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Software engineer in Japan.
Taking time off to build a personal finance manager, Millefeuille.app.
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And he wouldn't be wrong for that era. Prices also dropped pretty quickly while specs would almost double within a span of months. Whatever he could've bought in Jan would be easily outclassed by anything 12 months later.
We don't have that anymore. Specs have more or less stabilised and what you're buying now could easily last you years.
The doorman of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore was so iconic that he was written into the textbooks of my time. I’ve often wondered if he’s well paid considering his significance to that institution.
It’s been a thing since the Prius allowed driving with the engine off with parents complaining that the Prius is a silent killer of kids because they couldn’t hear them coming.
It works especially well when switching between devices, from iPhone to iPad to Mac and so on. I’ve never had the same seamless experience with other brands which often require you to re-pair just to switch.
I used to be a huge Audio Technica fan but I can’t go back anymore.
So you want your magical EarPods to be always listening and recording everything from the past, say 5 seconds?
You may be right. Ut that’s just pointless bike-shedding.
harrall is right that to the general populace, nerds/geeks are interchangeable terms for people who prefer to study/play with computers rather than socialise with the rest of us.
That doesn’t necessarily mean they have a better moral compass and will always do the right thing. Those are images that nerds put onto themselves.
Kyushu:
- 九州: Largest island mass of southwest Japan comprising 7 states. Currently undergoing a real estate boom (and agricultural worker shortage) because of TMSC opening factories
- 吸収: absorb
- 急襲: ambush, surprise|sudden assault
A common problem I have with Linear is that repeated writes sometimes overwrite themselves. Consider this flow
1. type
2. stop to ponder for a split second
3. type some more
4. Linear reverts data to step 1
It's bad enough that I'll use Linear to create issues with a single sentence description. This is what Linear is good and fast at. Then I'll switch to GitHub to fill in the details.
The product is old school PHP. They want to convert it to Go but none of the young engineers are interested in touching the codebase. My friend is the reverse instead, uninterested in learning new languages/technologies.
So neither of them want to hire each other.
My friend has been contracting at $STARTUP for a couple of years now with a revolving 2 month contract. His managers have not attempted to hide the fact they would likely end his contract once they've managed to hire a full timer into the team.
Sadly, their CEO has veto-ed every single full time hire they've tried to bring on for past 2 years now.
I moved from Singapore to Japan in expectation of a better, free-er life and those expectations have been met. I have a house on fairly large piece of property that belongs to me. I have two cars that I often go for long drives on. Things that would be close to impossible back in Singapore.
I've also moved internally within Japan multiple times each time for better job prospects and those have also turned out well.
The one thing that hasn't changed much is myself. I'm not a social person and take time to get used to people. Particularly, I don't enjoy alcohol and thus do not frequent the local drinking holes. That has definitely had an effect on my social circle.
I have only one advice for you, if you're expecting change, you have to be prepared to change yourself too.
20 years ago Singapore was handing out PRs and citizenships to Chinese students like candy. All of my classmates got PR a few years out of school, then citizenship again 2 years later.
And so many of them immediately moved on to the US.
It used to be 5, it’s now 10. It’s a very recent [0] and sudden change.
It was always ridiculously easy to get Japanese citizenship. 5 years of residency, don’t break any laws including traffic, pay your bills on time. Done.
It has recently been changed so that you now require 10 years of residency.
Better passport for their kids, better and more reputable, internationally connected banking system to store their wealth. The latter bit is particularly important as China limits the amount of money one can send out of the country.
I think I understand what the OP is feeling. It’s not that RF is actually a difficult subject, but that it is hard to find the motivation to learn it something new.
At least, that’s the feeling I’ve gotten about a lot of things I wanted to do, it when I got around to it, couldn’t really be bothered to.
Not everyone reads TFA before coming in to the comments.
The title is ambiguous enough and anime is something that a lot of nerds enjoy.
The rest are often called civil servants.
There's an anime called Snowball Earth being aired right now.
This article is not about that.
Small, mountainous, resource-poor island at the far end of the world meant few were interested in conquering it. That meant Japan had the luxury of maintaining their culture unhindered for a very long period of time.
The Japanese royal family is the longest continuous royal bloodline on record. Oral records say its 2600 years old while archives exist from the 6th century.
For the past hour, the PR or Issues pages would load with 0 items. Occasionally, there’s an error toast mentioning ‘failure to fetch data’.
Many banks don’t even provide bank books anymore.
The only physical thing I’ve got from my bank is an ATM card.
Property taxes on land zoned for residential use are 6x more expensive if left bare. That’s why Japan has an akiya plague, because even a dilapidated building will keep taxes down.
I couldn’t find a more general article so here’s an example from a generic small town council.
https://www.city.inagi.tokyo.jp/en/faq/kurashi/1001633/10016...
A problem with privatising the railways is that unprofitable routes, ie rural villages, are deprioritised or simply shut down.
My village gets 1 train every 1.5 hours, and none between 3pm and 7pm. For several years now, there has been discussion of shutting down the upper half of the route.
So every household has 2 or more cars.
The web client has a select all option, and when one or more emails is selected, two buttons pop up. Delete forever, mark as not spam.
I check my spam folder regularly and it has been this way for as far as I can remember.
I read it multiple times, read your comment and clicked on the article and I still got it wrong.
I saw Robot ear cats and couldn’t make sense of it. But clicking in the article and seeing the title in huge whatever sizes fonts made it click.
I think it’s the small font sizes in HN causing our brains to ‘fill in the blanks’.
Agree. My neighbour is too old to farm and his descendants aren't interested. He has offered to let me use his land for free but I just can’t get interested. Even just taking care of a few potted plants is too much for me.
Could also be Singapore or Taiwan.
Singapore has a similar requirement called an Exit Permit. It may have changed, I don’t really know or care anymore. But the conscription was a huge driver for me to emigrate as soon as I could. I left the country 2 weeks after finishing my military service.
My wife's wordpress blog has at least 5 different plug-ins for publishing an article without a header. Every time I fix it for her by removing all but 1 plug-in, she'll install a million others because that's what ChatGPT told her to do.
I have no hope nor expectations of non-technical people performing technical tasks no matter how advanced AI becomes. The only solution is a platform/CMS that already has the all bells and whistles included.