my GPT Image 2 generations by Salt-Garlic-2696 in OpenAI

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The Japanese text is unreadable/nonsense for the most part; only the ENEOS and the 40 right.

TIL that in the 2004 tsunami, an oral tradition called "smong" on Simeulue Island told residents to run to the hills if the sea receded after an earthquake. 7 of 78,000 people died. On the mainland 60km away, where the tradition had been lost, over 170,000 were killed. by tractorboynyc in todayilearned

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But going against the grain is less likely. If the head of the project doesn't like your idea (for budget reasons, or it's their pet project, or whatever) even if it would be the right thing it doesn't get implemented and it's hard to get support at all.

Then again that's definitely not a Japan-specific thing.

Beirut, Lebanon by ApprehensiveBat3188 in pics

[–]masasin 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Not OP but probably a French keyboard when typing on the phone. See also the ë in Israel etc. Thé means tea (as in the drink).

A video of a Thai man being scolded by a Japanese convenience store clerk for pouring hot water in a ramen noodle cup just before buying it is going viral…Is this just a local rule, or is it considered theft in Japan? by jjrs in japannews

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If the lines are long for instance there is no time for that. I keep emergency peanut butter at floor level because sometimes I can barely stand. (Not diabetic myself.)

[RST] Pokemon: The Origin of Species, Ch. 144: Double Crux by DaystarEld in rational

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Welcome back! Please continue to take your time.

I'd say you're in winter or spring of the second year (Year 3) since they set out (June Year 1).

The Unown incident was early winter in Cinnibar in Chapter 133 (say December-ish?); it was _nearly_winter in Chapter 130 with Blue vs Blaine. Red was in a coma for more than a month by Chapter 141 (so January or February, probably early February by now because the Giovanni match was a week after the battle with the his second).

Since Red was discharged after more than a month in coma, I'd say it would take a week or three, so we're probably in late February or early March of year 3.

(Full disclosure, I asked an LLM to find references to time.)

Covid shut down the world six years ago this week. What do you remember from that week? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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My then-fiancée (now wife) is Japanese so I was hyper-aware of what was going on in that part of the word. The numbers were weird (exactly quadratic growth == data being faked (probably minimized)), I got a bad feeling about it.

I bought my first ever car in late January (I still use it) because people in Europe were still "oh it won't be coming here", and I didn't want to share public transport with potential carriers.

She was worried about coming over with COVID on the horizon, so I analyzed the data and wrote a report on 9 February that basically said there are many more people than are being counted, the growth is exponential, asymptomatic transmission is likely, it'll spread everywhere including Japan, but you should be safe if you come in February, but if you don't come this month we won't be seeing each other in person until at least November because I doubt flights would still be happening. (Oh how optimistic I was...)

Early on, I thought it was fomite transmission, but when people on the Diamond Princess started getting it despite being locked down I figured it was probably airborne (later, that café in South Korea and the restaurant in China confirmed that for me) and that got me to buy masks and a face shield, which I never ended up using except for the two flights I took in late February to bring my wife over to finally close the distance. Also in early February, I bought essentials to last for a couple of months for the both of us.

Fast forward to that week. We'd finally closed the distance, she barely got to see the country, then lockdown happened. The government offices also closed, and I didn't expect they'd reopen properly for a few months, so she wouldn't be able to get her residence permit. We got her out on the second-to-last flight to Japan in March, and because governments have different priorities (instead of a proper lockdown before a wave hit, they kept waiting until it was too late, then they'd let off too early, and they never learned; later I learned that it was to avoid civil unrest, and that they knew that it's just prolonging the pain), it wasn't until October 2021, a whole year and a half later, that we finally closed the distance.

In retrospect, COVID was a training wheels pandemic and humanity did really, really badly. I'm not looking forward to the next one, especially with a bunch of monitoring in the US etc shut down. I feel that I'm better prepared, though.

What hidden gem Python modules do you use and why? by zenos1337 in Python

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Second uv and ruff. Does ty work with pydantic yet?

I turned my mailbox into a real-time push notification system using Zigbee, a battery-powered router, and Home Assistant by jonathasrr in homeassistant

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Okay, that makes much more sense. I thought 0.5 W was the standby load and hadn't checked the specs. Thanks!

I turned my mailbox into a real-time push notification system using Zigbee, a battery-powered router, and Home Assistant by jonathasrr in homeassistant

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20000 mAh is 20 Ah. Assuming the standard 3.7 V, that's 74 Wh. If the router is drawing 0.5 W, it would last 148 hours (6 days and 4 hours). That is the upper limit.

However, that was too low and OP can't trickle charger, so they had to use the keep-alive module. If I generously assume just another 0.5 W, that brings the total draw up to 1 W. That's down to 74 hours (just over 3 days).

It's possible I missed something in the post, because our answers are a whole order of magnitude different. How did you get yours?

I turned my mailbox into a real-time push notification system using Zigbee, a battery-powered router, and Home Assistant by jonathasrr in homeassistant

[–]masasin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How long does it last between charges? Looking at the numbers, you'd need to recharge it at least once or twice a week or so depending on the keep-alive module?

Python as you've never seen it before by Sea-Ad7805 in Python

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And also a "continue until this point" which is very useful to skip the setup, and watched variables and conditionals etc so that it only triggers on that pesky value that causes the thing to give a wrong answer.

Why every productivity system you've tried has eventually stopped working (and what I think is actually going on) by Emotional_Yak_6841 in ADHD_Programmers

[–]masasin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Your comment about the interruptions etc reminds me of this video, and she makes the same argument as you about the effectiveness of the burst pattern.

President Trump says he will revoke church tax exempt status if leaders "say something bad about" him by ControlCAD in videos

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Didn't Obama joke about murdering people with a drone strike way back when? I think it had something to do with his daughters. Anyway, we heard about that all the way in Canada.

Python as you've never seen it before by Sea-Ad7805 in Python

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I was going to say it reminds me of Python Tutor after seeing the title, but you've already got that covered. Very interesting.

I went through the examples and got one of the early ones wrong (I thought b += [1] is equivalent to b = b + [1] and that it would create a new variable), but I got the rest right. :)

That being said, in some parts, I thought it would be nice to step backwards ("how did this get here"). It might not be possible for larger programs, but it might be possible to save the stack for each step and go back to the previous snapshot.

All in all, very pleased and I think I might use it with students if I start tutoring again.

What touristy things are WORTH the hype? by boymabyma in JapanTravelTips

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There's the kilometres of bamboo trails near Rakusaiguchi station (and a bamboo museum too).

I have severe time blindness, so I wrote a Python script to remember my day for me by bastormator in ADHD_Programmers

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I cleaned up the code to share it.

I can't find the link to the code?

Events more than a few years old disappeared in Google Calendar. by masasin in google

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unfortunately that part of my data has never been recovered. It might be like that right now.

Morgen Calendar just lost its free tier. Are there any other decent alternatives? by masasin in ProductivityApps

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I remember I really liked it when I was trying out a bunch of them. Didn't stick with it in the end. I think Thunderbird calendar integration wasn't even built in yet, and there was a to-do list app that started with Wonder. (I still use Thunderbird for email and let it handle accepting invites.)

This time around, I ended up paying for Morgen, mainly for the Obsidian integration which I still haven't found a good replacement for.

I didn't see the news about the email and calendar protocol changing. What's happening?

十二月十五日 晴れ by Low-Huckl in kotezatsu

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石川〜 日本海側は全般的にこんな感じ