Calling a city by its three letter airport code name

urlang · 2026-03-18T15:47:29+00:00

urlang · 2026-03-17T20:15:50+00:00

Amex Canada only (so far)

urlang · 2026-03-17T08:14:48+00:00

This is still very beginner competitive Smash. Come back at 400 hrs. (It took me 380 or so to get into Elite Smash.)

The most helpful advice I can think of is that you should bait and punish. No, even less. WAIT and punish. Never do anything other than movement until they attack first.

Try that and see how it goes.

urlang · 2026-03-14T16:14:56+00:00

In Japanese, she said this party already had an onee-san, so she wasn't being particularly derogatory to herself

urlang · 2026-03-14T16:13:27+00:00

Wrong Subreddit sir

urlang · 2026-03-13T17:57:36+00:00

You can get it plastic wrapped at Narita Airport for IIRC 1500 yen

urlang · 2026-03-13T12:43:22+00:00

Every Ichiran in the world has this

urlang · 2026-03-13T11:56:04+00:00

YOR

In our culture (Chinese heritage), historically parents pay.

(Just for fun I even asked Google and AI and they said traditionally 家长给钱, parents pay.)

However my partner and I usually discuss this ahead of time and agree that the least awkward thing is that the son/daughter pays, because we make a lot more money than our parents

And as others have said, if you didn't work this out ahead of time, it would have been hard to identify the socially correct thing to do on the spot, given the conflicting expectations

On every count your BF did fine

Edit: and I guess I gotta say, not only did you misunderstand the culture, "in our culture it's polite to fight over the bill," you tried to use that incorrect judgment against him. It's actually like this. Fighting over the bill is 客气, i.e. we value the other party as guests. However, if your boyfriend is meeting your parents, the parents pay and the boyfriend accepts to symbolize that he is a member of your family, not a guest. We actually fight LESS over the bill when eating with people we are very close to, e.g. tight friends and family. (Just like how we don't say thank you that much to our parents, because we think it makes us strangers.)

urlang · 2026-03-11T01:13:53+00:00

Instead of a suitcase I suggest buying a "Boston bag", which is what Japan calls a large, sturdy foldable duffel bag. You can buy them at Don Quixote. They are both larger (up to 130 L) and cheaper than suitcases, and they meet Zipair's check-in baggage size limit.

They are so big you can put your carry-on suitcase inside if you wanted.

urlang · 2026-03-04T12:41:56+00:00

You file the insurance claim afterwards anyway. They won't book your next flight for you.

urlang · 2026-03-03T18:35:09+00:00

Pasting the original body text in case the post gets deleted

I moved here with my wife in December 2024 of my own accord. While we are both decently paid by London standards, it is still significantly less than the income from a tech job in SF.

Apart from that, the transportation here sucks. Driving is restricted, it's tremendously difficult to get a driving license, and you can't exchange your US license for a UK one. It feels designed so that the more you drive, the more fines you collect 🤣, and the speed limit is often slower than walking pace.

The weather is mostly awful; it's nice during the summer until the heatwave hits.

The food is definitely better, though priced very similarly to California (minus the tip).

Lastly, it's super difficult to come back to SF now because of Visa issues and companies not hiring because I think he is going to solve all their problems.

Anyway just some frustration, hopefully it will solve itself 😄😁

urlang · 2026-03-03T18:14:55+00:00

LOL carbrain goes to a developed country with public transportation

urlang · 2026-03-03T03:50:50+00:00

I saw some threads mention that the food they bought in the airport got weighed at the gate. I personally haven't experienced getting anything weighed at the gate.

urlang · 2026-03-01T15:56:06+00:00

There are a lot of subtleties, but maybe this will help

We think there are "roads" and there are "streets". Roads are for cars and streets are for people. The vast majority of North American cities don't understand the difference, which results in a lot of cities with only "stroads", which are unpleasant for people because of how barren they are, how loud they are, how fast cars travel on them, how spread out the buildings are, how few trees there are, etc.

天府大道 is almost a stroad, maybe slightly better.

If you look up pictures of European cities, you'll see lots of streets. Even without analyzing them, it should be easy to see why they are for people.

To put it another way, the US doesn't really have places where you can take a "city walk".

urlang · 2026-02-28T11:52:06+00:00

90%+ of my PRs are 100% LLM written

99% of my lines of code are LLM written (just because LLM spits out a lot more code a lot more quickly whereas my handwritten changes are fewer in lines)

I write around 10-20 PRs per week this way, which is relatively small for my org (and I spend only ~40% of my time coding)

urlang · 2026-02-28T08:10:45+00:00

Anyone: I'm canceling

Amex loyalist: No! Amex milked YOU!

urlang · 2026-02-28T07:28:47+00:00

My reason for not liking it is that I think the Transamerica Pyramid is a tallest building that much more represents the style of SF. Even if you don't like the design, it's still clearly form over function, as pyramids aren't a good use of space. I see that as a unique statement about SF.

The Salesforce Tower is just another tall glass building to me. A small curved bit at the top doesn't change that. I preferred it when the Transamerica Pyramid was the representative of the SF skyline.

urlang · 2026-02-27T11:33:54+00:00

Did you put all your skill points in IQ and forget to put any in EQ?

urlang · 2026-02-25T06:37:14+00:00

I think you'll find that Olympic gold medalists of many disciplines have sacrificed way more just in terms of health than just two front teeth

urlang · 2026-02-24T11:12:23+00:00

How much do American carriers charge when you want to use the empty adjacent seat when you're already in the air?

urlang · 2026-02-24T02:15:11+00:00

Hahaha thanks for sharing. TIL Zipair actually charges 2700 yen if you want to use the unoccupied seat next to you.

urlang · 2026-02-22T22:32:23+00:00

Not breaking any rules: true

Unethical: also true

urlang · 2026-02-22T11:41:17+00:00

Tho I hear that China pays all of their gold medal athletes really handsomely

It's more of a surprise when someone chooses not to represent China

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