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pezezin
6mo ago
Cool, they also have dice with up to 5 zeros, to build your own 1d-million. I have sizable dice collection but I have never seen a 1d1000000 in person, I need to get one...
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pezezin
6mo ago
It is built-in, broadcasted by the cell network itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Alerting_Protocol
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pezezin
6mo ago
Modern gas stoves have security sensors to turn down themselves. I had to reset my water boiler when I got home.
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pezezin
6mo ago
I guess it reinforces his point about the lack of knowledge of Japanese people.
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pezezin
6mo ago
Maybe not in Western countries, but Gundam is HUGE in Japan and neighboring countries like Taiwan. A big part of it is that the merchandise is heavily focused on model kits, like Warhammer on steroids.
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pezezin
6mo ago
Ah, I just use the default Android built-in warning. It's funny working in an international project, because all of sudden you hear the alarm in four different languages xD
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pezezin
6mo ago
No, the one in Noto peninsula was 1st of January. Amazing way to start the new year...
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pezezin
6mo ago
In our case I guess we got the warning 10~20 seconds before the earthquake? I don't know, I didn't count it xD
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pezezin
6mo ago
The one in 2024? I was in Tokyo at that time but we didn't get any notification nor felt anything :/
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pezezin
6mo ago
I live in Aomori (Northernmost prefecture of Honshu) and we got the warning before the earthquake arrived by all the cellphones in the office going crazy at the same time. It was kind of funny, because we have a lot of new guys here who h
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pezezin
6mo ago
Evangelion is extremely popular in Japan, everybody and their dog knows it, so it is obviously the second option. From the official app website, https://nerv.app/en/ > The name and logo of "NERV" are use
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pezezin
6mo ago
There are plenty of morons in Europe wanting to copy the American healthcare model... (mostly to fill up their pockets)
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pezezin
6mo ago
In the villages (村) you don't need to, but anything bigger than that yes, you need a parking lot. The procedure for the permit in my city is maddening, you need to draw a map of your general area and your parking lot BY HAND, and then
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pezezin
6mo ago
I have touched some PC-98 and FM Towns, which are x86 but not IBM PC compatible. But I understand your point, ARM has its roots in embedded systems and it shows. I really hope that RISC-V learns from that mistake and focuses on standardizat
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6mo ago
Yeah, I know that half the population lives in either the Greater Tokyo Area or the Keihanshin area. But you still have the other half scattered all around the country. And even within those areas, when you move to the outskirts it is not s
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> Also, is not the population density fairly high? There's not as much land to spread in low-density car centric suburbs like there is in (say) the US. LOL no. Outside of the big neighborhoods of the big cities, Japan is endless urb
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> 2. a unified BOOT environment which supports a broad standard of devices to boot from (SSD, network, SD-Card, hard-drives, etc...) I got the same experience tinkering with ARM devices. It soured me so much that I have decided that unti
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pezezin
6mo ago
In addition to the screen and the sound, don't forget having just 2 face buttons after 4 buttons had become standard and almost mandatory. Many ports suffer mightily in the control department.
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pezezin
6mo ago
A few competitive online games do, but most don't. That's why nowadays so many games run great on Linux.
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pezezin
7mo ago
Isn't it depressing that San Junipero, arguably the only happy episode, has the lowest progress score?
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pezezin
7mo ago
José is not an English name and here I am writing in English. People can learn other languages you know?
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pezezin
7mo ago
After Nvidia's cuLitho now we get Anos...
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7mo ago
As an option yes, but not most of the cashiers.
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pezezin
7mo ago
Arabic numerals originated in India, were languages are written left to right.
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pezezin
7mo ago
Roman numerals are big endian though. The current year is written as MMXXVI, not IVXXMM.
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pezezin
7mo ago
LE is not "logical", it won because the IBM PC compatible won, simple as that.
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pezezin
7mo ago
I think that the most popular usage of JPEG 2000 is DCI, the digital cinema standard.
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7mo ago
I am a Spanish guy currently living in Japan, and honestly I hate sauna but love onsen. Most on my Spanish colleagues seem to think the same. I guess the main factor being that both Spain and Japan are have really hot summers, so why would
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7mo ago
I don't know about China, but I live in Japan and most konbini I have visited still have real human cashiers.
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7mo ago
Good thing that iMessage is only popular in the US. I have never seen anybody using it, I don't even know how it looks, and if someone told me to use it I would laugh at them.
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