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New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

x62Bh7948f — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:59:05 +0000

I haven’t bought a lot of DVDs lately, but the ones I have all were from used DVD stores. I think the artists were paid once.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

x62Bh7948f — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 08:45:27 +0000

It was such a long time ago that the people who made the mistake have already retired, maybe.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Consider Knitting"

x62Bh7948f — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:31:54 +0000

>I got into knitting a few years after the pandemic.

So very recently?

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "What If We Made Advertising Illegal?"

x62Bh7948f — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:15:59 +0000

This idea immediately reminded me of “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” by James Tiptree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Was_Plugged_In

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Using GPS in the Year 1565"

x62Bh7948f — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:54:53 +0000

A friend worked on something similar for historic maps of Japan

https://stroly.com/ja/search?keyword=History

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Apple courier may have stolen 2 MacBooks, ... Apple is not going to help"

x62Bh7948f — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:25:32 +0000

Since I had some trouble getting my credit card accepted at the apple store I always order my apple products by phone and pay with cash on delivery. When the delivery person comes with the box and leaves with the cash it feels good.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can't"

x62Bh7948f — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:38:49 +0000

WALDO: Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-Lying Detectable Objects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723311

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Ham Imports"

x62Bh7948f — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 05:46:04 +0000

There was a more or less visible campaign against Chinese made radios recently in Japan (mostly due to transmitting without a license and also the fact that the transmission itself caused a lot of noise in a wide spectrum. I’m not a ham but I’m interested in radios, so my terminology and what I understood about the “offending” transceivers might not be accurate) The popular Baofeng UV-5R (or a close model/clone) is available at Amazon and Rakuten, but I got cold feet about buying one of the noisy units and be visited by the Radio G Men. The price of Japanese made units is 5 times more, but on the review sites I consulted, they all agree the quality is worth the price (I looked for Yaesu units). Related: Japanese news segment about illegal transceivers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNGSJFSMvlA

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Arc Browser 1.0"

x62Bh7948f — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:11:59 +0000

I tried Orion a while ago: in that version background tabs with YouTube on pause made the bottom of my m1 air get very hot. I really liked that it supported chrome extensions but battery life was not great. I’ll give it another go now that I’ve been using arc for some time.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)"

x62Bh7948f — Sun, 28 May 2023 02:41:55 +0000

I live in a country where annual checkups are mandatory (companies are fined by the government a lot of money for each employee who does not get it done). I've been told a couple times now that something is a bit off, not too concerning by itself, but it requires more tests to rule out suspects from a list. had a lot of blood tests done, nothing unusual came up, still being regularly told to keep doing tests in between checkups. I can say perhaps one of the upsides is I get nudged by the doctors to keep a healthy lifestyle.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Bilingualism affords no general cognitive advantages: Study"

x62Bh7948f — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 02:00:20 +0000

Here in Japan I often hear stories about kids raised bilingual being put into special needs classes because some schools consider it a cognitive impairment. Since my family lives abroad, I would like to teach my kids english at home and only use it in private settings, but feels weird having to hide something like that (also, half kids are sort of "expected" to speak english anyway).

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Scunthorpe Problem"

x62Bh7948f — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:13:07 +0000

It happened to me some time ago but a bit different: I made an anagram with my last name + first name and then I tried to create several online accounts with it. I was registering a discord account but turns out part of one word in the anagram had an offensive term from the 50s that I wasn't aware of and btw it was discriminatory of my own race! so I felt bad for having an outdated kind of racist new mail address.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "The Age of PageRank Is Over"

x62Bh7948f — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 23:56:04 +0000

I’ve been using orion for a while, but sometimes with a couple of YouTube tabs open the bottom of my M1 MacBook Air gets uncomfortably hot.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Aizuchi: Does your listening make Japanese people uncomfortable? (2013)"

x62Bh7948f — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 23:32:15 +0000

My Japanese PM from three years ago had a case of extreme aizuchi. He would say hai every three to four of my words, made me think -is he really listening to what I’m saying?

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?"

x62Bh7948f — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 08:04:09 +0000

a common account registration pattern in Japan involves presenting a QR code containing a mailto link. The user scans it, sends an empty mail (the details for the subject are already in the mailto link) and a reply comes up with a temporary user. The user can then define a username or password. Sometimes this pattern creates the username and password randomly.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Show HN: Japanese Complete Book 1 Released"

x62Bh7948f — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:02:27 +0000

I remember trying a wanikani chrome extension that did something similar (Wanikanify), but it was no good for my study style

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Show HN: Japanese Complete Book 1 Released"

x62Bh7948f — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:57:05 +0000

might be helpful for beginners. after learning Japanese for a while I've developed some "tastes" (I don't know how to put it). reading the sample explanations on your website, writing Japanese vocabulary in romaji feels wrong. I'd go for having it in hiragana for simplicity (bunsetsu jars...) I don't know how useful the -kanji situated in english context- would be. in my experience having the Japanese context is way better to learn kanji, once one has learned enough vocabulary. The kanji origin story (with the proto-kanji, chinese writing, etc) might be better for advanced courses (is it available for all kanji on your book?) I'd try to avoid having native language "crutches" as much as possible.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient"

x62Bh7948f — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 01:07:04 +0000

I don’t think Google’s AI is close to being sentient. Being able to generate “convincing” phrases from prompts is not that relevant to judge whether it is “conscious” or not. As a simple elimination game I would propose a series of word games: explain basic rules and see if it gets it right. Explain mistakes and see if it can learn on the go. A sentient AI with the intelectual level to claim “being afraid of being turned off” can surely learn a couple rules for a kid’s game. If after that it keeps going, let’s try having it explain the game to someone else. Then I would think of more elaborate rules, asking for motivations and trying to figure out if there are any changes in its self perception over time. It was very unfortunate and unprofessional of Lemoine to make such claims without putting proper reasoning to it.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard"

x62Bh7948f — Mon, 16 May 2022 01:17:24 +0000

I'd sacrifice having a screen for more palmrest space. If I were to use this for terminal-only work, a 65% layout with no trackball would be perfect.

New comment by x62Bh7948f in "Magnitude 7.3 earthquake off the Coast of Fukushima Prefecture"

x62Bh7948f — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:20:05 +0000

I felt a 3-ish small one for about 5 seconds and then it was over. About a minute later it began again but this time it was definitely over 4 (I’m in Tokyo). It was long too, almost a minute I think (by the end it was not so strong, maybe 4-5 during the first 15 seconds or so)