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Tokyo! It's a city with its pluses and minuses, but having already spoken Japanese before coming, I enjoy the everyday life more than any other place I've been. A big difference I …

Fair. I disagree with your conclusion, but I don't think it's an unfounded position to take. Nevertheless, I imagine this is an unusually salient issue for us. I imagine for the av…

As an educated young professional who emigrated from Canada, car dependency and low density cities were major reasons I left. Suburban sprawl is a prison without a car, and I have …

Most of Tokyo's mass transit network is absolutely neither isolated nor enclosed, and operates with vastly higher frequencies. Here's is the timetable for a suburban station on a c…

Except for all the people who use Google Docs, I suppose.

I often use different light/dark settings between apps and my system. Just because I want system UIs to be dark, for example, doesn't mean I want to read long pages of white-on-bla…

Healthcare is one of the exclusive powers of the provinces, as laid out in the constitution. There are things the federal government can do, such as provide money, but provincial l…

Please educate me if I'm missing something! From memory, what I would do is simply download the original ttfs or otfs, run them through woff2 ( https://github.com/google/woff2 ), a…

What made you give up? As the article describes, self hosting fonts is as easy as making the static font files available and then adding a few lines of CSS. What solution would you…

Saying that Chinese people are okay, and are not necessarily represented by the actions of the Chinese state, isn't about anything more than trying to prevent violence and hate fro…

According to the article, "APU with a disabled or defective iGPU" and "the AMD 4700S lacks display outputs".

Built-in Windows controls, like buttons, scroll bars, etc. are updated with each system release. However, they are relatively inflexible, and no one uses WinApi anyway, so most fra…

What is the use of wealth, if not to increase one's quality of life?

It displays for me, in place of the favicon (but I'm on nightly, so this might be a more recent change). Here's what it looks like for me: https://imgur.com/a/EwaKsNt

Sure, but not all people who use computers are programmers, and programmers make up a small minority of computer users. Much of the value in computers come from augmenting other wo…

I have an app installed that essentially draws over the entire view to darken the screen, while all interactions pass through transparently. It can't draw over certain areas, like …

Apple, maybe, but Google services don't operate in China.

> by the way, in contrast with the... Start Menu! Well, good news! I don't know when this might've changed (I have animations enabled), but I just tested it on Windows 10 2004, and…

I agree, there's definitely flexibility in what I expect, and what other people will likely expect. Here's the thing though: when I double-click "double-click", I could reasonably …

I think it depends on how engrained the double-click highlight is for you. For me, I double-click by default, since I almost always want to select at a word boundary in English. As…

I use double-click highlighting, and the reason is mostly selecting passages of text when editing. Double-click highlighting makes it so I don't have to find the precise character …

Firefox, in contrast, breaks at script boundaries, so it'll select runs of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Not nearly as useful, and definitely makes copying Japanese text especiall…

According to the Kickstarter: "From the very inception, we had a vision to fix a lot of the issues with hardware, starting by getting Mono (the open-source runtime that powers Xama…

I'm going to argue that, while the .NET environment may be unfamiliar, it's as good (if not better!) than the NodeJS environment for "getting stuff done." You may have fewer librar…