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by laurieg 3y ago
The advice that experiences are better than things is good, but most of my valued and cherished experiences were free or very cheap. I care more about the people around me than what we're actually doing. If you can spend some money to
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Generating Music Tracks with Unified Representation and Diffusion Framework(ai-muzic.github.io)
96 points by laurieg 3y ago|45 comments
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by laurieg 3y ago
I did well in high school math. These days, when something involving algebra, trigonometry, geometry etc comes up I feel like I have a good understanding of it but my calculus seems weak to non-existent. I'm not sure if it's how I
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by laurieg 4y ago
When people start using spaced repetition and flashcard software they often end up throwing a big list of "Most common 1000 French words" into it and then promptly being swamped by reviews and giving up. This is a bad idea for two
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by laurieg 4y ago
Here is a case of a foreign citizen winning a lawsuit against a discriminatory car dealership in Japan https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2017/10/11/issues/att...
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by laurieg 4y ago
I'd like to see a more nuanced discussion of what 8am actually is. I've lived in places where 8am means you've already had 2-3 hours of sunlight and places where 8am is pitch black. Clock time and sun time don't always
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by laurieg 4y ago
Japanese employment law is a bit of a double edged sword. It's very difficult to fire employees, so if you hire someone on a high salary and it turns out they weren't worth it you are now stuck with an employee for years or decad
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by laurieg 4y ago
As a software engineer I like these simple rules, they let me produce something that doesn't look terrible without having to spend years studying design. It reminds me of shuhari (守破離), an idea from martial arts and other traditional p
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by laurieg 4y ago
Yes, but with good reason. It's pronounced "was" but always written and typed as "ha".
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by laurieg 4y ago
Here's my take on explaining Japanese as a programming language. Verbs are functions. In English, arguments are positional. SUBJECT verb OBJECT. I eat pizza. But in Japanese they are named arguments with small helper words called parti
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by laurieg 4y ago
Yes, feel free.
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by laurieg 4y ago
I'm Fukuoka based and have helped a lot of devs start and change careers in Japan (Full disclosure: Fukuoka city pays me to run tech events and promote software engineering). Please feel free to get in touch if you want to have a 1 on
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by laurieg 4y ago
I think the options you have listed are pretty accurate. If you are a working for a large multi-national then getting an internal transfer to the Japan office is probably the best way to move to Japan. As for companies in Japan, there is a
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by laurieg 4y ago
"There is no path to citizenship." This is not true. It is possible to become a permanent resident or to become a Japanese citizen (for citizenship you must give up any other citizenships)
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by laurieg 4y ago
How about Japan? Once you get a job the visa process is simple (provided you have a college degree). There are more and more jobs that don't require Japanese language skills. Housing is affordable. Crime is extremely low. The salaries
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by laurieg 4y ago
Did you really fail? I bet you can make an HTML web page with some images, text and links on it. Would it be the best looking, most useful site ever? Of course not. Would it be useful to someone? Absolutely. Most concepts in programming to
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by laurieg 4y ago
This seems remarkably close to a Japanese "unit bath" bathroom. The entire room drains into a drain in the floor so you can use the shower head to clean it. It's small, with a tub, sink and toilet. The tap (faucet) for the si
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by laurieg 4y ago
I know the feeling only too well. Rest assured it passes, just like rain passes. And, like trying to make it stop raining, trying to feel different doesn't do anything. There's plenty of good advice in this thread. Take in but be
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by laurieg 4y ago
I really agree with you on this one. I often play eurogames with my friends and really, I enjoy it because I'm with my friends, not because of the game. I often feel like I'm playing a spreadsheet. Bluffing games, guessing games,
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by laurieg 4y ago
My use case is in education, with users uploading short audio clips. Often these are in a variety of formats. It's nice to be able to re-encode them all to the same format and save as much bandwidth as possible as well as make sure the
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by laurieg 4y ago
I love the product and this update. I wondered if there are any plans for handling audio (or even video) in a similar way?
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by laurieg 4y ago
Launch today. A lot of founders think "When I launch, all my potential customers will see it that moment". This leads to delaying until it is "perfect" or waiting for the "perfect" moment. In reality, when you
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by laurieg 4y ago
Why if it is fully offline then why does the micro-controller need a license key? What does it use the key for? How can any monitoring/analytics take place? I read the article and was interested but after clicking around the site I was
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by laurieg 4y ago
As someone who had gone from severe shyness to comfortably talking in front of a variety of audiences, the simple truth is that the more you do it the better you get. As far as I know there aren't any clever tricks that don't invo
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Sony Mocopi: Mobile Motion Capture(sony.jp)
2 points by laurieg 4y ago|0 comments
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Aisle (1999): An interactive fiction game that ends after one command(ifdb.org)
1 points by laurieg 4y ago|0 comments
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by laurieg 4y ago
I'd love to switch to Affinity from Adobe Illustrator, but there's one feature I just can't live without: In illustrator you can make a dashed line that nicely lines up with the corners of a square (putting one dash in each c
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by laurieg 4y ago
In 2024 there are new laws set to come into effect allowing pedal-less light electric vehicles in Japan. The rules include not requiring a helmet, not requiring a licence, no under 16s and a max speed of 20kph. It will be interesting to se
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by laurieg 4y ago
There are a few dimensions to this puzzle: hearing the sound, being able to reproduce the sound and then being able to string enough of the sounds together smoothly and naturally to form a different accent. Think of a Japanese native speake
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by laurieg 4y ago
Recently, I took up making things. Electronics, wood, cardboard. I've not been doing it very long but it is incredibly fulfilling, and the help and support from others is wonderful. It's really nice to be unashamedly enthusiast

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