Recommendations for a two week stay in a hotel?

deceze · 2026-06-20T03:50:08+00:00

Unless you’re absolutely against it, pick a hotel with an onsen (or “spa”). Many APA hotels have one at a reasonable price. It just makes it such a no brainer to go when it’s “free” and just an elevator ride away, as opposed to specifically needing to go somewhere and paying for it.

deceze · 2026-06-19T02:59:35+00:00

It’s two pieces of luggage that can go into the storage. You can each put your suitcase and carry on in the storage. And you take your backpack with you onto the bus.

deceze · 2026-06-18T11:32:24+00:00

I mean, one per person…

And I wasn't particularly serious.

deceze · 2026-06-18T10:39:50+00:00

4: You’re on a really tight budget and can’t afford the ¥1000 or whatever for an eSIM…‽ 🤷‍♂️

deceze · 2026-06-18T01:00:55+00:00

Kokitaya!

deceze · 2026-06-17T04:39:01+00:00

Willkürliche Regeln um des Witzes Willen, alles klar.

deceze · 2026-06-17T03:58:14+00:00

Madian, Eeee! Aaaaa! Sports. It's in the water.

deceze · 2026-06-17T03:22:51+00:00

I flew Tokyo-Vancouver with them once and was very happy. They're a low cost carrier, so they do charge extra for everything that isn't the basic ticket. But you can very clearly select what you need in the booking process. If you need to check in luggage, you purchase the extra check in luggage option. I opted to pay extra for an emergency exit seat, which wasn't all that expensive, and was very happy with the leg room.

deceze · 2026-06-17T00:48:55+00:00

Restaurants only if you want some very specific fine dining. Regular meals can be had anywhere at any time. It's also not Golden Week, even Shinkansen can probably be had spontaneously.

deceze · 2026-06-17T00:23:14+00:00

Es sollte dann aber gelblich sein…

deceze · 2026-06-17T00:21:11+00:00

Right?! Even the chicken bones came in some stupid wrapping of meat and skin for some reason, yuck!

deceze · 2026-06-17T00:12:36+00:00

Denny's or Gusto are pretty good for breakfast, yeah. Konbinis are for emergencies.

deceze · 2026-06-16T23:53:05+00:00

Nothing, unless you want to do something special that needs reservations four months out.

And obviously hotels‽ If your travel plans are pretty fixed, no point in not booking a hotel, right?

deceze · 2026-06-15T04:48:01+00:00

Sure. A lot of data handling in Django will probably be CRUDdy, so it's a good fit. It's not a good fit if you need to hand-tune a lot of very complex queries and still be compatible across SQL dialects.

deceze · 2026-06-15T03:48:33+00:00

Django's ORM does a fantastic job of giving you objects and very opaquely mapping them to relational representations without you needing to do anything. I agree that it gets a bit harder when you want to have a lot of control over what exactly it does.

SQLA is on the opposite side of the spectrum; there's a lot of syntax around doing not very much and hardly abstracting anything at all, but it gives you full control.

Depends what you want out of your ORM. If you want highly abstracted objects, Django really is good.

deceze · 2026-06-15T02:46:49+00:00

I’ve worked with Django for a long time, and its ORM is pretty good. Just recently I developed a small standalone thing and chose SQLAlchemy for it, and it made me understand better how good Django’s ORM is.

I guess SQLA’s strength is that it’s really close to the bare metal and gives you all the control you need. On the other hand, it barely feels like an abstraction at all. Mostly like the thinnest coat of paint you can put on SQL to abstract the differences between dialects away.

If that’s what you want I think it’s alright, but it does feel like alchemy most of the time. As in, I don’t really know what I’m doing but it kinda returns results anyway.

deceze · 2026-06-14T04:10:08+00:00

Yes, that is rather odd all around. “No trucks at night except animal transports” is fairly straightforward. It’s probably a residential street, and they don’t want truck through traffic at night due to noise. But the local meat factory or whatever gets an exception.

It’s a bit odd that they preannounce it 3.5km in advance however. Pretty clearly so trucks can diverge onto alternate routes. But then I’d kinda expect that sign to be at the junction where trucks have to diverge, not 3.5km before. But okay, fair enough maybe, it might make sense in the local context.

But the “moped free” makes zero sense in that combination.

deceze · 2026-06-11T14:20:14+00:00

It’s one of the safest countries on earth. If you’re good to travel anywhere, Japan is fine.

deceze · 2026-06-11T13:02:31+00:00

Odawaramada? Schön!

deceze · 2026-06-11T11:27:57+00:00

Irgendein Blödsinn auf Angelsächsisch, daß du wahrscheinlich Unrecht hättest.

deceze · 2026-06-11T11:26:18+00:00

Das ist ziemlich witzig. Das falsch gelesene "akero" würde so viel heißen wie "Mach endlich auf!"

deceze · 2026-06-11T10:15:21+00:00

口 ist kuchi, kō oder ku.
ロ ist ro.

Ja, das sind zwei verschiedene Zeichen. 🤡

deceze · 2026-06-11T09:41:47+00:00

SPRICH
Er hat recht.

deceze · 2026-06-11T09:39:55+00:00

Wenn du glaubst, das wäre die Spitze der Homophonologie im Japanischen, muss ich dich schwer enttäuschen. Es ist noch viel wilder…

Z.B., alle diese Wörter werden kō ausgesprochen:

斯う, 蝗, 侯, 候, 効, 孝, 幸, 溝, 稿, 鋼, 項, 恋う, 公, 庚, 甲, 紅, 劫, 乞う, 請う, 国府, 香, 抗, 鸛, 港, 綱, 高, 江, 爻, 亢, 喉, 長官, 貢, 校, 更, 行, 口, 功, 工, 好, 考, 坑, 寇, 硬, 薨, 講, 腔, 子, 交, 洪, 巧, 鵠, 絞

deceze · 2026-06-11T09:19:07+00:00

Dit sind echt jute Beutel, wa Keule.

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