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I didn't speak Japanese when I first moved there. In larger cities (especially Tokyo), there are plenty of people who speak English, so it's generally not a huge problem (although you'll find things easier if you do speak the language).

The biggest issues are crowding and racism. Don't expect to get into any role of importance, and don't freak out when you hear "gaijin dame" (no foreigners allowed) in some places, or people sudenly moving to seats and tables further from you. On the other side of the coin, you won't be expected to understand how things work, so they'll be very forgiving (in a condescending way) of social gaffes and the strange way you act (after all, you're a foreigner; they all act that way). Many rules won't apply to you, unless you make an effort to have them apply to you (don't do this). You'll make few (if any) friends of the same gender. You will alway be an outsider. If you can live with this, you'll have a fun and interesting time there.

Edit: Also, make friends with some oldtimers in the expat community (as long as they're not the jaded kind). They are a treasure trove of information and help.

Edit 2: Don't learn Japanese from someone of the opposite gender (unless they're a trained language teacher). You'll sound ridiculous when you speak otherwise, because men and women use very different words and turns of phrases in many cases (nothing worse than hearing a man say "atashi" or the up-pitch "ne" unless he's in drag). Reading Japanese comic books can be helpful here because they tend towards hyperbole, which makes it easier to pick out the differences. I've found that female artists tend to play with language more than male artists.

Edit 3: DO NOT BREAK THE LAW. Getting arrested in Japan is a hellish experience, and prison is even worse. Their justice system is still quite medieval. Quoting a friend of mine: "Japan is the most advanced 3rd world country I've seen."
Great well we can cut definitions all day but in effect the comparison I just challenged you on which you ignored and is the crux of a fourth of the blog post isn't going to be more illuminated by pedantism. It's clear Bitcoin behaves completely unlike a private good in total.
Oh, thanks, that's a misunderstanding on my part.

Checking Wikipedia: Ogg is the container and Vorbis/Speex are the codecs. Vorbis and Speex have been superseded by Opus.
Where does 2500 years come from when genetics shows around 1200 BC was when endogamy took hold in Indian subcontinent?
If you don't mind my asking, could you explain what a "wog" is?
There is very little overlap between people who care about Mensa/IQ tests and intelligent people.
I mean eventually I want to learn the language right?

The point is there will be a period of time where I don't know the language and hang out with my fellow ex-pats. Additionally I will never ever really actually master the language to the point where I'm indistinguishable from a native.

I'm just wondering is Japan bearable under these conditions?
2021 in Review
Having lived in Tokyo for years, the elephant in the room is "cars". The whole city is full of pleasant mixed use neighborhoods that are more or less car-free, and centered around public transport hubs that have everything you need around them. People, including unaccompanied children, can and do safely walk and ride bikes everywhere at all hours of the day, including when grocery shopping etc. The world can learn a lot from this.

Before anyone chimes in saying "nO tHeRe r cUrS iN tOkYo tOo" - of course there are! The point is the city isn't designed around cars. (and the parts that are are the least pleasant)
> 10 years ago, it wasn't anywhere near 6/10

Right.

If your starting assumption is "games meant for Windows just don't work on Linux", then you'll be surprised by just how much Proton supports.
I think the author needs to spend time with people they actually like to be around. That's the key of enjoying social gatherings. Obv what these people like to talk about would correlate with how much they enjoy being around them, but it's not the only factor.
It wasn't the only place where this happened though, just the only one where it clearly happened every time. This was in the days of printed statements, so there was often a lag of several months until I would find out what was and was not actually charged.
All of these seem like anecdotal examples, and frankly these stories reek of an anti-Indian bias because they involve an amplification of a few lone samples. I’ll also point out that it is easy for people who aren’t happy with their station in life or particular outcomes to find an external thing to lay blame on, like discrimination. But I find some of these stories suspicious, simply because we don’t know the other side of the story and we don’t know why they didn’t get [a promotion or a job or whatever]. Maybe they were just bad at their job.

