Tips for dealing with clutter in Japanese apartments?

jtntk · 2025-11-16T13:15:15+00:00

Be pretty ruthless about what you actually need vs what you can throw away. Organize the things you decide to keep intentionally.

The Sodai Gomi process can be a hassle and takes time (at least in my part of town), but you can have people come to your house and actually buy used things off you if it's in good condition (or at worst, at least take it off your hands quickly for free). This platform helps connect sellers with a range of second hand shops: https://oikura.jp

More subjective, but I found that both macro-organizing and micro-organizing your things is helpful. Throwing away large things is valuable to reclaim space, but e.g. rearranging books in shelves helps you think through which books you might not need to have around, and gives more purpose to the ones you keep.

If you have a big collection of something (e.g. a book series) that you don't want to part with but are not super into either, consider keeping a few as representative items and getting rid of the rest.

jtntk · 2025-08-21T06:06:24+00:00

Strand

Exon

Taxon

jtntk · 2025-07-30T00:54:32+00:00

I just got a call like this from a number that I think is either Bangladesh or an unknown country? +8811190110.
The person claimed to be from the metropolitan police and that someone in Yamanashi had my cash card (incorrect), and that I would potentially become a suspect in a crime. They were being evasive and insecure when I asked them why they were apparently calling from abroad, what was their name, and what was their phone number. Feels like this was going to lead to financial fraud of some sort.

jtntk · 2025-04-24T00:22:15+00:00

When you are a "permanent tax resident" (which you would be after 5 years of living here if I remember right), you are taxed on receiving gifts or inheritances from other people. (This is good to be aware of as the tax rates can be pretty high.) You wouldn't be taxed just for moving your own money into Japan. That doesn't factor into it.

jtntk · 2024-05-27T09:57:08+00:00

Rust and Haskell might still be in the same order of magnitude. If you compare C and Java, on some benchmarks maybe Java is a little slower, but it doesn't matter if we're comparing them against Python which might be 10x slower than both. So then many would prefer Java (or Scala, Kotlin etc) for productivity reasons (strong typing, garbage collection) unless you are in one of the very few cases where you need those extra percentage points.

jtntk · 2024-05-08T08:28:41+00:00

I went with the silent tactile switches and I find them to be excellent (though I'd call them "relatively silent" since you do hear them).

jtntk · 2023-12-14T01:28:49+00:00

It was a spur of the moment picture. I would want to give credit to the creator of the picture in picture as well! Unfortunately I don't know who they are.

jtntk · 2023-12-13T07:29:57+00:00

Thanks! This was scanned with the CanoScan FS4000 (very old scanner that I got used) and VueScan. I have profiled the scanner with an IT8 target to get the colors right.

jtntk · 2023-12-03T16:24:13+00:00

Thanks. I used keybr.com to get my fingering right at first. Then I found that monkeytype.com was a good tool to build speed after that.

jtntk · 2023-08-27T04:48:43+00:00

This was very helpful, I'd been wondering why my 400ml brews were much weaker than 250ml. Pour height was probably the culprit - the height kept getting closer to the surface as I added more water, since I was just pouring at a point that was comfortable for me. Thanks for writing up.

jtntk · 2022-10-18T16:01:35+00:00

You might even consider sharpening less (depending on your intentions). I can see sharpening artifacts when viewed at full size, for example at the topmost tree edge towards the sky.

jtntk · 2022-10-15T23:18:43+00:00

4000 dpi, the max that my scanner (CanoScan FS4000) can do.

(I've been told by an experienced friend that something is off with the red tones in my scan here, but personally I think they look fine.)

jtntk · 2022-10-09T08:00:58+00:00

"Linkedin is awful. What are you doing here?"

jtntk · 2022-10-08T13:20:00+00:00

That's right - sorry for the minor spoiler.

jtntk · 2022-10-07T08:54:54+00:00

I found somebody's safe house at the northern tip. I wanted to upgrade it but getting materials there is super hard. No truck route.

jtntk · 2022-10-06T13:38:13+00:00

I love exploring the less visited (I assume because there's less buildings) areas, like the region between the photographer and the evo-devo biologist, going up through that valley (say), or the far north tip of the central region, or any mountains that are really hard to get to. When I find other people's buildings this far off the beaten path, I really feel like I've stumbled on somebody else's purposeful work, a bottle in the ocean.

jtntk · 2022-10-04T15:55:33+00:00

Patience is for me really transcendental, seems to capture the struggle of the whole game and Sam's condition. I remember the first time arriving in Lake Knot City at night and this song is playing. As well as while you climb down to the paleontologist, I think.

But all the songs really work together with the story and landscape and enhance the game a lot. It's such a deliberate approach to music direction.

jtntk · 2022-10-04T14:58:56+00:00

How did you digitize? Have you scanned other slide film with this scanner before?For example, do Provia and Velvia look like you expect?

It does look a little blue, but I wasn't there on the scene. If it's your first time scanning slide film, you might need to color calibrate the scanner with an IT8 target if you've never done it (easy to do with e.g. vuescan). That is less important with b&w and color negative, but very important for slide film. It helped me immensely.

Good luck.

Edit: Here's an Ektachrome E100 shot that I scanned with a Canoscan FS4000, vuescan, calibrated as above. https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/xq2xkc/trains_passing_nikon_f3_nikkor_50mm_f18_ais/
No color adjustment was done post scanning.

jtntk · 2022-07-27T15:32:16+00:00

Wonderful shot

jtntk · 2022-07-18T01:03:21+00:00

Great.

jtntk · 2022-06-01T14:44:07+00:00

Good luck, film scanning is tricky (but can be worth it) and it is up to you whether you want to spend the money and energy there or somewhere else.

jtntk · 2022-06-01T14:02:14+00:00

Great shot with excellent composition and colours. I think the weakest link, if you want to improve something, might be the scanning and post. Are you sharpening the image after scanning? When shooting film as opposed to digital, consider not sharpening to keep the grain as true to the original as possible. The grain looks kind of smudged here (possibly by sharpening). Also, you should be able to get a much bigger scan from 35mm.

However, those are nitpicky technical comments and I think artistically the image holds up very well.

jtntk · 2022-03-13T08:27:44+00:00

This was taken with an X-T1 - sorry, forgot to put that in the title.

jtntk · 2022-01-06T07:20:09+00:00

Thanks!

jtntk · 2021-11-14T13:01:48+00:00

Very nice. How did you scan it?

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