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d13··on How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan
No one will ever know or care if you’re working remotely while in Japan on a tourist visa. Just AirBnB and get ordinary travel insurance.

For a paltry 6 months this nomad visa seems like a massive amount of paperwork for no benefit.

d13··on Cargo Airships Are Happening
Is there any evidence that this is really a problem? Zeppelins were in use for decades completely safely, as are modern airships.
d13··on Proposal: JavaScript Structs
As a very experienced TS developer myself - this is absolutely correct, the best reply in this thread, and I hope the OP reads it.
d13··on Ask HN: How do you cope with a deluge of job applications?
We had over 500 applicants for our recent intern position. HR screened out 5 for me, and I interviewed 2.

It was a fantastic hire, but ultimately entirely random.

d13··on Ask HN: Going to oncology (just for adjuvant chemo) how to prepare mentally?
How old are you? Have you been exposed to serious illness or death before?

This is my world at the moment (terminal melanoma and no more treatment options left after 2 years of immunotherapy). What you’re seeing is not human suffering but human survival, and it’s an absolutely beautiful thing.

It will be OK :)

d13··on Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx
Awesome, thanks!!
d13··on Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx
Thank you! The linked article, in addition to this,

https://htmx.org/essays/htmx-sucks/

Has convinced me never to use or recommend htmx to anyone.

d13··on U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction
Now, can someone help explain to me how I can ask LibGen (or Google, or my ISP) to refund me the thousands of dollars I’ve lost in royalties on the 7 books of mine they have up there?

https://libgen.is/search.php?req=Rex+van+der+spuy&lg_topic=l...

Google gave me link, searching my name turned them up.

d13··on U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction
Can she not get any inter library loan?
d13··on Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round
Apple is already doing this:

https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-intelligence/

d13··on Japan's humble onigiri took over lunchtimes around the world
You’re right, they are just 90% white rice with some flavouring. No more “healthy” than a white bread sandwich.

If you’re looking for a healthier lunch option, try a 7 ingredient chopped salad including almonds and cashews and feta, topped with a simple vinaigrette. These take less than 10 minutes to make the night before, and will fill you up all afternoon.

d13··on OpenAI Takes Its Mask Off To Reveal What It Really Is
ElevenLabs just uses tortoise with its own high quality recorded voice data. You could definitely do the same:

https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

d13··on Does “building in public” work?
What is the “indie hacker community”?
d13··on Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas
My dad grew up in a world without plastic. Packaging of food and goods was orders or magnitude less than now. Most of it is completely unnecessary.
d13··on Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
Everyone seems to have forgotten Beautiful Losers, one of the greatest novels ever written:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Losers

Way ahead of its time, both then and now.

d13··on Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos
Safe breaking distance is 2 seconds of travel between two and the car in front of you. In my experience almost no one ever follows this guidance and therefore yes, the rear-ender is always at fault.
d13··on Stolen iPhones Will Be Even More Useless from iOS 18 Onwards
If a thief grabs a phone from someone’s hand while authenticated, can’t they then just make it theirs by immediately resetting the password pin and Face ID?
d13··on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
It available from Amazon UK and they will ship it to the US.
d13··on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Fibonacci himself, who popularised their use, explicitly mentioned that they were from India. Somehow this was muddied in later secondary sources.
d13··on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
And, it should be on track to become the world’s largest economy by 2075 - which historically it and China always have been.
d13··on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Not just that! For many hundreds of years there were over 250 ships a year trading between India and Rome, and tariffs on that trade alone accounted for 25% of the Roman Empire’s tax revenue. Among many other things, India fed the demand for transparent clothing, which was all the rage in the Roman Empire during that period.
d13··on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
They did have ink and papyrus.
d13··on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
And still, it’s one of the greatest works of popular history ever written.
d13··on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
I’m reading this right now, and it’s excellent. Some amazing stories in there, like that of Wu Zetian, the real life Mother of Dragons:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian

d13··on Building the same app using various web frameworks
Don’t “npm install” anything and just copy the compiled .min.js library/framework files into your “/libs” folder.
d13··on Ask HN: Is the Job Market That Bad?
Yes, I’m in the UK too and there’s a massive shortage in that sector. But, of course, the pay is terrible so no one wants to do it.
d13··on Core: an experimental new way to write videogames
And you don’t need to use signals in Godot at all.
d13··on Core: an experimental new way to write videogames
I agree! I use both GDScript and C# with Godot, and GDScript is excellent. But, I’ve been programming for 40 years, and my baseline is “all programming languages are bad” :) All I need is a Turing machine with nice ergonomics and I’m happy. I’m very easy to please.
d13··on Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
I’m an Indian Classical Music student, and studied tabla for many years. I dislike all electronic music in general. I think I’m hearing something else.
d13··on Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide
This is why music is completely subjective. What some hear as “sublime” others hear as “overcooked”. It’s all fine though, this is all part of what gives life richness and texture.
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