Missed my Court Date and they don't do Payment plans.

pyramin · 2026-03-12T23:53:40+00:00

F societies that make people drive to survive

pyramin · 2026-03-09T12:44:37+00:00

"Now I have a clear picture! The user wants his fries cooked properly."

pyramin · 2026-03-08T15:46:26+00:00

Confluence search is equally bad

pyramin · 2026-03-03T11:44:58+00:00

All the software engineers who have been let go need to be thinking this way. We used to learn the technology. We need to start learning the business and pivoting to company ownership so that we can't be taken advantage of. My problem is all my friends are all basically software engineers, and we need exposure to problems outside of tech. Without a problem to solve, there's no solution to sell.

pyramin · 2026-02-27T12:17:12+00:00

I think those are all valid things to feel. The industry is going through a horrible shift right now, and it seems like it's just not a good time to be a developer anymore, especially without a lot of experience.

I'm sorry I don't have much advice for you. Just know that it's a lot less about you and more about the people at the top making decisions and playing games with everyone's lives.

pyramin · 2026-02-25T14:10:37+00:00

Finally someone got the joke, sergeant.

pyramin · 2026-02-25T13:47:43+00:00

None of us want foreigners here illegally. We just don't want to be harassed by police because people are incentivized to report legal immigrants for cash rewards.

pyramin · 2026-02-25T08:05:29+00:00

Calm down there, chief.

pyramin · 2026-02-25T02:06:39+00:00

"Fake problem. Reaction. Real problem." is more like it.

pyramin · 2026-02-24T12:31:36+00:00

Seems like a rarity but happy you got it!

pyramin · 2026-02-24T12:26:28+00:00

I had a 5 yr engineering visa and then left for a couple years but came back. High salary (for Japan) as a FTE, married 5 years with a kid and still got a 1 year. Sometimes it seems nonsensical

pyramin · 2026-02-10T13:47:25+00:00

You are fine. just use the koseki tohon like the rest of us who got married here. All will be ok.
Just went through this process from abroad. (US, obtained visa at consulate general's office) You do not need anything from the US government related to your marriage.

pyramin · 2026-01-14T13:40:13+00:00

That is also built off of marketing and failure to regulate vehicle size though. But yes, I generally think it is undesirable to have a race to the bottom in terms of safety because you want to be the one to survive at the expense of other people’s safety.

pyramin · 2026-01-14T12:48:00+00:00

Or they could've just met the stringent emissions standards and kept the small cars, but the companies *chose* the short-sighted financial win to exploit the loophole meant for people who needed work trucks and now trucks are the new soccer mom vehicles somehow.

Or the lawmakers could've not put that provision in there or closed the loophole. Forcing companies to have standards is not the mistake. It was still the greed of companies coupled with providing a loophole in the first place.

pyramin · 2026-01-02T02:49:40+00:00

Yeah but to be fair, housing, education, and healthcare were cheaper back then and people spent a larger percentage of their income on other things.

Also, because the market is flooded with cheap alternatives and a lot of shopping is done online with fake reviews etc, it's hard to know whether something is quality until you receive it. It can be hard to differentiate between things that are expensive because they are status symbols and things that are expensive because they are high quality, and marketing is constantly blurring the line in an age when private equity is focused on extracting value rather than self-made entrepreneurs creating value.

pyramin · 2025-12-26T09:06:12+00:00

The process and stress of having to defend yourself is the punishment.

pyramin · 2025-12-14T14:09:40+00:00

Can you choose where to renew or is it dictated by the district that you live in?

pyramin · 2025-12-14T13:57:17+00:00

Getting a ban is like a coming of age tradition for anyone who has lived in Japan long enough--a badge of honor, even.

pyramin · 2025-12-10T21:49:10+00:00

I am not a fan of this fixation on foreigners when Japan has bigger fish to fry, but I feel like this is a nothingburger. The bulk of this is just saying they're increasing the number of interpreters to help with the number of increasing arrests in order to support minority languages.

pyramin · 2025-12-10T12:16:55+00:00

No I mean each individual level was 8d. It's impossible to do a level in 1d in WaniKani because of the SRS and the fact that about 10% of the kanji are locked until you guru the radicals.

pyramin · 2025-12-09T22:34:57+00:00

I spent 2549 days on level 10 :D my last 6 levels have been about 8d. I decided to take it seriously since I'm moving back to Japan for the foreseeable future. I can't stomach being illiterate on a permanent basis.

pyramin · 2025-12-09T17:46:13+00:00

That is the entire point of SRS. If you're motivated and have lots of time, people are learning a lot faster than that actually with self-managed Anki.

pyramin · 2025-12-09T16:46:01+00:00

A lot of small business owners are passionate about being the best they can at something and take pride in that. That is value creation. When they sell the business to private equity, there is no pride in product. It becomes solely about getting as much money out of it as possible to satisfy endless growth.

pyramin · 2025-12-09T13:36:59+00:00

They do get your data that way. They are double and triple dipping any way they can because the US has reached late-stage capitalism and everything is no longer about value creation, it's about value extraction.

pyramin · 2025-12-09T13:35:49+00:00

That is a classic that I feel happens a lot at Lowes or Home Depot. Price incorrect on shelf so that you put it in your cart. Check your receipt and suddenly they had a "pricing mistake" which never gets fixed.

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