I haven’t bought a lot of DVDs lately, but the ones I have all were from used DVD stores. I think the artists were paid once.
It was such a long time ago that the people who made the mistake have already retired, maybe.
>I got into knitting a few years after the pandemic. So very recently?
This idea immediately reminded me of “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” by James Tiptree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Was_Plugged_In
A friend worked on something similar for historic maps of Japan https://stroly.com/ja/search?keyword=History
Since I had some trouble getting my credit card accepted at the apple store I always order my apple products by phone and pay with cash on delivery. When the delivery person comes with the box and leaves with the cash…
WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723311
There was a more or less visible campaign against Chinese made radios recently in Japan (mostly due to transmitting without a license and also the fact that the transmission itself caused a lot of noise in a wide…
I tried Orion a while ago: in that version background tabs with YouTube on pause made the bottom of my m1 air get very hot. I really liked that it supported chrome extensions but battery life was not great. I’ll give it…
I live in a country where annual checkups are mandatory (companies are fined by the government a lot of money for each employee who does not get it done). I've been told a couple times now that something is a bit off,…
Here in Japan I often hear stories about kids raised bilingual being put into special needs classes because some schools consider it a cognitive impairment. Since my family lives abroad, I would like to teach my kids…
It happened to me some time ago but a bit different: I made an anagram with my last name + first name and then I tried to create several online accounts with it. I was registering a discord account but turns out part of…
I’ve been using orion for a while, but sometimes with a couple of YouTube tabs open the bottom of my M1 MacBook Air gets uncomfortably hot.
My Japanese PM from three years ago had a case of extreme aizuchi. He would say hai every three to four of my words, made me think -is he really listening to what I’m saying?
a common account registration pattern in Japan involves presenting a QR code containing a mailto link. The user scans it, sends an empty mail (the details for the subject are already in the mailto link) and a reply…
I remember trying a wanikani chrome extension that did something similar (Wanikanify), but it was no good for my study style
might be helpful for beginners. after learning Japanese for a while I've developed some "tastes" (I don't know how to put it). reading the sample explanations on your website, writing Japanese vocabulary in romaji feels…
I don’t think Google’s AI is close to being sentient. Being able to generate “convincing” phrases from prompts is not that relevant to judge whether it is “conscious” or not. As a simple elimination game I would propose…
I'd sacrifice having a screen for more palmrest space. If I were to use this for terminal-only work, a 65% layout with no trackball would be perfect.
I felt a 3-ish small one for about 5 seconds and then it was over. About a minute later it began again but this time it was definitely over 4 (I’m in Tokyo). It was long too, almost a minute I think (by the end it was…
I bought the second generation Fire TV around January 2020 and at the time it was decent. Last year when the UI update came it became very laggy. It would take ten seconds or more to play a movie in Netflix, when on a…
I just made a script to right-click and save all the olive gardens.
yeah, unfortunately it still is https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/18/national/hate-s...
most ramen places around my office (gotanda) could be considered fast food. customers usually go alone to eat in about 10 minutes and back to work (no time to talk). udon restaurants with no seats at all are also very…
I remember reading about airless tires back when I was in high school and it seemed like the concept was ready for mass production in a couple years. That was around 2004~5 ish. I wonder how much has changed and how…
I haven’t bought a lot of DVDs lately, but the ones I have all were from used DVD stores. I think the artists were paid once.
It was such a long time ago that the people who made the mistake have already retired, maybe.
>I got into knitting a few years after the pandemic. So very recently?
This idea immediately reminded me of “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” by James Tiptree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Was_Plugged_In
A friend worked on something similar for historic maps of Japan https://stroly.com/ja/search?keyword=History
Since I had some trouble getting my credit card accepted at the apple store I always order my apple products by phone and pay with cash on delivery. When the delivery person comes with the box and leaves with the cash…
WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723311
There was a more or less visible campaign against Chinese made radios recently in Japan (mostly due to transmitting without a license and also the fact that the transmission itself caused a lot of noise in a wide…
I tried Orion a while ago: in that version background tabs with YouTube on pause made the bottom of my m1 air get very hot. I really liked that it supported chrome extensions but battery life was not great. I’ll give it…
I live in a country where annual checkups are mandatory (companies are fined by the government a lot of money for each employee who does not get it done). I've been told a couple times now that something is a bit off,…
Here in Japan I often hear stories about kids raised bilingual being put into special needs classes because some schools consider it a cognitive impairment. Since my family lives abroad, I would like to teach my kids…
It happened to me some time ago but a bit different: I made an anagram with my last name + first name and then I tried to create several online accounts with it. I was registering a discord account but turns out part of…
I’ve been using orion for a while, but sometimes with a couple of YouTube tabs open the bottom of my M1 MacBook Air gets uncomfortably hot.
My Japanese PM from three years ago had a case of extreme aizuchi. He would say hai every three to four of my words, made me think -is he really listening to what I’m saying?
a common account registration pattern in Japan involves presenting a QR code containing a mailto link. The user scans it, sends an empty mail (the details for the subject are already in the mailto link) and a reply…
I remember trying a wanikani chrome extension that did something similar (Wanikanify), but it was no good for my study style
might be helpful for beginners. after learning Japanese for a while I've developed some "tastes" (I don't know how to put it). reading the sample explanations on your website, writing Japanese vocabulary in romaji feels…
I don’t think Google’s AI is close to being sentient. Being able to generate “convincing” phrases from prompts is not that relevant to judge whether it is “conscious” or not. As a simple elimination game I would propose…
I'd sacrifice having a screen for more palmrest space. If I were to use this for terminal-only work, a 65% layout with no trackball would be perfect.
I felt a 3-ish small one for about 5 seconds and then it was over. About a minute later it began again but this time it was definitely over 4 (I’m in Tokyo). It was long too, almost a minute I think (by the end it was…
I bought the second generation Fire TV around January 2020 and at the time it was decent. Last year when the UI update came it became very laggy. It would take ten seconds or more to play a movie in Netflix, when on a…
I just made a script to right-click and save all the olive gardens.
yeah, unfortunately it still is https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/18/national/hate-s...
most ramen places around my office (gotanda) could be considered fast food. customers usually go alone to eat in about 10 minutes and back to work (no time to talk). udon restaurants with no seats at all are also very…
I remember reading about airless tires back when I was in high school and it seemed like the concept was ready for mass production in a couple years. That was around 2004~5 ish. I wonder how much has changed and how…