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New comment by pezezin in "A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service"

pezezin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:11:15 +0000

There are plenty of morons in Europe wanting to copy the American healthcare model... (mostly to fill up their pockets)

New comment by pezezin in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

pezezin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:23:52 +0000

In the villages (村) you don't need to, but anything bigger than that yes, you need a parking lot.

The procedure for the permit in my city is maddening, you need to draw a map of your general area and your parking lot BY HAND, and then several days later a police guy will go there to confirm it visually. They have not invented GIS yet...

New comment by pezezin in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

pezezin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:20:20 +0000

I have touched some PC-98 and FM Towns, which are x86 but not IBM PC compatible.

But I understand your point, ARM has its roots in embedded systems and it shows. I really hope that RISC-V learns from that mistake and focuses on standardization, the board you linked looks very promising.

New comment by pezezin in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

pezezin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:54:20 +0000

Yeah, I know that half the population lives in either the Greater Tokyo Area or the Keihanshin area. But you still have the other half scattered all around the country.

And even within those areas, when you move to the outskirts it is not so dense. Take the train from Narita to central Tokyo and tell me what you see.

New comment by pezezin in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

pezezin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:56:20 +0000

> Also, is not the population density fairly high? There's not as much land to spread in low-density car centric suburbs like there is in (say) the US.

LOL no. Outside of the big neighborhoods of the big cities, Japan is endless urban sprawl. I know because I live in a small Japanese city of 40k people and it's just detached houses, small 2-story apartment buildings, a big box stores. Public transportation is almost non-existant and I need to drive my car everyday for everything.

New comment by pezezin in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

pezezin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:07:51 +0000

> 2. a unified BOOT environment which supports a broad standard of devices to boot from (SSD, network, SD-Card, hard-drives, etc...)

I got the same experience tinkering with ARM devices. It soured me so much that I have decided that until ARM offers a unified boot mechanism like x86 PCs do, I will ignore it, no matter the supposed benefits.

New comment by pezezin in "Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming"

pezezin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:09:07 +0000

In addition to the screen and the sound, don't forget having just 2 face buttons after 4 buttons had become standard and almost mandatory. Many ports suffer mightily in the control department.

New comment by pezezin in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

pezezin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:55:29 +0000

A few competitive online games do, but most don't. That's why nowadays so many games run great on Linux.

New comment by pezezin in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

pezezin — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:42:39 +0000

Isn't it depressing that San Junipero, arguably the only happy episode, has the lowest progress score?

New comment by pezezin in "Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V"

pezezin — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:36:02 +0000

José is not an English name and here I am writing in English. People can learn other languages you know?

New comment by pezezin in "Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V"

pezezin — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:18:36 +0000

After Nvidia's cuLitho now we get Anos...

New comment by pezezin in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

pezezin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:50:37 +0000

As an option yes, but not most of the cashiers.

New comment by pezezin in "Endian wars and anti-portability: this again?"

pezezin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:59:42 +0000

Arabic numerals originated in India, were languages are written left to right.

New comment by pezezin in "Endian wars and anti-portability: this again?"

pezezin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:56:31 +0000

Roman numerals are big endian though. The current year is written as MMXXVI, not IVXXMM.

New comment by pezezin in "Endian wars and anti-portability: this again?"

pezezin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:55:10 +0000

LE is not "logical", it won because the IBM PC compatible won, simple as that.

New comment by pezezin in "Wavelets on Graphs via Spectral Graph Theory (2009)"

pezezin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:06:11 +0000

I think that the most popular usage of JPEG 2000 is DCI, the digital cinema standard.

New comment by pezezin in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

pezezin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:53:49 +0000

I am a Spanish guy currently living in Japan, and honestly I hate sauna but love onsen. Most on my Spanish colleagues seem to think the same. I guess the main factor being that both Spain and Japan are have really hot summers, so why would you get in a hot room to sweat like a pig when you are already sweating outside?

New comment by pezezin in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

pezezin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:04:04 +0000

I don't know about China, but I live in Japan and most konbini I have visited still have real human cashiers.

New comment by pezezin in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

pezezin — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:55:17 +0000

Good thing that iMessage is only popular in the US. I have never seen anybody using it, I don't even know how it looks, and if someone told me to use it I would laugh at them.

New comment by pezezin in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

pezezin — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:57:48 +0000

It doesn't take zero transistors, at the very least you will need a multiplexer to choose between the two encodings. But such a mux is less than 10 transistors per bit, a rounding error for any modern CPU.