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by pezezin 1y ago
The problem is that most Indo-European languages have grammatical gender, with English being a notable exception. In many cases, trying to fit that inclusive language means contorting or breaking the language grammar in unnatural ways, that
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In my experience, risk assessment is the worst part. Japanese culture is extremely risk averse, and the moment you ask them to do something that they have never done before, they freeze in panic. They need a procedure for everything, and ha
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Back in 2005 or so I was playing WoW under Wine, and surprisingly it was faster on my crappy PC at that time, because it used less RAM!
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My home PC runs OpenSuse Tumbleweed. A couple of days ago I bought Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam and guess what? It runs perfectly. So yeah, even the most recent, graphically-intense AAA games run on Linux thanks to Proton.
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by pezezin 1y ago
Can we please stop with the "git gud" excuse? When even expert teams with decades of experience keep making mistakes, we need to recognize that C/C++ are fundamentally flawed and should be replaced with something better.
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Are the specs finalized? Otherwise it will be difficult; heck, we don't even have RVA23 CPUs yet! But I agree with you. A modern, open hardware platform with built-in hardware security would be a dream come true.
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It is the same in Japan. They are really good for hardware and other "physical" engineering disciplines, but they are terrible when it comes to software and general IT stuff. Seriously, I work here as an IT guy and I can't st
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You are right, and yes, my nickname is an intentional misspelling from the old cybercafe days when I was a silly teenager trying to look cool xD
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Z+e/i does exist, but it is not very common. A few examples: - Words that are only written with Z: zepelín, zigurat, zigzag. - Words that can be written with either Z or C: zénit, zinc, zirconio, azimut.
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My favourite word to troll people who are learning the language is "cerrojo" /θe'roxo/, meaning "latch" or "lock", as it contains the three most difficult consonants in the language in sequence x
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Ah, good old Godwin's law... If a Hitler rises to power you will be screwed with or without an ID card, so please don't use such a silly argument.
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The Deck can play most of those Nintendo exclusives better than the Switch itself ;)
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The last one is the ogonek, it usually indicates nasalization: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogonek
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Yes, you do get more space between the lines, an effect is known as "scan lines". It is specially notorious when forcing a 240p mode like 8-bit and 16-bit systems used to do, which gives old games a distinctive look that some retr
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by pezezin 1y ago
You'd imagine, but do you know for sure? As an Spanish guy living in Japan, I can tell you that I see plenty of laws consistently broken here in ways that would never fly in Spain. For example, the way the average Japanese drives, or t
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Nop, HL1 uses the Quake engine that requires a fast FPU. The minimum CPU for any kind of decent performance is a Pentium.
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Does the Greek diet consist of flavourless plain white rice? We eat plenty of rice in Spain, but not white like East Asians do...
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The scarcity of Bitcoin is just a single line of code, not some magical mathematical property.
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And plenty of posters in the train stations telling you not to take pictures under women's skirts.
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Japan is a really rigid country that values stability, hierarchy and following rules above all else. There is a reason why their economy has been stagnant since 1990. And yeah, the houses might be cheap, but they are also tiny and most Japa
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Is that true? I live in Japan and maybe my company is different, because we don't get that pressure and shame. My health check reports show a warning sign in the weight/BMI area, and that's it. Plenty of chubby and overweight
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I moved to Japan 7 years ago and managed to gain 10 kilos. It is nowhere as healthy as people say.
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I live in Japan and I still receive the random email or work document encoded in Shit-JIS. Mojibake is not as common as it once was, but still a problem.
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There is an additional setting for notifications. Click on the little bell to the side of the channel name, and make sure to select to get all the notifications, otherwise they might get hidden.
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Isn't the alternate timeline version of Biff Tannen in Back to the Future 2 modeled after Donald Trump? That movie was released in 1989...
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I am Spanish, so I grew up with what you describe. I now live in rural Japan, a country that outside of the big cities also suffers from awful American-style urban sprawl, and holy guacamole, how can people live like this? The area where I
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Europe also spans some extreme weather, from the frozen North to the scorching hot Meditarranean. I am from Spain, where 40ºC in summer is normal but winters are mild. I have friends and colleagues from Finland and Latvia, which are pretty
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I wonder about the influence of the language. I regularly watch videos in English, Spanish (my mother language), and Japanese (my girlfriend's language). English-speaking channels are usually more "polite" in the way they spe
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I am subscribed to more than 70 YouTube channels, and I have never seen any of them getting kicked out, and the only videos that get removed are due to some bullshit music copyright claims. If you see Youtubers getting kicked out constantly
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> The trouble with people who criticize Japan (incl. Japanese) is that they think this is because of "old people & culture" - but actually, no, the "old" Japanese (in the 1900s-1980s) seemed to have been extraordi

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