farmgineer
@farmgineer@nord.pub
Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan
- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 4 days ago:
I’m old enough to have a grandchild that’s 18. I still am not sure how I feel about it.
- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 4 days ago:
I now have ‘robot vs dinosaur’ by Skeleton Dick stuck in my head. Miss those guys.
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 4 days ago:
The safety squint makes it harmless!
- Comment on "rags"😍 5 days ago:
I was curious about the family connection. Was the mother already rich/famous? It implies the subject didn’t buy her mom the first car, so I assume so. The wikipedia linked didn’t have anything for a ctrl+f on ‘mother’
- Comment on "rags"😍 5 days ago:
I appreciate it, but you re-explained the parts that I did understand. Who is this Jennie? Why does their parent have a porche? Who’s the person commenting (in the event that it matters vs just some random internet person)./
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 6 days ago:
[M]ake sure you can see all of the shapes in the circles
The circles contain more circles. Do I win?
If I’m supposed to see anything other than that, it’s not happening (that last one might be an L or something?)
- Comment on Ubisoft Shuts Down Two Studios in Canada and Serbia, Hundreds of Employees Affected 6 days ago:
I didn’t state anywhere that they should. It’s possible to implement some of a system without other parts (in this case, increasing protections and stability for employees), and I’d like to see that done. As someone who lives and works in Japan, I definitely don’t think anyone should be imitating all of it.
- Comment on Ubisoft Shuts Down Two Studios in Canada and Serbia, Hundreds of Employees Affected 6 days ago:
What’s with the snark?
Consumers giving money to a company tells the company they support (or at least tolerate) what the company is doing. That is what I mean by rewarding this behavior.
- Comment on When foreign countries try to reproduce US brans 6 days ago:
Does the
beprefix make it accusative like some other English verbs? If so, the implications are interesting. - Comment on 1 week ago:
You probably want to name a country or even region within it. Depending on where in the world you are, things may change automatically or might require getting a reappraisal.
- Comment on purpose 1 week ago:
open-plan offices cut my productivity a ton; I could no longer concentrate and think because of all the noise and talking. Very glad I don’t have an office to go in to now.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
They’re only 3rd person, IIRC. I’m not a huge fan of that, personally.
- Comment on Ubisoft Shuts Down Two Studios in Canada and Serbia, Hundreds of Employees Affected 1 week ago:
We don’t have sales numbers to work with, but they sponsor videos and do all kinds of stuff. Especially with all the AI hype, they could be unwisely using their money. Only they know that, however. They’ve not done right by many of their employees nor consumers for more than the last fiscal year, though.
In general, the whole ‘game studio builds thing then lays people off’ is just gross to me. Here in Japan, we don’t have that because it would be illegal. Companies have to be more prudent in their hiring, planning, spending, and saving. All workers should have those rights and I try to avoid giving money to companies that do not grant them.
- Comment on Ubisoft Shuts Down Two Studios in Canada and Serbia, Hundreds of Employees Affected 1 week ago:
Yet people keep rewarding this awful behavior (at this company and others) with their wallets.
- Comment on Scary indeed. 1 week ago:
They’ve been reselling people the same game on multiple VMs for years. They’ve been greedy for ages.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Not exclusive to the US. Here in Japan (and I’m sure plenty of places) as well.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
As someone who had to take tomorrow off to visit the vehicle inspection place, I’m getting a kick…
- Comment on Love/hate relationship with Bethesda Game Studio 1 week ago:
Their apparent bait-and-switch on fallout 76 goods, constantly releasing incomplete products, greed, and a host of other issues made me stop giving them money. I was a paying ESO member when the fallout 76 stuff was happening and that was the last straw for me; no more money for them until they have a proven track record.
- Comment on Weird 1 week ago:
I’m in my mid-40s. I simultaneously feel 20 and 70 and that becomes about 327 when I interact with anyone under tha age of about 30.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
I’m in rural Japan.
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
I cut down a tree yesterday for a few reasons. One was that these bastards were way too interested in it and it’s right next to my house’s door (the other was roots damaging the house as it grew bigger and blocking light in my window). I had one in the house the first year we moved here and that was not a fun experience.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I wonder what it will be like. GW was always kinda ‘meh’ to me (except when there was platforming like there was for some collectible or something in GW2 which could fuck right off). I hope it works out well, though.
- Comment on Just another "we are all going to die" prediction 1 week ago:
Half a century is a bit of a stretch, but I otherwise agree. It should not have gotten to the level of trouble it became, but I also dislike the implication in the OP that it was just a non-issue meant to scare people; it was a problem that indeed came to a head because many companies kicked the proverbial can, but a potential real problem nonetheless (especially in medical/insurance/monetary systems rather than “planes will rain from the sky” sorts of issues).
- Comment on Just another "we are all going to die" prediction 1 week ago:
An insane amount of money and overtime went into changing software and data to make sure that a lot of bad things did not happen. It’s not that the Y2K bug was a nothing burger, a lot of people worked very hard to make sure critical systems were changed.
- Comment on Is Korean phonology difficult? 2 weeks ago:
Neat! I have a video on the topic in my to-watch list, but hadn’t looked into the details yet so far.
- Comment on Is Korean phonology difficult? 2 weeks ago:
Korean due to it being an alphabe
Technically, it’s not; it’s a syllabary like Japanese katakana and hiragana.
Is it actually that hard while Japanese phonology is considered “easier” to pick up.
Japanese is dead easy for an English speaker so long as they remember that vowel length matters, and the R is not a standard General American R.
Korean has a couple of sounds/features (tense consonants) not in use in General American, but nothing insurmountable. I’d call it more difficult but only very slightly so.
Tone
Korean is actually considered to be undergoing tonogenesis, so that’s kinda neat.
Tone isn’t a huge deal; even if you get it wrong, there’s usually only one thing that makes sense in the context of the sentence. Not a worry in Korean at the moment. Japanese has pitch accent which can cause the same issue (If I’m running through the field plucking はな (hana), you’re not going to think it means ’nose’ here if I get the pitch accent wrong).
One can pick up reading Korean more quickly than Japanese (if no Kanji/Hanzi/Hanja experience otherwise), though I found bacchim to be annoying. In exchange, Korean tends to have some grammatical features lacking in Japanese, but I never got far enough to learn what those were (outside of some more forms of address/honorific).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What engineer would use ‘ft’s? *ducks*
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 2 weeks ago:
I have a USB-C hub with USB-A ports that plugs into my work PC. I had a hard time trying to find the opposite, though I haven’t looked in ages; it honestly has come up exactly once in the last few years when I needed to borrow my wife’s sd card reader (or dig my old laptop out of the closet and play the updates game).
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 2 weeks ago:
my home computer has no USB-C and I can’t afford to upgrade because gestures broadly.
- Comment on Stress checkpoint 2 weeks ago:
I was already most of the way there and it’s 06:40. I am drinking coffee, though, which I suppose is mostly water.