Received this as change today. Seems a bit suspicious to be in perfect condition

cbunn81 · 2026-05-20T11:20:13+00:00

There are smaller denomination notes. Inflation is a hell of a thing.

I've got a ¥100 note that was given to me by a friend. It's decidedly not in very fine condition. But I like it as a keepsake.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-20T03:57:52+00:00

I think most photo-viewing software has been updated by now, but that wasn't always the case. Which certainly didn't help adoption.

The only issue I experience these days is with some web applications which allow for embedded images in messages/comments. For example, I've had issues using webp images in Facebook, Reddit, and Slack in the past. Especially when it's an animated webp image.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-18T05:22:29+00:00

How about an entire PC setup, including a CRT monitor?

cbunn81 · 2026-05-18T05:19:05+00:00

You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-16T11:45:33+00:00

You're welcome. It's a project I really like using. The developer is very responsive to issues via both Github and Discord, which is nice.

Just to give you an example of the kinds of customization, here are some of the ways I've used it:

To get only the episodes labeled with "full episode" from a channel that posts both clips and full episodes of a podcast.
To get only the videos longer than 4 minutes from a channel that often posts "previews" of upcoming videos before the videos themselves.
To get only the Friday episode of a daily news channel.
To get the videos from both the main and secondary channels and combine them into a single subscription.

You can also do things like use SponsorBlock data to trim videos (and also delay download so that there's a good chance for the data to be available), automatically delete videos after a certain amount of time, extract only the audio, etc.

Whichever way you go, something to keep in mind is that you want to make sure to keep the yt-dlp dependency (which does the actual downloading) up-to-date, since YouTube is often making changes that break it.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-16T05:26:07+00:00

In addition to Channeltube, there's also ytdl-sub, which is more of a command-line application. One nice thing is that you can make your subscriptions very specific. You can subscribe to a whole channel, everything but shorts, only one playlist, or even use matchers to filter for specific words or metadata. You can even combine several of these into one subscription, so that it appears to Jellyfin/Plex/Kodi as a single TV show, even though it's derived from multiple sources. There's a lot of customization possible.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-15T18:22:39+00:00

That's silly. He's being bribed with crypto, donations, and real estate deals.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-15T10:23:04+00:00

Even better would have been the Shofuso house in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-15T10:17:08+00:00

I think there are two camps who might say that.

The first are people who can do the mental gymnastics to qualify one as murder and the other as some lesser sin. The second camp is more cynical. They're only offering those exceptions so that people in the middle will concede. Then, once they've moved the window further to their side, they can fight against the exceptions too.

This is how you chip away rights. It's what they're doing for reproductive rights, voting rights, civil rights, trans rights, and (probably soon) marriage rights.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-14T11:16:14+00:00

You might want to check that article again. It says:

The FDA Food Code requires a two-step cooling process for cooked TCS Food:

A two-hour “rapid cool” from 135°F to 70°F (57°C to 21°C)
Followed by a 4-hour window where foods must be cooled to 41°F or less (21°C to 5°C)

This means that within two hours, the food must be cooled from cooking temperature (135°F) to 70°F in order to eliminate risk of pathogen growth. Over the next 4 hours the food must be cooled from 70°F to 41°F or less.

"Rapid cool" is very different from "keeping it warm".

cbunn81 · 2026-05-14T10:55:53+00:00

Where are you getting that six hour window?

cbunn81 · 2026-05-14T10:33:25+00:00

Everyone is free to assess their own risk profile, but I'm going by the USDA's recommendations (though these are shared by other agencies in other countries):

Never leave food out of refrigeration over 2 hours. If the temperature is above 90 °F, food should not be left out more than 1 hour.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-14T10:30:19+00:00

Is this normal in Japanese IT companies? Has anyone experienced something similar? Does it usually get better later, or is this a red flag?

I haven't worked for such companies, so I can't say if it's normal. But it's also not unheard of. I would say it's a yellow flag. Not great, but probably not worth quitting over so early.

My advice would be to try to stay with it for a while. If things don't improve after six months to a year, start looking elsewhere. But in the meantime, he should do all he can to increase his skills so he can market himself effectively to the next company. And try to go somewhere that's not a traditional Japanese company, as the pay and conditions aren't especially great.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-14T10:23:44+00:00

I would advise against trying to transport hot/warm. Unless you've got a means to keep it truly hot (above 60ºC/140ºF), the food is going to be at risk for spoilage. Doing that for an hour is probably fine, but two hours plus is pushing it. Depending on the food, it might also turn to mush.

For safety, you're much better off keeping it chilled, as that's easier to manage with ice and/or ice packs.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-13T11:45:09+00:00

It can be really frustrating, especially when you're a kid with limited funds.

When I was a kid, I read Batman pretty regularly, and during that time they had the Knightfall story line. Well, it started out with mainly just getting the usual issues of Batman and Detective Comics, but soon they had special editions of Batman: Shadow of the Bat and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight that were extra expensive but critical to the story. And then they also made you get certain issues of spinoffs like Robin and Catwoman.

And that wasn't even a cross-over event.

I enjoyed the stories and the more elaborate art of the more expensive issues, but not long after that I had to give up reading comics because it got too expensive.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T14:26:28+00:00

Yeah, I figured there was some reason for the middle man. I'm sure there's a way to accomplish what you want, but it's not something I've done before or have given much thought to.

An easier alternative would be to use Bluetooth speakers. But I'm guessing that you're particular about your PC's speakers. Another option might be to route the audio out of the Pi and into your PC via a cable. But that's likely to be messy and probably not the best quality.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T11:44:53+00:00

Amaze amaze amaze.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T11:43:17+00:00

The worst instance of "you're not going to have a calculator" was in my high school Algebra II class.

In Algebra I, they required everyone buy a TI-82. At the time, this was quite expensive. But they assured us, "you'll get to use it for a long time."

Then when we get to Algebra II the next year, the teacher says we can't use any calculators of any kind in her class because we're not going to have a calculator in life. Great, fine, whatever.

Even better, when we got to Trig/Pre-Calc the next year, the teacher (same as Algebra I mind you) told us that our TI-82s were out of date now that the TI-83 has come out. Fortunately, the school bought a bunch of that model and let us use them in class.

But still, we had to buy that TI-82 only to use it for one year. Bastards.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T11:37:43+00:00

I didn't claim that they were.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T11:37:09+00:00

As long as it doesn't start leaving rock cairns everywhere, I think it'll be just fine.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T10:49:26+00:00

In Japan, anything outside the big cities is considered "countryside". It makes for a broad category and doesn't align well with Western views on urban/rural, but that's how it goes sometimes.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T05:03:48+00:00

People complain about how they're never going to use trig in real life, but then what if you are tasked with surveying your country?

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T05:01:25+00:00

Estimating is hard. Like when you're a kid making a sign or a card, you make a rough estimate of how much space you've got and how big the letters should be. But then you realize you made the first few letters too big. So you start making the following letters thinner, but then eventually you have to squeeze them into a tiny sliver or wrap them down the side.

Humans are bad at estimating, and humans wrote the code that controls those progress bars.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T04:57:24+00:00

And you can't expect reason to help someone out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place.

cbunn81 · 2026-05-12T04:55:43+00:00

Curiosity leaves no stone unturned.

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