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by needle0 7y ago
Where does the name come from?
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by needle0 7y ago
The Japanese electronic tax filing system's browser support policy is to support browsers that come preinstalled with the OS, period, actual marketshare be damned. This makes them support IE, Edge and Safari, but not Chrome nor Firefox
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by needle0 7y ago
The Non-Designer's Design Book is also recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-4th/dp/0133...
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by needle0 7y ago
"Supercomputer projects needed the original PS3, not the PS3 Slim, because Sony had removed Linux support from the console in response to hacks — which later led to a class-action settlement. This article originally stated that it was
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by needle0 7y ago
An increasing majority of the average person's everyday computing needs have consolidated into smartphones, perhaps even moreso than other countries. This ate into the markets of both home consoles and gaming PCs. (Though, since Japan
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by needle0 7y ago
That and the Japanese PC-building scene has become quite tiny nowadays.
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by needle0 7y ago
For me, remote work was first and foremost the experience of continuously being whipped around by timezone differences between me and the HQ, so I'm a bit disappointed the article seems to not mention that aspect. I wonder if asynchron
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by needle0 7y ago
I thought "Bristol Bay" was some Intel or AMD codename I wasn't aware of (especially with the "processor" word being in the same sentence.)
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by needle0 7y ago
That's Hara kiri. If you're going to appropriate an antiquated foreign word out of context I wish you'd at least spell it properly.
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by needle0 7y ago
You’re still contributing to the Chromium engine monoculture, though.
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by needle0 7y ago
Perhaps I'm too jaded, but it comes off to me as copping out of the truly difficult ones!
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by needle0 7y ago
When you're just trying to read stuff to understand it, "understandable" is good enough. I'll be waiting for a looong time for CN/JP/KR translation to reach anywhere close to Not Utterly Incoherent.
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by needle0 7y ago
I'll be blown away when it does near-perfect JP/EN translation (which it doesn't even seem to support). No machine translation has ever been close to being remotely good when it comes to JP/EN, including the ones develop
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by needle0 7y ago
I second this. Bergamot's website mentions Europe ("...increases the uptake of language technologies in Europe...") but nothing about Asia, which isn't very encouraging.
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by needle0 7y ago
Anything that can hold arbitrary text and can be seen by more than one user eventually becomes used as email. About a decade ago, I discovered a featurephone-based BASIC programming environment (as in, you write code directly using the phon
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by needle0 7y ago
Another reason to abandon ship and switch to Firefox.
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by needle0 7y ago
While I don't consider the paradox of tolerance to be invalid, what I see happening is people using Popper as an excuse to be intolerant towards people they dislike, declaring that their target party is "intolerant" so they&#
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by needle0 7y ago
Wow, thoughtcrime is ceasing to be fiction. Even in the original 1984 novel, they could only be detected when those thoughts manifested as actual words and action. This goes further. I fear for how much restraint we will show when we become
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by needle0 7y ago
Chromium monoculture is bad, therefore use Firefox. That's pretty much all there really is to it. Everything else is a distraction.
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by needle0 7y ago
Bastet's randomizer can be defeated by creating a huge overhang near the top of the playfield, then building your actual stack far below it. The evaluation algorithm works by trying to drop every piece in every horizontal position, and
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by needle0 7y ago
I'm using Firefox for pretty much everything including Google apps, but the one thing I do wish Firefox had is support for casting via Chromecast. In my experience, Chromecast support has been sorta spotty even on Chromium-based browse
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by needle0 7y ago
The Let's Note series being very conservative with I/O, with optical drives and analog VGA output, speaks volumes both about how pragmatic they are and also how painfully slow the average Japanese business scene changes in regards
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by needle0 7y ago
Casio a few years ago did use to sell the G'zOne, a literal G-Shock phone with the same rugged aesthetic: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=g%27zone&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=ima...
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by needle0 7y ago
I did notice that notifications were habit-inducing early on, and disabled them entirely for Facebook/Twitter/Email years ago. Still, finding myself regularly going back to all of them, I'm not sure that it's the only pr
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by needle0 7y ago
No one knows "all Kanji" much like no one knows "all English words" even in native English-speaking countries.
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by needle0 7y ago
Not sure if this was intended, but interestingly, the company name in the native Japanese katakana notation, カラー, is indistinguishable from the English word "Color" due to the lossiness of katakana sounds. https://en.wi
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by needle0 7y ago
According to them it's meant to be the Greek word for Joy. Interestingly, in their native Japanese katakana notation, カラー is indistinguishable from the English word "Color" due to the lossiness of katakana sounds. https:&#x2
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by needle0 7y ago
I don't quite get why the latter became widespread in the west, though - we read text from top to bottom, we pinpoint addresses by drilling going from the largest geographical entries down to the smallest, why make them go reverse agai
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by needle0 7y ago
>>1/2 the world lives in extreme poverty, we have no shortage of consumers. More like 10%: https://howmuch.net/articles/people-living-in-extreme-povert...
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by needle0 7y ago
Characters in fiction regularly behave sub-optimally even if they're set up as geniuses, for the most mundane meta reason: It's a work of entertainment, and the plot wouldn't get interesting otherwise! We should always be ver

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