farmgineer
@farmgineer@nord.pub
Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan
- Comment on Stress checkpoint 20 hours 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.
- Comment on Can't wait. 1 day ago:
Reading that gave me a tough hiccough.
- Comment on I hope this clears things up 3 days ago:
That’s just the WD-40, still, with a lighter between it and the stick.
- Comment on Do you remember every single scene and dialogue of a show or movie you just watched? 1 week ago:
Absolutely not. I remember themes and notes buti do not store exactly the dialogue or anything.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
I got into D&D in the late ‘80s. My super-christian grandma even tried to play. My dad’s church thought I was going straight to hell, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Heh, I honestly can’t remember the last ad for a game I saw. Maybe on japanese TV since I don’t get ads on YouTube where I spend most of my watching time. I’ll keep an eye out for it, though; that does make sense.
/ As I type this, I realize I’ve seen several war thunder sponsored segments in videos, but I just ignore or mute.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I enjoy watching some people play games. I cannot watch them play RPGs or similar with choices nor puzzles. Even if their puzzle solution is right in the end and mine is not, I still just get frustrated by the experience.
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 1 week ago:
Japan set the allowed alcohol limit to basically zero sometime in the ‘90s so drinking anything and driving here can see you lose your license and spend time in Jail…. as it should be IMO.
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 1 week ago:
Maintenance is done at night and, when that’s not happening, they run freight trains. In Tokyo, last train used to be like 1:30ish on some lines and started up again a bit before 5am. Now it’s more like a bit after midnight and starting again closer to 5am. JR is a private company (a group of them, actually) and they keep squeezing things further, presumably for more profit.
They did start a bus line between nightlife areas a few years ago, but it never got popular and was closed (and also just took drunk people around from one party area to the next and not home).
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 1 week ago:
Bars here in Japan are often open until first train in the big cities (~5am) with some going later. I don’t necessarily see anything wrong with that in itself (especially for late shift folks who want to enjoy the same after-work experiences as day shift folks).
That said, fuck this guy for many other reasons.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Prepositions still causing havok 70ish years later (and I’m struggling in the opposite direction learning Norwegian now)
- Comment on Does changing your last name make sense when you’re not that name? 1 week ago:
Millers and Müllers are also not made of mills which I find to be rampant false advertising.
- Comment on Does changing your last name make sense when you’re not that name? 1 week ago:
Names is just names. Not every smith actually engages in smithing. Do what you want; people in history did. As a bonus, your family tree can be more fun for anyone in the future.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 1 week ago:
I used to as my company was fine with me being at lunch from 5-6. Some governments don’t allow that (it’s technically not legal in Japan), but some also look the other way (not my current company, sadly)
- Comment on Haiku 2 weeks ago:
Japanese can only end in ‘a’, ‘i’, ‘u’, ‘e’, ’o’, or ’n’. Rhyming in Japanese is boring because it has so few possible endings that tons of stuff rhymes. Haiku, tanka, and other forms exist with syllable*, rhythm, and even thematic rules instead.
IIRC, Anglo-Saxon poetry before the Norman conquest also wasn’t into rhyming.
* it’s technically not syllables but close enough for this usage.
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
The Evil Dead Guy.
One Guy of Darkness.
- Comment on iHave a Lovesick Teacher 2 weeks ago:
It only bothered me because I saw that it was a school assignment and I thought it would be to a higher standard. In casual speech, I don’t really care unless the meaning is unclear.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
Probably the Switch. It’s … fine, I guess? NES? Awsome. SNES? fantastic. GB? amazing for its time. Genesis was killer. Atari 2600 was huge in its day. The switch? Meh.
It doesn’t help that I’m generally unhappy with nintendo being a bunch of greedy fucks as I see it.
- Comment on iHave a Lovesick Teacher 2 weeks ago:
Shouldn’t it be ‘after having been together’?
What is ‘at the same time’ referring to in that sentence? They wanted to break up at the same time (as in both had the idea)? They wanted to break up at the same time on the clock to continue the theme of things being same-y?
The boy is due north of what? The place? The girl? Also, the girl should be wondering about her decision, I think.
(I don’t even speak English every day anymore, so I could be wrong).
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 2 weeks ago:
I pronounce it ’neesh’ as well, but we’re going to get into trouble if we pronounce everything with French/Norman/Latin routes the way it is (or was).
- Comment on I have a friend currently in Japan 3 weeks ago:
I used to walk by that building quite a bit. Place creeps me out (not for any supernatural reasons).
- Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 3 weeks ago:
words are spelt
Words are not fish! /s
Spellings can help people understand a word they don’t know in some cases. This is especially true for Latin and Greek words in the language.
and pronounced
OK, whose pronunciation will it be? India probably turns out the most programmers who speak English these days, so enjoy your new spellings and entire new sounds and distinctions that don’t exist in your variety of English if it’s not that one already
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Efficiency is also not always the goal, nor should it be. I also know a lot of software engineers whose ideas I wouldn’t trust running my kitchen let alone my language. You would, as other posters point out, probably be interested in conlangs.
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 5 weeks ago:
I have no idea who “The Weekend” is.