tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.social

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

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Ah yes, breaking my leg and ankle requiring surgeries and drugs - definitely related to my diet and not, y'know, stepping in a hole because the road was poorly-lit and washed out and then rolling down a hill. I was on medication for about a month that required the occasional laxative.

That's fantastic if the quality is good. I only use chrome now for pages purely in Japanese that I need to deal with and can't properly read in full yet (which, living in Japan, is a fair few, heh). EDIT: Bah, no Japanese support. Oh well; some day.

That may be. I do remember somewhere in a documentary that they kept re-developing stuff for different libraries/technologies. I think at least one was voluntary. I can't recall which doc this was, though.

Somewhat, but they mostly kept chasing newer tech and had to redo stuff over and over again.

Duke Nukem Forever enters the chat

I spend something equivalent to around $2k in USD every 5-7 years and I'm fine.

You have now archived the encryption keys. Nothing can communicate and everything begins failing.

My current phone does not have a jack and my previous one did. I would prefer to have it since there are times I don't need/want noise cancelling and bluetooth, but I have no choice but to run down my headphone batteries more.

“I am really concerned over your purchase of Adolf Hitler’s cutlery. Don’t bring me to these places ever again, or we are done. ” I said.
We left and went back to my place. My nightmare was finally over.
Amelia

So... they're still together and she's fine with all of this? Wow, garbage humans.

Japanese went through its own kanji simplification over time, codified in the postwar period.

Also, some characters were invented at different times, including when Japan was mostly in its sakoku period (no foreigners in/out except at the trading post in Dejima).

Yeah, I can read Chinese restaurant menus OK (usually; some names are less literal and I have no idea). From what I've seen on the net, I could deal with some navigation.

My sentences are a bit mean by design, but even a lot of signs use grammar like that.

For anyone wondering, the sentence might look like "the cat ate the mouse" but it's actually the opposite (cat was eaten by mouse). More polite japanese grammar indirects things a lot and it can be really rough. For example, official documents, credit card applications, and a lot of signs. I've been in Japan most of a decade and it's still tough

Chinese folk can mostly read written Japanese

This is 100% untrue unless you're talking about menus and such. Japanese uses three other writing systems (counting Roman letters) two of which Chinese speakers are not going to know without study. A handful of the hiragana/katakana still look and are pronounced like the old Japanese kanji they came from, but those also were not Mandarin but from other dialects of middle Chinese (I want to say there was a lot of Wu, but I can't recall for certain). EDIT: and even knowing how to read them is going to be useless in the most important case, which is that they conjugate verbs, and do other very important lifting in the language.

Japanese, on the other hand, can read a lot of the kanji, but aren't going to necessarily get a lot out of anything because Chinese grammar is so radically different to Japanese.

Both will have trouble with characters whose meaning for the same character differs in the other language, and potential difficulty with characters invented in one of the countries independently.

Source: live in Japan, married to Japanese, a number of Chinese friends (mostly Taiwan and HK, but a few mainland)

Edit: sample sentence: 猫がネズミに食べされました。Here it is with the kanji for ネズミ instead, which would give Chinese readers a better chance: 猫が鼠に食べされました。However, I don't think a Chinese speaker with no internet/dictionary and no previous knowledge of Japanese is going to get the meaning correct. The second one with the kanji will fair better, but I still suspect it would be wrong.

Here's another one 猫が鼠にご飯を作ってくれた。

How about even older: HEAT (HEAT.net)? https://web.archive.org/web/19970601031026/http://www.heat.net/

I live in Japan and am not at all worried about this. Maybe local seafood prices will drop. Great for us, but sucks for the fishermen and their families.

Now, if we could properly build things and not cheap out on the plans so that this doesn't happen again, that'd be great.... (also, more geothermal!)

Interesting. I no longer travel or commute as much as I used to so my QC35s are still perfectly OK for the occasions I do. Interesting to know about the others on the market.

I stopped using anything meta years ago. People who want to stay in touch with me and I them continued to stay in touch. If those people will not stay in touch with you, good riddance to them.

Do they block outside sound though

They have noise cancellation that works well enough for me (they have more advanced newer versions, but I see no reason to upgrade now). When I first tried my friend's before buying, I complained he ruined the world for me because I never knew how much background could be cut out, heh.

Yeah, the condensation is inevitable and does need to go somewhere. I don't know where it goes with mine, but the headphones keep on working.

That's insane. I have the same Bose over-the-ear (I can't stand in-ear) headphones for years. They have been to the gym with me, jogging, and just existing in a humid, Tokyo summer for the last 5.5 years and have zero electronic issues. I did replace the exterior cushiony bit twice now, but the actual electronics are fine.

a perfect example

I specifically was asking for documentation about "Lack of effort to stop sexual assault in Japan is well documented". The article provided mentions the efforts they are making.

I suppose you could do a basic web search. Meh.

You make the claim, you provide the evidence.

The actual reason I ask is that, if this specific sort of thing exists, it would be good to specifically target and fight it.

Days since last timezone incident: -1