LandenLove

I had no idea that the css rule '@media print' was a thing. Very interesting. I could see this being very useful for certain website. E.g., Cooking recipe websites comes to mind.

Your situation sounds much more serious than mine, having a child and PR already. I hope these recent changes get relaxed/revoked for your sake. I wish you luck!

I've been working in Japan for three years. I've been paying taxes, paying pension, spending money in the local economy, learning Japanese, and participating in the local community.

During those three years, I was interested in the prospect of gaining permanent residency.

But given the amount of anti-foreigner laws being passed by the Japanese government, I don't see the point in trying to pursue living in a country where you have to walk on egg shells your entire life or risk being removed. This is in addition to only making around a $25,000 USD salary due to how weak the yen currently is.

I understand that this is the point of these laws; to dissuade foreigners from living in Japan. It's still disappointing. I know several other people in a similar position to mine.

This seems like a missed opportunity by the Japanese government to attract youthful foreigners who are interested in Japan and Japanese culture. Especially considering the declining Japanese population.

If they really cared about the children, they would drop the big brother age verification and go through with everything else.

How many children under the age of 13 are making social media accounts by themselves?

Why does every adult that uses a platform have to submit their ID to remove addictive platform features for children? Why are the platforms allowed the use of these addictive features in the first place?

This 'act' shows a lack of focus at best, and malicious government spying at its worst.

New CPU:

:D

For AI infrastructure:

:(

There is a lot of stuff here that I don't understand, but the concept of law firms giving user reviews is quite funny to me. Those reviews are going to be the most non-legally binding reviews ever written lol.

"Felt like a significant step toward legal-focused AI."

"Showed strength across key aspects of legal research."

That was an interesting read! I've been driving in Japan for the last 3 years. Mostly rural, so it's pretty chill. But city driving can be stressful and chaotic. I don't think my heart could take driving in Chinese cities. As the author wrote, having mopeds everywhere would be stressful.

I didn't know that the IDP does not work with China. I needed an IDP to drive in Japan for my first year. After the first year, I got a Japanese driver's license.

Also, it was funny how many times the author mentioned WeChat. You really do use it everywhere in China!

I just heard about that. Won't work in the long term. Either the spammers will create a tool to bypass it, or they will continue to run services in third world countries where people complete captchas for pennies.

You are right that foreign powers abuse these platforms, but I don't personally believe that the platforms care. They just want to sell ads. Controversy will likely drive more traffic and more ad conversions.

I imagine that the companies who purchase these ads will see a drop in conversions and start to ask questions.

It might be a nice stock boost in the short term, but the goal for a majority of these companies is to sell ads. If advertisers see a drop in conversions, I doubt the platforms could keep the fake user ruse going for long.

My theory is that age verification is just another way to push human verification. These large tech companies need a way to verify a user is a real person and not an AI bot. Both for displaying ads to real users and cutting down on spam.

Nobody would support a "give away my anonymity online so I can be shown an ad for Coca Cola" bill. But it's easier to sell a law to boomers and lawmakers if you use the disguise of "It's for the children ." As if any of these companies care about the well being of children. See Meta confirming their platforms affect the mental health of children and doing nothing about it. Also platforms like TikTok and YouTube optimizing their algorithms for stealing user's attention spans.

I found GDScript to be quite powerful in terms of functionality. I don't have experience in professional game Dev to be aware of the benefits of C# beyond it being the industry standard for Unity.

Single threaded audio is a big concern. I haven't implemented music in my game yet to know if it is a deal breaker.

The main problem that I have run into is shader compilation stutters on the compatibility render. Makes the game basically unplayable. My work around was to spawn certain objects on the main menu out of sight to force compilation. I believe the forward renderer has some pre-compilation.