Noe2097

As a non native speaker, I would highly value a spelling reform to enforce sound encoding.

Pronouncing never heard before words is practically impossible today. Sure it's irrelevant for native speakers, but it's excluding non native speakers the same way kanjis are excluding non native readers who didn't spent decades of their youth learning Japanese.

I believe it is really not in their interest to do that. They would be harming the very ecosystem that pays them if they were to do that.

there is no meta but what we vibe

Is it because nobody knows "how" to actually do it?

Wow, that would make such a nice area to train (military) drones & robots, and in the middle of a country concerned by "noisy neighbors"

... Wait

It feels normal in a globalized world for commentators around the globe to observe and weigh in on the decisions of any country, especially one of such economic importance and cultural significance as Japan.

That being said, I wholeheartedly agree on your points regarding Japan not being a multi-cultural country. And this, indeed, is rarely (if ever) mentioned in articles such as the one posted here.

Japan is an island. It has always been and not just from a geographical perspective. Its very culture and history are ones of isolation. The restrictions are not new, the perspective "Japan first" is not new - these have always been there, they are at the very core of the nation.

> And even after taking [immunosuppressants], there’s a 30% chance the kidney will be rejected within 10 years. This is not helpful.

To the author: thank you, you made my day. It had been a very, very long time since I last read an article on the Internet that felt written by a human being - with humor, some poetry, and science.

This looks like a realization of "benevolent self conscious AIs agreeing to cooperate with mankind to do great stuff". Often in these tales, there is a hidden cost to it: the AI has its own agenda, or does crazy experiments with humans mind/brain. I'm wondering what shape will take that plot twist in reality :)

Hi! That would be super useful indeed. A couple of things you could sort out: * Responsiveness; the page should adapt to mobile phone screens, at the moment it doesn't seem to: the page scrolls horizontally (which is undesirable especially on mobile phones), and the last button on the right in the top bar is cut in half * Consider moving or removing he call for "install" at the bottom: it reappears once dismissed, it covers buttons at the bottom

Can't wait for GPT to prove that P=NP (or not)!

Wow that doesn't sound great.

We won't own games anymore, we won't be able to sell/acquire used games, we won't be able to play disconnected.

I'm curious whether Nintendo will be following the same path.

> Each kart is turbo-boosted by 64 superconducting engines,” explains project leader Mario Idraulico

I guess we can now call you Mario 'Kart' Idraulico.

Oh wait.

Thank you CERN, that was a smart one.

It's a trick; he will come back unscathed in the next episode.

Another take on the matter is: interruptions are inevitable, so reducing the "recovery penalty" is key, and can be learned.

That's something that you learn to do when you have a kid: suddenly, your periods of 4 hours of focus free time (for coding, exploring tech, whatever) during the weekend just _disappear_. You only get max 30 minutes of free time in a day; this is extremely frustrating initially; there is no boss to complain to, no meetings to blame, no solution but to deal with it. Progressively, you learn to switch tasks much more efficiently, by making regular check points, so that you can get interrupted any time and get back to deep work _quickly_.