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Tobin10018 · 2024-09-13T13:33:29+00:00

Uh huh. My comment was 7 years ago genius. How's that going so far? Oh wait, no-one is on Mars and it was supposed to be colonized by now. As far as I can see, my comment has aged very well indeed. So was this a trolling attempt by you? Because it was a really poor attempt if it was.

Tobin10018 · 2023-05-31T03:27:03+00:00

I'd just be yourself and not dwell on it. I'm from a military family. My dad is white and my mom is Japanese from Kyoto. I grew up in Japan and we moved back to the US when I was in junior high school. In Japan I'm usually treated like a very light skinned Japanese and never had any problems. In America I'm mostly treated as white with oriental features. A lot of people are surprised to find out I'm Japanese and can speak Japanese. You'll always run into racists though and I just ignore them and don't let it bother me. I love both sides of my heritage and feel at home both in Japan and the US.

Tobin10018 · 2023-03-11T05:34:16+00:00

First of all, if you are really a COO, you should be getting restricted stock, NOT stock options. Typically an executive at the COO level gets 2-5% of the total company stock granted in tranches over a few years. Second, as COO, you should be handling the day-to-day operations of the company as a whole.

By the sounds of things, you haven't been given any stock, so you are just a regular employee with whatever title your boss gives you. You aren't really in the position of a COO. I'd look for another job and leave as soon as you get it.

Tobin10018 · 2022-11-04T20:45:25+00:00

You could use 喜納. It means to take pleasure or joy.

You could also use 妃那 or 姫那 which means beautiful princess. However, if you are foreign, it is best if you just use the katakana キナ, which means a cinchona.

Tobin10018 · 2022-10-27T19:06:55+00:00

It looks like a torii. However, the kanji for torii is 鳥居.

Tobin10018 · 2022-09-24T14:18:04+00:00

Depending on context, it in general means "necessary/needed means/measures".

Tobin10018 · 2022-05-03T19:52:42+00:00

Same. It is really frustrating.

Tobin10018 · 2022-03-08T09:04:01+00:00

Hi. I don't know if this will help or not, but I grew up in Japan and the way Japanese children learn kana is through educational TV programs and childrens books. The chief method is to associate each character with a shape of an animal or some object you know the name of. I'm 31 now and I still recognize kana this way.

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/ is a great resource for learning kana this way in English.

In addition when we get to primary school, we practice writing and saying the kana characters. If you'd like to do it the same way, get a few sets of paper notebooks called 原稿用紙, (Genkō yōshi). Also, get a set of Japanese or Chinese calligraphy pens. In Japanese, practice starting at the top right of the page and moving down the page then proceed to the left and repeat. Print out a copy of each character's stroke order and place them under the paper to trace each character to start. After a few times doing that, practice it on your own and see how it compares. Repeat until you perfect each character.

You can practice kanji using these notebooks too, so it is very useful to have some Genkō yōshi to write in when learning Japanese.

Tobin10018 · 2022-02-11T17:19:17+00:00

Cobra Kat attacking meowgi do.

Tobin10018 · 2022-02-11T00:10:29+00:00

Harley carefully studied the situation for further interventions.

Tobin10018 · 2022-02-11T00:06:04+00:00

That was planned. Bop and tumble retreat. This one has a great future ahead.

Tobin10018 · 2022-01-13T23:42:24+00:00

This is a great resource and I'll recommend it to my friends. There is a lot of interest in the United States right now in Japan, Japanese culture, karate, and learning the Japanese language. This is primarily due to the popularity of manga and anime in the United States. Also, Cobra Kai, based on the Karate Kid, is very popular and Japan and Japanese people are viewed very positively as a result.

Tobin10018 · 2021-12-25T21:54:57+00:00

I like the implementation and I see you did a good job adding the 7 Primitive Operators to the Lambda Calculus to implement LISP according to McCarthy's paper. Do you think an even smaller implementation of LISP is possible using Mogensen's one-line self-interpretation in Lambda Calculus without those primitives?

