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• 2024-08
• Damn, just listened to this @kuma_power and @samsmith collab 😍 https://youtu.be/pTrWB4PkGh4?si=jocCOip4jaVH5pwU 2024-08-29
• Wow, I guess this Ace Hotel has been around for several years. I loved the lobby, it wasn't a dungeon like the one in New York 2024-08-29
• These guys in Kyoto in a top hat are fabulous. 2024-08-28
• Oh there's plenty of good coffee in Japan, don't worry! 2024-08-27
• Stumptown in Kyoto. 2024-08-27
• Congrats on the quarter century! 2024-08-27
• Next level UI theming: Instead of letting me choose my theme colour, let me choose my corner radius. 2024-08-20
• I'm surprised the J-Alert system didn't go off when Nintendo dropped this video. So see you in Kyoto in October then. https://www.youtube.c… 2024-08-20
• This reply was what you had been training for the last 18 months! 2024-08-20
• Very cool! 2024-08-17
• We need to have David Attenborough narrate this post. 2024-08-17
• Oh no, good that you were about to dodge it for the last two years. Hope you don't suffer too much. 2024-08-16
• Woah, that's wonderful! 😍 2024-08-16
• Generative AI = 生成AI (sei sei e ai) RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) = 検索拡張生成 (ken saku kaku chō sei sei) 2024-08-16
• 😂 Pho real! 2024-08-15
• Rando reply guys will continue to reply until DAUs improves. 2024-08-15
• Why? 2024-08-15
• Why?? This post about nothing important got 25K views? It attracts all these rando reply guys who enjoy shouting me down because I just pond… 2024-08-15
• Me too 2024-08-15
• I like building side projects that are for a user base of one (myself). Here's my ongoing bookmarking project I call hash-mem. From an iOS s… 2024-08-15
• It's not bad right now, but when I search for "Video" it is only half of what I expected. The other half is I expect this spotlight search t… 2024-08-14
• So much nostalgia for my minidisc walkman. I can't remember how I used to get music on to those damn things. How did I do it?? 2024-08-14
• It's a bit weird that the app that I go see my videos is still called "Photos" 2024-08-13
• Crisp Saladworks in Tokyo is my local salad fix. Surprised to learn it's a Japanese company with really good design and digital instore expe… 2024-08-13
• Oh no... 2024-08-13
• Shakey shake. 🫨 2024-08-09
• My condolences. 💐 2024-08-02
• I believe with a wooting magnetic switch keyboard, you can skip the ad by holding down ctrl-alt-del too. 2024-08-02
• Congrats on your increase in CTR 2024-08-01
• I reckon even in physical design, there's a max size to a button. Once it gets too big it stops being usable. 2024-08-01
• 😂 2024-08-01
• How big is too big? Maybe when it stops looking like a button? 2024-08-01
• 2024-07
• (also) Buttons will continue to get bigger until morale improves. 2024-07-31
• 100% conversion rate! 2024-07-31
• It's just something that happens when the button is made bigger, you just get more clicks on it- not because it's better button, only becaus… 2024-07-31
• I used to joke that we should just size the buttons based on usage, and not auto layout. Of course I was laughed out of the room and banned … 2024-07-31
• No, but on my previous team, every uptick in metrics could be traced back to the button becoming bigger... 😂 2024-07-31
• I still haven't got my dream car yet, so I decided the next best thing is to buy a Â¥500 magazine back issue magazine about it. 2024-07-31
• The most consistent trick I've learnt about UX is: If you make the button bigger, more people will click/tap on it. 2024-07-31
• What happened in season 6-11 of Futurama!? I thought only 5 seasons were made! https://youtu.be/zPelef46rlk?si=4GyUGYC_NiMQKNJ3 2024-07-28
• Also is def the most Korean pizza toppings I've ever had (well, honestly the only one I've had) 2024-07-27
• Actually had that two days ago. The egg on pizza is legit! 2024-07-27
• Today I learned from my Japanese lesson that "to google" in Japanese is ググる (guguru) 自分でググって！ Google it yourself! 2024-07-27
