tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.social

Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into garde

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I was in the US a bit over a month ago. Started to cross when the walk signal became green. A driver went into the crosswalk we were stepping into, only looking left and never coming to a stop until she saw the guy crossing from the other side. She never saw us once and nearly ran us over. We don't have the equivalent here (left on red) in Japan and we do fine. Get rid of it.

It all depends upon state. I think the learners permit requires another licensed, adult driver to be in the vehicle and has other restrictions.

That said, I'm with you. I originally learned to drive in rural Ohio. I moved to Japan and finally decided to get my license. Since my Ohio license expired, I had to start from zero. I spent two weeks knocking it out at a training camp (there's a restriction on the number of hours of practical training per day, so there was a fair amount of free time). First, had to pass some basic checks. They did start practical on the first or second day on their closed course. There's a mid-point test that one must pass before being able to go out on the roads. There's a number of hours more of this and then two final tests (course and driving).

I got my mid-sized motorcycle license this year and that was also a number of hours (I want to say 17 altogether since I had a regular car license), though exclusively on the closed course.

I don't think this means you should have shit in/on your pants, though. I'm in my 40s and have am not leaving skidmarks, even with a condition that can make toilet visits more messy/unpleasent. Wait until you're fully finished. Use a bidet if possible. Get more fibre.

Nightlight?

Same. I work primarily in Go and a little bit of Rust these days, but I still throw together a Perl script every year or two to automate something without needing to install something else on the machine or whatnot.

I mean, having a state with no hard border that could invite your enemies in, or even get taken over by them, is never a good thing. It would likely provoke war were something similar to that to happen.

I've lived in a country that does not change for almost a decade now. It feels great to not have to deal with it (well, mostly; it affects scheduling calls with family in the US)

As someone who went to the US recently and nearly got taken out by a driver rolling right through the crosswalk only looking to her left, get rid of right turn on red. We survive just fine without it (well, it would technically be a left turn here) in Japan.

I thought the name sounded super familiar, but I had to look it up. My dad was into BBS and CompuServ in the '80s. He eventually got AOL, which is where I got started with NNTP. I really need to get his history on these things. I know that, when I was super young in the early '80s when they divorced, he was often spending a lot of time online. I'd really like to know more about that era as my memories are scattered and fractured.

There was an old bug up through at least XP (maybe gone by SP3, but I don't remember) where there would be certain SSIDs or network names that incremented because of how networking was implemented. I'm doubtful it's the same thing, but you could try searching there for a start.

It's not so bad once you get used to it (and blackout curtains); it's the way it is here in Japan. Thankfully, we don't faff about with time changes here and my body's happier for it.

My first porn was probably NNTP (newsgroups) before I even had the actual WWW. Had to learn how to stitch images together from multiple posts in the early-mid '90s.

Everyone's combustible with enough oxygen and time.

Good choice (in flavor, at least; I have no idea the costs involved). Seafood here is fantastic.

I remember "my bad" annoyed me far more than it should have. Same with the use of 'a minute' to mean a long period of time (e.g. "I haven't seen xxxx in a minute!"). Then again, I had a stepfather who would stop me mid-sentence to berate and correct my grammar so that may have had something to do with it.

without the destructive side effects by Kunal Chaudhary

We're blaming it all on one person now?

The first (known, at least,) webcam monitored a coffee pot.

That's a problem with no coding standards, peer review, etc.

write_good_code() or die(qw(enough rope to hang yourself));

or die unless write_good_code();

Ah, unclear on my part. I do use vscode on Mac, but still want a text editor to do other stuff.

"perl was probably useful once"?!

I'm willing to bet a TON of medical and banking data is still making its way through perl today. (I'm not necessarily saying this is a good thing, but I have years of experience in healthcare IT).