tiredofsametab

I wondered this the first time going to a temple or shrine in Japan. It’s also quite common here. I wondered if maybe it came over with Buddhism and it made it’s way into the now-mostly-unified Shinto practice (pre-meiji-restoration, beliefs and practices were a lot more local). It could also have come in at the time of christian missionaries, but that seems a lot less like especially since it persists after the christians were forced to leave, convert, or die (though hidden christians remained, often meeting in caves in the hills and such).

I think one would have to search through what written accounts of people remain, particularly those of outside observers in a new place.

I thought maybe it came from some older homo sapiens practice, but even things such as nodding for yes aren’t consistent, so maybe not.

In Japan, tons of people send LINE messages to each other. Some of the older generations still call. My US family and I emailed for what little data that comprises.

I’m 2-3 times a day. it was 5+ until we figured out my body hates gluten

I just gave up.

Please think about localization and various labeling standards and such. I live in Japan and bought a subscription to Chronometer when MyFitnessPal decided to enshitify. I was submitting labels with barcodes and information in their appropriate boxes (protein, carbs, etc.) but they rejected it because the image (required picture) had non-English text. Apparently there is (or at least was) a manual review process and they rejected everything not in English. Further, it took either weeks or months (I forget now) for the first response to my submitted data to come so I kept putting all this time into something utterly useless. They lost me as a customer as well.

I would argue that Goonies had a decent bit of it. It really scratches my nostalgia itch not just for the movie itself, but for things from my childhood. That springy workout thing, kids on bikes, the cars, etc. all just do it for me.

Breakfast Club also came to mind, but I haven’t seen it in long enough to know for sure if it ticks the boxes.

I definitely agree with Flashdance being up there and Rocky.

That’s going to depend on the contract. The contract involves the studio, publisher, distributer, etc. of the manga and then all the stuff on the anime side. I unfortunately no longer really talk to any to have a more specific answer, though again that would all depend upon the above.

I have domain knowledge for some usages at least, and worked on things that were converted fairly recently from COBOL and places that still had AS/400 and such in use. I am aware I would need experience (beyond personal) before any real money would be there.

I live and work in Japan where dev salaries are much lower so, if I could just get a contract gig in USD, that would be pretty big for me especially with 1usd being 150 JPY or more

It won’t be my first and I’m not going super ambitious or AAA. If it takes me 5 years to do it, that’s fine.

I wrote my first game in straight C with no laptop so literally writing code on paper when not at a PC which I would later type in later

When I was in a band, we had our albums professionally recorded, mixed, and mastered, but we had a pretty decent set-up in the studio. After every practice, I’d do some rough mixing and burn us each a CD to listen to in our own cars and email MP3s for those of us who used devices. We’d take that and decide what needed to be fuller, what was getting lost, etc. and change any arrangement as necessary. Of course we might do more layers in the album itself than we could do live (well, without sampling machines going constantly and whatnot), but we still wanted to make sure we had at least the basics of where we thought people would listen to us.

I’ve fallen down the rabbithole. I’m reading a free course (from 2001ish) on Cobol.

COBOL is Maintainable

I now question everything. I mean, technically, basically anything is maintainable in that it’s possible…

I always wonder if I should just learn COBOL and try to just do a few juicy contracts a year and focus on my other pursuits (farming and considering making a game, as well as vacation of course) the rest of the year.

I doubt it. It’s still used in a whole lot of medical and banking applications where there’s a lot of text manipulation since it’s really good at that (HL7 and other EDI stuff for instance).

I’ve considered getting an electric one to blow all the dust out of my shop/warehouse, but I can’t justify the cost. I need a good shop/push broom and Japan doesn’t seem to like those (at least anywhere that I’ve looked).

Thou doughnut. Thou Ohio toilet. A pox upon thy rizz. May thine aura either.

How many times do we have to tell them to stop trying to clone Yggdrasil. Is pando not enough?!

And sometimes, kids get less conservative with age. I did a u-turn in my mid-20s and am probably the furthest left in all of my family.

I’m working to get an income stream in another currency as well because of that. It hurts for anything imported for sure, especially given a lot of fuel is imported, but it’s still workable for now. If/when they get around to turning on some of the nuclear plants again or getting them replaced with renewables, energy costs and fuel imports should at least drop again.

I moved to Japan which has its good and bad points (like anywhere). If I had it to do over, I’d probably pick Norway or Finland instead, but I plan on spending the rest of my life here barring some earth-shattering change.