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I always wanted Alice 3 to be a Soulslike personally

That would definitely keep me from buying it; I can’t stand those sorts of games. I did like the first two, though, and still have the CD for the first one kicking around.

Maybe. If it’s tied to a kharmic system and not sticking it out led to worse incarnations, that’d probably be a good countering force.

it’s built within a trust system where an individual is expected to not shoplift (due to shaming culture) as public face and reputation matters to them.

It’s because there are tons of security cameras and a super high prosecution rate. It has nothing to do with “shame” or “face” and it drives me crazy when people say stuff like this

People shoplift here every day. Convenience store clerks have basically big paintballs to lob at shoplifters to mark them as they run.

~ someone in Japan over a decade.

The Coneheads movie has this gag. Father tries to get a job and has to make up an SSN on the spot.

Not in sane places, it doesn’t.

Yes. I’m not sure if it’s because I have aphantasia or I’m not a very visual person to begin with, but kanji learning sucks for me. I also have backslid on writing since the only thing I ever write by hand these days is my address. I don’t even mind the many readings; it’s the physical forms I have issue remembering.

• most people would find it useless, especially in areas not near any other country (most of the US)
• other courses would need to be dropped or the school year expanded (not happening). The cost would also be in acquiring and retaining the talent on top of books and other materials
• taxpayers would balk at this as they would also find it useless in most cases (why does our local welder need to Welsh to weld?)

I am a huge fan of language learning and, if I had my way, would make all high school graduates take at least six months and live in some country very different to their own (including language) to get them out of the USAmerican bubble, but that certainly isn’t happening.

I’m working on language number 5 myself (more if you count the ones I just tried to get to basic greetings, yes/no, etc. in).

“Well, shit.” If my wife were next to me, tell her I love her. Depending upon how far it is, run for cover. Try to fire off a couple of texts to family, but that’s unlikely to work. All the while, hope it’s not nuclear in origin (other things make mushroom clouds).

Do you want snakes with legs? Because this is how you get snakes with legs.

1. Hire an accountant. I assume I’ve entered some sort of tax hell for this, especially as a US citizen living overseas.
2. pay off my house
3. pay off US student loans since I assume there would be no way out of that
4. send my wife to driving camp (she doesn’t have her license which is a liability out here) which costs > 300k JPY
5. set up for our retirement. We have no kids to help us, so we need to have good investments in planning
6. put ~50 million into other investments, savings, etc.
7. replace my car with an electric vehicle
8. get a new tractor for my farm
9. build out the workshop with proper tools
10. take care of the needs of any immediate family making sure to pay off any loans they have
11. start looking at causes to set up donations with the goal of donating most of the money

I’m on my 4th instance. Dropped my first be cause of old Lemmy’s autorefreshand other issues. 2 and 3 died as maintainers went away. I had to start over from zero again each time

I hate infinite scroll. That said, it’s just fancy pagination and if the host’ API supports pagination, whatever frontend should be able to implement that

AFAIK, once you qualify for Social Security, you get it even if you stop being a citizen. I looked into it at some point as I plan to renounce once my parents pass (I already live overseas)

right-click and see where a menu opens.

My company uses copilot for code reviews. They encourage at least trying a number of other tools but do not require it. Some of our product does use LLMs for various things, though I don’t personally work on those.

I do worry about the environmental impacts and ethical concerns around training data (especially pirated data used with neither consent nor compensation) so I don’t use anything personally (aside from where some company has shoved it in somewhere).

I think that local models trained ethically can have a number of uses such as classification, data cleanup, and perhaps even checking code for security issues and exploits (I’m not sure if local models can do that yet or well).

There’s a certain nostalgia for me. I watch some on youtube every now and again just to be reminded of the fashion and even just things I had that I’ve forgotten about.

100%. I recently had to use a fork somewhere and it felt so unwieldy.

Does everything else taste normal to you? Just asking on the outside chance covid or something has impacted your sense of smell and taste (happened recently to a parent).

I just mailed my overseas vote for my state’s primary. Super red and heavily gerymandered, but not much else I can do. We at least had one progressive on the dem ballot whose site (at least until recently) said “Fuck Ice” so that’s hopeful.

Until when it’s considered acceptable by society as whole depends on that area’s culture. In Japan, one might find even elementary kids sharing a bed with the parents (or at least mom as dad sometimes would sleep separately). I think even here anyone over 10 would be kinda weird here. The US takes an even more dim view on it (in part because cosleeping was thought to cause things like SIDS so it’s generally not started that much to begin with).