Been buying up DVDs and Blu-rays that are cheap of movies I like or have heard a lot about. Experienced the whole no one is streaming it this time so just buying the discs and never looking back has been my thing.
I work in various Japanese offices and I can say that some really dedicated Japanese bosses/leaders that spoke English as good as you if not better were great to do business with. I think a lot of the problem in doing business is that both sides think the other is playing by the same rules because of the language being used. Experience and time in Japan has taught me the rules of Japanese business that I didn't know (can't exactly list them all).
The secret my English teaching friends have tried to share with me when I ask them how do you get your students better is for the students to "try" more. All pro athletes never did their best initially and so language learning is the same thing.
The only thing I have against translation by AI is that it'll end up replacing thought if you're not careful. I think using it to double check your understanding is fine (like a calculator for math) but understanding nuance/culture is helpful.
Being that I am in Japan I wouldn't mind conversing in English (written or spoken) with you.
Having spent so many years in Japan I have found the same attitude about jaywalking. Though, there are crosswalks on long streets where pedestrians can wait and drivers are taught to stop at if someone is waiting to cross. I haven't seen much reason to jaywalk here in Japan.
It really depends on where you are in Japan (and each individual crosswalk).
I've encountered plenty of places where jaywalking is necessary to save a long detour of a walk. Though those places are pretty clear of traffic. High traffic places where one might want to jaywalk? Pedestrian bridges are built there. So nice.
I similarly find that at most crosswalk, most people stop for you. Also nice.
The only not nice thing? At completely empty intersection on tiny little backroads, pedestrians STILL wait for the light to turn green. Thus making me look like some rebel if I boldly walk or bicycle across the absolutely empty intersection through a red light.
Touchscreens, door handles, cameras, etc. are what most of the new car buyers are wanting. "Most" but obviously not "all". If I was a salesperson trying to show off a new EV to a customer and it was like a car from circa 2000 that would be difficult. If they had a car that was low on modern tech they would wonder what is so great about a "new" car? If they have a recent model they would wonder why should I give up my current car for this "lesser" car? Thus EVs try to be as premium as possible to convience buyers the vehicle is better.
The people who would gain the most from EVs will probably get them when they start to be more common and cheap. Think how long it took for cheap Honda Civics to hit the road from when the first Fords rolled off the line. Of course, it'll probably be quicker this time around.
I don't know, I think most people just want a cheap car. Dacia sold an absolute metric tonne of the Sandero and Duster, and these cars didn't even have AC in the base spec for the longest time. A basic cheap EV would do the same(and in fact it does already - Dacia offers the Spring following the same philosophy, apparently it is selling really well).
As a user who is in an asian region I have all my machines set to that region. However, from time to time there are cases where dates that need to be in USA format are automatically converted to match my region. Go back, edit them, save and they're formatted again. This isn't consistent enough of a problem for me so I don't have a list of programs that do it.
I'm big on #2 and #3 myself. I'm willing to accept that there are windows of time they can travel to with little risk (timelines, people, events, etc.). Also, the idea that proving time travel is possible by visiting people in previous times would be potentially dangerous or impossible (any uncontrollable variables lead to disbelief of individual).
Good to see it has moved so much from just JavaScript being the main target. I like the small scheme portable idea a lot. For those requiring just a minimal scheme this works.
IIRC (might be wrong here) we had full support for JS, C, Python and Scheme from the start. As it evolved I'm unsure how support was kept throughout the versions but I know a much larger set of languages now support the runtime, at least for a subset of the features.
> IIRC (might be wrong here) we had full support for JS, C, Python and Scheme from the start
I'm pretty sure we had support for JS, C, Python from the beginning as well. Then Scheme, posix shell, assembly came along for the ride.
> I'm unsure how support was kept throughout the versions but I know a much larger set of languages now support the runtime, at least for a subset of the features
I noticed this as well. It seems as if they were trying to control the meals in terms of major identifiable items with less obvious items being the variables that would make the meal HFLC/LFHC. Seems like a understandable method to me given the hypothesis. They were testing the macros while keeping the meals "looking" similar . I wonder, if it weren't snacks, pizza, bread, crips, biscuits/cookie based would it be vastly different.
My belief going into it is that changing them would have had an impact. The results of both groups I imagine are confounded by the effects of all of those easily and quickly digestible carbs.
To say nothing of the assumption undermining this change that while a calorie may not be a calorie, a gram of protein is a gram of protein and a gram of fat is a gram of fat.
As a software developer in Japan enterprise sofware isn't exactly the target for anything I've been involved in. Almost everything software related here is usually tied to a company (along with their goals/deliverables). Software in Japanese companies is tailored to their needs and processes. The itch exists here in Japan but it tends to be a very domestic itch (if not niche as well).
