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You're 100% right, that if I had better language skills I likely wouldn't have felt as isolated. I did try, and picked up some phrases, but intermittent trips rather than a contiguous multi-year stay made it more difficult.

That said, the difference between Japanese and Latin languages does play into the "foreign-ness" I mentioned. My very bad high school/college French is enough to feel comfortable deciphering a lot of Spanish and Italian, both written and spoken. Needless to say, that skill didn't transfer to Japan.

Again though, I love Japan because you truly feel as if you're in another culture. When I step off the plane in most countries, the first impression is sameness: same brands, same clothes, same affectations and language cadence. Flying to Japan truly feels like travel; I imagine it similar to going anywhere 100 years ago, before globalization (modulo British colonialism, of course).

It would be a heck of an adventure to commit to a few years' stay and really explore the country. I'd just want to do it with a partner to share the adventure with me.

I'm very happy you've had a great experience. I'm sure you will carry this with you regardless of where life's journey takes you.
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As an upper midwesterner, that would be an incredibly hard sell. You could whip up support for coal again in heartbeat.

Renewables are a great idea in theory, but in reality don't jive well with people in the non-windy, non-sunny areas that also get really damn cold. It's sad to say it but nothing can beat what natural gas and coal can do already. They're cheap and can be used to generate electricity at an extraordinarily affordable rate. At the end of the day, that's the #1 thing most people are going to care about. If you told people here their electricity bills would double, they'd actively go out and demand the current politician step down.
I am just explaining why they don't just give everyone a phone right away.... my company asks you if you want a work phone or to use your personal phone and get a stipend
The line "You are not expected to understand this" from Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_...

Space shuttle style from kubernetes https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e593953...

Here is a whole list on stack overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...
By "transactions fees", that's meant as a fee to the network. We don't make money off of that. We make money in the spread when you exchange.
Other than claiming the logical fallacy, what's your argument that HN won't be subject to lawsuits absent section 230? That' we're Not The Kind Of People Who Do That Sort Of Thing?
Why do engineering blogs have to share this stuff? Is it an attempt to hire?
Hmm, that actually seems to be an older version of the course? The page you posted is for the Winter 2018 semester, the page the parent posted is for Winter 2020.
> IIRC, Codemasters and others discovered the magic numbers necessary to include in the header of the NES cart in order for it to boot

> I'm hazy on the NES-specifics.

I'll fill you in.

The ROM on NES carts doesn't have a header (the ROM files floating around on the Internet do but those aren't part of the cartridge data) - the NES has no firmware or OS. What it is is that the NES console, along with each cart, has a chip called a CIC that was only available from Nintendo, and only if you were a paid licensee. The CIC in the console resets the console constantly unless it handshakes with the CIC on the cartridge.

There were ways to disable the chip; some things I've read say having something on the cart send a voltage spike would disable it. I think Tengen reverse engineered it and developed a compatible chip, they got sued.

As far as the Sega Genesis, I do know a later revision of the Genesis motherboard had a boot ROM and also required the cart to write ASCII 'SEGA' to some I/O ports, otherwise the video chip would not work. The idea was that copying this without authorization was a trademark infringement, but I think a later lawsuit made that tactic legally worthless.

Arcade boards of the 80's and early 90's have some interesting schemes. A number of Capcom games have decryption keys in a RAM that's powered by a 'suicide battery' and if the battery ever dies or is tampered with, the keys are gone and the board stops working.
Even with adblock on my mobile I closed it before finishing because the big white space gaps were annoying as heck
How different is this from ElasticBeanstalk. Both wrap other AWS resources in a template. They both have notions of an application and set of environments. If ElasticBeanstalk did not succeed why will this succeed? Is it because it leverages Docker container/Lambda layers underneath instead of a custom build and packaging pipeline
Would you agree that the fastest/least harmful way to get to that place is to codify practices/laws at the level of a nation-state, or do you think that's ridiculous and it'll just be some organic development of individuals opting for that type of behavior?
Well it wouldn't be the user destroying data.

Judge: "Hand over that phone right now"

You: "Sure, I can hand it over, but all data will then get wiped by the device automatically due to Google/Apple/Samsung's anti-theft design and I don't have a choice"

After that it's upto the Judge whether to proceed with the handover or not. It will be the judge who destroyed the data if so.
We have two: one in the US and the other in Switzerland. ~1/3 are in the US.
atan2() is incredibly useful in game development. You can use it to determine the angle between objects, calculate the angle of a 2d vector, and other useful things.

https://ryankubik.com/blog/atan2/
Japan can be extremely cheap. (Well, it's all relative)

Downtown Tokyo, like Aoyama or Roppongi are expensive, just like Upper West Side Manhattan is expensive. Move out to Saitama/Chiba/Kanagawa (20-30 minute commute to downtown tokyo) and it gets cheap (3bed room apartment for $1000)

Even in Tokyo just shortly out it can get cheap quick. I have friends living in Sangenjaya (2 train stops from Shibuya) and paying $1500 for 3bedroom apartment.

