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Unagi should be the freshwater eel but yes tell me more about the fatty meat goodness that’s so delicious.
Eel is fish.
Unagi is freshwater eel. Anago is saltwater eel. You said foie gras of the Sea, sea is not freshwater and unagi does not come from the sea.
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Japanese companies massively exploit their employees and the presidents often live like kings. They might not get an SV salary but they get an expense account, cars, vacation homes, and other perks all provided by the company. Meanwhile their employees get paid shit and work 10-12hr days and don't get paid overtime. I'd chose SV over that anytime. SV at least pays on average 6x what a similar employee makes in Japan…
The Japanese employee gets to live in Japan. I would take that over SV, one of the suicide capitals of the world.
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The Japanese employee gets to live in Japan. I would take that over SV, one of the suicide capitals of the world.
Suicide in Japan is generally higher than the USA. It might not be as high as SV (no idea) but if you're choosing based on suicide rates you'd be better off choosing another city in the USA
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> Tokyo is an amazing city, though it can be very lonely for an expat. Could you expand upon this? I've been thinking of moving there for a year or two to focus on my language skills and work on my startup. I spent a lot of time in Obihiro, Hokkaido in my late teens and had a blast hanging out at the university. Everyone was super friendly. When I traveled to even more remote towns like Hobetsu / Mukawa, Makubetsu, A…
Been living in Tokyo for near a decade, and I can add that despite it being a bustling metropolis, it does have this silent loneliness just in the background. It's hard to describe, unless you spend any significant time here, and the locals of Tokyo will tell you the same -- it's a cold city. With that being said, I love the place. However, if not for my cabal of really close friends, I don't think I would stay here…
Proof of Concept?
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I have had the same experience. To push down on this the Japanese feel shame in not being able to communicate to you if you do not speak Japanese. It makes them uncomfortable. Being able to manage some basic Japanese helps so much to build a warmer feeling in your interactions. It does not have to be perfect but you have to try. There is a bar I love that is known for not being friendly to non-Japanese. However that…
Perhaps it's a bit reductive, but your story reads like "I went to a restaurant I like and they nearly refused service due to my ethnicity". A similar thing has happened to me and it doesn't make me want to go back.
However it's only happened once in a year of living here and never in Tokyo, only a ruralish city, so I don't take it as an indictment on Japanese people. I'm sure there are plenty of bars in rural America or Australia (where I'm from) that would have been equally unfriendly to someone of Asian ethnicity. At the end of the day you just have to decide not to let it ruin your day that there are some bad eggs in the bunch, no matter which country it is.
*Caveat though that I've heard it is much worse here for people from China than it is for white foreigners such as myself. If it made up a significant portion of my experience it would be hard to live here comfortably.
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Been living in Tokyo for near a decade, and I can add that despite it being a bustling metropolis, it does have this silent loneliness just in the background. It's hard to describe, unless you spend any significant time here, and the locals of Tokyo will tell you the same -- it's a cold city. With that being said, I love the place. However, if not for my cabal of really close friends, I don't think I would stay here…
> To give some context, I'm a male 30 something PoC. Proof of Concept?
And now that you know the meaning you’ll be seeing it every where... Baader Meinhof phenomenon and all that.
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> To give some context, I'm a male 30 something PoC. Proof of Concept?
Person of color. Used as a distinction due the perceived user base here being mostly white males. It’s a common term. And now that you know the meaning you’ll be seeing it every where... Baader Meinhof phenomenon and all that.
Maybe. (I certainly do experience that in general!) In the UK though I very rarely hear people describe themselves or others as 'a person/people of colour' though, even in full I mean; it's American to my ear.
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A byte can represent 256 unique values. 256 unique values can not be compressed to less than a byte. Proof is left as an exercise for the reader.
I think the idea was the group of ids could be compressed. Rather than storing up to 64 ids as 8 bus plus the high bit elsewhere, store them as 9 bits, then compress the chunk. But honestly, that is probably more work than it is worth. Storing the high but elsewhere is simple.
I remember reading that the packets were encrypted using blowfish and compressed using a custom Huffman table.
There's a lot of bit-packing in the game's packets, so I initially thought it was strange that they didn't use 10 bits for each id and pack all 32 in a row. I'm not very knowledgeable, but my guess is that wasn't done because it would right-shift the rest of the chunk by 64 bits. They would then have to go through the code for unpacking and increase the offset for each field. I believe the ids were right at the start of the chunk, and there were almost 30 other fields.
Also, there was always a belief that the game's code was a fine spaghetti. A part of me wonders if the chunk was actually unpacked in multiple places, which would make correcting the offsets that much more tedious.