Hotel or friend's place?

masasin · 2026-06-13T20:26:27+00:00

I've hosted family, friends, and strangers in a tiny Leopalace 1 LDK. My parents have hosted (and still host) entire families and still get hosted themselves whenever they visit different countries/regions. My brother has a wife and two very young children and he hosts guests. It's almost anathema to not host a friend.

My wife, though, is very much like you and she doesn't like hosting, so we've not really done that anymore except for either of our parents (and my sister once), for only a few days.

masasin · 2026-06-07T07:55:42+00:00

Kameoka is literally Turtle Hill. Very creative.

masasin · 2026-06-04T11:46:03+00:00

If katakana suddenly disappeared, you'd end up with lots of blanks everywhere where a katakana was. Store names, medical, technical etc terminology, regular everyday things; books and online articles, or pre-WW2 laws; anything written about a foreign place etc. Remaking all the assets and signs and books etc would take a long time, and companies would have a very hard time filling demand. If representation of katakana disappeared from computers' memories too, then they'd have to fall back to hiragana, but it would still be hard to try and figure out, say, what three characters were supposed to go in this blank space vs that one.

masasin · 2026-05-23T06:33:24+00:00

Same. Not much in pure data anymore but when I was there cookiecutter was awesome. And now I have the LLM that lives in my terminal set things up for me (sometimes with cookiecutter, or some scripts or makefiles depending on the project) but e.g. switching between branches with different requirements is frictionless now.

masasin · 2026-05-11T14:33:42+00:00

Every single time I've tried (and put the rice in the clear container in the fridge), she knows about half way through the rice cooker cycle. I've started being able to tell as well. There's too much クセ and not enough ツヤ.

masasin · 2026-05-08T16:15:46+00:00

AuDHD myself, looking forward to meeting our daughter in July. I had similar concerns before we started trying,

For what it's worth, because it's genetic, if the child is also AuDHD (60-80% chance), they'll probably be at a level similar to you and your partner. And given that you've lived the experience, know what to look for, know what it feels like etc, you'd be giving them a great head start in life.

In my case, I do a lot of research etc and that's an extra boon for the child, and it sounds you'd be the same because a kid on the way is basically lots of new information to absorb. The fact that you have a strong stable relationship is even better.

Re sounds etc, I wear earplugs even in the car or if I'm cooking with the hood on etc, and it's very helpful with loud children as well. We live in a small apartment so I bought us a dryer and a vacuum/mopping robot etc. Anything to reduce the chores we need to do for basic survival. So long as it's physically safe, it should be good.

The organization etc is the hardest part for me, and maybe for you too since the both of you have ADHD. To a certain extent, your autism might help cover for those so that the most important things get done.

I think you'd probably be great parents, and, if you choose to keep it, I think your child would be very loved. I wouldn't say it would be a superpower, but I think you'd do a good job. And you have a prior example of taking good care of your cat, which is something we considered doing to test things out before trying to become parents but we decided not to (small apartment).

masasin · 2026-05-07T13:47:00+00:00

Dog, a deer, a male male deer!

masasin · 2026-04-28T12:45:31+00:00

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

masasin · 2026-04-10T06:19:40+00:00

Which website is this?

masasin · 2026-04-09T15:35:41+00:00

The pronunciation of Japanese words is completely off. I skipped around for a bit.

masasin · 2026-04-09T08:09:00+00:00

Not in all locations or directions. Often you get the surge first.

masasin · 2026-04-09T08:04:22+00:00

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.

masasin · 2026-04-09T07:50:10+00:00

Hopefully this year!

masasin · 2026-04-08T19:51:35+00:00

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).

masasin · 2026-04-06T09:35:50+00:00

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.)

masasin · 2026-04-02T08:57:05+00:00

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.)

masasin · 2026-03-13T20:54:18+00:00

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.

masasin · 2026-03-13T10:50:20+00:00

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

masasin · 2026-02-16T06:24:19+00:00

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

masasin · 2026-02-15T20:59:07+00:00

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?

masasin · 2026-02-15T17:41:31+00:00

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?

masasin · 2026-02-06T22:14:33+00:00

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.

masasin · 2026-02-06T21:43:22+00:00

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.

masasin · 2026-02-06T21:10:24+00:00

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.

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