Friends living in Kyoto have huge places for the price but again it depends on where. Popular areas are expensive.

So, I'm pretty sure Japan and Tokyo in particular are cheaper than NYC, LA, SF, Paris, and London. Still, likely your place will be smaller than you're used to.

What makes it expensive for most foreigners is they don't speak the language and they don't know the area so their options are super limited to the expensive options targeting foreigners.

You'll likely want to live downtown, and close to a station, both of which will jack up the cost.
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They're pretty expensive too especially considering the warranty is pretty short. From their warranty[0]:

> [...] this device will be free from defects in material and workmanship and will operate for 2 years and 3 years for Energy Star certified products, unless a different period is stated in or on the packaging of the product, based on up to 3 hours average working time per day/7 days per week, when used as directed

I don't really know anyone who only uses lights three hours a day, especially when it gets dark pretty early during winter.

[0] https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/support/legal/warranty
bruh this is just adding constants to regular functions

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Judge: "Hand over that phone right now"

You: "Sure, I can hand it over, but all data will then get wiped by the device automatically due to Google/Apple/Samsung's anti-theft hardware design and I don't have a choice in the software settings to disable that"

After that it's upto the Judge whether to proceed with the handover or not.

At this point, if the judge proceeds with the handover, it will be the judge who destroyed evidence.
Paying for Xbox Live in order to access games with matchmaking/sometimes dedicated servers on Microsoft resources and services (because that's what you're paying for)? Sure! But somebody who wants to play a game with non-platform crossplay, like Rocket League or something like Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, absolutely should not have to pay for Xbox Live, and I don't see why that would be controversial.
COVID has been a godsend to many struggling or otherwise unstable businesses.

Recent example I've had to deal with:

Morgan Stanley's acquisition of E-Trade has completely wrecked their customer service experience. Live chat wait times are 2+ hours, getting a secure message response takes 5 days now.

Their web site is covered with COVID-19 disclaimers for all the trouble, with a minor blurb about "operational shift".

As they say; Never let a good crisis go to waste.
> If your threat model is a tyrannical government willing to do anything (ie. ban encryption, backdoor every piece of computing equipment, install 1984 style telescreens everywhere), then there's no real way to defend it.

Well, there is, you just have to abandon the premise that doing what your adversary tells you to do is the right thing.

Putting telescreens everywhere doesn't help them much if every one of them is immediately smashed with a rock and anyone who comes to repair it is also smashed with a rock.

This requires a certain amount of public resistance, because you can't be the only one doing it, but a certain amount of public resistance is what systems like that tend to generate. And when you're not the only one doing it, they run out of telescreens and telescreen repair personnel before you run out of rocks.
No matter how easy it is to do, passing a law like this has one important effect: it narrows down the set of those using non-custodial wallets to just people willing to break the law to do it. That's a valuable selection effect for the government, because it means if you can find out that someone is using a non-custodial wallet, it means ~waggles eyebrows~ they probably do have something to hide. You can get a warrant to seize their stuff and figure out what's going on. Which solves the main problem the government has with cryptocurrencies -- that they can be used to easily hide illegal activity.
Union workers have better pay, better benefits, more job security, etc. Many unions are shitty, but even a job with a shitty union is better than a job with no union
I'd classify 化 as a simple ideogram (part of group 2, called "indicators" in the article) because it conveys the abstract idea of 'change' by showing one person upside down from the other. It isn't a compound ("combograph", group 3) to me because it doesn't build upon the meaning of its individual components.

However, this is a fuzzy categorization. In the top-level comment I wrote, I listed 三 'three' as an example of an ideogram but it could be argued instead that it is a compound of three separate 一 'one' characters. Then there's the character 廿 'twenty', which consists of two 十 'ten' characters, that is probably better explained as a compound. So at a certain point it all becomes quite subjective.
Well put! I feel like the media is supposed to be doing a better job at warning people about these things. I have a hard time believing it's not profitable enough for them to do. Are they as in the dark about it all as everyone else?
WLCSP unit cost is very low, but there is a very high fixed cost.

Also WLCSP packaging must be done a wafer-at-a-time. With an MPW, you don't get a whole wafer of your chips -- they cut up the wafer and send the chips with your design to you, and the chips with other peoples' design to the other people.

