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by mc3301 9mo ago
What was the Chrome extension?
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by mc3301 9mo ago
Fully agreed. The day youtube disables the "turn watch history off," is the day I'll stop using youtube. I, too, could never go back.
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by mc3301 9mo ago
something something, "If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance wi
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by mc3301 9mo ago
I use a solar-powered Casio wave ceptor. No batteries ever, and the time is always accurate. I haven't touched a button on the watch in years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Wave_Ceptor
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by mc3301 9mo ago
Come visit Japan in August; the cicadas are so loud throughout most of the country that you have to raise your voice to be heard.
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by mc3301 9mo ago
Wait until you learn about companies that use their founding year as the first year on their calendar. But also, it is, in fact, changing. A lot of official government dates (such as drivers licenses) are no longer going to use the imperial
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by mc3301 9mo ago
There is a little book called "The Bottlehopper" by Bob Edwards. It provides a great understanding of what being an alcoholic is.
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by mc3301 10mo ago
I'm a Japan resident... whenever I'm outside of Japan, friends have to remind me to not "leave my laptop out like that" nor hold wads of visible cash or keep my smartphone on the table. Cafes... I'll go to the bathr
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by mc3301 10mo ago
Who is the big guy? Why $1000?
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by mc3301 10mo ago
"Would you like to watch a 30 second add to skip to the next chapter?"
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by mc3301 10mo ago
No idea about the dating scene in central Japan; I'm not in it.
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by mc3301 10mo ago
I said, "next few decades," but I meant to say "next few years."
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by mc3301 10mo ago
Youtube: There are a few long-form creators I watch, maybe 4 hours a month of content. Besides that, viewing history is off, no apps, browser extensions block mostly everything (comments, suggestions, etc.) Instagram: I have a 15 minute dai
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by mc3301 10mo ago
"The only winning move is not to play." If you look at these systems that same way some people look at casinos - places specifically designed to take your money - you realize there isn't a way to change them nor improve your
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by mc3301 10mo ago
edx's monozukuri and Harvard cs50x were both incredibly good courses.
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by mc3301 10mo ago
Should the romanization reflect the irregular sounds in the spoken language? Or should it reflect the regular groupings of the kana characters? OR.... Should it reflect how one would type it on a keyboard in order to get the correct Japanes
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by mc3301 10mo ago
There's a beach called "らららサンビーチ" in Japan. While driving there, you can pass a signs that say "LaLaLa Sun Beach" as well as "RaRaRa Sun Beach."
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by mc3301 10mo ago
How about Dogen?
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by mc3301 10mo ago
Because 少年 in hiragana is しょうねん: spelled out that is "sho u ne n" Many, but not all long vowels in japanese follow these: ああ a i -> as in おかあさん, mother いい i i -> as in ちいさい, small うう u u -> as in すう, to smoke えい e i ->
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by mc3301 10mo ago
I have seen chi and ti, both of which when qwerty typed on standard windows or mac produce ち. I have never seen it as tchi. つ is often seen as tu or tsu. I have been in Japan for over a decade.
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by mc3301 10mo ago
I haven't been that far west in a few years. If you'd like to chat or exchange emails, I'll happily respond to the email in my profile :)
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by mc3301 10mo ago
I've heard that some places, such as train stations, did away with jingles (etc.) to bring more silence. The feedback was that those places felt "lonely."
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by mc3301 10mo ago
Fedora. I've introduced it to many people, all coming from windows, with great luck. Based on use case and individual, it may need a few programs installed that otherwise aren't, and about 7 minutes of patience to learn the UI.
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by mc3301 11mo ago
Looks pretty cool! And hey, I'm another rural Japan 3d printing enthusiast with no surrounding similar peers. Very central Honshu.
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by mc3301 11mo ago
I'm not sure about today's conventions, but it used to be that every component inside a car had a minimum standard of 10-year-life. The Toyota Landcruiser famously had a minimum 25-year-life for each and every single component. I
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by mc3301 11mo ago
I've known a few younger people who can't go into shops they used to do their part-time work (バイト) at, simply because the looped jingles did, in fact, drive them nuts.
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by mc3301 11mo ago
noisy street advertisements.. and jingles... shops of all shapes and sizes blaring music...
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by mc3301 11mo ago
Excellent, now the collective "we" all know about it, and it never needs to be mentioned again[0]. [0]< https://xkcd.com/1053/ >
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by mc3301 11mo ago
Oh, mine shows no recommendations at all. Just a blank home screen. So I basically either watch my curated subscriptions or something I specifically searched for.
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by mc3301 11mo ago
As a software engineer in Japan... yes there are jobs here that don't require Japanese, but you'll be limited in both job- and daily-life-opportunity without it. Cool that you are learning it. I came here with zero Japanese. Now I

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