pezezin

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by pezezin 2y ago
Now that I am delving into the retro-gaming world, I find it funny that 30 years ago gamers lambasted the Sega Saturn for using dithering patterns instead of proper transparencies, only for the same technique to come back decades later.
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by pezezin 2y ago
I understand what you mean, and perhaps "a collection of hamlets" is a more accurate description. In my experience, your perception depends heavily on your personal background. The city where I live (Misawa) hosts an American mili
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by pezezin 2y ago
I actually live in the Japanese countryside, so let me tell you that there are two reasons why those houses are so cheap: 1. The construction quality of the average Japanese house is absolute garbage. Most likely you will need to demolish i
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by pezezin 2y ago
Wait, the CD drive is mounted vertically and opens on the front of the case? That is insanely cool, I have never seen a design like that o_O
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by pezezin 2y ago
There is an obsession for rules, procedures and order when it comes to people's behavior, but not the physical order of the city itself. Zoning laws and construction regulations are extremely lax, and that results in chaotic cities. Fo
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by pezezin 2y ago
But it does improve life. If you can't see the massive improvements in efficiency, or the benefit of doing any paperwork in 5 minutes from the comfort of your own house instead of wasting half a day or more going to whatever physical
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by pezezin 2y ago
First of all, half the population live in either the Greater Tokyo Area, or the Keihanshin area (Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe). Those areas are very dense. Second, it is true that they don't have much usable land (but they still have some big fl
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by pezezin 2y ago
For example, being able to do online administrative procedures by using digital signatures, instead of doing them on paper with personal stamps.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Again, they are not perfectionist, that is a myth. Second, I don't know how the average US city is, because I have never been to the US, but I think that you really overestimate how the average Japanese city looks like. People who have
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by pezezin 2y ago
Ah yes, the myth that East Asian countries are better at math because their numbers are just one syllable, so they can calculate faster. Leaving aside the fact that math is not only basic arithmetic, the reality is that they dedicate much m
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by pezezin 2y ago
"Japanese brains" as in there is neurological difference, or is it because that is the environment they have been raised in? (nature vs nurture)
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by pezezin 2y ago
I agree with you. As my first boss taught me, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. But after 6 years living here, I find the image of the Japanese as perfectionists to be a myth. Sure, the old sushi master that has dedicated
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by pezezin 2y ago
To be fair, when standing out gets you punished, I understand why people don't take risks.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Like post-Soviet Estonia, which is way more advanced than Japan when it comes to digitalization?
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by pezezin 2y ago
I find it feature richer than Whatsapp and FB Messenger, but that is not saying much. I am still salty that Whatsapp is the most popular application back home in Europe... Compared to Telegram, I find Telegram to be much faster and robust,
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by pezezin 2y ago
> Go to events in Japan and a lot of the design of posters and so forth just looks seriously bad to US (and presumably European) eyes. As an European living in Japan, I can confirm. Japanese advertisement and presentations look like a co
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by pezezin 2y ago
As a software engineer currently working in Japan, I fully agree with your comment. But I think it is not just the risk aversion, Japan is a very rigid country with an strong emphasis on following the hierarchy and rules, no matter how ridi
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by pezezin 2y ago
I just did and all the results are related to this software, so what is your point?
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by pezezin 2y ago
Crab was a tantrum that, as expected, went nowhere. Why people play this silly games is something that I will never understand.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Yes, it also emulates the 1 MB and 4 MB RAM expansions, and if I remember correctly, even the ROM cartridges for those very few games that used them. It also emulates a per-game virtual "memory card" (again, the Saturn used specia
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by pezezin 2y ago
What do you mean by "speed of light communication wireless"? Wireless signals (WiFi or similar) are already speed of light.
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by pezezin 2y ago
You also have - The Satiator, that plugs into the video card slot so you can still use original CDs. - The Saroo, that plugs into the cartridge slot, also emulates the RAM expansion carts, and it is much cheaper (but seems to have some comp
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by pezezin 2y ago
> Do you know how we won World War 2? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_Flag_over_the_Reichs... I don't see any American flag here.
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by pezezin 2y ago
On a similar note, a couple of days ago I bought two factory sealed magneto-optical disks, one 230 MB and the other 640 MB, for 300 yens each. I had never seen one in person, and I think that they look really cool in a retrofuturistic sense
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by pezezin 2y ago
Sure, no problem. But after you asked me, I realized that the system was not properly documented anywhere, I didn't even have a repo with the configuration files, what an embarrassment :( I just created the repo and uploaded the docume
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by pezezin 2y ago
There are tons of forum threads about gamers complaining about every single game in history. Seriously, most gaming forums are incredibly toxic.
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by pezezin 2y ago
Yes, that ratio is very small. I built a very simple, custom syslog solution, a syslog-ng server writing directly to a TimescaleDB hypertable ( https://www.timescale.com/ ) that is then presented as a Grafana dashboard, and I
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by pezezin 2y ago
> It also helps a lot with planning/building if parts of your country were bombed into oblivion and gave you a chance to rebuild and rethink everything from the ground up. Hahaha, now this is a good joke. Japanese cities are notorio
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by pezezin 2y ago
> but the most obvious one is that Japan is eminently walkable Big cities like Tokyo or Osaka are walkable; outside of them, Japan quickly devolves into very pedestrian-unfriendly urban sprawl (I know because I live in one such place). B
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by pezezin 2y ago
- The scenery might be gorgeous, but the cities are depressingly ugly, and the roads are garbage, so reaching said scenery might take you several hours of driving and then what? - Any food is delicious compared to English food /s - I d

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