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New comment by coel in "Why Japan has such good railways"

coel — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:36:40 +0000

> school drop off and pickup for three kids

When we were in Japan my son walked to school when he was 6. Parts of the walk close to the school were supervised. It wasn't just allowed, it was expected.

New comment by coel in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"

coel — Thu, 29 May 2025 06:55:06 +0000

The address would need to be looked up in some cases due to different delivery costs and time estimates.

New comment by coel in "Komorebi: Tiling Window Management for Windows"

coel — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:07:36 +0000

Somewhat related, I saw a Reddit post of someone who got a tattoo of 木漏れ日 and the native speakers in comments generally thought it was an odd.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Japaneselanguage/comments/16b8r7c/p...

New comment by coel in "Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan"

coel — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:10:20 +0000

As mentioned by others, things have changed - I used credit card 90% of the time on my last trip earlier this year.

New comment by coel in "Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan"

coel — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:18 +0000

If you have lots of luggage going to the airport, the "limousine bus" services (they are just coach buses) are a good option if you're near one of the pick-up locations.

Allowing two bags per person, it was cheaper for us and didn't need to send it two days in advance.

New comment by coel in "Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan"

coel — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:06:43 +0000

A few notes to be aware of:

- if you're sending your luggage to the airport, check the deadline for sending, depending where you are sending from it could be 2-3 days before your flight

- hotels I paid at were cash only for this service (one of the few things I paid in cash, but likely depends on the hotel)

- some hotels did not take payments for sending, only supporting cash on delivery, so if you're sending to another hotel you should check if they will accept it

Sending from a convenience store is another option if those two last points are problems.

Another thing I thought of, the two times I needed it, the hotels sold cardboard boxes (a few hundred yen) and provided packing tape for free.

New comment by coel in "Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative"

coel — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:56:52 +0000

DX is Developer eXperience

New comment by coel in "Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript"

coel — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:52:54 +0000

With ts-node or Deno there is no compile step you have to do yourself. For frontend, bundlers can be setup where it is pretty transparent.

New comment by coel in "Never waste a midlife crisis"

coel — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 05:41:47 +0000

"Studies indicate that some cultures may be more sensitive to this phenomenon than others; one study found that there is little evidence that people undergo midlife crises in Japanese and Indian cultures, raising the question of whether a mid-life crisis is mainly a cultural construct."

I thought this was interesting.

New comment by coel in "Show HN: Open-source background removal in the browser"

coel — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:25:44 +0000

I was checking out one of the suggestions in another comment for background remove and they seem to have this functionality to increase resolution: https://clipdrop.co/apis/docs/super-resolution

New comment by coel in "On the trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'evaporated people' (2017)"

coel — Wed, 17 May 2023 07:53:49 +0000

I think the poster making a sweeping generalization on such a large group of people is poor form.

My opinion, based on living in Japan and spending a lot of time around Japanese people, is the generalizations likely applies to a large portion of the population, but I have doubts whether it even applies to the majority.

New comment by coel in "Sucralose, an artificial sweetener, found to dampen immune response in mice"

coel — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:16:15 +0000

I'd love for sucralose to be used less, just because it really irritates my throat. Something I only found out after moving to Japan and a long process of elimination. Turns out a lot of dental products use it and in packaged food - and not just low calorie products, but also in some things like ice blocks/pops and instant cup noodles.

New comment by coel in "Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank"

coel — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 23:32:09 +0000

For anyone coming here now, the comments there got moved here, so no need to check that link.

New comment by coel in "Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?"

coel — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 22:52:38 +0000

I was curious about this too and wondered if it could then relate to my description of a giraffe so put in "legs of a yellow mammal with a long neck and spots" and it still nailed it.