> I've seen the absolute worst of humanity(from Indians to Indians) during my stay there as an Indian immigrant until I returned, its literally dog eat dog.

I’m not sure what you mean here. You say “its literally dog eat dog”, but the word ‘literally’ has a certain meaning. Are you saying…that your coworkers are dogs and are eating each other? This type of emotional statement makes me view your prior claims with skepticism.
It is managed by someone in India (mirrors.estointernet.in) and their certificate needs renewal. They use Let's Encrypt for their TLS certificate.
You can contact them to renew their certificate.

There is nothing to be done from the Ubuntu side.
I do think git isn't user friendly. I came from perforce and also had a hard time building the mental model. Eventually I read the article about git's internals, and finally got the idea. What's most useful for me was the diagram of the three states (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3689838/whats-the-differ...).

some of the git's naming was also not intuitive for me, For example, calling the scratch area "index". I didn't seem to have to learn perforce, cvs or svn's internals to use them fluently.

but I guess it's a bit difficult to change the current situation. git has become the most common choice. And once the mental model has built, it's not that difficult to use, admittedly I only use a few very common commands.

you know the challenge won't be building the version control. for mass adoption, you need a github-like platform.
Could you clarify? The game Go doesn't seem excluded. Nor tic-tac-toe. Nor card games (including poker, Dominion, and Magic: The Gathering).

Am I missing something in my understanding of that list?
I've been using Linux on my laptops and servers for years, but finally switched my desktop computer to Linux a few weeks ago. It was my last computer not running Linux.

I had played around with Gentoo years ago but decided on Arch. It has been great. I'm using Suckless software and it is easier than ever with Bakkeby's flexipatch system to try out all the different patches.

Admittedly, it isn't for everyone. Most people I know (including devs) don't care to go relatively deep into the bowels of their OS, but I've enjoyed it and now have an extremely responsive setup that I'll use for years.

I consider it an investment, it isn't going to spy on me or change out from under me. It feels tailor fitted to me in how it does everything I want it to, but nothing more (or less).

I'm tired of the bullshit I've had to deal with on Windows over the years. This time, enough is actually enough. I'm out and not coming back. 2022 is the year of the Linux desktop, for me anyway.
I am not the one saying OpenStreetMap is making a special exception only for Crimea, the secretary of OpenStreetMap said it. I agree with the secretary that an exception is being made.

You are right that this exception is not all-encompassing of everything pertaining to Crimea.
Yeah I don't mind being an outsider too much. Thanks, this is a good answer.
> This seems totally opposite of what old people say on their death bed.

Unlike everyone else, someone on the deathbed doesn't have to think about the future.
Imagine replacing the batteries. The business opportunity here is highly lucrative.
> But Unicode was designed by the same people who designed ASCII - monolingual Americans who never had to deal on a daily basis with anything that doesn't fit into the 26 letters of the English alphabet.

This is not even remotely true.
If you're ever interested in trying it out again, the MATE desktop environment is an up to date fork of Gnome 2. Most distros should have a version available with it. I believe ubuntu has one.
> UTF-16 is a simple encoding

This isn't true, for starters it's two encodings UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE.
I think overall there's a big opportunity in bringing non-computer interfaces to digital experiences. I just interact with a screen too fucking much. I don't

I love having a Google Home where I can say "Play the Beatles' Maxwell's Silver Hammer" but there are too many ways to go wrong. If it plays Maxwell's Silver Hammer then it plays some random crap afterwards. If I say the "Blue Album" it doesn't know what that is. But it's an improvement.

