HanaShiratori

> The next biggest three combined (VW, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis) have sold as many *BEV* cars as Tesla in 2021

ftfy

My feeling is that anime / manga is more popular than ever. Kids in my 8 yo nieces and 10 yo nephews class are crazy about Pokemon, Naruto (both seem to be still around...), Haikyuu and My Hero Academia. They are even wearing Haikyuu shirts for PE class. They also have all Yotsuba books and loved reading it. (I read the first two books with them together and it indeed is really fun!)

It would be interesting to have some data on that, but seeing all this anime content on social media and explosion of anime convetions i'd be surprised if there was no huge rise in popularity for both anime / manga.

What you describe in your first paragraph is something I hear very often from people that always eat out and don't want to learn how to cook their own food, because for them it's not worth it, due to the reasons you mentioned. I'm really curious, what are the items that you couldn't make work living by yourself? I personally cannot remember many of these instances back when I cooked just for myself. Most of the food items I had could be frozen or turned into a dish that in the end could be frozen well.

Maybe we're talking about different kinds of bread (I'm from Germany), but freezing bread here is really common (almost all the old people do that who live alone) and bread is one of the foods that freeze really well. It's similar to freezing rice, after thawing it's almost as good as fresh. (without toasting it or so, just plain bread)

Buns can be frozen pretty easily. And regarding the fresh ingredients ... why not just buy a single medium sized tomato and consume just that one? Or buy a big lettuce (which usually isn't very expensive) and make a salad as a side dish?! (honest question: have you ever prepped food before?)

no one forces you to consume 8 frozen patties at once. Especially since they already are frozen, why not keep them in that state until you crave burgers next time?

It's a tiny ass article from a small (? don't know this website) news platform / blog. They bothered to do some research on that topic + find & interview someone who might provide some insights - or at least has proven knowledge about that topic.

How is that considered *low* effort? I understand criticism of authors where they literally copy paste some random tweet, but critizising this as *low* effort sounds a little unjustified to me.

Well at least where I live you see people in nice clothes (also suits) every weekend drunk and dizzy. And no one gives a crap about those guys sobering up in some corner.

I think 99.9999% (rough estimate) of people treat a homeless person like a "normal person" by simply ignoring them. Unless there is a reason why one should start a conversation with another person, the majority of people just don't start any kind of interaction at all. And changing your behavior just because the person is homeless breaks the rule to treat them normally.

Rip rc files, no colored terminals anymore :(

Well tutanota is a small company with around two handful employees afaik, I'd assume their budget for maintaining their blog is very limited. Obviously they use their own media channels to portrait themselves as positive as possible, nothing wrong with that in my eyes. It's not that they were spreading any lies or so

Oh OK sorry I'm not a native English speaker so I might not chose the right words.

I was asking who spontaneously changes their mind without any event that would trigger such a change? If I believe in something, why would I have any motivation to change it if everything is running well / as planned?

Sorry what? I guess I don't get what you're saying

Why would anyone, especially a large group spontaneously change one of their core beliefs? Don't you need some kind of trigger event to enforce the change of mind?

I think what you mention about breaking packages is not exclusive to R, that's just the result of community driven, open software development. You have to take care of reproducibility in any programming environment, but this doesn't have to do with the entire package eco system. Especially the tidyverse is very exclusive in that, since it is very fast paced and constantly evolving with breaking a lot of old code.

Many popular packages like data.table rarely break after years of version upgrades. But relying on that in any kind of programming language is asking for trouble...

We're using renv since about a year at our workplace and haven't had any major issues occur. Maybe try packrat? Or try conda with R. Otherwise using docker should eliminate most reproducibility issues

Wouldn't any kind of reduction be a good thing? Even if it just prevents severe illness / hospitalization by the stated amount I'd consider it a win.

