It's interesting that we notice a similar pattern of losing the dual in many languages. And it would be very interesting to find the opposite pattern: a language where the dual newly develops out of nowhere. However, I do not know of such language.

Then when the work contract came up, there were some unusual clauses about my salary that I was not comfortable with. They first said that it was OK to ignore the clause as they would pay my salary as explained orally. I insisted that they write the work contract as they plan to pay me. After about 1 week of back and forth, they admitted that the clause was indeed unusual, was there for historical reasons and that they plan to change it in the future. However, they said no clause in the contract could be changed as of now, as it was the same contract for every employee, and no past had employee ever complained about it.

Unfortunately, I ended up declining the offer, as I considered the risk was not worth it.

I've been to Yunnan and have eaten that mushroom too (properly cooked!). We can find closely related species to this one in the wild in Japan too, but documentation for those Lanmaoa species found outside China is currently lacking, I believe.

EDIT: Found the field guide I was thinking about on my shelf. It's "中国真菌志 牛肝菌科(III)" [1], which is only about boletes!

[1] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%9C%9F%E8%...

This year, I went to British Columbia, and there was this weird scent everywhere that I could not describe. My wife said it was cannabis. I'm still not used to it so I don't know if I'll be able to recognize it next time I travel to North America.

I am not sure if it's bad or not. It's true that it kinda wastes the candidate's time. In some cases though, the candidate is so good that the company will create a position just for them.

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After trying to reduce our emissions as much as possible, what kind of "best" choice to we have next?

We hear a lot about quantum computers of late.

By any chance, do you happen to be a quantum programmer writing production quantum programs that run on quantum computers? There must be such people out there, right?

I'd be very glad to know about your work experience, the kind of industry you are in, and your dev environment.

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I get the following:

  2022. 開始:
  3月12日 土曜日
  終了:
  3月13日 日曜日

  2022. Start:
  Saturday, March 12
  End:
  Sunday, March 13

For "last day of february 2022", I get the correct answer.

Now that I see the examples given, I think I would have mislabeled most of them too, even if I were highly motivated to label them.

Though it's normal for any language, it's very interesting how English is variable between dialects and time periods when it comes to slang. There are so many regional slangs of which I cannot understand all the nuances.

A few examples from this dataset, that I would not have labeled correctly:

- daaaaaamn girl! – mislabeled as ANGER

- [NAME] wept. – mislabeled as SADNESS

- [NAME] is bae, how dare you. – mislabeled as ANGER

And don't get me started on Australian/NZ slang. It's a completely different world.

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> 「自然現象の可能性が高いので致し方ない。可能であれば元の形に近い状態に戻すことが理想ではないか」

Rough translation: It's likely this was a natural phenomenon, it can't be help. If possible, I think it would be ideal to put it back to its original shape.

[1] https://www.shimotsuke.co.jp/articles/-/561829

Tuition is usually called 学費.

A note though: all place names in Arabic are wrongly displayed.

Take Morocco for example. The Arabic name is المغرب.

It is wrongly displayed as something like ال م غ رب (letters are not attached together; I added zero-width space to force the letter to not be attached). And probably worse than that, the letters are displayed from left to right instead of right to left. You end up with something like ب رغ م ل ا.

This makes the native place names almost unreadable.

There probably is a similar directionality issue for other right-to-left languages (e.g. Hebrew), but I cannot read Hebrew enough to quickly check!

This post that deals with displaying Arabic appeared on HN some times ago and may be of help! [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29544990

Epigno is a start-up that provides management, optimization and visualization (business intelligence) solutions to streamline hospital management. We provide consulting services and software solutions to solve hospital business needs.

Our team is entirely remote. We are hiring fast learners that finish their job on time and do not work overtime.

Tech stack: VueJS / Nuxt / Vuetify / Laravel (mainly)

We also have some projects with Python / Flask / Docker / Rust.

As we are still small, professional Japanese proficiency is highly preferred for full-time staff to reduce communication overhead with our team and our customers. For part-time positions Japanese proficiency is good to have. We hire people located in Japan only.

The position we are hiring for is an SSR application front-end engineer (with Nuxt & Vuetify), but we are flexible.

Depending on your skillset, you do not need to exactly fit in the above positions. In addition to front-end, back-end experience would as well be welcome, though not necessary. Generalist, full-stack engineers are welcome. Feel free to contact me for applying: malik(at)epigno(dot)jp

国籍問わず、日本語のできる日本在住のエンジニアはエピグノへ大歓迎です！

This was one of the worst day of my "engineer" life. I was very young and inexperienced at that time.

We were running a Ruby-On-Rails app with push notifications. We had an "on creating" life-cycle hook on a model recording an event, so that every time a new model was saved, a job sending a push notification (android or iPhone) to the appropriate user would the triggered. This would notify the users that the "event" was done.

The implementation was wrong. Instead of an "on creating" hook, the push notification logic was added in an "on saving" hook.

As the model was supposed to only ever be saved once (on creation), this worked for a while, and no-one ever realized. You now guess what's going to happen.

Then after some time, came the day when we needed to do some data migration. Easy right? The data-migration included updating some data in the the above model in question (all rows must be updated). We run a ruby script to update the model.

Everything was working in staging environment. So we release in production. The moment we release, we sent hundreds of push notifications to each of all our clients (including to our own phone, as we were using the service). Basically everyone was receiving as many push notifications as the number of "events" they completed until now.

Immediately, all the phones in the office (CEO's phone, sales rep, etc.) started to ring with complaints from customers asking what was going on. The CEO was as angry as you can imagine. But no time to be angry, as everyone needed to apologize and explain the situation to all our customers.

Basically the whole team was at fault for letting the problem slip through the code review. From then on, we improved code review process, and decided to include push-notifications in staging environment too.

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