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Been buying up DVDs and Blu-rays that are cheap of movies I like or have heard a lot about. Experienced the whole no one is streaming it this time so just buying the discs and never looking back has been my thing.

I work in various Japanese offices and I can say that some really dedicated Japanese bosses/leaders that spoke English as good as you if not better were great to do business with. I think a lot of the problem in doing business is that both sides think the other is playing by the same rules because of the language being used. Experience and time in Japan has taught me the rules of Japanese business that I didn't know (can't exactly list them all).

The secret my English teaching friends have tried to share with me when I ask them how do you get your students better is for the students to "try" more. All pro athletes never did their best initially and so language learning is the same thing.

The only thing I have against translation by AI is that it'll end up replacing thought if you're not careful. I think using it to double check your understanding is fine (like a calculator for math) but understanding nuance/culture is helpful.

Being that I am in Japan I wouldn't mind conversing in English (written or spoken) with you.

Having spent so many years in Japan I have found the same attitude about jaywalking. Though, there are crosswalks on long streets where pedestrians can wait and drivers are taught to stop at if someone is waiting to cross. I haven't seen much reason to jaywalk here in Japan.

Touchscreens, door handles, cameras, etc. are what most of the new car buyers are wanting. "Most" but obviously not "all". If I was a salesperson trying to show off a new EV to a customer and it was like a car from circa 2000 that would be difficult. If they had a car that was low on modern tech they would wonder what is so great about a "new" car? If they have a recent model they would wonder why should I give up my current car for this "lesser" car? Thus EVs try to be as premium as possible to convience buyers the vehicle is better.

The people who would gain the most from EVs will probably get them when they start to be more common and cheap. Think how long it took for cheap Honda Civics to hit the road from when the first Fords rolled off the line. Of course, it'll probably be quicker this time around.

Bad pizza is like bad ice cream. I can admit, I too wouldn't turn it down if offered to me.

As a user who is in an asian region I have all my machines set to that region. However, from time to time there are cases where dates that need to be in USA format are automatically converted to match my region. Go back, edit them, save and they're formatted again. This isn't consistent enough of a problem for me so I don't have a list of programs that do it.

I'm big on #2 and #3 myself. I'm willing to accept that there are windows of time they can travel to with little risk (timelines, people, events, etc.). Also, the idea that proving time travel is possible by visiting people in previous times would be potentially dangerous or impossible (any uncontrollable variables lead to disbelief of individual).

Good to see it has moved so much from just JavaScript being the main target. I like the small scheme portable idea a lot. For those requiring just a minimal scheme this works.

I noticed this as well. It seems as if they were trying to control the meals in terms of major identifiable items with less obvious items being the variables that would make the meal HFLC/LFHC. Seems like a understandable method to me given the hypothesis. They were testing the macros while keeping the meals "looking" similar . I wonder, if it weren't snacks, pizza, bread, crips, biscuits/cookie based would it be vastly different.

As a software developer in Japan enterprise sofware isn't exactly the target for anything I've been involved in. Almost everything software related here is usually tied to a company (along with their goals/deliverables). Software in Japanese companies is tailored to their needs and processes. The itch exists here in Japan but it tends to be a very domestic itch (if not niche as well).

I was wondering if the diet had the nutrition bits figured out. Vitamins, minerals and fatty acids along with fiber just seem very hard to fit into 800-900 kcals. I suspect they are either adding them in supplement form or the soup/shakes had the ingredients selected just so. Also, I wonder what the taste of the shakes/soups are like. If they taste horrible sticking with it may be difficult. Especially, if the person switching to this has a current habit of eating foods that are very salty, sweet or oily.

As a resident of Japan for over a decade I have been treated the same as any Japanese person. Many of my paler obviously American/European friends think they get treated differently but they work/live in the "English teaching" bubble. I like to think that bubble is just like that to everyone involved (this is opinion and I haven't walked in their shoes). Then again, if you're looking for something to complain about you'll find it.

