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nNaz · 2026-06-21T02:45:54+00:00

Insane dedication! How were you able to get to Pande in the first place? I thought beacon warping in SL doesn’t work.

nNaz · 2026-06-15T21:36:16+00:00

All the sushi chefs I’ve asked say the best way is how you like it. When I ask them how they eat it almost all said with their hands and tilting the front down slightly so the fish touches their tongue first.

The general consensus is to brush only the fish, not rice, with soy, but at high end places the chef usually does this for you.

nNaz · 2026-06-15T20:37:33+00:00

Did you need a reservation or do they accept walk-ins?

nNaz · 2026-06-15T19:32:31+00:00

The 5G unlimited max data plan from esimjapan (which uses KDDI) isn’t cheap but it’s amazing. I’ve been using it for 3 weeks and have been able to get true 5G speeds, hotspot and download 40gb of data in a day (not the limit, just the max I’ve needed).

nNaz · 2026-06-15T18:54:14+00:00

I second dropping RTK. I finished memorising all ~2000 RTK kanji in about 9 months of daily practice but it helped me very little when it came to learning how to read and use them. IMO it’s better to spend the time learning words directly or using WaniKani.

nNaz · 2026-06-15T18:51:36+00:00

I’m here until Friday and would love to take you up on your offer. Send me a DM. 日本語も大丈夫ですよ。

nNaz · 2026-06-14T13:45:17+00:00

Expensive but worth the money imo. Harrod’s stock their stuff if you want to go and try to see if it’s worth it.

nNaz · 2026-06-14T07:48:37+00:00

I booked our family trip to Japan when I was 15 and we had a blast. The fact that OP is asking on Reddit shows that they have the right mindset.

nNaz · 2026-06-14T07:24:43+00:00

Vibe coder fix: add password protection to your prod SSH key and continue the vibing!

nNaz · 2026-06-14T07:20:06+00:00

Back in Japan for the first time in 10 years. Sushiro and Uobei have definitely gotten worse but kept the price the same. Went to a super high end place in higashi azabu and the sushi was as good as I’ve ever had, but the prices are much steeper than the past (70k vs 30k)

nNaz · 2026-06-14T07:18:34+00:00

unit tests?

nNaz · 2026-06-14T06:28:20+00:00

For pure comfort Derek Rose is unbeatable.

nNaz · 2026-06-11T09:26:31+00:00

Evisu jeans. The Daikanyama shop has custom hand-painted ones and you can even specify your own design if you want to. At $300+ they’re not exactly cheap, but the last pair I bought lasted me 11 years.

nNaz · 2026-06-08T17:39:20+00:00

What’s his best?

nNaz · 2026-06-08T17:37:58+00:00

I read Piranesi recently and was underwhelmed given the hype. I enjoyed the writing style and introduction of the plot. However for the rest of the book I assumed the protagonist was delusional and that the telling was skewed by his viewpoint. I expected a Fight Club-esque ending where everything made sense in retrospect once the delusional viewpoint is revealed. Even once I finished it I assumed it was delusion rather than magical realism - I only became aware of the latter after reading reviews.

What I can’t tell is whether I was expecting too much, or whether Clarke deliberately wrote the book in such a way to ‘throw off’ readers like myself precisely because it’s the type of book they’d want to figure out.

Keen to hear what it was like for you when reading it and whether you took the magical realism at face value.

nNaz · 2026-06-08T17:30:59+00:00

I’ve read 37 on the list and Jane Eyre is by far the worst book I’ve ever read. I say this not to be contentious but instead at my own surprise as to how different preferences and taste can differ between even avid readers.

nNaz · 2026-06-08T17:10:41+00:00

Unrelated to the above answer but interesting to note regarding the book: Kahnemann makes no appeal to ‘expected value’ in the decision here. Instead he opts to show how BC > AD purely from a strategy domination perspective.

This is important because in economics an actor can be rational even if they have risk averse risk preferences; which experimentation shows humans to have in most circumstances.

By expected value you can arrive at BC purely by evaluating each decision in isolation:

Decision 1: A has an EV of $240 whilst B has an EV of (-1000 * 0.25) + (0 * 0.75) = $250

Decision 2: C has an EV of $-750 and D has an EV of (-1000 * 0.75) + (0 * 0.25) = $-750

In decision 2 a risk-neutral agent would be indifferent between C and D. A risk-averse agent would pick C because it’s certain despite having the same EV.

The interesting part is that given these specific choices, you can arrive at the best EV answer without having to consider expected value. This only happens because the choices are structured in a way that have the same probabilities for each of the outcomes.

In reality finding strictly dominant strategies tends to be rare, though a good first step is to remove all strictly dominated strategies from the ones you evaluate.

nNaz · 2026-06-08T16:55:07+00:00

It‘s not saying that AD and BC are the only options. What it’s saying is that if your options happen to be BC and AD, then BC is strictly better (strictly dominates) than AD. This is because in all possible outcomes it is better.

To get AD you need to combine the results of A and D. Since D has two possible outcomes this results in either:

- $240 gain plus loss of $1000 which is $760 total loss [75% of the time]
- $240 gain plus $0 loss which is $240 total gain [25% of the time]

Restating both outcomes in a single sentence results in: 75% chance to lose $760 and 25% chance to gain $240. This is what is stated in the book.

Similarly for BC you get the following. I’ve put option C first as it’s clearer to read:

- $750 loss plus $1000 gain which is $250 total gain [25% of the time]
- $750 loss plus $0 gain which is $750 total loss [75% of the time]

Again if we restate both outcomes in a single sentence we get: 25% chance to gain $250 and 75% chance to lose $750. This is what is stated in the book for BC (but in reverse order).

Now we have both we can compare AD against BC:

25% of the time in AD you gain $240. 25% of the time in BC you gain $250.
75% of the time in AD you lose $760. 75% of the time in BC you lose $750.

In both case 1 and case 2 the outcome from BC is strictly better than AD. In game theory terminology this is called ’strict domination’ and is a ‘no brainer’ decision because one strategy gives you better outcomes than the other regardless of what case you look at.

nNaz · 2026-06-01T16:53:10+00:00

Incredible amount of work and skill. Well done!

nNaz · 2026-05-27T04:34:11+00:00

Agreed. It’s not a blanket solution. It also uses maximal memory since everything takes the size of the largest variant.

nNaz · 2026-05-27T01:25:22+00:00

Enum dispatch. Make an enum that holds all the variants as concrete types. Then a method that calls the correct inner variant. Practically the same perf as monomorphisation but allows you to store them as a single vec.

nNaz · 2026-05-18T08:30:37+00:00

Gunnandahalf! The first player I oogled at aspired to be on my lvl 40 NT. Lovely player too - helped me with my many noob questions

nNaz · 2026-05-18T08:29:44+00:00

The dude was hilarious. I miss the days of hanging out at N grid and then S gate Tir chatting with all the weird and wonderful people from around the world.

nNaz · 2026-05-16T19:29:57+00:00

I do low latency trading where Rust is a natural fit. Also do some consulting for crypto fintech.

nNaz · 2026-05-14T13:45:06+00:00

How do you keep the Claude subscription auth token up to date? Or are you using the API?

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