So ordinarily on an MPW if you want WLCSP, you have to pay the fab to run a whole second "boat" of wafers just for you, so those wafers can be run through the packaging process before they are cut up. This often costs more than the MPW booking does!
(Not Google) My first job out of college I was asked to sign quite a bit of paperwork on my first day, after I had relocated to their city.
Breaking up tech companies would be using a 20th century tool on a 21st century problem.

Andrew Yang had a better idea. Put a VAT on big tech and use that to fund UBI.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/value-added-tax/
It's docker without the dockerfile which, from what I can tell, is the biggest feature of docker most engineers like.

I've personally switched to bazel for building most of my containers but that's a far departure from what the majority of people are doing I suspect.
My Alexa really needs a way to whitelist commands. I bought it to be a wireless clapper and fancy alarm clock. If it thinks I'm asking it anything outside of those two domains, I am not.

Of course Amazon isn't likely to ever do such a thing, because god forbid we don't have the ability to suddenly order something from Amazon on every device at all times.
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I'm not sure that Slashdot's community is/was inherently a result of their voting/tagging system. Their heyday was a long time ago, and the communoty standards were different to here. It was maybe somewhere between reddit and HN (I'm not sure either existed in Slashdot's hayday)
Hmmmm given that a few years ago Zuma had a pool built at his house on the taxpayers dime and tried to say it was a fire pool nothing would surprise me.
Saudi Arabia's plan was to share the risk by taking Saudi Aramco public, right? Or at least that was part of the plan.
Funny you mention IRC in a Winamp thread, one of the devs (Tag, Tag's Trance Trip) from winamp/nullsoft was active in a IRC that we used to stream/DJ on Winamp. At one point Winamp was developing a music streaming store/service way before Apple, Google, and the rest came along... some great memories of modifying cable modems to unlock more upload capability
Well, it is quite compelling. You want to single out Apple but ignore how this has been going on since, well, almost the dawn of time.

There are plenty of phone manufacturers with different operating systems. If you don’t like using Apple’s App Store you are perfectly free to use other hardware and software combinations as you see fit to purchase that are available on the market.

There are plenty of hardware manufacturers that are free to spend as much money as they want to build phones, spend money to build operating systems, and then do whatever they want with those systems. So yes, create your own hardware stack on which to put applications and then put an App Store on that. Apple had the foresight to do so and create market value, nothing is stopping Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Google, or others from doing so. Nothing.
That taking a short-term view.

Boeing is a company that needs to take the long view, and the only way to make that happen is to vote with your dollars.

If they can wave this away, then the necessary lessons haven’t been learned and the Jack Welch protege currently at the helm will be allowed to continue business as usual.
This would work for some amount of time. However, foreign banks are unlikely to hold USD-type value without a correspondent banking relationship or a custodial banking relationship exposed to the US market (and hence US regulation).

The reason many, especially smaller, banks don't want to do business with criminals is they fear they'd lose their access to the US market through a termination of these relationships. This would then push the bank into insolvency.

I know this because all this happened to Tether, lol. There's been some documentation, likely as part of the NYAG lawsuit or the Paradise Papers leak -- or both. Noble initially refused to bank them for this reason, so they invested in Noble, who then took them on as customers. Their custodial bank (Wells, IIRC) told them to eat dirt, and it pushed Noble into insolvency.
There are plenty of phone manufacturers with different operating systems on which you cannot distribute software outside of their approved method? Gosh, I didn't know that, but y'know, I'm OK with hitting them with the hammer, too.

And the fun part is this: I made my first post in this thread having in the past said that I really didn't mind the status quo but you've successfully convinced me that that hammer should be swung at them as hard as it possibly can be.
It’s slang for anarcho-capitalist/ism everywhere.
I literally just downloaded the SD card image, flashed it, then put it into the device and it booted. After that I knew where I was at after grabbing the default login details.

Currently running a custom version of wm2 which built more for touch devices: https://github.com/danielbarry/oakwm/
If this was good music I would applaud the ingenuity. However, it's handpan music, which I like, but it's so poorly recorded that it's... just wow. Bad. Lot's of annoying high end reverberation and a ground loop hum on one track I listened to.

