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tiredofsametab

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Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.

  • Why do people who try to convince others to switch to metric focus so much on the conversions?

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  • I grew up with US customary units and I still took a long time to get that compared to metric instantly

  • My wife came out as gay last night

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  • I had a friend who went through this the other way around and her partner came to the conclusion he was gay. She went to therapy for a while and I remember it being really rough for her to talk about even later (I met her a bit after this happened). She did get over it and met someone new a few years later after taking some time off.

  • Tokyo pub bans older customers saying they complain too much

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  • I wonder if there will be more of this as places get more expensive and wages don't keep up with inflation as with older people never leaving jobs so younger people can move up. People will gravitate toward cheaper places but that means younger people who don't have other choices can't enjoy it.

    But, as the article points out, this is not legally enforceable. It may or may not get them into actual legal trouble if someone follows through on a complaint (depending on the wording). The English translation in the article makes it sound like they could get in trouble for it, but it's hard to tell without the original Japanese.

  • look at this junk!

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  • I looked at code I wrote about a year ago today. Yeah, there are things I would've done differently now, but I had no trouble following it. Some of the choices I made were company standards at the time as well which, thankfully, have improved.

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    Japan gets away with lot of stuff that Arab places can't. Imagine if you heard that an Arab country had vending machines that sold schoolgirl panties.

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  • So far as I know, there have been a couple of people arrested for trying to do things with actual underage girls' clothing. One I think had a vending machine set-up, another on the internet. Selling things like that on the internet also isn't unique to Japan. The vast majority of Japanese society has no patience for such things.

    I've been in Japan for over a decade and never seen what you're talking about (and I have been to fetish events and shops).

    Framing this as an accepted thing or even a common thing or even an extant thing is disingenuous at best.

  • View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU

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  • There might be some goals/milestones required for joining and doing something about things like this could be one.

  • How useful are functional programming languages?

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  • I mostly work in Go, but I helped maintain one project written in Elixir for a while. It was rather interesting. It's certainly a different way of thinking. It does reduce the risk of certain side effects but, as with everything, it has its own downsides.

  • Computer wiring tunnel, abandoned coal power plant. Photo by Bryan Buckley.

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  • For one, redundant systems. For another, lots of sensors. Electric generation also has a whole lot of important things going on that take tons of cabling. Burning the coal is the easy part. Grid phase alignment and a host of other fun things need to happen quickly and in a coordinated way with failovers and data lines to multiple separate places.

  • GOG now using AI generated images on their store

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  • Unsubscribed from all mail from them and won't be touching them for the foreseeable future. Shame.

  • Im really tired of how everyone demands convenience and has no patience anymore

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  • I agree with some of it and disagree with other bits. Lack of self-discipline is definitely an issue in a number of areas.

    Not all short form video is bad; it has its time and place. I would rather not break up a long video multiple times when I have time to watch something, and would rather dedicate the time to watch it in one shot. Edit: History Matters for a concrete example. 3-5 minute mini-documentaries explaining something about history.

    I don't think the idea that giving kids an old linux machine is somehow going to just solve things. Patient people and disciplined people existed well before computers and existed after smartphones. There are a number of other factors at play here that, as with most things, defy a single cause and single solution.

  • Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch?

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  • Just arranging it the last time in person. Mail worked just fine to confirm or cancel a bit before since the same city. If you needed things more quickly, couriers was one way. There were also a lot third spaces and people met out and about more and more often. They might see each other every Sunday at the same church for instance.

    Up until I was in uni, even payphones didn't matter most of the time since there's no guarantee both parties are going to be near one and no normal person had a pager. If you were going to a business that had a phone, you could look up their number and call them to put one of your buddies on the line or at least send a message (see the running gag on the Simpsons where Bart calls the bar to ask for someone).

    We also just waited a bit and if they didn't show, we went on with our plans.

  • The last 2 pandas in Japan are leaving for China as ties are strained

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  • In Japan for over a decade now and agree.

  • Status code 418 is the "sir this is wendy's" meme for tech people.

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  • Which was clearly like 12 or so years ago, right? .... right? crumbles to dust

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    Do You Suddenly Need To Stop Using WhatsApp On Your Phone?

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  • No, I stopped using it suddenly years ago (my dad and spammers were the only ones contacting me and it was mostly the spammers).

  • When someone's telling you something in great detail that you already know about, do you: A) patiently listen and let them finish?

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  • "oh x aspect you say? isn't that kinda like c, d, y, z, aspect" or similar to politely as possible state what I already know so we can either skip past those parts or disagree/clarify as the conversation requires.

  • Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually)

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  • We don't, really. I certainly grew up without them. It did both good and bad things. It did centralize and simplify some things, but that came at a cost of freedom for more power users. It was great for sorting out dependencies at a time games were still often bad at doing that cleanly on their own for less-technical people. I think it did good things for community, though, particularly for those of us who did not use any modern consoles that had various party/SNS-like features baked in.

  • Who puts their hands in someone else's pockets like that?

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  • I had an ex that used to like to put her hand in my back pocket. My wife has a few times as well (and generally takes every opportunity to touch my butt).

  • TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

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  • https://www.etymonline.com/word/sleet so not the version I grew up with.

    Wintry mix, though, feels like a newer word to me. I don't recall hearing it in the '80s, but maybe I just don't remember it. Even the '90s, I'm not sure. Definitely at some point in the '00s, though.

    Sleet to me (central Ohio, USA from birth until my mid-20s) is wind-driven chunks. It is not the same as "freezing rain" in any cases that I can think of, but there might be a small overlap on that venn diagram. I would say "wintry mix" these days, but I'm probably equally likely to say "a mix of snow and rain" or something.

  • If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for?

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  • Not the GoP. Not the green party, at least with Stein still around. Not the dems after all their nonsense. So... I don't know; we'll have to see who runs. The "good" news for anyone disliking my selections is that the (heavily-Gerrymandered) district means my vote will almost certainly mean fuck all anyway (assuming they don't come up with some bullshit to throw out overseas votes to begin with since I can't really do anything about that).

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