Here in Japan there are many public toilets (department stores, train stations, 7-11s, etc.). However, not all public toilets here are clean or anywhere I would advise people to use. A lot of train station toilets are just plain stinky (you'll pass out bad), I live off the beaten path so take that into perspective. On the other side of things, I have been out in the middle of no-where and the toilet at the only store in town was as clean as I have ever seen one.

As for trash cans, many train stations I use have bins located near the entry/exit gate where you can put it in the correct slot (burnable, plastic, bottle, etc).

I can agree that for me it was cutting my "wheat" (flour, gluten, etc) consumption that helped me have far less migraines over all. I don't really eat much processed sugar (however I used to when I was a kid). I have taken away caffeine and brought it back without much change in frequency. The hardest part for me was a manager one time thinking it was how much I wasn't spending on doctors to poke/prod/image my head to find the cause or take a new medicine that really angered me. Dealing with people who can't understand that I have no control over when they happen and go away is the worst.

I will have to give this a shot for my personal migraines. I do a lot of physical exercise when not on the computer. I also drink plenty of water so I am hydrated before exercising (I can't stand to drink water while working out). I live in a country with a high salt consumption but maybe I am not getting enough electrolytes. I can't honestly say caffeine has any noticeable effect on my frequency though.

I was thinking this when I first read about the conveyor belt proposal. Years ago, Japan cut down on the hours drivers could do because many were driving too many. So, they tried to get more drivers by making it a career path for more people. Getting licensed to drive and having a life situation where you can be on the road for days is something very few have the ability to do. Add to this the population shrinkage and aging which further hinders this. I can honestly say that this is probably the only solution that will work for this problem. As for rail freight, I think it would be a good idea but as seen with recent linear rail it may be difficult to get anything that would be purpose fulfilling in this regard (yes, Japan has commuter trains but those rails are painfully busy so moving freight is getting more difficult).

Pretty much my experience as a frontend guy that had to fill in for a team reduction and had to start working on the Rails side of things. I always felt like I was just having to "know" what was going to happen. Unit tests, mocks, etc. were all coming back "ok" but there was always something in production that would act up. I had never this happen with the Java and PHP backends that I always had to touch up when there wasn't much talent available. Before I was let go from the Rails client I suggested that they invest in property based testing for all code as it was quite clear there were cases that weren't being thought of that existed in the application somewhere (undocumented, manually added, etc.).

https://github.com/microsoft/Phi-3CookBook/commit/ba688b9a35...

Scroll down to the end and the removed text is totally suspect. I wouldn't be to surprised if all of this was generated by an LLM then anything strange was edited by a human. Another reason not to leave everything to the LLM.

I also run Fedora's atomic desktop (GNOME flavor) on my main desktop. It is really snappy, no frills and just works. Almost everything I do terminal wise is inside of toolbox/podman containers. If a tool is a big enough of a hassel or something I haven't tried I can create a toolbox, enter it and install deps then build/run the application.

Wild Arms, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Tales of Eternia and the PS3 Uncharted series.

The first two I played the original Japanese PS1 versions. I can honestly say that the remakes may be worth playing as they are easier and more intuitive from what I have seen. However, if you want to enjoy the original music, art and mechanics then I suggest the PS1 originals.

Tales of Eternia blew me away with how much I enjoyed it having never played a Namco RPG. Worth it all the way.

Having heard the excitement for Uncharted back in the heyday of the PS3 but never owning one back then it was nice to play it in the current time. The graphics have aged well and the gameplay is really engaging. Definitely some of the best gaming I've had that was for PS3.

And lastly, I played through Devil May Cry 1-3. I get why it was a hit but not my cup of tea personally.

It is also interesting when Daiso and other 100-yen shops have stuff that is over 100 yen (usually 300-500 yen). Most of them are the more durable items or ones that would never be good at all if it was sold for 100 yen. Pretty good thinking if you ask me.

