I wish I could tell my PM let’s go back to the old delivery schedule so I can read the whole thing and not just generate code, tests and documentation at breakneck speed.
Have you seen the Japanese ads for chatgpt? The rapping is awful I don’t know if that’s because of Japanese rappers, AI lyrics or just the music itself it’s just so forced
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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)
I bought the second generation Fire TV around January 2020 and at the time it was decent. Last year when the UI update came it became very laggy. It would take ten seconds or more to play a movie in Netflix, when on a PC it would load instantly. It became worse gradually until I gave up.
most ramen places around my office (gotanda) could be considered fast food. customers usually go alone to eat in about 10 minutes and back to work (no time to talk). udon restaurants with no seats at all are also very common. that makes you eat even faster
I remember reading about airless tires back when I was in high school and it seemed like the concept was ready for mass production in a couple years. That was around 2004~5 ish. I wonder how much has changed and how close are others, like bridgestone.