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New comment by pixelcort in "The legacy of the iconic Nakagin capsule tower"

pixelcort — Sat, 24 May 2025 22:02:59 +0000

Yes there is a nice coffee table book that I keep in my living room!

中銀カプセルスタイル: 20人の物語で見る誰も知らないカプセルタワー(Nakagin Capsule Style)

‎December 23, 2020

ISBN: ‎978-4794224880

New comment by pixelcort in "Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress"

pixelcort — Thu, 16 May 2024 22:12:25 +0000

In Tokyo there can be one stairwell, and then the balconies have foldable ladders in their floors. How about that?

Discord's reform movement for banned users

pixelcort — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 22:19:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.platformer.news/p/inside-discords-reform-movement-for

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971008

Points: 6

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New comment by pixelcort in "Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future"

pixelcort — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:18:32 +0000

One of the Daikin models for Japan apartments/condos (known as mansions) has a tankless humidifier; it is able to condensate humidity from outdoor air and introduce it into the home. On a cold winter day it is able to raise the relative humidity from around 30% to about 45% or so. うるるとさらら is the name of their series of things that humidify.

New comment by pixelcort in "Terraform should have remained stateless"

pixelcort — Sat, 28 May 2022 07:10:32 +0000

Can the git repo that the terraform config lives inside of serve as state? For example, one commit ago this part of config was there and now it’s gone, showing temporal intent that it should be deleted in real life as well?

New comment by pixelcort in "Launch HN: Azuki (YC W22) – All-you-can-read manga subscription"

pixelcort — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 23:18:17 +0000

Exciting!

I live in Japan but prefer to read in English. However it seems your iPhone app is not available in Japan? Any plans to also provide your service inside Japan as well?

New comment by pixelcort in "Wish HN: Happy Holidays"

pixelcort — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:33:04 +0000

メリークリスマス！

New comment by pixelcort in "Renoise – A DAW with a tracker-like interface"

pixelcort — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 01:30:06 +0000

It seems DAW means digital audio workstation.

Leaked Amazon documents detail a controversial stack ranking system

pixelcort — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:06:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-annual-reviews-rating-2021-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26807244

Points: 3

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New comment by pixelcort in "Sentimental Versioning"

pixelcort — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 06:15:57 +0000

http://www.ntg.nl/maps/05/34.pdf

New comment by pixelcort in "A bank security check that leaves you guessing your own name"

pixelcort — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 01:56:42 +0000

Japan's banks have a similar system, based on half-width katakana. Fortunately most banks can fetch the name from each other, but sometimes transfers fail due to issues similar to those found in this article.

How Kickstarter Employees Formed a Union

pixelcort — Sun, 31 May 2020 00:39:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-kickstarter-employees-formed-union/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23366174

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by pixelcort in "Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients"

pixelcort — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 22:38:31 +0000

ECMO machines can do this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen...

New comment by pixelcort in "Efforts to change the Japanese culture of extreme work weeks"

pixelcort — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:06:09 +0000

There’s another rush hour between 9 and 11 pm.

Another way to confirm this is to compare with the morning rush hour. Way more crowded as most people start work at around the same time (most companies have a starting time of 9 or 10 am).

New comment by pixelcort in "Efforts to change the Japanese culture of extreme work weeks"

pixelcort — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:00:28 +0000

Yes, and only for a plan to take ten days spread over three months. Apparently that’s bad enough for people to demand a resignation.

New comment by pixelcort in "Efforts to change the Japanese culture of extreme work weeks"

pixelcort — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:42:10 +0000

One additional challenge that will need to be addressed in Japan is unreported overtime (サービス残業). Often my friends, upon preparing for a day off, will work about 8 hours of overtime beforehand and not report it on the time and attendance systems at their companies. From my understanding, unreported overtime is not always reflected in most statistics; even when self reporting I bet many people forget all the unreported overtime they do. Another example is rounding down: work 2.5 hours of overtime but only report 2.

I’m not sure what the solution is, but one idea is to lock out work laptops after a time limit, or at least record overtime when a work laptop is being used.

Until we can begin to accurately track and measure the unreported overtime, we won’t be able to improve it.

Finally, I think working in multicultural teams helps. When you see your peers have diverse beliefs and actions about work and life, you may be more willing to take more time off, and more accurately report the overtime you do take.

New comment by pixelcort in "HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience"

pixelcort — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 22:29:32 +0000

In the article they mention that:

> You definitely want to consider using these attributes if you are building a login form with the username and password on different pages.

New comment by pixelcort in "Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route"

pixelcort — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:48:26 +0000

In Tokyo, when I have the choice between an above ground train or a below ground option, I tend to choose the above ground choice if I have time and it’s not too much slower. This way I can enjoy the view and avoid the subway tunnel noise. I’d love software that would factor these things in too.

New comment by pixelcort in "Stop Using Internet Explorer"

pixelcort — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:03:27 +0000

I am able to load Shinsei in Chrome earlier this year, was this a recent change? Do you mean banking or another service?

New comment by pixelcort in "Enabling developers and organizations to use differential privacy"

pixelcort — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:39:35 +0000

In addition to Differential Privacy, Secure Multiparty Computation is another way to maintain privacy, while allowing computation across multiple users.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computati...

The benefit of this is that you can get an exact computation, whereas with differential privacy the output is rougher.

The benefit of differential privacy is that it does not rely on the trust of a majority of other users; you can theoretically verify that a certain percent of the time your device sends out a wrong answer.