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Fermented fish guts, but I suppose fermentation is just rotting with style.

I put modern fish sauce in all kinds of things, so I get it. 塩辛 Shiokara is also a popular food here and it’s fermented seafood parts/guts (squid is most popular, but it could be anything, I think).

What, you don’t place a wrench in the middle of all your communications for safety? heh, I shouldn’t post whilst tired.

Thanks!

Good News! Unless something has changed since I worked in healthcare IT, those systems are far too old to be impacted!

I’m half-joking. I don’t know what that kind of equipment runs, but I would guess something embedded. The nuke-med stuff was mostly linux and various lab analyzers were also something embedded though they interface with all sorts of things (which can very well be windows). Pharmaceutical dispensers ran various linux-like OS’s (though I couldn’t even tell you the names anymore). Some medical records stuff was also proprietary, but Windows was replacing most of it near the end of my time.

One place we had ran their keycard system all on a windows 3.1 box still. I don’t doubt some modern systems also are running on Windows which has interesting implications for getting into/out of places.

That said, a lot of that stuff doesn’t touch the outside internet at all unless someone has done something horribly wrong. Medical records systems often do, though (including for billing and insurance stuff).

About 10 years ago, I moved to Japan and don’t regret it. The only real downsides are that my family is on the other side of the world and the yen is doing poorly against the dollar. Well, that and being a US citizen trying to do something silly like use Japanese retirement vehicles outside of pension (iDECO and NISA) is basically impossible because everything is considered a PFIC by the US, but that’s true of many things in other countries as a US citizen.

'cause it’s a tubular word, doy. (and for a brief moment, I was a kid in the '80s again)

Something expensive is spendy.

My dictionary doesn’t think so, heh. Webster seems to say “chiefly Northwestern US” so that may explain it. I remember rolling my eyes and thinking that it sounded like something a self-important jackass would say. (edit: the first time I heard it, I mean).

I don’t think I’d ever use it, but I also don’t see it as weird or wrong anymore. Melty is fine. Slippy still grates on me a bit, but I can let it slide.

Definitely both exist in Japanese and they are used fairly frequently.

一昨日 day before yesterday 昨日 yesterday 今日 today 明日 tomorrow 明後日 day after tomorrow

Certain registers of a language do have different rules, but those also change and are still kinda whatever that part of society agrees with. Business letters that I learned to write in gradeschool in the '80s aren’t necessarily the same as I would write or expect to receive today. Ubiquitous, fast electronic communication also through a wrench into things a bit.

I’m a native US English speaker. I would only ever say oriented. As a kid, not knowing the “correct” form, I got corrected for saying orientated. I watch content from a lot of countries and do hear at least some British English speakers using orientated.

Some N greater than zero, though probably at least two unless you’re inventing a language/dialect on your own.

Depending upon the type and quantity of food, climbing it might be a more difficult task than expected (says me who had McDonald’s today (though for the first time in a couple months)).

Are you sure it’s lentils? I have no idea, but other people are mentioning beef stew and it kinda looks like ground meat to me more than lentils.

I don’t even know what I’m looking at. Sliced white bread with butter, HP sauce, salt or pepper shaker, and a plate with what seems to be boiled potatoes and some unknown viscous fluid with what might be sliced (presumably cooked) carrots.

It’s possible to get my US license and transfer it, yeah. I was unaware zoom was an option, so I might look into that. The 13-hour time difference (to US Eastern) might make the test a bit rough, hah. Cheers!

Yep, that seems to be it. Interesting, if a bit simplified, explanation in the article of US politics for a Japanese audience.

Source? I live in Japan and haven’t seen this (not surprising given I rarely read papers here), but would love context. Not seeing any in at least the first page of replies

I just opened my browser for the first time in hours and refreshed the page. This is literally the top post for my sort. Mbin jackpot!

What time were you talking to the guy in Japan? I live in Japan and am (very slowly as technical and legal japanese are hard) working on my HAM license and would love to chat with my dad in the US eastern time zone. Still not 100% sure about propagation and other such. Thanks!

I actually work with ML a lot (at the intersection of my domain with it), though I am not an ML/AI engineer.

I think short-term, ML/AI has a great chance of helping hugely with accessibility issues with users of various systems. My secondary thought is maybe related to elder care, but I’m not sure yet.

I have largely had bad experiences with AI assistants (coding, search, and other domains), except maybe helping with finding/generating code samples for libs/packages with poor or missing documentation (though I go to the docs and code first and those results aren’t always correct).

I do see virtual assistants in various forms being a possible near-term implementation with promise, but most are still heavily trained on and biased to. A handful of languages (in the case of LLMs and such) which limits global appeal.

I am both frightened (the race to market without considering the near- nor long-term costs to society as a whole neither ethics in many cases) and hopeful about the whole thing.

I think you are probably correct, though I also feel we might have something in physics or robotics that has ripple effects opening new avenues. Only time will tell, I suppose. Cheers!