Nice. I've started picking up F# too and am trying AoC with it this year. I'm still early in my functional journey, but I think AoC has been helpful thus far.

Hmm, good observation. I guess the site supports Hepburn-romanized names. I believe adding support Kunrei-shiki and maybe Nihon-shiki names too would resolve this issue pretty well.

Given that it's an English site, I'm unsure of the value of supporting the original Japanese names too, but of course it would be neat if it did.

(More info about Japanese romanization for any interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#Moder...)

Thank you, as I might have overlooked this downside had it not been for this comment.

The article doesn't make this immediately clear:

> It's a 24.6MP camera that Sony says doesn't compromise on ISO performance or dynamic range.

Then later:

> This might explain the base ISO of 250, which will ultimately limit the camera's maximum dynamic range.

Sounds like a compromise to me...

My brief experience:

AI: こんにちは。今日はどこに行くんですか？ Me: 今日は家にいますよ。 AI: それは素晴らしいご安全に。 [?!]

Very strange reply.

Me: よく出かけたりしますか。 AI: そうです。私は新しい場所を探索するのが好きです。

Good that the たりします form didn't trip it up.

AI: こんにちは。今日はどこに行くんですか？ Me: 三重県に行こうかなと思っていましたが、今回は愛知県にしました。楽しみです。 AI: 愛知県はとても良いところです。きっと楽しい時間を過ごせると思います。楽しみにしていることはありますか？ Me: 特にないかな。訪れてみたいと思っただけなんです。. AI: さて、愛知は見どころがたくさんありますね。名古屋城、トヨタ自動車博物館、そしてもちろん明治村の野外博物館もあります。 Me: なるほど。行かれたことはありますか。 AI: いや、まだチャンスがないんだ。でも、いい噂は聞いていますよ。

Not bad. It didn't falter with my 三重県のひっかけ either. The んだ felt a bit odd, but pretty solid.

AI: こんにちは！今日はどこに行くんですか？ Me: 今のところ、目的地は特にありません。 AI: では、今のところ、目的地は特にありません。 [笑] Me: そういう感じなんです。すみません。. AI: 大丈夫ですよ。あなたがどこに行きたいか、お手伝いしますよ。 Me: 愛知県内で自然がたくさんあるところに行きたいかな。 AI: 愛知県内には自然がたくさんあるんですよ。どこか特定の場所をお探しですか？

Line 3 was pretty odd, but again not bad beyond that.

It's a good start, at least. It could be interesting to see how this develops.

I'm really enjoying the direction .NET and particularly C# have been heading, and I agree it's, personally, been a joy to work with.

I'm looking forward to the new Visual Studio for Mac coming out of preview, though I should try Rider more too.

I just have a big complain, as the pace of .NET ecosystem and its languages increased (and Java as well), I kind of have to garbage collect my knowledge of other languages to be able to keep up and get brain storage place.

Lovely! I agree with others that this is promising. Thanks for sharing.

One point of feedback: Searching for "C#" seems to bring up C articles and no C# ones, so I suspect perhaps the "#" isn't being included.

You might be aware, but it's possible to watch YouTube videos at faster speeds by entering certain simple JavaScript snippets into the browser's console. Just in case it helps.

Unfortunately faster than 2x speed starts to overrun my ability to parse human speech =/ Maybe if I practiced...

Yes, same here. I only use offline, open source programs.

Thank you for this post.

> Over time, I stopped caring as much about the news and became more easily satisfied by very briefly reading summaries every few days.

Do you have any particular habits or resources for getting news summaries, or do you just check regular news site less frequently?