• Wish you could just prompt it. I don't get much uspol but tonnes of Japanese tourist posts. Guess the model just thinks there's a high proba… 2024-07-25
• Yes, I feel everyone's experience is unique. Like did I get a your "English is so good" in the aust, uk and us? No. But I did get the usual,… 2024-07-25
• That's a different issue to a bunch of foreigners who are N3 complaining about 上手. 2024-07-24
• Even I live here for the rest of my life I'm always a foreigner. So whether I feel it or whether I look it, it doesn't change that fact. F… 2024-07-24
• I've been in Japan for 7 years, and I am still delighted when people compliment me on my Japanese with 上手. So I agree with you, I cannot… 2024-07-23
• Well formed XHTML for you & I 2024-07-22
• The Hario Switch has completely changed the game for my pourovers. I love that thing, using a hybrid percolation immersion brew method has m… 2024-07-20
• Appreciate that you took the time to share this diagram, I've never seen this before like this. My feeling was that it was unnecessarily blo… 2024-07-20
• Haha not sure if they use the same word, but maybe a sentence involving a server serving saba would be quite amusing. 2024-07-20
• Thanks dude, you're cool. 2024-07-20
• Thanks qrcode expert 2024-07-20
• 👍 the qrcode is deliberately degraded by them blocking off a big part of it for not-so-good reason. 2024-07-20
• Thanks qrcode expert 2024-07-20
• Agree with you on that, the error-correction is based on the redundancy, so if they're burning the redundancy for by masking a quarter of th… 2024-07-20
• Thanks qrcode engineer. 2024-07-20
• I want to apply but I can't. 😜 2024-07-20
• Thanks qrcode expert. 2024-07-20
• I would, but I can't because I can't scan the qrcode. 😂 2024-07-20
• I saw a similar sign at a local pharmacy. I heard it's due to a bad harvest last season, yen falling and this seasons rice has not yet been … 2024-07-20
• Yeah what the hell is going on here on threads. I never got reply guys in my feed telling me off at this level on other platforms. 2024-07-19
• I can't even imagine what it would be like to constantly getting these reply guys in your feed. I'm so sorry that you have to deal with them… 2024-07-19
• Thanks 2024-07-19
• Lol thanks 🙏 2024-07-19
• Well done! 2024-07-19
• Yeah I guess qrcodes and riding trains are not compatible 2024-07-19
• Me neither. 2024-07-19
• Yeah the lighting condition is not good because of that light that's right above it, so because that rectangle in the middle is so big, erro… 2024-07-19
• Thanks, actually of all the replies I'm getting you are the most insightful. I agree with you, the qrcode actually is not big enough to be e… 2024-07-19
• I did try scanning it in real life and it didn't work -- otherwise I wouldn't of posted this But I guess if you're scanning the zoomed in v… 2024-07-19
• 鯖 is kanji forMackerel, but also now also means Server. The pronunciation of 鯖 is saba, which is a pun on server (saabaa, サーバー)… 2024-07-19
• thanks 2024-07-19
• Gosh, people on the internet love to tell you that you are wrong. Thanks everyone for telling me that I don't know how qrcodes work. 2024-07-19
• Thanks 2024-07-19
• I swear it didn't work when I tried to scan it. It's why I took the picture - it probably scanned for you from my zoomed in picture with nea… 2024-07-19
• It didn't scan for me when I did it off the poster in real life. 2024-07-19
• So fun! 2024-07-18
• We are truly living in the future. 2024-07-18
• Oh we've run out of letters of the alphabet. If only we had ANOTHER letter set that people in this country use... 😁 2024-07-17
• "I'm taking a train to focus work" 2024-07-17
• A bit disappointed they didn't call it U-points as it is the letter between T and V, for full merger branding effect. 2024-07-16
• Fun Japan branding news: Two point systems merged: V-points and T-points. So they decided to create a new brand by using the name of one of … 2024-07-16
• Same here, I think things started failing towards the end of last week for me. 2024-07-16
