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Vietnam is one of the most anti-China countries

Just a decent set of tools for overhauling a bicycle cost me more than my Switch + games.

It’s aimed at Japan in at least one way: the person you need to convince that it’s necessary to have a game console in the house is Mom. It’s why the Switch is designed for and marketed aggressively towards women and children, and why it’s a huge success.

Keirin bikes need to be built out of approved frames and parts, I’m surprised there isn’t a road racing category with similar rules

Wasps are new to me too, but grasshoppers cooked in soy sauce and sugar are speciality of Nagano

That was all the smoking and lack of micro plastics

I noticed extreme DNR as far back as the iPhone5. There isn’t really anything they can do about it, the camera sensor is tiny

The last time I got a new computer with bad caps was 2010-11. Between that and ROHS solder, the mid 00s were a Bad Time

> how could something like this possible be avoided?

Give up on trying to accommodate everyone.

> making the avatar overtly feminine

In the 90s, I spent plenty of time around the type of person who might see Clippy is a male predator, and they would certainly have had a problem with the assistant being feminine.

The prime minister being driven in a 2nd generation Century in 2016:

https://youtu.be/dIh15Ptymyg

It's the equivalent of the US president being driven around in a 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood

They can ask you to stop filming, and you're free to say no, just like you are to any other civilian

High MP rapidly shows the flaws / limitations of lenses and the photographer’s technique. Phone cameras use a ton of image processing to hide these and the limitations of the small sensor. That’s not even mentioning the rapidly finishing returns; 100MP only gives images twice as large as 24mp crop cameras for 4x the disk space needed to store and processing power needed to edit the pictures.

I'd question if public sentiment was ever pro-Abe; he regularly antagonized and taxed the middle class while doing little or nothing to help them, even during the COVID pandemic. His connection to the Moonies is just the icing on the cake. Everyone has a relative or knows someone who lost all their money to a cult.

I'm mostly impressed by the guy from Dune 2, he looks like a real person!

> Pre-AI Nikon is cheaper

No it’s not! Pre-Ai Nikon lenses are also made out of toxic metal that will break modern cameras!

There’s a great photo from the 70s of a football player resting during the super bowl halftime, enjoying a smoke and a beer

“Weekly” is the keyword. I live in a city where it’s normal to go shopping every 1-2 days, and city bikes have a basket that will fit that amount of groceries. It’s not as inconvenient as it sounds because there is usually a grocery store within walking and definitely one within biking distance.

It always tickled me that James Bond in all of the dam scenes is very obviously not Pierce Brosnan. It's all part of the fun!

Digital sensors get noise instead of reciprocity failure. That’s why the original Acros was so loved for long exposures

There's a thin filter on top of the sensor of every digital camera that can affect lenses designed for film, but I personally only know of 1-2 lenses where it makes a marked difference.

In terms of underperforming, it's hard to define underperforming. Regardless of what some guy on a blog thinks, I have had many clients comment about how impressed they were with portraits I took of them with lenses from 1971 and 1993, and 0 complain about how the same lenses' corners look soft when shooting a test chart wide-open then blowing it up to 400%.

Is there an enemy of the CIA who isn’t a pedo or rapist?

I wish more of the people who are sad now were sad when Toshio Akagi killed himself

It’s not mentioned in the article, but Toyota owns 20% of Subaru

Regardless of how much money they throw around, the list of China’s friends in Asia is much shorter than the list of countries that would literally rather burn to the ground than bend the knee to a Chinese emperor again, and I think that’s a big problem for their aspirations of being a major player in geopolitics.

The average wage in Japan is roughly twice as much as then, so about 200k in today's money

normal battery G-shocks are rated to last 2-3 years

You don’t have to kill anything to advance, I try not to considering how harmless the chestnut men and how friendly the turtles become in later games

The F-15 was way ahead of any other fighter jet for years because someone managed to convince whoever was paying that the MiG-25 was a super plane (it really wasn’t)

Yes, and published specs of weapons are likely to be misleading or outright lies for that reason

When I used Gnome3 on a HiDPI notebook fonts looked fine once I switched my interface font to a newer Helvetica and turned all of the system font smoothing feature off