farmgineer

@farmgineer@nord.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan is not a place I’d expect this from.

  I have bad news for you about all kinds of things in Japan that are the way someone decided and now is impervious to thought, criticism, oland change because reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. … 11, 0, 13 … 23, 0, 1

  Some places will mark AM/PM (午前・午後), but some don’t which makes it more odd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone could make a hair trimmer that could 3d scan your head well enough to give you a taper on the edges, how much would you pay?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably just going to go back to shaving my head. I have no trouble growing hair, but can’t really be bothered. My wife doesn’t care either way which is probably the thing I most care about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  12 makes sense to me and I prefer 24-hour-time but, yeah, the lack of the consistency is the maddening part to me.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you able to tell which language is which by looking?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell the difference, at least with simplified hanzi vs kanji, most of the time. When I was in Japanese language school, a lot of Chinese students would end up with small mistakes in Japanese as there are some other fairly minor writing differences. I can’t remember if it was that Japan was more strict or the writing was taught slightly differently.

  Across language, there are some fun coincidences in completely unrelated languages that have words that mean (nearly) the same thing with (nearly) the same spelling, though of course I can’t conjure one from the depths of my not-yet-awake brain; I’m sure wikipedia or something. I think ‘Interlingual homograph’ is the term related to those. I still like Japanese letter (手紙 lit. hand paper) -> Chinese toilet paper and other fun ones in non-alphabetical scripts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a colorblind guy with aphantasia and zero visual artistic skill. I pick a frame of video and sometimes add markings/text. The default used to be google doing that for you if you didn’t feel like it, but I don’t know what the default behavior is these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In Japan, many still do and, if you forget, you often don’t get automatically redirected but rather get an error page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t bought anything new. I want to get a laptop and switch to that as my main PC (so beefy enough graphics card both for gaming and video editing) and also because I want to move countries in the near future, however nothin’ doin’ right now. I would potentially be open to certified used, but not sure on that one in Japan for something I want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it hard for native speakers of languages that use 漢字 to learn ABC as it's different to their own?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought do-support was thought to have come from the Celtic influence?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it hard for native speakers of languages that use 漢字 to learn ABC as it's different to their own?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve met plenty of Japanese who speak fantastic English. Everyone had to study it from Jr. High here and, starting a couple of years ago, starting in elementary school. Pronunciation is very hit or miss since many of the teachers in Japan can’t even hear the difference between l/r and the like sometimes and ALT (assistant language teachers, typically native speakers of English) are rarely allowed to drive things and push more from what I read.

  Many Japanese who went to uni had to pass an English test section to do so from what I understand. You can look up sample questions on the web. As such, many can read English to a certain degree, but output and listening are often issues.

  My wife hated English class and never paid much attention. She’s working her way through a textbook now and she finds various aspects difficult (looking at you do as in do you like potatoes – WTF is the do doing there? Why not like you potatoes?!) The alphabet portion, though, is not an issue in itself. Pronunciation requires a lot of work but I think that’s because English orthography sucks. However, if you grow up where a whole range of sounds just map to one in your language (l/r problem again), you don’t learn to differentiate between the various points in that range and can’t hear that difference without a lot of work. Definitely so for sounds that don’t exist at all. Many people going into Japanese have trouble differentiating germinate consonants and tsu vs su.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do East Asian men barely get thick facial hair?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  non-stinky sweat

  Not exactly. Those with the mutation have fewer apocrine sweat glands which bacteria that make smells tend to like. The other sweat still smells like sweat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do East Asian men barely get thick facial hair?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in the US and I always used “Asia” on its own to mean East Asia and think everyone else I knew did as well. Anywhere else just was called something else (India, the Middle East, South-East Asia, and so on). I don’t think it hit me until I moved to Japan in my 30s, but I definitely see it a lot still in USAmerican-heavy online groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you want to live forever in an infinite game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely not. I didn’t want to be alive in the first place, don’t particularly enjoy being alive, and would certainly not want to do it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Start an all-out nuclear conflict that renders the earth uninhabitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I move out?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  whenever I cut somebody off majority of the time I explain why in a respectful way without arguing with them.

