Dylanlacey

Yeah, their imperviousness to either progress or consequences is kind of incredible. An entire nation of collectivist, rule-following tendencies with a scummy layer of cartoonishly evil folks at the top, who for some reason seem immune from having to be decent people.

Delicious, but dealing psychic damage.

What I want to know is, what's happening to all the Australian rice they do import? Are the statistics lumping all varieties together, are we only selling them Basmati?

The agricultural minister went on TV and ate rice from one and two years ago from the stockpile and reported they were all delicious. People were _maaaaaaaaad_.

Yes, it is, and no, it's very much to the Japanese taste.

There's no absence of non-rice main meals in Japan; Wafu pasta is an entire category of Japanese pasta dishes whose name literally means Japanese Style Pasta. Udon, Ramen and Soba abound, and Kansai in particular has a large number of Konamon, flour-based meals and snacks (resulting from Allied food aid after the bombings).

In some ways, the reaction to suggestions of swapping out rice are like that redneck uncle of yours who is mad his Cardiologist told him to cut down on red meat because "what else am I supposed to eat?!" even though his wife does all the cooking and they already have pork/chicken/fish 3 nights out of 7. It's an identity thing; in some ways to eat rice is to _be_ Japanese.

Yeah, I've seen a fair amount of "but what will we eat?!" Netsuke-clutching and like... Y'all already have a trend towards bread for breakfast and you love your wafu pasta. Do that a couple of times a week.

But it's Japan, so I imagine there's plenty of Showa who think all change is to be valiently fought and that not eating rice prevents you from being "proper" Japanese.

This^^ It's one of the gayest places on earth, of _course_ it's going to be more accepting.

It's interesting to me that no-one is talking about steel frames, which are becoming something of a standard in Australia, mainly because they share some of the advantages of both constructions styles.

A Steel framed, clad house can be constructed relatively quickly, but is also durable. Alterations aren't as easy as with wood, but are significantly easier then concrete.

With modern insulations and soundproofing, you can have a lot of the benefits of concrete or stone. Plus, there's less thermal mass in the structure, which is a big advantage when building in Australia; Your primary challenge is keeping the inside cool in Summer.

The cool part was that all of the extra JS Protractor used (sometimes for native WebDriver tasks) made things _less_ reliable.

Just curious, why do you prefer a first-party testing integration; Is it to save on harness maintenance or do you not like any of the stand-alone testing libraries, or something else? I guess I don't quite follow what you mean by "re-invent the wheel".

^^ All of this. I work for Sauce Labs; We've been pretty focused around Selenium but we're building out support for Puppeteer, Playwrite, Cypress et al.

The newer automation tools benefit from being newer; They can take advantage of hardened, well designed interfaces (like the Dev Tool protocol). Selenium's been around for a bit longer, and was built when browsers didn't make it easy to control them. That's influenced the semantics of Selenium quite a lot, as well as explaining the extra moving parts (Drivers exist to map the Selenium Wire Protocol (or W3C protocol) to whatever they're driving because Selenium wasn't built with a specific browser in mind).

I feel like, at this point in time, the real difference is how much abstraction you want from the browser. Selenium is a set of knives, Puppeteer is a Die Cutter. You'll put in more work with Selenium, but maybe you need something do happen a REALLY specific way. Or, you might just need shapes cut, and Puppeteer will be more reliable and faster.