I wanted to learn to program so I could make games. When I was 10 I went to the library and managed to get hold of a book on C. I took it home, studied it and then
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by laurieg 7y ago
Glad to see the safety of athletes and the public is being protected. I wonder why Japan seems to have such low numbers even though they had coronavirus very early as well as many cases from the cruise ship.
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Wonderful to see such a detailed run down! I scrolled straight to the singing part to see if there were any nuggets of wisdom. I've been singing with a teacher for 6 months and it still seems impossible. Everything is so indirect and
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by laurieg 7y ago
I installed this on Mac OS but the program always fails with: Uncaught Exception: Error: Could not get code signature for running application at m(/Applications/Youka.app/Contents/Resources/app/.web
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by laurieg 7y ago
Interestingly, daily grocery shopping is not uncommon in Japan. Probably down to supermarkets being close and kitchens being small.
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I've spent many years using Anki and I have thousands of cards. I love it but I notice a few very common failure modes: 1. Putting far too many cards in a deck. 2. Putting in information that you want to learn rather than information
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by laurieg 7y ago
I'm no physicist but I've always thought about the wave-particle duality like this: Image you're tracking someone across the country. You have some data that they were in 2 towns 100 miles apart with the hour. They must be
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by laurieg 7y ago
As a point of information, there are skilled visas and highly-skilled visas in Japan. The highly-skilled visas are the aforementioned point system but they make up a relatively small proportion of the non-Japanese population in Japan. Skil
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by laurieg 7y ago
I really like developments in this space. I too have struggled and continue to struggle with wasting time on the internet. A couple of things that have helped me recently: Removing the facebook news feed.[1] I can still use it for messagi
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by laurieg 7y ago
Here is a video of said umbrella lockers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjTwPII-mxk With many people using the same cheap plastic umbrella it is very difficult to tell which one is yours. I have had quite a few umbrellas
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I agree with you that it's easy to return things in Japan. I also think there is a slight flip-side, at least in the city. There are so many people crammed together that there is a sense of always being watched, doubly so if you are a
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by laurieg 7y ago
Recently I wanted to make a few simple apps that would make api requests and control a few things around my house set up with raspberry pis. A friend recommended me the drag and drop app builder Thunkable[1] and I was blown away by just how
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by laurieg 7y ago
This is definitely true. I usually describe it as "language knowledge" vs "fluency" in my classes. You can learn fluidity on your own, but it takes the right kind of practice . It's easy to think of learning a la
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by laurieg 7y ago
The author definitely benefits from French and English being related languages. Remembering that "interesting" is "intéressant" takes a lot less effort than remembering it is "おもしろい". I studied Japanese full t
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I'm a software engineer who has helped several local startups rapidly develop prototypes and automate parts of their business process. I have a personal interest in natural language processing and have developed a grammar checker tool
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So instead of training up people with weaker skills we are just happy to see them out on the kerb? They had jobs already, so how bad could they really have been?
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by laurieg 7y ago
Thanks for the practical tips! I should've expanded on my original comment a little more. I'm currently on a run streak of 130 consecutive days, including a motorcycle crash and international long haul flights. One of the most fr
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I like the idea and I'm glad it works for some people but I tried it and often I would get out the door with all my running gear on and then turn back around and give up. Something about thinking about it like this made it easier to g
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When these stories come up I always wonder "What proportion would be ok?" I don't think anyone is suggesting that everyone in the world has exactly the same amount of money so the conversation must shift to talk about what le
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This article goes into detail on how the conviction rate is so high: https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c05401/order-in-the-c...
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It doesn't happen that often but it does happen. Foreign residents are required to carry a resident card at all times and the police are allowed to check for it. This can come with a search. Japanese nationals don't need to carry
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by laurieg 7y ago
Funny this story should come up now. Two days ago I was on my regular running route and I saw a wallet on the ground. It had 5000 yen (around 50 USD) sticking out of it. The weather was a bit damp and it was far from a police box so I did
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by laurieg 7y ago
I am not a lawyer so I can't really give much of an opinion on this aspect. My layman's reading of that party of the constitution seems to suggest that searching people like this would be unlawful, but perhaps it had been judged i
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by laurieg 7y ago
Unfortunately, where I live (Japan), asserting your rights and refusing a search is seen as probable cause. "If you were innocent you would just consent to the search" is how the thinking goes.
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Order in the Court: Explaining Japan’s 99.9% Conviction Rate(nippon.com)
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Another fun tidbit of the Japanese system: they have to release you if they've held you for 23 days, so they give you back your possessions, walk you out the door and then swarm you with police five seconds later to arrest you again fo
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by laurieg 7y ago
A friend of mine teaches middle school in Japan and he recounted this story of a parent teacher meeting. A girl, who was by all accounts a decent student, had not been doing some of her homework recently. He brought it up in a casual and su
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As "a tall white foreigner with a big nose" it's a pretty random tossup between someone introducing themselves in family name first order or family name last order, even when speaking Japanese. This occasionally leads to the

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