At the local super market:
I passed by here many times, then I started to wonder why this fridge with sweets is not located near to the other food area. These here need to look tasty to pet owners, and then be bought for their pets :)
Seeing these, @hananoaki commented along the lines of "well, overaging population, many people having pets instead of children..".
Day 1/2 of this years rice planting.
While cycling, I saw this restaurant and got the "asparagus menu" recommended. Just a single big pice of asparagus, but very nice. After the 126km I stayed for a night in a hotel in Utsunomiya.
Next day: the beautiful valley where my friend lives.
At the skin doctor, first an assistant asks some questions and fills them into the computer, then says "wait for the doctor" and leaves me alone with the unlocked system. 5min, would have been enough to lookup data of other people.
#japan has vending machines with all kinds of things, but I saw now for the first time selling Omamoli/talisman, at the Shibamata Taishakuten temple.
And they had Ultraman omamoli!
Do you know a text which you are proud to be able to read in it's native language?
雨ニモマケズ is a beautiful text. It's now at my place in the office, printed pdf, generated with Kanji in classical vertical style, with #xelatex .
Some lines translated:
Unbeaten by the rain,
unbeaten by the wind,
[..] never be angry,
[..] this is the kind of person I want to be.
Interesting idea, blocklists for uBlock Origin are appearing which help to block sites with AI generated content.
Not sure how I feel about it.
AI as it's done right now is a huge sink for electric power, which likely comes from not-green sources. Wondering if AI generated logo on the sites would also fit the criteria to get blocked. https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
Need another rabbit hole? Et voila:
I realized that already with my Japan HAM license level 4, I can send on almost all frequencies in Japan.
Reading up on Software Defined Radio, and this thread from @blinry is just right: https://chaos.social/@blinry/112036984423655020
Tokyo had a bit of snow this week - and all hells broke loose :)
TV has tables with "what breaks down with 5/10/20cm snow", and does live coverage.
Cycling to work next day took a bit longer, but was fun.
Company gives us a free day each quarter, the "recharge day".
I spent mine today with 35km by bike on the road, visiting 4 offices, to get my German drivers license rewritten for Japan.
Probably won't need it here in Tokyo, but good to have.
Coming here 8 years ago, I had it translated to Japanese, but then there was a rumour I would have to run through the full exams, so did not run through the procedure.
Great idea: on the backside you can directly choose the details for organ donation.
This left me puzzled this week:
why is the lunch menu of 2 schools from the neighborhood pinned up here at the entrance of a super market?
Well, you don't want to cook curry for dinner if your child just had it for lunch, right? The plan will let you know.. and also gives you ideas for what to cook.
Japanese efficiency!
Setting up the company provided Macbook pro M2 with @AsahiLinux for Linux engineering/support/development.
The M2 is aarch64, deployment of a virtualized aarch64 Linux guest takes 160 seconds.
Thanks to #qemu, also emulation of x86 is possible! Deployment of a x86 Linux guest takes 900seconds, quite reasonable considering all is emulated.
Tested out: when the year changes while on a plane, the airlines celebrate when their home country changes the year. Seen with German and Japanese lines. Using the actual current time zone would make more sense..