Maybe a binder that recognizes hand gestures would be cool. IT has all of my music and if I touch an album it plays that album, I can flick songs into a queue or something like that.
I got a 5 letter username less than 3 minutes ago
Was a Muslim. Ansari demitted office a while back implicitly criticizing BJP in his speech.
It’s been notably less pleasant for the last two years, for reasons shared with substantially all cities (ex-China, I suppose). Would heartily recommend it otherwise, which would have surprised me when I was younger. In particular, the neighborhoods allow you to pick your vibe, pace, and sense of scale at multiple points along the continuum, so if e.g. the Shibuya scramble crosswalk is not your idea of a good time you can live five minutes away by train and enjoy tree-lined streets and cozy bistros with a bit of outdoor seating instead.
Not to be depressing, but you could speak fluent Japanese and you will always be "my foreign friend" or "our foreign coworker" or "the white guy with really good Japanese" to, by and large, even your closest friends.

On average, the country and its people are incredibly inviting and kind to guests and appreciative of foreigners that learn Japanese. However, you will always be viewed, by the vast majority, as being a guest - even after many many years and fluent Japanese.

And some people are fine with that, and some people can't stand that.
>> And finally, any configuration that is needed would need to be simple settings that can be configured via a GUI, with configuration via shell there only for those who want it.

>Difficult to tell what's fully meant here, but since both Mac and Windows fail spectacularly at this requirement too, I imagine it's probably not actually that big of a deal.

Not OP, but I use MacOS, Windows, and Linux (Debian & Fedora based) frequently. While finding how to configure obscure things is not intuitive for any OS, Linux faces the frustrating problem that different distributions require different solutions. Thus, Linux doesn't get the luxury of an answer that consistently works on all distributions and desktop environments. Mac and Windows can get pretty ugly (cough especially Windows), but I find that solutions are much quicker to find online comparatively. This doesn't even touch on the pains of NVIDIA graphics cards on Linux, but I digress.
> On the flip side, I have found a startling amount of people genuinely don't really have many passions / interests.

That'd describe Perell well. He doesn't have many passions/interest. He's bowing out of one interest to flee back into his singular comfort zone of unchallenged isolation, where no one "tests" his chops and he can fly on the wings of his self perception to whatever height he desires.

He shuns every passion/interest that does not align with his narrow view of which passions and interests make a person "intellectual". He's the kind of guy who will use his superior training as "guy who writes things on the Internet" to start arguing medicine with me, and then leave the party because few people share his interests and he just can't contribute to theirs. Because we're not as intellectual than him.

... in his narrowly defined niche of what makes a person intellectual.

Hint: being able to cite Plato does not make you in any way, shape, or form, more "intellectual" than the guy at the end of the bar who knows every Man U soccer game score, who scored, against whom, in which game, at what game time, using which strategy.

Having consumed a 500 page book does not make you more intellectual than having consumed 500 episodes of Coronation Street. Consumption, in general, is a low hanging fruit, intellectually. Your love for Doctor Who doesn't make you smarter than someone's fanning over Rihanna.

Intellectuals are rarely lonely. Because true intellectuals see value in information, no matter the sender or matter. Restrictive topic selection is pretty much the definition of anti-intellectualism, in my opinion.
One should be avoiding devices that contact some server in China before doing anything. Impossible find a lock for example that does not do that. So reprogramming is the only solution.

But after that the one and only problem is that there is not enuff intelligence in devices. If my cellphone is not detected in wifi, there is no point on keeping various devices on. So lights and displays and gas stove can be turned off via wifi. But I cannot control water faucets without extensive renovation. Also window status on unclear at the moment. There is no point of cooling/heating if windows are open.

The issue of front door opening automatically is under intense research at this moment. It is not enough that when the cellphone appears on wifi you should open the door. I think concurrent appearance on wifi and on movement sensor in front of the door could suffice securitywise.
Looks like it lets you vote for both options
As others have pointed out, you probably don't want to be working for businesses that are run in the Japanese way, but there are plenty of both expat and native run businesses that aren't. The pay will be low but Tokyo is incredibly cheap so it's not really a problem locally. (but it is a problem in the sense that whatever you save won't be worth much elsewhere if you move back to the states or whatever later years later)

It goes without saying your experience will be incomparably better the sooner you learn Japanese, and it's nowhere near as hard as popularly portrayed.

