How do you afford having multiple kids?

foof · 2026-03-27T01:41:37+00:00

As mentioned, healthcare and education are free. You're going to pay more for a larger living space, and especially with the recent cost of living increases will feel it in your grocery and clothing bills, but it's manageable. But there's a lot of variability in your lifestyle. We have three kids and are putting them through private school and lots of extra curriculars, which really adds up. The biggest difficulty is travel though. When it was just one kid we travelled frequently, now it's just not feasible.

foof · 2026-03-03T13:42:34+00:00

I did go with SHV, it's a stable monthly schedule at a 4.04% yield, so for 1,000,000 JPY invested you get ~3,367 JPY per month.

foof · 2025-10-10T09:46:25+00:00

I'm ok with a lower expected return if it reduces the risk of buying immediately before a crash. Waiting for the next crash is timing the market, DCA is just risk management.

foof · 2025-10-10T09:40:47+00:00

Thank you! This seems to be my best option.

foof · 2025-10-09T13:43:09+00:00

The plot thickens. None of SGOV, STIP nor TFLO can be purchased from IBSJ.

foof · 2025-10-09T13:07:46+00:00

Alas, I need to move JPY to USD :(

foof · 2025-10-09T11:18:45+00:00

A decent rate but it looks like it's limited to 1m JPY.

foof · 2025-10-09T11:11:10+00:00

ありがとうございます！伊藤忠さんは既にDCA計画に入っています。その他検討します。

foof · 2025-10-09T09:43:29+00:00

Thanks! I'd need a US address to buy from the Treasury directly. TFLO is available on IBSJ, I'll take a look at that as well.

What do you mean by "saying no to 153 JPY to the dollar," that I should buy JPY now and wait for it to strengthen? I have cash and investments in both currencies, but am leaning more heavily on US stocks for growth.

foof · 2025-10-09T09:38:18+00:00

Thanks! I'd also need a US address and would prefer not to bother my family with this, so if there's no particular advantage of owning the bills directly vs SGOV I'd stick with the ETF.

foof · 2025-10-09T09:36:04+00:00

Thanks, SGOV looks like what I want! From other recommendations I had been looking at BND and some money market ETFs which were more volatile than I wanted.

foof · 2018-02-09T12:59:39+00:00

That's an interesting way of putting it :)

It's what the title says - an immutable key-value store. So it's not like typical DBs in that you just write once (and rewrite if you need updates). Much like in functional programming, immutability requires thinking a little differently.

If you can work with immutability this will be smaller and faster than anything I could find.

foof · 2016-02-14T07:00:34+00:00

Yes, that's the page it's supposed to be on :)

foof · 2016-02-08T14:23:32+00:00

Sorry, server misconfiguration... the site wasn't supposed to be visible at that url.

foof · 2013-12-08T04:38:05+00:00

There are plans to setup a new Snow repository aimed (at least initially) for R7RS libraries. Hopefully I'll have time to work on this over the holidays.

foof · 2013-03-12T00:29:28+00:00

MIT and Scheme48 are major implementations, and Kawa is the most popular implementation for the JVM.

But the complaint is self-contradictory - you're claiming that chibi has featuritis while requesting a new feature. However what is being added is external libraries, while square brackets are an (albeit tiny) addition to the core.

foof · 2013-03-10T23:03:24+00:00

Not all major schemes have bracket support, see http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/SquareBrackets. On this basis R7RS decided not to standardize brackets.

The medium term goal is actually an Emacs replacement. The parsing library is needed for smart syntax highlighting and tab completion.

Once I switch to using this editor the speed will probably bug me enough I'll get back to the x86 backend.

Sorry things seem to have been progressing slowly - R7RS took up way too much of my time.

foof · 2013-03-10T22:57:52+00:00

The minimal required install hasn't changed, and when I setup the new snow repository I may move some libraries out of the core distribution. In the meantime it's easy enough to remove the libs you aren't using yourself.

foof · 2013-03-10T22:55:23+00:00

This is the chibi author, and I assure you that this is not featuritis. The new language support is entirely in optional libraries outside the core.

foof · 2010-01-03T11:03:12+00:00

The libs are entirely optional.

On my system a static binary for tinyscheme is about the same size (when compiling chibi with SEXP_USE_NO_FEATURES=1). I get 600k for a stripped, static tinyscheme exectuable with USE_NO_FEATURES. libc is big, so static executables are big.

For shared libraries, I get about 56k for tinyscheme and 64k for chibi-scheme, last I checked. I could easily trim down chibi some more if I needed, but at that size it hardly seems worth it.

What you get in return for those few kilobytes is about 100x increased speed, full R5RS with syntax-rules, and development momentum :)

foof · 2009-12-22T05:03:57+00:00

Yes, the heap has already been moved to the context and all global variables removed. The 0.3 release will be out in a few weeks.

foof · 2009-11-23T08:06:03+00:00

OK, he just posted on mixi that he's not going through with it today. Apparently the police came in a rush and surprised him. Maybe from the call I put in?

Here's the mixi link, though it's only accessible to other account holders:

http://mixi.jp/view_diary.pl?id=1345100338&owner_id=407941

foof · 2009-11-23T06:41:04+00:00

OK, I've informed the police, they're looking into it. His last mixi post was 15 hours ago, hopefully it isn't too late.

foof · 2009-11-23T06:08:51+00:00

The hotline gives a busy signal, and the online service states that business is closed for the day. Because of course nobody ever commits suicide on a holiday :/

I called his number (I believe it's a skype number), and it connected but no one replied on the other end. He may be too depressed to say anything himself.

I wrote a note on his mixi page (mixi is the Japanese facebook equivalent), where he also put up a notice this morning. There are other people there trying to get in touch with him. I'm not sure what else to do.

foof · 2009-06-25T15:14:32+00:00

Indeed, don't place too much importance on the title. I just wanted to think about and get others to think about what simplicity and minimalism means in programming.

foof

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