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by rjh29 5mo ago
I was merely answering your question about how Japan deals with it (by trashing it, mostly). I guess the US could do that but unlike Japan, I'd expect people to break into the dumpsters and steal the food out of it. The trashing of foo
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by rjh29 5mo ago
The first few years in Japan I loved combini food because of the novelty. Then you realise it's still processed crap loaded with chemicals and usually nutritionally poor (lots of rice, very little veg or protein) barely better than sup
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by rjh29 5mo ago
Badly. Until a few years ago there was a franchise-wide rule that no food could be discounted even if it was close to expiry, so either the staff/owners bought them and ate it themselves, or it went in the dumpster. Giving expired food
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by rjh29 5mo ago
They are expensive by Japanese standards. Assuming you're American, you're benefitting massively from the exchange rate.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
Android doesn't support suica for public transport but you can still use Google Pay most of the time. Except when you randomly can't! Unlike other countries you still need to take a credit card (and maybe even some cash) as backup
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by rjh29 5mo ago
Anecdotally it's costing the same or less than the typical coding subscription, due to the discount and the power of context caching.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
Author blocks referrals from HN, weirdly dramatic, especially considering they have 1086 karma here. I wonder what we did to them.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
How does the cost compare using the API vs the $20/month plans with other providers? I did some back of the envelope calculations and it seems like you would pay $5/month using DeepSeek directly or $15-20 with OpenRouter or simila
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by rjh29 5mo ago
I wonder how many years it'll take for the API token cost to exceed the money spent on ram.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
I mean technically in the sense that you -can- interpret it two different ways, even if most people wouldn't. The 'is' is not required because it's using newspaper headline grammar.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
While it's technically ambiguous, most native speakers would immediately understand that Steve was not the person cheering. Firstly, Steve cheering makes no sense. Secondly, it's a very common construction for newspaper/artic
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by rjh29 5mo ago
A few days ago Gemini redid their rate limits, making images/audio/video generation much more expensive, shrunk limits across the board (including a new weekly limit) and added more expensive tiers. At the moment you can pay $20&#
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by rjh29 5mo ago
Cloud storage (I use Dropbox) and an app to sync it with my phone automatically. It doesn't take a long time to set up. And if I want to listen to a random song I don't have while I'm outside... I just don't.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
Whoosh
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by rjh29 5mo ago
"People complain about them incessantly, but I can almost never get people to actually post receipts." ...my chats are all pretty long and involve personal conversations, or I've deleted them. It's a lot to ask for someo
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by rjh29 5mo ago
People who aren't confident refrain from talking about things they don't fully understand.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
Yeah, TrackPoint is the ThinkPad term for it and very usable. The quality of other brands of pointing stick is highly variable.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
I did think it was weird that my local Hard Off is about 50% 'junk'. It can't all be broken, I guessed.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
And notably as touchpads have improved, most of the makers have stopped including TrackPoints. Lenovo is the main holdout. Still waiting for Framework to introduce a keyboard with a trackpoint included, but apparently the room allocated for
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by rjh29 5mo ago
There's so much subjectivity with models. As soon as a new model comes out people act like the last model they used for 6 months was completely useless.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
It's the new assistant on my phone but it can't even set a timer or alarm when I ask it to. Gave up using it after that.
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by rjh29 5mo ago
Kyoto. But I disagree that it's not a worry. It only takes one opportunistic person to ruin your day (or month)
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by rjh29 6mo ago
Obviously Japan. My first year there I actually was stupid and left my phone/keys at the table when I went to the toilet and things like that. After a while I realised that while the chances of theft are very small, they are not zero.
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by rjh29 6mo ago
It would not have taken you long to learn frontend if you wanted to. Now you can use AI to generate it but you don't understand any of the generated code.
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by rjh29 6mo ago
And they were specifically graded as legitimate by a supposedly reputable grading company. I wonder what was the fallout from that.
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by rjh29 6mo ago
Plenty of good subs they are just under the radar. Once something gets more than about 10k users the quality sinks.
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by rjh29 6mo ago
I did not notice he commented on the blog so thanks for pointing it out. His response was impressive I agree, he has matured. You can see that from his initial response to the Bush quote (claiming his memory is infallible, and then condesce
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by rjh29 6mo ago
Two things. He's obviously an expert in astrophysics but his explanations are condescending and "well actually", like he is trying to convince you how smart he is. That's given him a reputation as a blowhard online. Outs
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by rjh29 6mo ago
It's a vibe coded mess, really depressing from such a large company. You can tell it's AI-driven because they keep adding new useless features but not improving the UX or bug fixing the existing ones. One simple example is you can
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by rjh29 6mo ago
15 GBP so likely $20.

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