Give it a shot, you only live once.
I’m starting a new company on my terms or, failing that, retiring.
> I don't trust app makers anymore since artificial malfunctions have been introduced to encourage upgrades
I don't have any examples on-hand besides maybe WinAmp, but please don't give up. There are plenty of devs (especially in the hobbies space) that make great, paid apps that kick ass.

EDIT: have you tried PlexAmp?
> "gaijin dame" (no foreigners allowed)

I recognize the word "dame" from playing the game of Go,
where it means [1] a neutral point of no value. Curiously,
that page says "It also has the everyday Japanese meanings of bad, don't do it."

So foreigners are bad, don't do them :-)

[1] https://senseis.xmp.net/?Dame
> What exactly is complicated, using hexadecimal in addresses?

That isn't the complicated part, but thanks for strawmanning that as hard as you possibly could.

> My ISP delegates me a /56. How else do ISPs work in the "real world"? I've heard of some giving out smaller networks but never something egregiously small.

It's got nothing to do with the size of the address space, it's that they insist on changing it constantly which invalidates firewall rules and any non-dynamic DNS.
Where did you get 1,000$/KWH of storage? Even at small scales (household-sized batteries, ~10~15KWH) prices are currently around 300$/KWH for lithium batteries including shipping in a 3rd world country (I know, because I live in a country where there's no 24/7 grid power and I moved my house to solar+batteries 2 years ago).

I'm pretty sure at the kinds of scale you'd need for a country price per KWH would be significantly less.
IMO the article is better advice than the parent comment.

Learning from Unreal or even Godot to write a basic renderer is pretty wild. It would be like telling someone who wants to make a model rocket that they should study the Falcon Heavy.

Making a basic renderer in c++ is orders of magnitude simpler then trying to deconstruct a game engine that(according to google search) has over 2million lines of code.
Fixing Global Trade Finance
Oh wow. Never played it myself, but some friends do so I've seen a bit of the game. Given the genre and graphics I would definitely not expect it to have such poor performance!
Lots of people I know in a generation or two above me regret not saving when they were younger. Now they're nervous about being 70 and having to retire soon but not feeling stable, or feeling that they may financially burden their children.

Compounding interest on money means, as previously mentioned, money you earn at 20 will be 10x as valuable compared to money earned towards a typical retirement age. With tech having strong early salaries and heavy stock compensation I think this is even more the case.

> You think your gonna wind surf when your 60? You think it's smart to spend your 'non arthritis' fingers on coding?

How about 40? Because if you start working at 21 in tech and you're aggressive about your career that's when you can retire.

Do experiences compound? Will I enjoy an experience more at 25 than 45? Maybe, and there's always some balance, of course. No one should work themselves to death.

But I worked obscene hours for my first 4 years of my career, lived with many roommates, and saved a lot of money. And I started years later than most, as I entered the market at 24 instead of 21.

It buys me great peace of mind to know that I am financially stable and independent, that I can take care of friends and family who are not, and that I have bought myself decades of retirement.
>How did you incorporate unknown long term effects of a covid19 infection, even if you dont die from it - in your own analysis?

How do I incorporate unknown long term effects of the vaccine? If both offer unknowns, of unknown severity, why should I intentionally take one to avoid another? How are you quantizing these? You seem so caught up in how others have told you to analyze risk, you are unable to do so for yourself anymore.

>At this point you left scientific reasoning and logic a long way behind,

I find you rather rude

>and there is really no conversation to be had.

Fine by me
Made my sarcastic book free to read
During second wave of covid, I released a book as sarcastic joke in the hope to raise funds for different causes like Change by One Meal, Simply blood etc . Now releasing the book for everyone to read and smile at free of cost.
I'm adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind limber.
I meant the original Twitter thread. But even here everyone was wondering where the leaf came from because the original photographer was insistent there weren't any in the foreground.