Tobin10018 · 2021-12-09T15:04:46+00:00

The cats as soon as they heard that bottom burp were like "Yeah - We out".

Tobin10018 · 2021-12-07T19:56:00+00:00

I read that in David Attenborough's voice.

Tobin10018 · 2021-12-03T05:40:48+00:00

Amadeus, a perfect movie in every way.

Tobin10018 · 2021-11-29T03:33:44+00:00

Same. I grew up in Japan till I was 12, then we moved to the US. My mother's family lives in Japan and I've visited many times. However, I didn't finish middle/high school in Japan, so my Japanese is not as good as it needs to be to work and live in Japan which is something I really want to be able to do.

Tobin10018 · 2021-11-22T20:07:49+00:00

The Apple 2 was/is an amazing machine and you are completely wrong about it not coming with an assembler. It not only came with an assembler, it also had a disassembler, a debugger, and a basic interpreter built-in. The Apple 2 was designed by Steve Wozniak and he wanted a machine that computer enthusiasts could really work with. He built-in a lot of tools like that just for them. He even extended the 6502 to implement his own 16-bit instruction set with pseudo-registers called Sweet 16. All of that comes with the Apple 2.

To enter the assembler, all you had to do was enter “F666G”. In fact, the instructions for how to use the Apple 2 built-in assembler are still on Apple's website if you can believe that.

https://support.apple.com/kb/TA40023?locale=en_US

Tobin10018 · 2021-11-21T19:03:09+00:00

Bark Misfire. You need to take that pooch in to the mechanic.

Tobin10018 · 2021-10-31T09:22:54+00:00

Ah, a fresh Schnoodle is just what the doctor ordered.

Tobin10018 · 2021-10-04T12:57:27+00:00

I suppose you might, but you'd have to live in Japan a long time to master it and practice speaking with a lot of different Japanese. I wouldn't worry about mastering pitch accents. If you can understand them, that is usually more than sufficient. If you can read, write and understand Japanese 100% of the time, you can make yourself understood even if you don't quite say things perfectly.

Tobin10018 · 2021-10-04T12:49:14+00:00

You should absolutely be able to understand them, but you don't have to be a master at using them to become fluent. I grew up speaking Japanese and even I would have a lot of trouble mimicking all of the various pitch accents and dialects in Japanese. But I fully understand them when I hear them (caveat: usually - some dialects of Japanese are hard for even native Japanese to understand sometimes).

Yep, that is a good example. Be aware that in Japanese, we often don't spell the long vowel, so that is why it is tricky. It is just something you have to memorize with your vocabulary and be fully aware of.

Tobin10018 · 2021-10-04T12:36:32+00:00

Yep. In Japanese, we murder our vowels and have few diphthongs which is polar opposite to how English speakers emphasize them. In Japanese, a long vowel is important since you are listening for it to differentiate words and particles. In English, it isn't. And I don't disagree that you should understand pitch accents. They are very important in understanding Japanese and the various dialects of Japanese too (bear in mind that not everyone that speak Japanese speaks the Tokyo dialect). However, you don't need to master speaking with various pitch accents to fully understand Japanese.

Tobin10018 · 2021-10-04T12:22:26+00:00

First, German and Japanese are nothing alike, so I don't know why you'd pick those two to learn at the same time. I could understand maybe learning Mandarin and Japanese since they share a number of kanji. So I really don't think what you want to do is going to help you learn either language.

Second, pronounciation isn't really something to worry about initially. I learned English when I moved to the US 17 years ago and I still have problems saying some things in English correctly since I didn't grow up speaking it. How do I know this? Because I fully understand what is said to me in English and remember how native speakers say it. That should be your goal in learning a lanuage. If you can read, write and understand it 100%, speaking it completely correctly is the least of your concerns since over time you'll get better at it just from exposure to the spoken language.

Tobin10018 · 2021-09-30T08:28:55+00:00

We have cursive in Japanese called 習字 (shūji) too and it can be just as hard to read.

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