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Golf courses do not emit noise, they are relatively nice looking and they are not a threat for people to be unemployed.

I've had a completely different experience. I usually know the problematic part and then ask the AI to optimize that exact part with benchmarks, telling it to try various different…

The regulations got hardened in 1991. Obviously there has been earthquakes forever, but the buildings were not built to withstand them. That's one of the reasons why Japanese do no…

Like half of the buildings are non-resistant since they are old and made of wood. IIRC only buildings built after 1991 are guaranteed to be earthquake resistant.

Note that this is mostly true in cheaper/chain restaurants. Overwhelming majority of izakayas have the menu's to be handwritten / written on the wall without any pictures.

Most people use hepburn these days, it's people who learned japanese 20 years ago or so who are still stuck with kunrei.

Hepburn is the official romanization chosen by the Japanese government (it's a relatively recent change), kunrei-shiki has been deprecated and all the signs etc are in the process …

Kunrei has been deprecated, Hepburn is the official one even the government of Japan recommends these days and matches better the pronunciation of the language.

By eating different foods. I frequently get filling bento boxes in japan that are ~500-600 calories. And drinking when is extremely counterintuitive when trying to maintain/lose we…

> What do I gain by using this over ggplot2 in R? You don't have to use R.

I use NERV, it gives you a countdown timer and i like to know whether to prepare or not

Depends on the location, the alert comes usually as soon as the initial tremors are registered. If you're at the epicenter, tough luck. For example, for me in Tokyo, the alert came…

Having followed some tourists coming to Japan, a large amount of the people appreciate convenience, and the rail pass gives them that. The price is secondary. Hell, there are even …

They actually started doing that very recently, converting old Shinkansen into a freight trains. Obviously you can't fit large cargo, but it's a good option for fast transport of p…

Hey HN! First Show HN for me - niche app, but I think it nails something that hasn't been done properly before. Furolog (フロログ — furo = bath, log = logging) is an iOS + watchOS app …

> Most if not all software I use is selected by its disk/memory footprint and performance. If that would be true, electron apps would not exists and everything would be a native so…

Frontier model has much better knowledge and they usually hallucinate less. It's not about the coding capabilities, it's about how much you can trust the model.

Most common use cases (bar social media): - Navigating - Emailing - Texting - Browsing internet All this is available without an account.

"a harness for a memory" so it still requires external tools to work well. The whole point of this benchmark is to validate the systems can solve problems without any sort of outsi…

It's inconvenient as soon as you need to get something from the bottom of the fridge, kitchen layout does not change this one at all. And I grew up in a home with multiple chest fr…

That must be something you have changed, because if I have capslock enabled, it shows the capslock icon in the input field and the key is pressable to disable it for me.

Spark is a good replacement for Sparrow.

It's slightly different to access your bank account vs chatting with your friends.

The thing with chess, even if you don't know the rules, you can still play and (potentially) lose the game. If you don't know some random american trivia, you're stuck forever.