Boksha

41629 pts · July 14, 2013


To design and develop a machine for different tasks, the physical characteristics of fruit and their relationships must be known.

The app is just an alternative way to access to your collection on the go. The main idea is still that once you buy music (either through the website or the app) you can download a DRM-free copy of it for yourself to use on whatever device you like.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A quick browse through their Teepublic page: 500+ designs, many of which have garbled/random characters in the background. I'm guessing they added "with Japanese characters" in their prompts.

3 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

That made me immediately doubt (i.e. I'm 95% sure it's bullshit) the above story. Over 20% of the Japanese dictionary is made up of loanwords (no, the post's title isn't a coincidence; that's just the actual percentage of the dictionary), and this is telling me an actual professional translator, one that's actually assigned to be JAPANESE AMBASSADOR for an entire country, doesn't know the strategy of just trying the English word when you can't come up with a native Japanese one?

5 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

As a Dutchman: wat. What are you even on about?

Here's a tip for next time you live abroad: do a couple of those "quick google searches" while you're still there to get a better idea of what an absurdly skewed view the Internet gives. You sound like someone confidently claiming all major cities in the US are warzones.

8 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I volunteer at a film festival in the Netherlands at least one week a year, mostly as a screening attendant (which includes cleaning the room after each screening) and yeah, the amount of trash we find is... maybe 1/100th of what is shown here, if that. This is absolutely insane.

11 months ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I always remembered it as a tree has fallen over onto a bed. That's pretty troubling.
(not the actual origin for 困, of course, but by analogy: the 囗 part of 因 actually did start out as a bed)

11 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You can only say Etch A Sketch so many times before etch starting to sketch letch etchs ketch a setch sketchasetch ketch.

11 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's a character called Isshō from One Piece, and yes, he's modeled after Zatoichi.

11 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Content farms, probably.

11 months ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

(King in Yellow not included)

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Maybe not my favourite character in the game, but she's up there. It's a shame she becomes a playable character so late in the game you already have an OP team running around while she starts with basically nothing.

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I get the sentiment, but remember who is next in line and who put Trump up there. Stuff will get less stupid, but it will also likely get worse. Trump's popularity enabled the agenda of his handlers, but they may already be at the point where they don't need that popularity anymore.

11 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Depends on the size and species as well. Apparently some of them are only around a thousand cells, and have muscles consisting of only one or two cells.

11 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

You can kinda tell it's Amsterdam by the colour of the metal bollards on the sidewalk. Amsterdam paints them a brownish red (and they all have Amsterdam's triple cross logo on them, but the video is too low-res to see that; the ones with the logo are called "Amsterdammertjes"). We have very similar looking ones in Rotterdam as well but they're generally painted dark green here.

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The architecture is pretty typical for a lot of older Dutch cities, but yes, it's Amsterdam.

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Je kunt in het filmpje ook nét zien dat de paaltjes roodbruin zijn. Goeie kans dat Amsterdam de enige stad is waar ze die kleur hebben. Rotterdam staat ook vol met die dingen maar die zijn donkergroen. Even een snelle check op streetview: ze zijn in ieder geval ook te vinden in Utrecht en nog wat oostelijker in Arnhem (natuurlijk allemaal wel veel minder dan in Amsterdam).

11 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If you think Amsterdam is the only Dutch city with this shape of metal bollards, maybe spend some time outside of the capital. Typical Amsterdammer. ;-)

The unique thing about Amsterdammertjes versus similarly shaped sidewalk poles found in the rest of the country is the vertical triple cross logo, and the brown/red colour, which you can just about make out here. Just saying "If you see those little poles, it's Amsterdam", probably gives the wrong idea.

11 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The main issue is this is houw a lot of tech journalists talk about AI. They uncritically swallow and regurgitate what the tech CEOs tell them, which is necessary to keep the VCs on board.

11 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Oh shit, I'd completely forgotten Yuzo Koshiro made a Sega Genesis game. Time to buy it I guess.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

#9 the sizes of those barrels looked incredibly wrong to me and surely: whoever made that picture did NOT understand the square/cube law.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Militant washoku supporter.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm guessing there are also significantly more chickens worldwide than cassowaries, and they tend to be physically close to humans more often. One chicken versus one cassowary? I know which one I'd rather have within 2 meters of me.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We thought the internet would be a store for all of humanity's information. It turned out to be a place people get attention by being confidently wrong about things.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not to mention treating text generation bots as knowledge databases.

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Believable? You think Donald Trump can write?

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Apparently her husband was 56 and she was 24 when they started dating, which isn't weird at all. /s

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

That's not being entirely fair to the show since it's always a couple buying. i.e. they always have that budget on two incomes (his partner's income is obedience training for pet snails).

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The entire comic is a pretty big hint this scientist isn't anywhere near as smart as he considers himself to be. Heck, he apparently didn't even bother to test or calculate the effect of his machine.

1 year ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0