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I've never even thought about buying shinkansen tickets online, as the machine and staff are both efficient. I'm not in a touristy area, so lines are usually short; it's often quicker to buy at the counter than to use the machine.

Also, cool to see you here. I've come across a few of your books over the years.

screenshots inside an excel file (even of spreadsheets) are a preferred method of communication by many Japanese people in the workplace. You have to see it to believe it.

Nano-HAp is good, too

Curious about this school; I live in Japan with my family.

I knew some rather unscrupulous people in the 98-03 period who'd take items off of shelves in the walmart, remove the packaging and walk over to customer service for a cash refund, having never bought anything or even leaving the store. They'd walk out with cash in hand.

Having worked in retail, they basically knew that nobody in that store really cared (loss prevention officers, staff, managers... nobody seemed to care.)

uncrossy. About twice a week I go and do the last few days of puzzles. Ever since I first saw it released here on HN.

If it's weekdays... everyone IS at school or work.

Also in Japan, there are laws about posting others' faces online without permission, so Japanese creators often will only put content without people online, as it is easier that blurring out their faces, asking for permission, or facing repercussions.

I've been here for 15 years, use Japanese for 90% of my work, have a child here AND permanent residency. And even I'm considering leaving Japan.

I can't imagine many people in their first few years, facing these changes, desiring the long term goal of PR now.

agreed! Even the look on someone's face can spoil a book that I'm in the middle of reading. Of course, this depends on the book, but generally I don't talk about a book until I'm done with it.

Glue and counter-sunk screws, with a dowel (I prefer a contrasting color) plug on top. Flush cut or even slightly protruding, whichever style you like. Looks great, can't fail, super easy. I've done all kinds of joinery, of course rabbets, dovetails, all that good stuff... is good. But y'know what else is good? A finished bookshelf holding a bunch of books!

I should have gotten a track saw: I basically use my circular saw like one, which is a pain.

I built a three-legged table from the anarchists design book. I've been using it every single family meal for 6 years now. So satisfying.

I'll just use something like flutter's um...

MediaQuery.of(context).isFolded

  ? BuildHalfApp() 

  ? BuildWholeApp();

This is decent brand-new mountain bike territory.

A cube. With six square displays. No buttons, no bevels.

I've ran simple prompts such as "Do a in-depth sweep of this (private) repo and find any security flaws" for a few dozen long-running apps and websites that I have access to. Every single one came back with multiple real vulnerabilities within 5 or 10 minutes.

This would be super cool as a toy tea pot for kids!

Japan.

I finished reading it recently, too. I thought it was quirky, delightful, and obviously exaggerated for entertainment and contemplation purposes. I've recommended it to a bunch of people, too!

It triggered one of my favorite weird activities: after reading a book that I fully enjoyed and feel was completely "worth it," I give myself a few days to float on that happy feeling. Then, I go look at specifically only one and two star reviews. And laugh. Man, some people hated that book!

Note that otherwise, as a rule, I basically never read reviews of entertainment, restaurants, hotels and similar before nor after. I'm just not interested.

A new printer for free every few months because of their weird point system?

How does that work?

Or avoiding starving.

I added one clinic, but I can add more in the coming days. Thanks for making this, I hope many users can benefit from it.

Oh, the animated bouncing firms on either side of the search box... Not to my taste, but somebody might think it's fun?

But it's an odd thing, the "economy has collapsed" but very few go hungry, most are housed, live with dignity, streets are clean and safe, bridges aren't crumbling, education is high, and so on. I don't wanna put Japan on a pedestal (I live here, the country has its problems indeed), but it's an interesting example of (at least currently) the possibility to "collapse" relative to other rich countries, but still maintain a high quality of life in general.

I'm not a native Japanese speaker, but I have been using AI to write 95% of each email in Japanese. I try to avoid using words which I don't understand.

I've gotten personal praise from many about how perfect my emails are, though the expectation is likely lower because I'm not Japanese.

I mostly use Claude for simple engineer-to-engineer communication, which has always sounded robotic, so I don't have much experience with long-form.

But... one bad thing about everyone having the same 2 days off is that the hiking trails, shopping centers, swimming lessons, gym, amusement parks, beaches, banks, and whatnot are crowded with everyone.

If you've ever been in a position where you can do "weekend stuff" any day of the week, it can be noticeably better in many ways.

People do the same thing with phones, too.

My reaction: I'll stop speaking once they are looking at their phone/watch. And I actually wait to start speaking again until they prompt me with a "what were you just saying," or similar. This awkward feeling of "oops, I stopped the conversation, so now it is I who must get it going again" works well. And if they don't "prompt" to continue the conversation? They weren't listening in the first place, or don't realize they were being kinda rude.

Agreed on all of the above.

However, when it comes to non-creative things (such as hooking up some hardware ABC to some software XYZ using RST), LLMs might be better at digesting the factory manuals (hopefully THOSE were written by humans) and explaining it in a way the user understands for their specific case.

Fun fact: despite a national registry of bicycle serial numbers (and most people do this), the majority of Japanese people I know have had a bicycle stolen. Though it isn't unheard-of to get it back.

I call it, "people who don't know better continuing to talk about this out-dated concept."

Yes, it still exists. It is also slowly going away, just like mandatory drinking parties.