Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan

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Joined 2 months ago
Cake day: April 25th, 2026
  • I put it in my machine, but it just kinda rattles around in there. Am I doing something wrong?

    / Physical copies should always be an option. I joke but I do have an external DVD drive if I need it.

  • I use PieFed which is similar to lemmy. Mbin is also another option. This is determined by your instance (basically your domain name) not by you. They all have various good and bad points and all talk to one another.

    If you desire, you can use clients (apps/frontends) to browse. I just use my web browser, even on mobile.

    I prefer to not subscribe to communities, but rather block things I will never be interested in. I then set my sort to active and see what’s going on. If I find a community I have zero interest in, I block it. You may find subscribing to things that you like instead better, but I like to see what all is out there. Generally, though it depends on the instance software and client, one can block people, communities (magazines in mbin speak), whole instances, or keywords in a sort of filter.

    There’s more, but this may already be too much or too technical.

    Basically, just comment, post, and don’t be a dick and the rest will work itself out.

  • Note to any learners: not all words do this in Chinese/Japanese; plenty are the same in both borrowed from the other country. (not that OP suggested it was, but I could see it being read that way)

    I can’t think of any real examples. For letters, abbreviations can end up like that as others point out. I think that’s about the extent of anything meaningful. Adjective order differs, but that feels like cheating. There may be some compound words out there that fit this. In Japanese, a conveyor belt is called a belt conveyor (ベルトコンベヤー), but that also feels a bit like cheating.

  • cowboys have been skipping steps and doing things lazily and poorly well before AI

    Of course, but I think not understanding what they’re committing is more dangerous than before (even allowing for the classic “I copied and pasted this from xxxx site”). This is also true when people are fully trusting AI to review code as well.

    We use AI for code reviews which I do find useful. It’s still wrong part of the time (sometimes ridiculously so). So far, it’s also failed to provide accurate documentation for various repos which seems like something rather basic. I’m not against all AI (though I do have ethical and environmental concerns with several of the commercial options). I will not have them write code for me, though.

    As for the future, we’ll just have to wait and see. I’ve seen a lot of AI budgets exceeded and/or cut. I do think it’s not there yet for a number of tasks but is suitable (again minus certain concerns) for others.

  • Breakfast: black coffee

    Lunch: brown rice, cheese, jalapeno, red onion, some protein (usually chicken)

    Dinner: salad (shredded cabbage, cheese, homemade balsamic vinaigrette, carrot, bell pepper, red onion) with something crunchy (currently gluten-free knekkebrød, but I’ll be out after my next meal and it’s not sold anymore here in Japan (or at least my area thereof)).

    Snack/Dessert: chips and salsa or yogurt or peanuts and chocolate chips