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by mc3301 2y ago
Students with a goal to be able to speak and listen to Japanese should still learn hiragana, even if they have zero goals or need for reading. Understanding the building blocks that map out each "sound" in Japanese is not only ben
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by mc3301 2y ago
I definitely think you can get pretty far building speaking and listening skills in Japanese without kanji. However, learning hiragana is, I think, absolutely necessary. Why? They are the building blocks of how Japanese actually sounds. I h
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Oh cool, when I have free time I have many dozens in Japan that I could add.
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That could be said about a variety of athletic endeavors. Mountain biking comes immediately to mind.
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Whoa, (indoor) climbing seems to have a rich history in Edmonton, and I had no idea.
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If you're in the Izu/Mount Fuji area, feel free to message me. I've been living here for well over a decade. I used to do private tours, though now I work in software.
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by mc3301 2y ago
I quickly threw Fedora on a 6-year-old Microsoft Surface Go LTE, and the only thing that didn't work work was the sim card. Everything else was perfect, including touchscreen.
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For $20, you can go to local greenhouses here in Japan and have 30-minutes of all-you-can-eat strawberries. Giant juicy strawberries same or similar to what are seen here. Pick them yourself and dip them in the supplied sweet condensed milk
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Not really a significant investment. It's common for toddlers these days to go from push-bike to pedal-bike (no training wheels) in an afternoon.
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yeah, our toast is toasted in a frying pan. Tiny kitchen here. I'd like to try an air-fryer, but for now my one table-top appliance is a instant pot. It is used daily.
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by mc3301 2y ago
I highly recommend this game: https://thefuture.wtf/ Not affiliated with it, I simply found out about it through the "srsly wrong" podcast a few years ago.
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The verb "to skype" means "to video chat with someone" to many many people, in the same way "to google" means to look something up online. I don't even use skype, yet I say "I skyped my grandma on Sun
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by mc3301 2y ago
Yeah, Ishiba definitely needs to work on his Japanese language skills. /s It's not gendered.
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This is really quite interesting, especially RAG from your notes (I'm building a large RAG system in Japan currently.) I wonder how you have kept up with this routine, what is your retention like, and how far your Japanese skills (read
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by mc3301 2y ago
Google is more than just a search engine for many people... Shared calendars, documents, maps, mail, mobile OS, browser, etc.
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The online shop or AWS?
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15 minute cities is the answer.
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Not earth shattering, but in a country with 30 years of stagnant wages, prices of everything going up, plus many have little savings here... That 130usd per person can start to look kinda tough for many families.
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Most of Tokyo (and Japan) doesn't have an excessive amount of pedestrians' litter. Public garbage cans are rare, though many convenience stores and some train stations have them. Is there litter? Yes. Is there much less than, say,
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by mc3301 2y ago
Why wouldn't you want your child to use before 25?
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'cause if there was socialism, everybody would own the robots, and everybody would "profit" from their "labor."
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My friend owns a little "clean out old houses" business in Japan. Recently we threw out dozens of large boxes of old photographs; the grandma told us she didn't need them anymore. The rest of the family all had their own live
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Why Japan?
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Yeah, I tried (not so hard) to like and use tailwind, but I've been using bootstrap for so long, and for my very simple needs, bootstrap was a better choice. But I wouldn't go around saying, "tailwind is unnecessary for every
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They aren't super common (like, each town has basically one), but here in Japan there are pediatric clinics with "sick daycare" where you can drop your sick child off in the morning to be looked after all day while you go to
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by mc3301 2y ago
I really enjoyed your comment. Without digging deep into design philosophy, it really is a fun practice to try hard to notice the things around you (especially in the physical world as opposed to digital) that were specifically designed for
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It is a hard job if you and your partner both have full-time jobs and other part-time or side-hustles just to barely pay the rent.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRBiFAbuajU "The dumbest bike law you've never heard of"
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Yeah, Seth from Berm Peak did a great youtube video about it.
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Yeah, and it's not linear either as more and more people attempt to climb it every year, and as equipment gets better. With those two figures alone, it's a barely useful statistic, I guess.

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