• Meta is on to me and my Meta Ray-Ban in Japan. All AI features disabled. 🙄 2024-07-16
• Surprising, right? I was jokingly thinking they may literally translate it to ラジオ頭 😂 2024-07-14
• I wrongly expected that Radiohead in katakana was ラジオヘッド 2024-07-14
• ワーターを終わった。* *katakana for water is not actually ワーター. 2024-07-13
• 😆 I can't even remember when I started watching it but I used to get teased by Patricia for giggling while watching two dudes on a couch… 2024-07-12
• I missed this so much - grew up watching this! Diggnation is back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd7vhmaKP6E&list=WL&index=7 2024-07-12
• At least they got the hyperlocal part right ... 2024-07-11
• Right, following feed is where I'm always trying to get to as soon as I open the app or website. But it always tries to put me in For You an… 2024-07-11
• Same feeling. Feels like they're reusing the Instagram recommendation model on the explore tab and it's mostly click bait. 2024-07-10
• Except one of them is Australian ... 2024-07-10
• Wow, they're making moves. Maybe there's something cool in the works. 2024-07-09
• Oh, thanks for the info! No wonder no one seems to be talking about dropping a few K on this. 😅 2024-07-08
• It is still an app that mostly is text-based, so it works well on e-ink. 2024-07-08
• This device looks super cool. 2024-07-08
• Huh? Leica made a phone? And actually made three different versions of them? https://leica-camera.com/ja-JP/world-of-leica/leitz-phone-3 2024-07-08
• That's true, i guess you can also include wrist watches as another thing that have centuries of history. Where as in human history it's not … 2024-07-07
• Funny you should ask - the ONE thing that has always turned me off Ray-bans was their logo on the lens. I wish I could get rid of that logo.… 2024-07-07
• You can get the regular prescription glasses version too. I don't have a strong opinion about indoor/outdoor, but I do appreciate that if … 2024-07-07
• I used to say that the only reason I'd wear a computer on my head was that I was paid to do it. I was wrong. The other possible reason is i… 2024-07-07
• Maybe just block all content that have bad punctuation. That'll solve a lot of problems on the internet. 2024-07-07
• Yes, I'm annoyed by that too! See why ⬇️ 2024-07-07
• It's a shame that Boox Palma is only running Android 11 (from 2020). The Bluetooth and network stack is quite wonky, so pairing the Meta Ray… 2024-07-07
• Yeah, and twitter too. Boffins have not yet gotten to AGI yet so I guess we'll all have to live with it for the next twenty years. 2024-07-06
• Then you're just someone with bad grammar- so also blocked. 2024-07-06
• I just want an AI that hides all articles and posts where the headline ends with a question mark. 2024-07-06
• Palma + Niagara Launcher = 👌 2024-07-05
• Robots bowing apologetically when they are turned off 2024-07-01
• 2024-06
• Can confirm that I bought one (actually two) after learning about it from you. Use it every day and read way more than before. 2024-06-27
• I love seeing other people's mouse cursors on this site. Genius! Especially ones that are white (windows user?). https://tonsky.me/blog/crd… 2024-06-25
• I'm rendering these in blender. 2024-06-19
• Ginza blocks 2024-06-19
• Everything is made of triangles, it's triangles all the way down 🤣 2024-06-18
• The next station is... (Experimenting both with modeling and lighting, and how Threads works with threads.) 2024-06-17
• It helps if there's a project in mind you want to build. The real reason I'm using blender is much more complicated but forces me to learn s… 2024-06-16
• That's great! I'm using Blender, took a long time to get at least to a decent level at it. Lots of YouTube tutorials... 2024-06-16
• Making some new stuff with my new found 3D skills. Abstract posters of Tokyo. 2024-06-16
• So many gradients they're leaking out of the models into the UI. 2024-06-14
• Of course all AI UI have gradients. It's based all based on Gradient Descent. 😵‍💫😅 2024-06-14
• Wow, what a run! Always a fan of yours 🤍 2024-06-13