The general consensus was that yes, it was image stacking, but perhaps it was moving a leaf that was in the background over her face. That turned out not to be the case after the updated tweet mentioned there was a tree in the foreground.
I laughed at your comment about "few (if any) friends of the same gender"

I have noticed the same problem. Interesting to hear someone else say that, too. I always thought it was a "native male" thing... women could make native women friends that were only friends. Any native men "friends" were roughly always trying to be slightly more than friends. Men could make native women friends and truly only be friends. Men didn't make friends with many native men, at least beyond superficial relationships...
Try Nipah Virus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus_infection

Read that and be afraid.
What aspect, specifically, is suspected to be wrong? The scientific understanding of viruses might be further along than most doctors suspect. There are concepts like pangenome that are becoming appreciated at the research level that might not have gotten to doctors yet.
> Banking is much more than just a checking or savings account with a debit card. DeFi theoretically has a lot of potential to disrupt in these countries (as many people own a mobile phone)

You dont need DeFi for that. See M-Pesa.
Yeah, for the same reason that CJK designers often use absolutely abhorrent fonts for English words on packaging and printed media, is the same reason Westerners use terrible fonts for CJK. They are working with a language and culture they have no knowledge of, and think that if the characters look sorta right, then they must be readable and look good.

I've made so many horrible localization errors in the past because I had to translate things into 30 different languages and I can only barely read a handful of them, so I just copy and paste whatever the translators give me.

Incidently, I saw Japanese text recently that was quoting both English AND Arabic in the same sentence. And this was in a block of vertical text. That is literally a worst-case scenario I think. You have RTL-vertical text also containing RTL- and LTR-horizontal text. And unlike English, which when placed into vertical Japanese text, you can essentially choose whether you want the characters going vertically or sideways - you can't do that with Arabic as the letters must be joined together, I don't believe you can break them down and stack them on top of each other.

Why can't we all just convert to Esperanto? ;)
From the raw transactions I guess it’s hard to see whether it was stolen or a transaction by the legitimate owner.

More importantly the press should really start to dig these stories up, instead of focusing on every time an NFT was sold for $$$, or how many have become rich by the Bitcoin scheme.
What I've come to appreciate the most is how easy it is to get around by foot. Everywhere I lived previously seemed to have been built with pedestrians as an afterthought. But in Tokyo you can easily tune out with little chance of coming into contact with traffic. Public transport is also great provided you're ok with crowds, although not as big an issue for me now everything's remote.
BSD suffers from a lot of the same not-designed-to-be-a-desktop that Linux does. In fact, even more of it.
I know we're not supposed to comment on voting, generally, but this might be the... meta-funniest grayed-out comment I've ever seen.
New Findings on the Mycenaean Cemetery at the 'Palace of Nestor' in Pylos
>What aspect, specifically, is suspected to be wrong?

That depends on who you ask. Different people have different hypotheses and concepts they explore.
How do you ensure that you react fast when the market crashes? Do you have some kind of stop-loss setup that pulls you out of the market faster than all the “losers” of the game?
This is honestly the thing that bothers me most about cities the US. Having grown up in Europe, I find many (I'm sure there are exceptions) US cities to be plain ugly and unlivable. The reason is obvious to me. It's that they are designed around cars. It makes such a huge difference.
Question is would we really get any benefits by this - compilation would take longer by some x amount which may or may not be less than the time linking step takes currently.
So who here is gonna be the one to write Zombie the Pooh?
In my experience, people like this are dilettantes, who actually have a very shallow understanding of these "ideas" that they're so in love with. They confuse _having heard_ of Obscure Subject with _understanding_ Obscure Subject. If you happen to have a deeper understanding of Obscure Subject and try to engage them in conversation about it, it goes nowhere.
That's a really great point about the string-length and not often addressed. You might even be able to force some sort of buffer overflow with that I guess.
People started speculating rather than buying haircuts, coffe and pizzas as was happening in the early days of Bitcoin.