And every track ends with vocals saying "this was drumkoon."
I love this idea, I think the execution could be taken next level but that's really cool.
That would be great! I don't see any reference to it yet
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You're probably right, but I'll give you a concrete example: here's a post from today that was downvoted when I commented on it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25280929

It appeared to be making a factual claim about how MDM works, (and here's where I get subjective) counter to a prevailing narrative in the thread. It's not downvoted anymore, but there was no explanation available (and there still isn't). Was the comment wrong? Did people just not like it? Did they think it was off-topic to what it was replying to, or missing the point? We'll never know. I'd like to know :)

Also, I think a system like I'm proposing would make it easier to find the quality comments and threads, and avoid (if you want to) the controversial stuff, the hot-takes, the me-too comments, the pandering to the HN crowd / tropes - etc...
Alright. When you see them, please forward me all the articles clamoring for making Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, or others to do so. Btw why exactly do I need to get approval from Steam to sell games on their store? Why can’t I sell World of Warcraft gold on eBay, and why does Epic have a monopoly on the marketplace for Fortnite?

Better yet, why do I need Wal-Mart’s approval to sell anything?
Why not telecom? This is dumb. Yes I get it Facebook did so e idiotic things I agree, but Telecoms are pillaging us everyday.
You might be right, but until i see the algorithm they use I’ll continue to have my own reservations. Their incentive to issue similar numbers and if not hit, the chances to increase the jackpot make a whole lot more people pour money into the game. The house always wins regardless of what numbers come out but if jackpot goes up the pool grows exponentially and so does their profit
> It's not intended for people who are primarily interested in getting their ASIC made

Then it shouldn't be called an MPW.
Vers- is just from versus "opposite/against". But versine isn't opposite of sine, if anything it's opposing cosine. I too am curious this how this naming convention arose.
Ask HN: Can we sell a tiny product on day 1 with almost no followers?
Hi, my name is Ricardo. As of now, I am a maker of tiny products, you can say I build products within 24 hours and try to sell it. I still believe this works as I had 1 sale. (But, the problem is that... it is still 1 sale). I don’t know if it is due to my small followers (22 in Twitters plus a few in Product Hunt) or simply the products I built didn’t meet the needs of the community. I would appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. Thank you.
> we're currently more popular than the bible

You have a better Google results position for one URL (that you've paid lots of money for).

The bible still outranks you for every other result on the first page (Exodus wallet isn't until page 2), and Google adds rich snippets for the definition of "exodus" and the Book of Exodus above the link to your homepage.

So I guess you're less interesting than a dictionary?
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You're assuming that someone's own interpretation of justice differs majorly from someone else's justice. Both unnamed and anonymous.

Which seems like a peculiar position when put like that. Would you like to add some qualifiers?

I'm guessing that you equate other justice as laid down by by some benevolent and learned body of people.

All senses of justice come from somewhere humble.
Been living in Tokyo for near a decade, and I can add that despite it being a bustling metropolis, it does have this silent loneliness just in the background.
It's hard to describe, unless you spend any significant time here, and the locals of Tokyo will tell you the same -- it's a cold city. With that being said, I love the place. However, if not for my cabal of really close friends, I don't think I would stay here -- and these are friends from my university days back in America.

I can contrast it with another city I have lived in (on and off for 2-3 years), and that's Seoul. In my first year in Seoul, I probably met more close friends than in a decade of living in Tokyo. I'm an introvert through and through, so unless people open up to me first, there is going to be silence. Tokyo has a way of making you comfortable with the mundane.

Seoul is just this bustling amazing city with an energy of "anything is possible" in the air. Tokyo seems as though it has already had its heyday and is on a slow, silent, but peaceful decline. I love my little neighborhood, and have made a life for myself in Tokyo, but I can't honestly recommend it as a place to move to, unless you have some deep interest in Japan or family connections.

If you are interested in the startup scene, it's here but nothing on the scale that you would see in the US. I'd say Seoul is the place to be for startups now -- the Korean government is pretty much throwing money at people with ideas.

I'll always call Japan home, but I definitely see myself leaving Tokyo in the near future, if not for another city, then back to Korea.

To give some context, I'm a male 30 something PoC.
Don't pay for that out of pocket. It's their responsibility.
Hear hear. That's exactly why I occasionally buy a lotto ticket or 20 when the number gets REALLY big. I consider $20 every year toward an hour of fantasizing about what I'd do with a $500M lump sum a worthwhile investment.

($500M lump sum...$250M after taxes...invested into triple tax-free muni bonds paying 2.5%....ahhhh...$521,000 a month for life...mmmmmm)
I'm happy to pay my own way and make my submission open source.

What purpose, exactly, does that defeat?
I'd go for "Zen".

And the resulting announcements. "INFORMATION: Four minutes have elapsed." for a timer, etc.
If spot pricing for residential consumers was universal instead of niche, I suspect the technology would rapidly develop to meet this requirement.
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