Recently watched a bit of this on the news channel here in Japan. I had not heard about the water situation until the news exposed it. I can understand the concern because in Japan I must say that water is a resource that the rural parts of Japan pride themselves on. Being familiar with the Sagamihara station project to some degree it did displace some residents but also a school which was moved. Aside from that, rent increased for people close to the planned station simply because it could increase the marketability of the area. If the station or plan falls through it would make the increased rent that was paid for nothing (same for any prospective new housing/businesses that came).

Unlike the author of this article I have had success with RAGatouille. It was my main tool when I was limited on resources and working with non Romanized languages that don't follow the usual token rules (spaces, periods, line breaks, triplet word groups, etc). However, I have had to move past RAGatouille and use embedding + vector DB for a more portable solution.

I've felt that way since the news on this first came out. The placement, the library, etc. wouldn't last very long but if you knew your targets and just needed access it would work long enough for the purpose. Whether this was for posterity, the lolz, POC or whatever it did work. The bigger idea is whether or not the perp has bigger more elaborate exploits in the works or already deployed.

In the last year or so I have seen so many travel ads and promotions to visit Saudi Arabia. I don't think I'd ever go there but I'm pretty sure I know a lot of the stuff I would visit.

Did you look at Office365's Co-Pilot? It can do a lot of stuff and it can aid in creating a PowerPoint presentation for sure. Technically, Co-Pilot would be using Office365's PowerPoint software to create the slideshow file manually but it would insert the content to the best of it's ability based on the prompts.

For me my most powerful migraines have an aura attached to them. The visual distraction is nothing more than an omen of the pain I will be in for when it goes away. For me my auras always have some hippy 60s trippy oil smear going on in them which is just scary to me.

My first one happened at work during a very stressful period in my career. It was very scary and I took a sick day to go to the hospital where they hadn't had much experience dealing with this. Bright lights, many questions later and finally getting here's some migraine medicine I was let go to research this on my own.

For me, I had a project full of test cases in Postman and one day I was connected to the internet it phoned home to update. After the update it said I needed an account (okay, use work email no big deal) after logging in it said all my test cases and collections were gone. From there it was shell scripts with curl for me.

I felt most of this was just plain common sense. People read things by headings and sub headings. People look for relevant documentation for product x under product x not y. QA and code samples primes the LLM for what most developers like myself hunt for (a quick answer or a simple code snippet). The forum part got me. Seeing as forums tend to be variable in the quality and quantity of info. If the author(s) suggest forums why not discord servers and gitter chat as well? I know of serveral projects where the real documentation, examples and help is locked up on the discord/gitter channels. Also, in the same vein, why not Github PRs/issues as well? Having the LLM diagnose when an issue was cleared up, migration strats, etc. from github PRs/issues (as I've had to use from time to time) would be great too. Of course, Github/Discord/Gitter would require some kind of filtering to make sure it is data worth ingesting into the LLM but if it can identify it was worth ingesting then perhaps it could also suggest to the documentation team something worth documenting.

What a comment on the article states is so true as someone who has lived/worked in Akiba for at least a decade. The amount of physical media has been going down over time. The abundant amount of movies, games and music that was on physical media for a reasonable price is gone. Many of the stores in Japan have been mined and stripped of affordable media. Hardware too has gone up in price (radios, game consoles and computer parts). So much of what would be cheap has been gleamed to be sold on Yahoo auctions (I've seen some YouTube videos showing North American or European collectors paying extreme prices) or to be over priced by Japanese standards in Akihabara to tourists (because of weak yen which allows them to charge more). Akiba has changed from a geek hangout to just another spot on the map (go to a maid cafe, get the t-shirt and see the cool buildings kind of place). There is still plenty of manga, figures and souvenirs to purchase in Akiba so if that intrigues you then I would suggest a visit for those instead of video games or computer stuff.