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That's why I'm surprised about people from a richer nation saying they can't afford things

If you had the same salary in Switzerland or Luxembourg which, believe it or not, is not impossible, there would be a lot of items that you can't afford. Salary is important but cost of living matters as well. Granted, inside the same country, figures could change drastically but people tend to live where there are lots of job opportunities where it's more expensive.

I was not talking about hotels but about apartments and houses (i.e. for local people).

Anything else is as bad as using mm:hh...

Please tell me that's not a thing.

That's a fair point. I reserved a business hotel in Tokyo for ¥113900 for 7 days during off-season. After conversion, it's still reasonable since you wouldn't find something with the same quality and convenience in the cities I mentioned.

But what I meant was accommodation for residents and not hotels. I would much rather have to find a flat and live in Tokyo rather than any other big city in the world.

Yeah, and the price of rice has increased way more than that. Heat is making me too lazy to look it up so I wonder if it's gotten better in the past year. But Japanese people are very used to price increases.

Granted, accommodation is not one of them. Especially if you compare Tokyo to London, Paris or even Geneva.

Lol, no

I can't wait to see the impact this will have on game prices due to the monopoly Sony is creating on selling PlayStation games.

Thanks for the fish but enshittification is only getting started.

Isn't the Euro digital already? I don't understand...

Is the buzzword just flying over my head?

But if it's a subject that interests you, you should participate.

Most people I know do not travel Tokyo - Nara and back. They enjoy taking more time in a place while keeping the door open to day trips of course. If you spend more than 1 night in each place and want to do small distances (think Fukuoka to Hiroshima) it really is impossible for it to become a bargain.

Again that's my POV, but since the price hike I've never met someone who got a good deal with the JR Pass.

I don't have any metrics in mimd but with GraalVM it's probably a much closer race. It's made by Oracle though...

Software engineering is an important skill to recruit for. Too many times I see "Java Developer"... Like, do they only know Java and are absolutely incompetent when it comes to something else?

I don't even want to recruit or be recruited with such a title.

Yes, but that doesn't determine the technical stack. It only narrows it down. You could just as well use C, C++, Rust or even Go depending on the device the program needs to run on. The device may have constraints as well but those are technical limitations and still not the responsibility of the product owner.

Specs are business requirements. Choosing a programming language is not a business requirement; it's a technical one.

From what I calculated, you need to use the Shinkansen every day and for long distances which is not how many tourists spend time in Japan IME.

This is not a blanket statement as my first sentence is recommending people to make calculations based on their planned trip.

I disagree. Engineers choose the technical stack based on the specs.

With LLMs, it's faster to ship even in a more verbose language like Go or Rust.

From what I see[1], that is an umbrella term that encompasses a few passes, including the Wide Pass. Maybe some do include attractions; I didn't know that!

I also looked up Tohoku JR passes for an upcoming trip and it wasn't affordable at all. I'm better served using single tickets even when riding the Shinkansen.

[1] https://www.westjr.co.jp/travel-information/en/tickets-passe...

The Kansai Wide area pass that I'm talking about doesn't include access to museums. But some of the smaller passes (like the one of Osaka that you mentioned) do. Those passes don't include Shinkansen, though.

Yes, I was talking about tourists. Regional passes are available for locals as well but are more expensive.

I just realized I interpreted your comment the opposite way you intended... Apologies

Trains can use renewable energy.

For those of you planning to go to Japan, please make sure you actually calculate how much JR train trips would cost you. They upped the price a few years ago and, since then, it's basically impossible for the JR Pass to be more affordable than single tickets.

For one of my recent trips, I was actually more better served with a local pass (Kansai Wide Pass) than the JR Pass.

Too bad because it used to be a really good deal...

The rules were changed in the mid-90s because of a significant amount of big IPOs which did not have a reasonable path to profitability.

Could you give me a link to read up on that?

Both OpenAI and Anthropic are clearly solid businesses

Maybe you're an insider so you have more information than me; I'm not so I don't know.

How many more weeks should I wait before $TSLA will stabilize?

TSLA is mature enough since their IPO to be included in an index.

Or maybe deranged Americans just turned this non-political issue into a political one, and S&P global thought this was not a hill worth literally getting shot in their office for?

No, it's probably because major fund providers and other market participants (including retail) saw through the subterfuge. Indexes and providers and retail investors have nothing to gain from the former proposed changes. It was very obviously a play by SpaceX to force passive investors to buy into the stock, therefore pumping the price up.

I'm sorry but you're very naive. The rules were changed because it was advantageous to SpaceX and the richest man on Earth.

Those rules were implemented to protect the index from being skewed when an IPO happens because the IPO is exactly the moment where the stock may be overvalued and very volatile (compared to all the other stocks that are in the index). We especially don't know at IPO time if the company is changing the structure of the market because it's too soon. And in fact, we won't know for a couple more weeks or even years; but by that time the price will have stabilized.

The index is supposed to be slow at rebalancing to minimize costs and make it practical for providers as well.

And as I write this comment, I've just read that they cancelled the changes[1]. Which completely proves your last sentence wrong.

[1] https://press.spglobal.com/2026-06-04-S-P-Dow-Jones-Indices-...

I suggest trying out AMD. Not an evangelist by any means but on Linux there's really no choice. I have one myself since I moved from Nvidia and don't regret it.

What? Absolutely not. They are doing what the President is telling them to do.

The customers of indexes are providers of funds (Vanguard, BlackRock, ...). In turn, people like you and me are clients of those providers.

Indexes are changing the rules thanks to lobbies by the world's richest people so they can get even richer by dumping their overvalued stocks.

If you are not a SpaceX investor, you are losing money. Including pension funds.

Pension funds use (you guessed it) index funds like your average passive investor.

Sure we can hate pension funds but fuck the management of those indexes.

I really don't understand the complaints about Wayland. When the switch was made I wouldn't even have noticed it if I didn't read the blog.

Are you using an Nvidia GPU?

Windows is much more polished

This is absolutely not true anymore.

If by "thousands of virus" you mean software shipped by default in Windows, then I agree with you. Everything feels so sluggish on Windows 11 compared to any Linux distribution even if you run it on an HDD... it's ridiculous.