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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, it's not impossible to be Japan, but I was thinking Taiwan or even HK, perhaps.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Someone would have to look at and understand the existing code and infrastructure rather than just throwing it all away and writing a data migration. In other words, it would never happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I used to work in healthcare IT until around 2008ish. Various clinics had things running on 3.11, 95, 98, etc.

For the 3.11 case, it was only controlling the door card/lock system IIRC and was not otherwise on the network, but some of the others, less so. We didn't have direct control over the sites' decisions and couldn't really enforce anything so us removing them was not possible. We did everything we could to convince the site mgmt, of course.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The writing is Chinese so I doubt it's in Japan.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cats know their names after a while but often do not care to react to them (or at least not in the way the human wants)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Jobs are scarce here in the countryside. There aren't a lot of us who work for companies that allow fully remote work, so I'm lucky there (which allows me to run a vegetable farm business as well). There's a lot more space. People are generally nicer and a bit more open, though racists are everywhere in the world. Small-town bullshit exists everywhere as well and, especially if one looks different, everyone will know their business. For families, there are often many daycare spots open which is a HUGE problem in Tokyo. We need cars almost everywhere out here to do much of anything. Our train line, elevated after the 2011 tsunamis, can be shut down with high winds so people who do work in the cities need to drive fully on those days. Rural is cheaper and slower as well, though that price difference isn't as big as it used to be with nationwide inflation and price increases that were put off for literal decades in some cases all hitting at once with wages not keeping pace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I live in rural northern Japan and spent the prior 8+ years in Tokyo. I plan to live the rest of my life here barring something crazy happening. It's not perfect, but nowhere is. If you have specific questions, I can try to answer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that a jug of 漢水 in the background? I can't read the character above water well enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Sometimes, it's just a plastic bag. Otherwise, it's usually a clear plastic carton holding 10 that has some paper insert with the seller. This is Japan.

Edit: ah, this time it's a plastic bag so there's no really order/arrangement within the package which I think is what you were asking. I normally just take them out from whichever side is closer when in the fridge (summer) though when it's cooler in the house I try to keep the package balanced in weight since I might be picking it up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I clicked on the page to read it and was immediately greeted with a blocked message. Maybe because I'm in Japan? I have no idea.


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'd expect to see this with humanoid robots too as they take over more and more human jobs.

I have the feeling that humanoid robots are only really a good fit in places designed for human(oid)s. We might see things change to be more optimized for the optimal form factor of machine for that job. I suppose it's possible for maintenance/health/safety reasons we don't but I don't see health and safety being important to the people doing this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not exclusive to English, but English definitely has a ton of things that just follow no pattern (even by root language, though if you know that, when it was borrowed in, and what vowel shifts it did/not have, you might have a chance).

This did immediately make me think of "Simone Giertz" from Sweeden whose name's pronunciation sounded like 'yecht' to me.

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