shiroiuma

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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
>It's a whole lot easier to out-compete somebody when you know the government will backstop you even if you misstep. You mean like how the US government constantly bails out and props up the American car companies?
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
>We're repeating the same pattern with online shopping, malls and stores everywhere are closing because of our collective actions Are you talking about the small mom-n-pop shops that are only open when most people are at work, while
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Yes, of course. This happens to me too: there's words I've never heard pronounced, so I don't actually know how to pronounce them (though you can usually solve this by using Google Translate's text-to-speech function).
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
C, Python, and frameworks don't generate all-new code for every task: you're taking advantage of stuff that's thoroughly tested. That simple debugging UI server is probably using some well-tested libraries, which you can rea
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Written English makes plenty of sense, but it's really complicated because you need to know the etymology of the words to understand the logic. It's not just made-up; there's reasons for the "rules" (like why a wor
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Yeah, I hate to say it, but using Amazon.co.jp is SO refreshing after using a Japanese website. It's really unbelievable how bad most Japanese e-commerce sites are.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
This is historically the reason software engineering in Japan has lagged and there's such a talent shortage (leading companies like mine to hire mostly foreign software engineers). I've heard it's changing, but it'll ta
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
The TI's keyboard wasn't great either, but it was a lot better than the keyboard on its predecessor, the TI-99/4 (no 'A').
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
There are a few keyboards out there that move the numeric keypad to the left side of the keyboard, so that right-handed people don't have to move their right hand quite so far to use the mouse. Basically, like a tenkeyless (TKL) keybo
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Can people use it for sailing the high seas?
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
>Which is an incredibly specious conclusion because when would the gut fauna ever be wiped out? It's called "gastrointestinal illness". From the article I linked: "Research in 2012 reported that individuals without a
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Why do you think right-wing policies are intrinsically tied to anti-science sentiment? Yes, politically China does look very right-wing with some of their policies (like those trying to push women to have babies), despite the "communis
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Maybe, but money goes much farther in Europe than in the US. The cost of living is much lower, so you don't need to pay people so much.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
That you know of. The German people didn't even know about the death camps running in their own back yards; they thought they were just "regular" concentration/work camps. The Allied troops rounded up lots of German ci
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
No, they're not: they're the ancestors of Canadian refugees who were forcibly expelled from what used to be called "Arcadia".
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Exactly. And what is the EU doing to attract American talent that doesn't want to live under the Trump regime with his ICE stormtroopers? Nothing really. Meanwhile, highly accomplished people in the US with Chinese ancestry are bein
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Are their hooves, though? The fossil record clearly shows a progression in their ancestors from having feet with many toes to the single "toe" they have now.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
>we still have a useless appendix This was believed in the 20th century, but we now believe the appendix is actually useful, and is basically a fail-safe in case the intestinal flora are wiped out; some will survive in the appendix and r
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
This reminds me of an episode in Star Trek: TNG's 2nd season, where Pulaski and Data visit a colony doing genetic engineering experiments on kids which created a super-virus.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
This shows that if you want real freedom on the high seas, you need a submarine. Captain Nemo had the right idea.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Aside from the counterpoints made by the other responders, this still won't work: you need a physical connection to those servers, and you can't just WiFi to servers thousands of kilometers away. So the servers need to be in anot
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
The consumer market embraced it despite its shortcomings because it looked nice and was easy to use; the alternatives were not. Yeah, it didn't do that much, but it did more than a flip phone. The alternatives wanted you to use a sty
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
UK isn't European. They made that clear when they voted for Brexit.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Such an idea never made any real sense, and never will until you can figure out how to move IT infrastructure into a separate dimension where governments have no authority. Those servers have to sit somewhere.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
>The scheme is fairly simple. The criminals rent some land, dump the stuff there, and then have the company go bust, thus leaving the problem to the land owner. This is what these countries get for having weak laws that allow people to d
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
Movie characters also don't speak like movie subtitles: the subtitles omit a lot of their speech.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
There's a mobile Firefox extension to do the same thing BTW.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
I'm going to "third" this advice (though not the Plex part). Jellyfin is fantastic. Yes, you have to be careful which devices you use it on, because the client app isn't available for all smart TVs, but you can get aro
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
You don't need a "roaming package": just buy an eSIM from one of many online services like AloSIM or Airalo.
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by shiroiuma 8mo ago
>I'm from EU, so ymmw. I simply don't tip. I guess you've never been to Germany. Last time I was there (last year), I tried just giving small "trinkgeld" tips (round up to nearest Euro) and the servers were PISSE

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