I got the two fingers making an x sign a handful when I was in Japan. It’s really not a big deal and it never felt malicious. You just move on, though it does kind of suck when you’re hungry!
It shouldn't be taken personally. It just means that they don't speak English, don't have an English menu, and are not staffed enough to be able to devote the time for understanding you.
Indeed. And it's not always final... I've not had it ever happen to me at a place that serves food, but I also generally only hear about it happening at bars/night clubs and I don't drink so never had a reason to visit one. I suspect a lot might change their stance if you just say you speak Japanese... it's not like you need to know a lot for basic food ordering anyway. The closest related experience I did have was one time I was with a friend taking him to an outdoor idol concert, a guy saw us coming and came up trying to shoo us back / something about no entry, but I just told him in Japanese that I have a ticket and the QR code was already ready to go on my phone. Immediately it's "right this way".
I also remain convinced most of the anti-foreigner tourism sentiment is anti-Chinese tourism sentiment. For westerners who can behave, it's still a great place to visit. (Though skipping Kyoto wouldn't be a bad idea.)
I’m interested based on the title but I have no idea how to use it. I think a placeholder prompt or basic instruction would go a long way, otherwise it just looks like a chatGPT clone
A chat interface seems like the wrong approach for something like this. This feels like an guided agent interface, the way we interact with nutrionists or personal trainers.
If you need help with these things, a blank page is a bad way to start.
Yeah, I’m not sure if BNPL loans have changed in the last decade at all but the financiers make money on the people who don’t pay the balance by the end of the term. I’ve financed a couple expensive electronics when it made more sense in my younger days and the terms were such that if you don’t pay it off by the end of the term, you owed ~24% of the total bill in interest.
We do. PA politics are the absolute worst. Democrats are useless, and republicans perfected the art of voting for absolutely nothing positive, then call for privatization. As a cherry on top they loathe the cities, which are the core of the states economic engine.
Same experience here. It was shocking how bad Airbnb’s customer service was. When 95% of the stays are good it doesn’t matter but that one bad stay soured me on the company entirely
I got a ‘meaningful’ tattoo on my 18th birthday. I don’t fully relate to it with the same passion 20 years later. I still like it though for different reasons. It’s a snapshot of who I was and what I stood for when I got it. Tbh I don’t regret it at all and mostly forget I even have the thing. I think I’m lucky to have a mindset to appreciate that permanence, a lot of people end up regretting ‘meaningful’ tattoos once they lose their meaning.
They’re different tools. If I were building a JS server for a backend, I’d use Express. Next gives you things like server side rendering and static site generation out of the box, and abstracts/blurs the line between server and client code through its paradigms. For better or for worse.
The deploy infrastructure is quite nice. Nextjs is surprisingly low config, even if you forego the Vercel deployment route it’s not difficult to generate a static site or docker container
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