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by cattlefarmer 6y ago
Here in Japan, you can hire people to resign your job for you. https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642597968/for-450-this-japane... You want something even weirder? There's also a service where you can h
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by cattlefarmer 6y ago
I don't mean this as a joke, but I thought people generally hated car salesmen? Here in Japan, the manufacturers do actually set a recommended retail price that is slightly higher that what dealers often sell at. Example using the Suba
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by cattlefarmer 6y ago
I used to be of the opinion that it doesn't affect me directly so I don't care. But as more of us don't care, it becomes more common place, and then our (more gullible) relatives start taking in this information and will not
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The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office(arstechnica.com)
111 points by cattlefarmer 7y ago|8 comments
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
Yes, emoji is literally Japanese. 絵文字 meaning 'picture as words'. Invented for use in Japanese pagers, later proliferating to mobile phones long before smartphones even existed [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
Likely something not backed by a corporation with big bags of money.
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
Yes, the worst thing is the huge amount of decision making even over very minor details that has to be done all the time. Coding and maintaining the servers isn't even that difficult. It's all the little stuff like scheduling with
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
> This is well-known now. Please avoid this. Let me preface this by saying that I have no idea who Epstein is except that he's some rich, white guy that got caught up in some kind of sex scandal, was arrested and is now dead. I&#x27
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
The world stood around and did nothing as China put Uighurs into concentration camps. Why would this be any different?
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
A pragmatist would lay down and take it, while preparing to emigrate out of HK as soon as possible.
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
That link is blocked outside the US. here's a mirror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljxEb3H0Ic
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
Jeremy Clarkson's surprisingly positive review[0] of the i8 made me want to take a second look at it, which I did. It was just as nice and pleasant as JC said it'd be, but there were two problems. It was twice the price of an M3&#
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
In Japan during the 3/11 earthquake, the only way people were able to stay in touch was via Twitter and other online chat apps (LINE, Viber, etc). The phone lines couldn't handle the load. Maybe the proliferation of more 5G towers
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What tally sticks tell us about how money works(bbc.com)
2 points by cattlefarmer 7y ago|0 comments
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
I'm not even complaining about the ads. Where's the content? Apple is recommending developers switch out bash to zsh in anticipation of this change. That's it? Not even a 'Here's a Bash to ZSH migration' tu
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
Those background checks don't seem to be working. Lots of 'yankees' running around in pimped up centuries. https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AD%...
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
It's not often one can claim to have saved the company tens of thousands of dollars in operating costs each month just by tweaking a few AWS settings. I definitely miss being able to work on such a large volume of data but at least I
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
One more datapoint here if you care. The industry is filled with hugely interesting technical challenges even if you're not at FAANG scale. Trivial things like building a cost efficient delivery infrastructure to reducing the number of
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
There's also the little problem where when your eyeballs are up for auction, the ones putting in bids don't have any relevant inventory targeting you so all the network can do nothing is default to whatever fallback ads they have,
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
There's one for CSS too. https://github.com/hashanp/postcss-spiffing
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by cattlefarmer 7y ago
I stopped paying to attention to politics about 5 years ago and am very surprised to learn that the major opposition party (DPJ?) has essentially fractured into multiple, smaller parties, all using a variation of the same name. At this poin
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Using spinach leaf as scaffolding, scientists built a mini heart (2017)(news.nationalgeographic.com)
74 points by cattlefarmer 7y ago|13 comments
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Job That Will Let You Do Whatever You Want in a Swedish Train Station, Forever(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by cattlefarmer 7y ago|0 comments
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Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products(arstechnica.com)
205 points by cattlefarmer 8y ago|264 comments
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by cattlefarmer 8y ago
But you do need a college degree if you're planning to migrate to most developed countries.
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by cattlefarmer 8y ago
Back in uni, I wanted to be a motorcycle designer. I managed to get into Honda Japan's internship program, which was essentially a 3 day long interview process. They give you some design specs on the first day and then lock you in a ro
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by cattlefarmer 8y ago
Unless there are some glaring work performance issues that need to be fixed, I talk about about hobbies and how they're spending their free time. I'm interested in their mental health and want to know if they're able to do wh
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by cattlefarmer 8y ago
I started investing last year, mainly indexes and tech stocks. Everything is in the red except Tesla, which is exactly the reverse of what it was the entire year until recent events which I found weirdly ironic. Overall, I'm down about
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by cattlefarmer 8y ago
No, the LED and IR are in different locations which means the internal mounts are probably different too.
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by cattlefarmer 8y ago
Absent founder. The non-tech founder hired a typical consulting/dev-shop to build the initial prototype. When completed, he hired the engineers that worked on the project into his company and let them manage themselves. He drops in onc

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