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by needle0 4y ago
The replacement of “force touch on keyboard to move cursor” is “long-touch on space bar to move cursor”. This works fine for western languages where the key to input a space is large and centered, but some keyboards like the Japanese flick
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by needle0 4y ago
Elaborately worded error messages are also hostile against users who are not native speakers of the application's UI language. They're already spending extra mental effort just using the software as-is; while native speakers may f
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by needle0 4y ago
There was a manga comic series called "20th Century Boys" which was a conspiracy thriller mixed with 1970s Japanese nostalgia. One of the story's scenes involved the protagonists rummaging through a library looking for a part
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by needle0 4y ago
Meanwhile, Okinawa has consistently had some of the nation's lowest COVID vaccination rates and worst per-population infection numbers since the start of the pandemic.
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by needle0 4y ago
CotEditor is great particularly for me because it's developed in Japan and thus handles all the relevant international text issues properly. Automatic encoding detection, mixed-script text, even vertical script!
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by needle0 4y ago
It underestimated my age by 15 years. Not sure if this is due to the AI being biased or simply inaccurate in general. (I'm Asian, and from the experience of me and others, Asians tend to get their age greatly underestimated in the west
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by needle0 4y ago
Losing a Sojourner medal streak in Ingress (due to being busy due to my own wedding!) made me quit playing the game regularly. Streaks can be effective in keeping the user returning, but once it's broken it can be a perfect moment for
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by needle0 4y ago
Doubt we'll see any change soon. The consoles aren't being bought en masse by miners, but rather by scalpers.
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by needle0 4y ago
Is the word "GPT-3" now being used like a a generic term, simply referring to a large-enough language model? From the article, Meta's OPT model seems to be intentionally designed to match the capabilities of OpenAI's ori
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by needle0 4y ago
The melody for Takadanobaba is the Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom) theme, which is due to Astro Boy's in-universe background that states he was built in 2003 at the Ministry of Science, located in Takadanobaba. The current office of Tezuka P
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by needle0 4y ago
I liked how the Japanese translation of the page retains the two versions, but the language difference made the variants pretty much pointless, because there are hardly any "profane" words in Japanese that are offensive enough to
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by needle0 4y ago
Different cultures have different standards for ordering day, month, and year. Encountering one that you're not used to throws you off quite hard, especially regarding day & month since they're both often two digits. Relying o
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by needle0 4y ago
I've seen situations where the product code names become so publicly popular that the company uses yet another unrelated codename to refer to them in internal conversation and code (but even those internal names still leak out anyways)
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by needle0 4y ago
Early reviews said that even the base 8GB RAM models were snappy, despite the small amount of RAM. I went in believing that, but turns out it was anything but. Maybe it was my specific usage (Firefox with tons of tabs, Electron apps open al
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by needle0 4y ago
> It is not about who you are, what you are, what your background is, or where you live. It IS, however, about what language you speak.
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by needle0 4y ago
Them not mentioning it, despite mentioning it making their optics better, pretty much seem to point to the NDA not even letting them discuss the stuff you stated.
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by needle0 4y ago
The overall feeling I get is that the community generally considers the author's will to be of highest priority, even if following it is detrimental to the long-term public cultural heritage. Creators can and will occasionally use it a
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by needle0 4y ago
The Rakuten Hand 5G ( https://network.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/product/smartphone/raku... ) sounds like it fits the bill at 138 × 63 × 9.5mm vs iPhone 13 mini's 131.5 × 64.2 × 7.65mm, though it's only availa
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by needle0 4y ago
So if Google services behave in a tone-deaf way regarding the culture and languages of non-western countries, now it's the fault of us the foreigners for not contributing enough to the AI?
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by needle0 4y ago
Uh, I know. I am Japanese, I have tons of manga reading experience over decades. It's just that reading the same work both in the original Japanese and translated English made the difference in threshold more obvious.
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by needle0 4y ago
Yahoo! Japan has the reputation of being used by the widest range of users in Japan, including a large demographic of people at the lowest end of the computer literacy spectrum. This is the group of (often elderly) people who may not even u
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by needle0 4y ago
I once read Dragon Ball translated into English, and noticed that the author frequently inserted short bursts of onomatopoeia into moments where there would be none if it was a work that originated in English (eg. when a person stepped down
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by needle0 4y ago
They're indeed often said twice in a row, but not always.
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by needle0 4y ago
That would be the adjective+verb form, as it would appear in regular prose. If written as an onomatopoeia it would be written じーっ (Jiii')
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by needle0 4y ago
What a press release: the actual main message -- iPod touch is being discontinued -- has been weasel-worded out of the entire text, to the point that a non-native reader of English wouldn't even be able to decipher what it's tryin
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by needle0 4y ago
> * 'Get Info' or CMD + I > * Select the icon in the top left of the dialogue box > * Copy it using the keyboard shortcut CMD + C This sequence of steps to obtain the file's icon art has been consistent for a very
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by needle0 4y ago
Sounds like a form of Parkinson's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
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by needle0 4y ago
"Ono-Sendai: in the book this is a Japanese corporation that manufactures cyberdecks. In Japanese “Ono” means ax and “Sendai” is the name of a prefecture in Japan." Ono (斧) is indeed ax in Japanese, but is also a common surname. (
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by needle0 4y ago
The proper notation would be "サラリーマン", with a bar between リ and マ which indicates an elongated sound. In fact, writing it as "サラリマン" actually evokes images of a " caricatured western-POV stereotype of a Japanese s
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by needle0 4y ago
People in the west seem to have become oblivious to the fact that Konami still makes games (and yes, by that I mean traditional video games)-- just that most of their library has become invisible from the POV of the west. Games like Momotar

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