• Enjoying taking videos in New York with the Meta Ray-bans. Oddly the worse thing about th is the big Ray-Ban logos all over the glasses and … 2024-06-06
• Heyhey! 2024-06-02
• Happy to be back in NYC for a week. 2024-06-02
• 2024-05
• This morning I found out one of my subdomains was hosting a scammy website because I had pointed the CNAME to GitHub pages but no repo was c… 2024-05-28
• Maybe, seems like people are interested. It'd have to be something that survives beyond a single person building it though. 2024-05-25
• I thought I was the only one who still keep on checking into places. I'm surprised how many people are popping up who care about it! 2024-05-25
• Finally it's time to build a personal check-in app to replace my usage of Swarm. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/foursquare-just-laid-off-… 2024-05-24
• That's me more time to login than actually filing out the tax form. So insane. There's now a chrome plugin but maybe a closed platform like … 2024-05-23
• Tried for an hour to apply to receive my "Proof of Japanese Taxes" from the e-tax website. First attempt in Safari just silently takes you t… 2024-05-23
• Don't have a strong opinion, but I think it's the same as one-off app purchase vs app-subscription, or music album purchase vs Spotify. Eith… 2024-05-14
• Isn't this the most kawaii (cute) emojis ever? https://www.streamlinehq.com/emojis/kawaii-emoji?search=&icon=ico_Oayn9Jg8A6LMToJR 2024-05-13
• Isn't this the coolest domain name and IP address combo? https://one.one.one.one/ 2024-05-13
• Beautiful snow patterns at the top of Tateyama. 2024-05-03
• 2024-04
• Another year, another 🌸 season coming to an end. 2024-04-12
• Yeah, also they've been building houses for several years too. https://www.dezeen.com/2020/01/16/muji-yo-no-ie-prefabricated-home/amp/ 2024-04-12
• Congrats! 大変ねー 2024-04-12
• Someone behind me fell asleep and I think the police officer had to go wake them up. The video was actually quite interesting with webcam fo… 2024-04-09
• Thanks for solving that mystery! 2024-04-09
• This is my first time as "gold", my first renewal two years ago was one with a 90min lecture. I don't understand why I'm suddenly gold, I th… 2024-04-09
• Successfully renewed my Japanese drivers license at the second attempt. First attempt I forgot to bring my glasses and the police officer ap… 2024-04-08
• Umm. 2024-04-01
• 2024-03
• Good suggestion, let me see if it can help with this. 2024-03-31
• I just came across Monochrome, instantly drawn to their products and was in awe of the design. 👏 Incredible work. 2024-03-30
• How? 2024-03-29
• There must be a service somewhere that I can send it a hundred links of blog posts and articles and then start asking it questions ... I f… 2024-03-29
• Damn, researching the right setup for solar, battery, hot water and home energy management system is hard. Doubly hard when it is all in Jap… 2024-03-29
• Fun times with a letterpress today 2024-03-16
• 2024-02
• I'm planning to start a new trend where I say "itadakimasu" right before I drop into some powder. 2024-02-29
• After 20 years, there is still no way to do FIFO in Gmail. It's always LIFO. 2024-02-29
• This is Pippu, now the northern most ski resort I've been to in Japan. There's still a few more even further north but my friends were not k… 2024-02-26
• Ski lifts looking good even when they're abandoned. 2024-02-26
• My legs are tired from snowboarding too much. 🏂 Actually, I lie. Theyre tired from me taking back to back meetings all week at my standi… 2024-02-22
• 2024-01
• Thanks! I find it's pretty diverse - but a few resorts that are under the same chain (prince) use the same style. Wish there were nicer bett… 2024-01-31
• Ongoing multi-year side project of mine has been building a website about the 400-ish ski resorts in Japan. Only fractionally done, both the… 2024-01-31
• Off snowboarding, be back in spring 2024-01-30
• Incredible! 2024-01-05
• Shakey shakey in Tokyo for a long time... must be a big one in Ishikawa. 2024-01-01