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by cbracken 9mo ago
While most developers may dislike the imperial calendar, all of my bank/brokerage statements display dates using it, as do tax/pension forms. It's definitely still in heavy use for some very important data. On a similar note,
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by cbracken 1y ago
In my mind, Yamada Denki is the absolute worst. I bought a washing machine there in 2004 and, almost entirely due to the song, have been back maybe once since then. I remember at the time telling my wife I couldn't imagine what working
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by cbracken 2y ago
If you enjoyed 1Q84, and haven't yet read the Wind-up Bird Chronicle, there's a little bit of a connection you might enjoy. The first Murakami book I read was Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and it's still on
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by cbracken 2y ago
Some very old remotes used what effectively amounted to high frequency tuning forks. Example: https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remot...
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by cbracken 2y ago
Wonderous is an app we've pointed people to in the past. I believe the current iOS release on the App Store uses the newer Impeller rendering engine instead of Skia, but I could be wrong. App Store: https://apps.apple.com&#x
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by cbracken 3y ago
In Japanese it’s called both 小型月着陸実証機 (roughly: small moon lander probe) pronounced “ko-gata tsuki chakuriku jisshōki” or スリム (SLIM). It’s not uncommon to have an English name alongside the Japanese one for some scientific projects but not
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by cbracken 3y ago
> not using the card purchase UI at train stations is confusing. Agreed that the UI for Japanese train ticket machines can be confusing for first-time users such as foreign visitors, but foreign visitors aren't the primary use case.
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by cbracken 4y ago
I know someone mentioned Lynx, another option is to set up your mailcap to view using w3m. For reference, see .config/mutt/{muttrc,mailcap} here: https://git.bracken.jp/dotfiles/files.html
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by cbracken 4y ago
Hey there - Flutter team member here. Support for integrating arbitrary non-flutter views/widgets (referred to as PlatformViews in Flutter terminology) is something we're actively working on at the moment, once we've got them
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by cbracken 4y ago
The process that caused the light we see as the CMB happened everywhere in the universe roughly all at once. At the time, from any given point, you'd just have seen blinding light but as things cooled, you'd see a sphere expanding
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by cbracken 4y ago
Quoting from Wikipedia [1]: The conviction rate is 99.3%. By only stating this high conviction rate it is often misunderstood as too high—however, this high conviction rate drops significantly when accounting for the fact that Japanese pros
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by cbracken 4y ago
If you take a look at how Flutter is implemented, you'll see that at the bottommost layer (dart:ui), it is imperative. On top of that, we built the rendering/painting layers (pretty imperative) and then the widgets layer (reactive
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by cbracken 4y ago
Edit: for some reason I'd interpreted the question as being about cycling. Leaving in case it's useful for cyclists or motorcyclists. I've done a lot of cycling across various bits of Japan, from shorter day trips on the orde
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by cbracken 4y ago
Reminds me a bit of using a Canadian credit card in the US and occasionally being prompted to enter your zip code. Canadian postal codes are an alternating sequence of six letters and numbers (A1A 1A1). Turns out that in most cases, you can
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by cbracken 4y ago
Some countries [1], [2] provide government-sanctioned medically assisted death for qualifying patients. What makes you believe these sorts of programmes can't be adopted more widely? [1]: https://www.canada.ca/en/h
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by cbracken 4y ago
Japanese companies often include both a commuting allowance and a housing allowance as distinct components of your pay; neither is counted as income for the purposes of taxation. Meals at company cafeterias are typically not free (though so
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by cbracken 4y ago
Hey there. I'm an engineer working on Flutter Desktop. We're definitely aware of the macOS cursor behaviour issue and are looking at ways we can fix it. We haven't landed anything (that I'm aware of) that should improve
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by cbracken 4y ago
Thanks for reporting this. IME-based input is super important to me -- we only speak Japanese at home. I've filed a bug [1]. I manually tested on each of Windows, macOS, Linux, and iOS (where I've done a lot of work specific to CJ
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by cbracken 4y ago
You might be thinking of this package, authored by Google, mostly by people on the Flutter team but it's not an official Flutter project (as far as I know): https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_simple_treeview (Discla
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by cbracken 4y ago
Hey there! I work on Flutter for desktop. I'm happy to provide a little background. We made a decision early on to focus where those of us who work on Flutter could deliver the most value, and for Desktop that meant getting the runtime
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by cbracken 5y ago
Agreed -- the use of the word college (instead of university), high school (instead of secondary or cegep), and a few other cues suggest he probably didn't grow up in Canada.
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by cbracken 5y ago
During the pre-smartphone days, at least, I found Japanese input to be much more efficient than English/French due to the need to input far fewer characters to say the same thing. The difference was signficant enough that if I was writ
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by cbracken 5y ago
This is also quite dependent on which part of Japan we're discussing. As an example, while my daughter's record of birth in Tokyo is a printout of a digital record, my son's record of birth in Kyoto is hand-written, and other
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by cbracken 5y ago
Yes, the Home Hub includes both a screen reader and touch exploration mode.
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by cbracken 6y ago
As a Canadian who has been in the US close to 10 years, this is the first I've heard of this! I had always assumed the flag was meant to be set by the letter carrier in some bygone era as a courtesy to let residents know they had mail.
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by cbracken 6y ago
On the plus side, kunrei-shiki romanisation, which is the official government style and has been standardised as ISO 3602, is in practice ignored even by that Japanese government. In terms of nails on blackboards, I ask that you bathe for a
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by cbracken 7y ago
> Does the sun rotate at all or it's 'static' from our perspective? It does, though not being a rigid body, the rate of rotation is a function of latitude. Near the equator, the period of rotation is ~24 days. As you near
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by cbracken 7y ago
That seems to imply an assumption of lack of good faith, unless I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying. While there’s no doubt that one can find cases to which this applies, I’d think that applying that broadly to the vast majority of peopl
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by cbracken 8y ago
He states that he created the account in Canada [1], though may have used it from Iran. [1] https://twitter.com/a_h_a/status/1075691620081623041
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by cbracken 8y ago
I'm also a Flutter contributer and code entirely in vim. I use dart-vim-plugin for syntax highlighting and 'flutter analyze --watch' for live analysis. If you're after code completion, vim-lsc plugin combined with dart_l

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