pezezin

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by pezezin 5y ago
Dunno about China, but Japan is a weird mix of two systems: - Groups of 4 digits separated by the corresponding power-of-10000 kanji, e.g. 1億2345万6789. Makes sense, I would say it's actually better than just separating the digits, as i
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by pezezin 5y ago
Spanish guy working in Japan in an international environment here. Little by little I'm forcing YYYY-MM-DD for file and directory names, and DD-Mon-YYYY as the display format for applications and for the documents I write. Time for a r
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by pezezin 5y ago
I'm no historian, but that explanation doesn't make sense to me, for two reasons: * Pre-decimal numeral systems in use at that time (Roman/Greek/whatever numerals) were already written biggest-left to smallest-right, and
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by pezezin 5y ago
Japanese is like that too (probably got it from Chinese), with the added fun that it has two sets of numerals: the indigenous Japanese one and the borrowed Chinese one. So you not only need to memorize the counting word but also which kind
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by pezezin 5y ago
Oh boy are you wrong. We Spanish people love trash talking our own country, but after 3 years in Japan, I can tell you that the Spanish banks and bureaucracy are light-years ahead of Japan. At least in Spain we have online administration,
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by pezezin 5y ago
I don't have a LinkedIn account, so I can't post it. But given your response, you are not someone I want to work for or with. Not that I need it either, I'm not looking for a new job...
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by pezezin 5y ago
Which company is that? Just to know where not to apply.
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by pezezin 5y ago
Yeah, I always need to think twice before writing or saying their name. Same with ASML. I guess there is a reason why TLAs are much more common than FLAs.
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by pezezin 5y ago
Nitpick: it's TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
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by pezezin 5y ago
They recently started shooting the prequel... in my home town! I hope it's good, but in any case my friends and I will watch it for the lulz.
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by pezezin 5y ago
This was in the inaka, with the closest train station 40 km away.
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by pezezin 5y ago
I understand your troubles, I'm from Spain so I have two family names and my given name has an accent. Now that I'm living in Japan, it's an endless source of fun. Regarding Chinese names and uncommon characters, Japan has th
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by pezezin 5y ago
That legacy IPv4 already exists, it's ::ffff:0:0/96
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by pezezin 5y ago
Doom Eternal was that kind of game for me. After a long day with another pointless meeting with the usual assholes, slaying demons left and right was almost therapeutic.
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by pezezin 5y ago
Something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
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by pezezin 5y ago
I have been living in Japan and I can confirm that the construction quality of most houses is very low. Shoji is a good example, the may look pretty but they rarely fit properly.
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by pezezin 5y ago
Winters in Hokkaido and Tohoku are not mild at all. Sure, maybe it won't be as cold as Canada, but still fucking cold, and the poor insulation and heating makes it painful.
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by pezezin 5y ago
I live 1 km away from an air base (Misawa, Japan, for those curious). Just a few minutes ago a couple jet fighters took off. I don't really care so much, but they are loud as fuck. I'm pretty sure the whole city would appreciate q
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by pezezin 5y ago
I understand you point, but the USSR collapsed 30 years ago, and the Baltics joined the EU in 2004. Nobody uses that definition of "second world" anymore.
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by pezezin 5y ago
Having visited the Baltics several times, I wouldn't call Latvia a 2nd world country. For starters, they are a member of the EU and have been using the Euro for years...
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by pezezin 5y ago
I will never be able to understand English phonetic approximations. Spanish is my mother language and I don't know how they are supposed to sound like xD In any case, "empañada" is a real word, it mean's "foggy&quot
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by pezezin 5y ago
PostgreSQL has master-slave replication (one read/write master, and multiple read-only standbys), the other users are talking about multi-master replication (all the databases are read/write).
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by pezezin 5y ago
Most technologically advanced country in the world??? Hahaha, that's a good one! Sure, hankos, fax machines and piles of hand-written paperwork are the pinnacle of technology. Have you ever been to Japan, or are you just going by the s
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by pezezin 5y ago
> And of course, Japan being Japan, Japanese companies were really lagging to switch to Unicode and stuck with their shitty encodings for a long time. Not were, are. I'm currently living in Japan, and most of the emails I receive ar
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by pezezin 5y ago
Nowadays it's very common to run RS-232 over RJ-45 connectors. The weirdest I have seen was one cheap NAS that ran the SATA data and power cables over a PCIe connector.
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by pezezin 5y ago
My company owns a /16 and everybody gets an static address for each device, so I currently "own" two global IPv4 addresses. But everything is firewalled to hell and we need to connect through a proxy, so what's the point
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by pezezin 5y ago
Both kanas definitely have digraphs, they are called yōon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Don
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by pezezin 5y ago
The same is true in Spanish and I think Portuguese, so there you go ;) Note: but don't forget that there are plenty of exceptions and words that differ only on the position of the stress.
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by pezezin 5y ago
Holy shit Excel! Don't get me started on that... I would like to know who are the idiots at my company that decided that making complex forms with pictures and shit in Excel is a good idea. Like they don't know Word exists for a r
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by pezezin 5y ago
True that, I live in Japan and notice it almost daily. Sometimes it can make meetings extremely frustrating, as in we have three problems, you propose a single solution that can fix all of them at the same time, and they don't like it,

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