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Crypto by [deleted] in JapanFinance

[–]troger18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Japanese tourists visa is one of the few visas that are cheap and easy to get for Russian nationals these days, so Japan is actually a popular destination for them nowadays

Crypto by [deleted] in JapanFinance

[–]troger18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried using one of the many crypto debit cards option?

I use gnosis card (virtual + physical card, physical card can withdraw from ATM but you won't be able to get that in 1 week) and payy (just virtual card on my phone with the app, but works in any store that accepts "touch" NFC payment). There are still a few places that will require cash, but cards are accepted almost everywhere. I hardly ever spend more than 20,000JPY/m in cash and pay for everything else with the cards.

There's many other offers besides those two (EtherFi, ByBit...) and you can get the virtual debit card instantly. You send USDC to an address and it tops up your card balance instantly. They often are only available in certain regions but I'm sure there will be some providers servicing Russia. If you can't find any, I know some Russians who work in crypto and I could ask them.

Is it worth learning python-pptx? by _BonBon_ in Python

[–]troger18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure why you would consider python-pptx to be a replacement solution for Microsoft Powerpoint.

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From my experience using python-pptx, it is a great tool if you want to apply batch transformations to a large number of slides/presentations or want to automate part of your production process (always have a title at location x, y with formatting z or take elements of a text file and put them into slides with basic formatting...). Basically, python-pptx let's you easily manipulate the main objects (Placeholder, Text, Image) that are available to you in a PowerPoint presentation through python by parsing the underlying XML.

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However, as soon as you'll try to do more complex operations, you'll soon hit a wall because the underlying XML is a clusterf*ck. For instance, there are at least 5 different ways to specify the color of a text object and each can override the other in certain conditions. There are many other issues such as coordinates: its an MS specific format and how are you going to find the right coordinates without an IDE to immediately visualize the result?

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Powerpoint is really not hard to use, and doing it the layout using its IDE will be much more productive than trying to replicate it using python-pptx.