I don't necessarily think speed is an issue with e bikes, since the assistance stops at a certain speed. I commute by (non electrical) bike to work every day and can reach the same speed as e bike commuters - my acceleration is just slower and it takes more work to get there (especially on windy days)

You see regular bikes going on very high speed as well, so I wouldn't say the general speed assumption has to change

Unfortunately working on a local machine with or without infrequent saves always carries a certain risk of data loss, since your computer could crash at any time due to power issues, disk failure or any other pc component dying or just a software bug like in the described case (but who knows, maybe the real reason was a hardware defect). Either use features like auto save which should minimize the risk of creating corrupted save files or work on a network drive (or the cloud) with file versioning enabled and optimally frequent, incremental snapshots / backups. But it's important to frequently save your file, otherwise you will increase the risk of data loss. And be aware, that working on a local machine is dangerous in itself - if you have to do that frequently however (no network connection), use external storage (small usb thumb sticks) for at least providing some kind of backup.

Fortunately I learned this lesson as a kid playing countless hours of RPGs where forgetting to save frequently lead to replaying hours of gameplay again... ;)

I don't see how stating something being fine for me and something being impractical for most people is a drift in a discussion. But in the end you fortunately did have a reply to this! (which is good, since that's what discussion forums are for...)

Well working with your laptop on your lap is not practical for most people to begin with, therefore I'm not seeing a problem with providing a solution to at least have a better typing experience. And I don't think what I described is that uncommon, there are plenty of people using this combination... https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*v0kF6eGo2AO1YKsEP9gd_A.jp...

Obviously if you're having to work with your laptop on your lap for 8 hours a day without wanting any external input devices and still require a very specific typing experience then there might not be too many options out there...

Who says that? I can use my laptop with an external keyboard attached on my lap without any additional discomfort

Why don't you just use any external keyboard you like? That way you're not narrowing down your laptop purchasing options that much. In case you upgrade your laptop / leave your current work that use other laptops you won't have to get used to the new keyboard layout.

I think people often times have too high expectations when moving to another country and assume that making friends / settling down is a straight path. In fact, especially at an adult age it is very, very hard to make new friends, regardless of where you live. Most people at that age already have their social circles set, build / expand their own family and are just not willing to invest emotionally into new relationships. And this is even harder when coming from a different country with different social norms. I live in Berlin, Germany and see this problem non stop, but not always from foreigners, also from fellow Germans who come from other cities like Hamburg, Leipzig or Köln. People end up moving back to their social circles because they have difficulties to adapt to the new environment.

Since Japan attracts many people for various reasons, I think this general problem gets blown out of proportion and sold as a uniquely Japanese issue, which it is not. There are just meant people moving to Japan and therefore sharing their experiences, which often times are as described above. Japan definitely has a lot of issues, but I don't think this one in particular is exclusive to Japan

For me both cities feel completely different. Tokio definitely is much more lively / action packed. Whereas Kyoto has a much slower vibe...

This happens ever now and then in the company I work for. Sometimes we have a good candidate who doesn't make it for the position they initially apply for, so our hiring managers offer them a similar position that might be a good fit as well (after talking to the manager of the other team).

But this is not intentional bait, rather offering more opportunities for both sides and totally legit in my eyes. And it worked out well - at least for the company I work at...

To be honest 60 dollars for 20 hours is great value in my opinion.

I guess from a business perspective you are the ideal costumer. Doesn't know how to use the service, won't contact support, paying long term subscription and is even renewing this long term subscription!

I'm sorry I don't really get what you're saying. You can charge any (supported) battery type in any of those slots regardless of how many you want to charge at the same time. I can charge 4 eneloops simultaneously or 18650 or whatever...

What do you mean with one at a time? I've been using one of these chargers for a couple for years now and can charge multiple batteries at the same time. Even different types are not a problem. (nimh / liion)

Haha yeah the good old MC3000. I love this charger, it makes a simple task a little more exciting and sometimes (a bit) unnecessarily complicated - but at the least you've got full control about charging those damn batteries!