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by needle0 7y ago
To get each of the signs officially signed off with formal budgets and professional designers allocated, I would imagine the administrative red tape involved (in a large, old Japanese enterprise) would take long enough to make the sign obso
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by needle0 7y ago
The scare-quote type of usage for quotation marks is common in English but not universal across all languages. As many Hacker News commenters are not native English speakers, it makes sense to assume quotes are not always used for that mean
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by needle0 7y ago
Note that Comiket, the biggest dojinshi (amateur zines) market in Japan that attracts over a half million attendees semiyearly, has a larger percentage of female exhibitor attendants than males. The notion that anime/otaku culture is o
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by needle0 7y ago
I've seen some videos on Niconico with English comments but those were a lot harder to read. Perhaps concepts-per-second between EN/JP are similar if reading a static page, but English text tends to use more characters than JP tex
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by needle0 7y ago
Trust me, the difference between the comments vertically scrolling in the sidebar and horizontally on top of the video is huge. In Twitch, when the comments become fast enough they literally give no time for the viewer to parse and understa
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by needle0 7y ago
Wasn't that open only to the video's uploader though?
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by needle0 7y ago
This reminds me of Shuetsutai, a Japanese font that originated from ad-hoc duct tape guidance signs created to guide visitors of Shinjuku station, which is constantly under construction. The signs were made by a security company personnel w
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by needle0 7y ago
I felt the author was pretty careful in emphasizing that he's not declaring neither Mizumura nor Murakami is superior over the other, just that translatability can be a factor in how works spread. BTW, all three works you mention has b
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by needle0 7y ago
Well I didn't say they're not used, just not as much by everyday laypeople and the media. The article for this thread makes no mention, for instance, and out of the top 5 DuckDuckGo search result news articles for "ridgecrest
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by needle0 7y ago
One thing I noticed is that when the US talks about earthquakes, it often only notes the seismic magnitude value of the quake and doesn't always mention the seismic intensity scale values of the affected locations. This is in contrast
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by needle0 7y ago
Is there any way to enable DoH by default but exclude certain domains that are managed by a local DNS server? (eg. intranet domains?)
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by needle0 7y ago
Oh boy. Phabricator was _terrible_ with this. Native English speakers thought ridiculous button UI names like "Clowncopterize" were so funny. Fricking no.
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by needle0 7y ago
I don't quite get the reasoning where you talk about the quality of Japanese error messages, then talk about making it even harder to decipher. Sure you can compress meaning into short strings of kanji, but readability definitely takes
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by needle0 7y ago
Strange that the examples given are heavily skewed towards websites in Japan (Gakunin, Nikkei, Tokyu, Mixi, Yahoo Japan, Softbank). Also, I guess they ought to be updating that text now that Google+ is dead.
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by needle0 7y ago
When I found out about the 1st pattern I liked it, but at another workplace I was advised to avoid it since it creates multiple exit points for the function, leading to confusion. I'm not quite convinced of that and tend to agree with
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by needle0 7y ago
Vertical. Tabs. For my usecase, nuff said. Chrome developers WONTFIXed requests for this a long time ago, so keep using Firefox I will (that and doing my part to preserve web engine diversity). Additionally, I've begun trying out Brave
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by needle0 7y ago
This. Games are done when they're done; much like finished novels, films, or music, once the developer considers it done, it won't get updated anymore. Also likewise to film or music, if it ends up becoming a classic, it might get
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by needle0 7y ago
https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/11497078/ This (Japanese) article is an interesting read about the speed of FeliCa cards, the contactless tech Suica is based on. The speed requirement that was used w
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by needle0 7y ago
I've used JapanTaxi (mentioned in the article) a fair number of times, and while there's nothing wrong with the experience of the app, oftentimes the biggest competitor to these ride-hailing apps is the fact that Tokyo's road
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by needle0 7y ago
Much less known than Chrono Trigger, but the Game Boy RPG SaGa 3 (known in the west as Final Fantasy Legend III) was a case of Square's attempt at time travel in RPGs that came before CT. It had a lot of thematic elements in common, eg
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by needle0 7y ago
Wouldn't that require the camera to be located nearer to the middle of the screen, where the on-screen eyes of the other party would be? I wouldn't mind a slightly perceptible camera dot at the top of the screen, but if it was in
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by needle0 7y ago
Well, they did say "ANY telemetry", capitalization emphasis by them. That's an awfully strong claim to make.
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by needle0 7y ago
Yep, this. If you the reader are using a Chrome-based browser and find Google's behavior disconcerting, you need to switch away, now.
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by needle0 7y ago
Remembering Dogz and digging through the Wikipedia rabbit hole, I just learned that PF Magic [1], the developer for Dogz/Catz, were also responsible for the SNES 3D fighting game Ballz [2], and its programmer later went on to develop t
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by needle0 7y ago
They tried with LiMo/Bada/Tizen and couldn't pull it off...
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by needle0 7y ago
The rationale for cutting off Huawei seems to be "No matter how much you claim to not spy, you are forced to comply when the Chinese government tells you to do so" - which so far appears to be the hypothetical worst case scenario.
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by needle0 7y ago
Feeling some deja vu, as it's quite similar to what Evernote did (also equally feeling like shooting themselves in the foot in regards to user goodwill). Well, at least I already have a crapton of devices synced and they didn't re
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by needle0 7y ago
Ack, you're right, Charles Bronson.
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by needle0 7y ago
While this is awesome, I wonder why we hear a lot about businessmen who score big then funneling their wealth into moonshot projects about space exploration (Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Takafumi Horie, etc), but hardly ever on m
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by needle0 7y ago
I’ll still keep using Firefox since I recognize the importance of browser diversity and the hazards of a Chrome monoculture (that and vertical tabs), but, yikes. Still, this type of oversight seems all too common even in large companies. I

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