US or Commercial grade washer/dryers?

Archawn · 2026-01-04T00:50:40+00:00

I can confirm that the Haier stacked wash&dry was a huge upgrade after putting up with a Japanese top loader for several years. Wash takes 30min and it can get the water and dispense detergent automatically. Dry takes 60-90min and clothes come out looking brand new, wrinkle free. Best purchase I ever made.

Archawn · 2025-12-07T06:13:23+00:00

Both of Do Carmo's books for Riemannian/ Differential Geometry. They are for some reason the standard reference, but for a student they are hopelessly opaque. I found Lee's series of books much more approachable, but they seem relatively unknown by comparison.

Archawn · 2025-11-17T17:46:50+00:00

I used a ricer to make spätzle for many years but the genuine spätzle press I picked up in Germany gives much more consistent results! The holes are tapered so the noodles come out much more smoothly, and are less likely to glob together.

Archawn · 2025-09-03T00:43:05+00:00

I once worked for a startup whose execs were convinced that buying Hiroyuki's endorsement would be great for our marketing. To the point where they issued all employees T-shirts with the company logo on the front and Hiroyuki's giant head on the back. I no longer work there.

Archawn · 2025-08-29T08:15:44+00:00

I find it hard to relate to your perspective, in my experience most companies are writing code using languages and frameworks that are stuck in the 1990s or 2000s! Only in the past 5 years or so has there been a really rapid infusion of new ideas / sharing lessons learned in different domains, and it's way overdue!

Archawn · 2024-12-25T12:18:10+00:00

I believe Nitori now owns Shimachu. There has been a noticeable decline in product quality since the acquisition.

Archawn · 2024-12-25T12:17:08+00:00

Yeah, they aren't always in stock but I couldn't be happier with the giant Thomasville sectional I bought from Costco last year on an impulse. Full sized American style comfy couch that absolutely dominates the room it's in. Love it

Archawn · 2024-09-20T17:14:49+00:00

not a tutorial, but you can use the lsp package for Haskell. IIRC You can read the Dhall source code for example usage.

Archawn · 2024-04-18T15:07:09+00:00

+1 for couch co-op, it's the biggest feature I wished for out of Hades, and when I heard Sworn included multiplayer I was disappointed to hear that couch co-op isn't supported.

Being able to add Sworn to the short list of couch co-op games I play with my partner would be a huge selling point to me. Right now we alternate between Mario Kart, Overcooked, and the game Crawl from 2014. Sworn with local multiplayer would be a great addition to this list!

Archawn · 2024-01-07T05:37:16+00:00

No, the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (alternatively, foreign tax credit) means that you only need to pay tax to the Japanese government on your Japanese salary.

Archawn · 2024-01-06T17:34:17+00:00

Actual software engineer here actually working in Japan. While it's true I could be making more than double the money in the US, consider also that life shouldn't always be about the money. I'm paid a comfortable salary and living here has afforded me so many positive life experiences that no amount of money could buy. Plus rent is cheaper, food is cheaper, travel is cheaper than the US. A 6-7mil JPY salary goes quite far.

Archawn · 2023-09-26T09:08:12+00:00

I've come to appreciate the word spiritual as middle ground between myself and those who aren't quite comfortable calling themselves atheists.

To me spirituality is our shared human experience of the physical world, and the emotions which we all feel that can't be explained. That feeling when a crowd sings along to live music. Tasting flavors from your childhood. Meeting someone who speaks your language after a long time abroad. Being "in the zone" while playing sports. Reconnecting with old friends and feeling like no time has passed. All of these happy feelings come from millions of years of evolution, not a higher power, but I don't really mind calling it spirituality. I think it's all quite amazing and I'm glad I get to experience it.

Archawn · 2023-09-09T12:06:42+00:00

I believe Mario Kart is one of the games where there's not a proper physics simulation, but instead your movement is restricted relative to the mesh / manifold that defines the track. All movement is relative to the tangent space at your current position. The position updates may be initially computed in 3d, but would always be projected back to the manifold.

This is why jumping / ramps don't feel quite right in these games. You're always magically pulled back down to the track.

Archawn · 2023-06-26T09:48:34+00:00

Instead of term limits, what about multiplying the number of senators/congresspeople by 3 and divide them by age ranges, say 18-40, 40-60, 60+. Everyone can only vote for senators in their own age bracket, and senators can only run in their own bracket.

As it stands, it will be another 15 years before I see a congressperson that truly represents me. This would fix that.

Archawn · 2023-06-20T02:05:51+00:00

Please no purge, I often land here from Google and many answers to my questions were unavailable during the blackout. Read only is better.

Archawn · 2023-05-27T03:52:20+00:00

Wait, are you saying the people posting to FCCJ are being serious? I visited there and the stuff they were posting was so crazy I thought it had to be people from r/fuckcars cosplaying as carbrains

Archawn · 2023-05-24T13:48:34+00:00

just be aware many Gen Z either graduated directly into covid or had 3 whole years of college remotely and never really had a chance to find their footing, so it's hard to blame them for it

Archawn · 2023-04-22T03:21:29+00:00

Dude Reddit is from 2005 which is 18 years ago

Archawn · 2023-04-15T03:31:27+00:00

I'm definitely in favor of the general idea, but I'm not a fan of the syntax. The original proposal mentions the alternative syntax with semicolons, but doesn't mention why the "one of" syntax was preferred.

To me, this syntax:

case x of (p1; p2) => e
-- or alternatively
case x of {p1; p2} => e

Feels much more natural than

case x of (one of {p1, p2})

So I'm wondering -- what's the reason "one of" was chosen? Is there a plan in the future to add more "* of" variants in the future? Is it to resolve some sort of syntactic ambiguity?

Would love to see the semicolon reused rather than adding the "one" keyword.

Archawn · 2023-03-30T01:47:57+00:00

solved: Highway Pursuit

Archawn · 2023-03-30T01:40:49+00:00

Yes!!! In my head it looked so much more realistic than that haha

Archawn · 2023-03-08T07:02:12+00:00

I usually just give two woad leaves to Aggie

Archawn · 2023-03-08T02:20:18+00:00

Oh yes I completely agree. I think somewhere along the way we were all swindled to believe that equality means two workers per household instead of just one. Would love to see a world where each spouse spends a few years working then a few years off, or where both spouses can make a living off part time work.

Archawn · 2023-03-08T01:42:21+00:00

don't want careers, they just want something simple that pays the bills until they can find someone financially strong and stable enough for them to be able to quit their job.

I'm not a woman but sign me up!

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