I agree with your first paragraph. I don't eat with other people often but if a shop asked me not to talk when being with someone else I would just go elsewhere. Also I suspect the writer of the article put lot of efforts searching for such a shop because the only place I ever saw with the mokushoku policy is one of the university cafeteria and people (including me) don't follow it anyway. There is also a lot of plastic, which is useless but in line of the Japanese mentality of doing things for the sake of doing them instead of the impact it has on the output.
At some point we'll have to go in Bruxelles & Strasbourg to "have a talk" with those parliamentarians and reclaim our freedom. Is this what they are searching for, to justify even harsher laws if popular revolt fails? Or just harass even more political opponents by finding them automatically? All this crap is not gonna end well...
It's not even their worst attempt. In France, those fringe "woke" people are advocating a forked version of French which is written with a lot of dots everywhere to display genders simultaneously. For example: "Bonjour à tou.s.tes les étudiant.e.s." which is very hard to read even for non-dyslexic people. The normal people are fighting it but they succeeded to promote that crap via a ministry and lot of universities are writing their emails like that.
In France it's GAFAM that is most used, which makes sense since Microsoft is way more influential on the tech scene than Netflix, which is just a content provider.
It's a web browser only issue. In other cases such as a text processor document or local app a font is explicitly used by any run of text so there is no problem. This issue is the web being what it is, most of the time there is no font explicitly specified for text and the browser use a Chinese-looking font to display any Chinese characters.
No, the wide characters (it's their name) are special code points. I guess it exists because someone wanted to be able to use one letter in place of a Japanese character while using the same width. The "normal" letters are called "half-width" here.
If you were really curious you would use MacOS bare metal as shipped out of the box, with Linux running in a VM instead of wishing for premises you know won't happen.
Also contrary to what is often professed here, a landing page is not a product. If you lure me to your website and there is no download and only a textbox to extract a personal information from me to spam me in the future, you just lost my present and future respect. Don't waste people's time like this please.
Not totally true. I'm still asking questions from time to time to people because I'm confused about place or how to do things (I'm living in a foreign country). Depending on the context some people are glad to converse instead of being on their phones. Creating long term relationships is very hard, but small talk isn't much harder than before.
Lot of words for something that does already exist (C# for instance requires the first character of an identifier to be a letter or underscore but then most Unicode characters can be used), implemented in a more generic way (not limited to only three alphabets).
Anybody who had a feet for more than 5 minutes in a lab know he's right.
Heck I can't even challenge my own supervisors when they make swallow statements that are in fact contradicted by a bunch of papers, how could I get funding from external entities by submitting socially unpopular ideas? Impossible, especially in highly politicized fields.
I'm a grad student and I don't know what you are talking about. The local library software is not better than Google Scholar, in fact it's only good when you know what you want to find already and there is a paper version in some of the libraries of the university (top-3 of the country). Otherwise GS and Sci-hub are doing the job very fine.
> Also unclear why we still need vaccine mandates when we have a cure.
Corruption. It always have been the alpha and omega of this whole vaccine story, minus the part where governments went on-board as a way to restrict citizens right.
Mozilla is funded at 90+% by Google, whatever they spend it's mostly Google's money originally so it doesn't make sense to count them as a separate entity investing on that front.
That will not help you now, but I think a support network / company for canceled people shoud be established. There is a ton of people who are living in the fear of losing pretty much everything in a context of ever shifting political and medical Overton window, and then there are those like you to which it happened. Such a company may have difficulty to make business in the Western world, but the rest world usually don't care so it can be economically viable.
> I now have this vague feeling that Rust is a religious cult
I had this feeling from the very beginning just by the tone of its zealots here and elsewhere. My theory is that since the language is very hard to learn but doesn't provide a lot of tangible benefits (memory safety exists in most mainstream languages fot decades), the sunk cost fallacy hits very hard. Then the only way to get some benefits for the time spent is to recruit new comers in a sort of pyramidal scheme structured around experience in the language. This way the zealots become priests and are compensated in form of social status. Of course, the whole scheme cramble if nobody joins, which is why the community is so aggressive (RIIR, vocal advocating, etc.) with the non-believers.
It's fast now because a bunch of mega-corps (Google, Apple, Microsoft before dropping the ball) put a huge investment in making JavaScript interpreters fast.
This so much. How I do "modern website": one HTML file, linking a typescript lib (if required). Optionally said page is generated by ASP.net Core. Database if required. So, ranging from 1 to 4 tech (not counting CSS), only one being compiled.
> Isn’t it just easier [...] to require people to [do what I think is right] rather than debate [...]?
- said every soviet officers ever.
You might not believe in democracy, but this is still a better system than autocracy. Even if you were right (hint: you're not), this is setting a very dangerous precedent than can and will be abused down the line.
> really unclear guidance from numerous sources who all really wanted you to use THEIR stack and thus end up paying THEM
Sorry but at this point it is hard to believe you are posting in good faith and not trolling. Even back in the Windows only days the runtime was free and there was free dev tools (VS C# Express). Mono was free too, and open source. I know no paying runtime and I've been using the language and tools as a daily driver for a decade.
It's been possible to build micro-services in ASP.net Core running on Linux (and in Docker containers) for the last 3 years very easily.
This comment is very caricatural. I got multiple university degrees from my country where it's almost free and I learned a lot during the bachelor ones. Master not so much by that nice to have too.