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The groups specific to life/legal issues/visa issues/finance in Japan steadfastly refuse to move so I visit for those only.

Ugh, too much marsupial energy in this one /s

Just eat garlic on its own if you’re going to go that route; I don’t know how you could taste anything else in the dish!

I loved big-league chew and bubble tape when I was growing up.

Edit: and I can’t forget Bazooka. Also, shitty trading card pack gum (for nostalgia but not flavor).

It might be the way Bing is tokenizing and/or how far back it’s looking to connect things when compared to Google.

A statistical model predicted that “in heat” with no upper-case H nor quotes, was more likely to refer to the biological condition. Don’t get me wrong: I think these things are dumb, but that was a fully predictable result. (‘…the movie “Heat”’ would probably get you there).

We had a churn at grandma’s, but I don’t think we ever used it.

I had them in the '80s definitely, maybe even into the '90s in the US. They’re still sold in Japan today (chocobaco or something like that).

That wouldn’t surprise me. I have always been a night owl and maybe slightly non-24. I can get up early, but a single late night will destroy my schedule as my body reverts to that and takes days or weeks to recover.

I’ve used firefox on android for years now. The only time I do anything in Chrome is when I need to translate pages easily (Japanese translation only recently hit desktop version and it’s very poor quality and google lens is inconvenient).

Chat just became synonymous with readers/listeners in modern slang. I also went through my “old man yells at cloud” phase about it, but it’s fine, I guess. I still get annoyed when people say the name of twitch emotes, though.

You’re ChatGPT! I knew it!

/ Cat, I farted

Everyone spotted wearing these should be noted and never allowed to hold office again (and preferably rot in a prison for life). This is gross.

As someone who lives in Japan, I’ve got some bad news for you…

The good news is that it’s mostly just the olds. The bad news is that it isn’t exclusively just the older generations.

Clean place to stand to change clothes without getting your socks/feet on the rest of the gross floor? I’ve seen those in some washrooms around the world.

BRB – I have to tell the country of Japan they’re doing dates wrong /s.

For the things I’m thinking about, the year generally doesn’t matter. I’m thinking advertisements or even things that say like ‘Spring 2025 menu 2025年の春メヌー’ or something which preserves context. A lot are also written on shop whiteboards and such which are changed fairly regularly. In my own notes, in anything I may care about that far into the future, I do write the full date in ISO-8601

Thank you!

And, when the context of the year is understood, you can just drop it. At least Japanese does this (and I’m pretty sure Chinese does as well).

So only 63-year-olds who can add properly?

In IT for 25ish years, 20+ as a developer. I have used AI a handful of times for generally two things.

• find/make me an example of something in <poorly-documented-library> when troubleshooting an issue
• restating a question/search to get better results

Certainly, I played with it more off and on after it came out, but those are the two real success cases I’ve had with it. I certainly would never let the thing write code for me, particularly where security and optimization are concerned.