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by pezezin 3y ago
They are, and they still rely on hankos ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia)#Japanese_usag... ). There has been a recent push for "digital transformation", but it is still in the early stages.
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by pezezin 3y ago
I guess that depends on the city and the procedure, but I had to replace my DNI last summer and it took me less than 30 minutes, and they gave me the new one on the spot. In comparison I also had to renew my Japanese foreign card and later
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by pezezin 3y ago
The 242 GB/s in the Wikipedia article is the per-direction bandwidth available after removing the encoding overhead. The 512 GB/s in the headline is the raw bi-directional bandwidth. Both are actually the same number.
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by pezezin 3y ago
NVidia advertises their latest GPUs as having 18 NVLinks, but each link is 4 lanes. Make a 72x PCIe link, and you will see that the numbers are very similar.
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by pezezin 3y ago
Sure, nobody can deny the Arabic influence in Spain. For example, around 10% of the vocabulary of modern Spanish comes from Arabic.
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by pezezin 3y ago
In the Iberian Peninsula we also had a migration from the South to the North with the Muslim conquest that started in 711, but apparently they didn't leave that big of a genetic legacy.
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by pezezin 3y ago
All big enough languages have plenty of dialects.
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by pezezin 3y ago
No, it is because Judaism forbids mixing meat with dairy products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_meat_in_Jewish_law
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by pezezin 3y ago
Kyoto people also have a reputation for being a bit snobby and closed minded, even for Japanese standards, I would not take their complaints too seriously.
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by pezezin 3y ago
I guess it depends on the city, but I live within walking distance of Misawa airport, and in our case the airplane ticket is a bit cheaper than the Shinkansen. We only get three flights a day though.
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by pezezin 3y ago
Japan is absolutely full of grimy streets and decaying buildings. Come on, outside of a few core neighborhoods, most Japanese towns and cities are ugly as sin.
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by pezezin 3y ago
Yup, FGLRX was deprecated from all major distros in 2016. Nobody has used it for ages.
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by pezezin 3y ago
Wait, what? We don't have middle names, we have "nombres compuestos". Sometimes you may drop part of the name, sometimes not, but you will never see a form with a field for the middle name like you see in English speaking cou
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by pezezin 3y ago
Yes, they built a supercomputer called Earth Simulator 20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Simulator
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by pezezin 3y ago
Quake had perspective correct texture mapping though, something that the PSX didn't have.
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by pezezin 3y ago
So true. I bought a Saturn a month ago after hearing and reading much about it for years, and the thing still works perfectly. I even bought a stack of CD-R to burn some "backups", and not a single read error. I was expecting to h
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by pezezin 3y ago
I am not from the USA; I am from Spain and learnt programming before I learnt English. I never found English keywords and identifiers to be a problem, they are just fancy words that you memorize and reuse. Heck, I know plenty of programme
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by pezezin 3y ago
Oh, in that case consumer GPUs absolutely suck at FP64, the vendors want you to buy the expensive data-center version. The RTX 4090 has a 1/64 rate when computing with FP64, so only 1.2 TFLOPS! But from what I can find, the Cell also s
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by pezezin 3y ago
"Exceeds" is an understatement. The Cell CPU had a maximum performance of 200 GFLOPS of FP32. A Nvidia 4090 has 73 TFLOPS of FP32, equivalent to 360 PS3.
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by pezezin 3y ago
The real problem was different. The PS1 cache was a real cache, managed transparently by the hardware. Textures could take the full 1 MB of VRAM (minus the framebuffer, of course). In contrast, the N64 had a 4 kB texture RAM . That's
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by pezezin 3y ago
At least in that case you know that the last part is the year. It is much funnier when you encounter something like 3-4-17 and you don't know if it is d/m/y, m/d/y, or y/m/d.
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by pezezin 3y ago
I fully agree with you, except that I stopped buying their stuff after the Gamecube. There are several Nintendo games that I would certainly like to play, but I don't want to be forced to buy their hardware.
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by pezezin 3y ago
Ah yes, "petaca" and "bodega" were the canonical example of voiceless (p/t/k) vs. voiced (b/d/g) occlusives.
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by pezezin 3y ago
You are spot on. I have been living in Japan for the last 5 years, and the construction quality is absolutely abysmal here. Thermal and noise insulation is almost non-existant (very funny here in Aomori), and the overall layout of the citie
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by pezezin 3y ago
It would be nice if the headline mentioned that the article is about the US national anthem, as there are about 200 other countries in the world, each one with their own anthem.
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by pezezin 3y ago
What? The Canary Islands are very much part of the African Plate. Here, you can see the islands clearly on the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Plate Are you mistaking them with the Azores?
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by pezezin 3y ago
Same in Spain, and there is a single national ID that everybody is required to have, so there is no problem of rejecting voters based on ideological differences.
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by pezezin 3y ago
Some people might realize that the degree they started is not what they expected, or it is way too difficult for them, so they will either move to another degree, or drop out of university and go to a trade school or similar.
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by pezezin 3y ago
Sure, otherwise how are you going to stamp the hanko?
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by pezezin 3y ago
No, in Japan the popular system were the magneto-optical disks. Also MiniDisc, my car still has a MiniDisc player

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