  If you are regularly cutting people off, there’s already a problem. I wouldn’t associate with anyone who did that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A car parked in front of the fire hydrant hindered the firefighters' intervention, so the team broke two side windows and passed the hose through the inside of the car.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything within a certain distance of a fire hydrant is a no parking zone. I’m not sure if this differs at all in distance by jurisdiction (since every state has separate licensing). There are sometimes also signs on poles that explicitly say this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a company wants to get rid of a permanent employee, they have very limited tools when it’s non-consential. If they claim it’s financial, they have to (in theory at least) prove that to unilaterally dismiss and that can come with the burden of freezing hiring and other things.

  To unilaterally dismiss otherwise, they need to prove gross/malicious bad conduct, performance problems (this still requires a long PIP process), or reassign the employee somewhere and have the employee refuse. For the last one, it can’t legally be too onerous to on the employee, but case precedent is hit or miss if it makes it to court. As I understand, most prefer to settle out of court and pay the employee to go away.

  In my mind, layoffs are for downsizing head count rather than firing which is targeted to that employee.

  As I understand it, certain numbers of actions to reduce headcount can also trigger things like hiring freezes, but I don’t know much about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft != gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is importing stuff from abroad free from sales tax?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they going to ship you a 国内専用 (inside country exclusive use) switch? IIRC you also need a Japanese nintendo account. I don’t remember if that also requires a Japanese credit card (a lot of Japanese companies do, or at least used to).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Japanese co.pa ies can’t lay off permanent employees without triggering things like hiring freezes and other consequences. They’re usually put in shit jobs to force them to quit (though this can be illegal) or are offered a buyout for several months of salary to quit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having lived in Japan for over a decade, I think the west generally over-elevates/-mystifies Japan. Capitalists gonna capitalist. They can do more work with fewer people and make more money. Most Japanese consumers also do not care at all about generative AI. It’s in the train stations, city offices, and everywhere else as a part of the normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you know that Steve Bannon was CEO of a WoW gold farming and RMT company? Heard it from this video which was pretty good when comparing two very different people responding to the same world.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If true, then there exists a world where I banned an account of his when I was a dev/admin on gaming sites back in the day. We were zero-tolerance for RMT, account sales, botting, etc.

  I was personally so against it that, many years later, I had someone apply for a job at my company where they listed writing cheats/bots/etc. for MMOs on their resume. Instant trash bin with that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also think there needs to be enough specificity to not allow multiple interpretations or inprecision, at least when the letter of the law trump’s it’s spirit/intention. This leads to very prescriptive, terse, and bewildering word salad to someone without training in that specific type of writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Level 5 boss admits using AI for Professor Layton, Yo-Kai Watch reveals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A recent report on Japanese online game developers claims that 100% of those surveyed use generative AI tools.

  Yeah, Japan is generally not nearly as anti-AI as some other places. AI-generated stuff is all over the place at train stations, signs, restaurants, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Is anyone out There?” - HamRadio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a licensed HAM. I basically never touch the stuff at the moment. I want to get a good HF radio, but it’s so expensive and I might also be losing my job.

  If you are in the US, do not use it unlicensed unless you want a visit from the FCC and I think federal charges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wiki workers united!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck yeah! Solidarity!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not sure they will⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a software engineer, please do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republicans are arguing over if trans people can play sports while the world laughs at us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan is not technically correct. One is required to have healthcare coverage, but some people skirt the law and don’t. We also pay at point of service, pay for prescriptions, etc. This is on top of paying for insurance (though your company may offer insurance that it pays some/all of). There are tax procedures once medical out-of-pocket reaches 100k JPY in a year and a way to reduce/eliminate further cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ought to