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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…

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 t…

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 Wonderlan…

Some very old remotes used what effectively amounted to high frequency tuning forks. Example: https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remot...

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…

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 alon…

> 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 visitor…

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/fi…

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 …

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 …

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 s…

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 (prett…

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…

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 …

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 widel…

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. M…

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 …

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…

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/package…

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 mos…

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.

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. …