k0e3
@k0e3@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 day ago:
This is the first news about Americans doing something smart in a little while. Great job!
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 2 days ago:
Remember when we used to talk to the producers of the used panties?
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 2 days ago:
We probably don’t have the workforce to replace since we won’t open up to immigration lol
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 2 days ago:
Methinks you are romanticizing a culture you don’t live in by only seeing the positives you like.
That’s kind of an insulting assumption as I’m Japanese and live in Japan. So while I may have a biased opinion, I wouldn’t say it’s romantisizing.
In fact, I’d say you’re the one that seems to be making assumptions based on snippets of our culture that you see on the internet. The weird vending machines that sell letters from your pretend grandma to used panties aren’t found everywhere you go — they’re in specific locations for the novelty.
Also having regular vending machines for drinks and food doesn’t exactly contradict my point. The vending machines are more for the customers’ convenience. They’re not installed specifically for removing human contact. Yes, we lose human contact as a result, but it’s a tradeoff to better serve customers whereas most companies that deploy AI support agents probably do so to save a buck.
Sorry about the rant.
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 2 days ago:
I’ve heard\read there are many racist, paternalist, hierarchical and collectivist traits,
We definitely have all that!
Also, I found it interesting that someone mentioned how you used “collectivist” as a negative feature of Japanese culture. While it certainly could be, it’s actually nice to see when people are genuinely wanting to help each other. The problem is our hierarchical culture where some shitbag on top takes advantage of our collectivist mindset for their own gains.
*Everyone else is working unpaid overtime, why can’t you?! *Almost nobody being worked overtime is going to say that. Workers will take it for the good of the imaginary “team” because some manager convinced them it’s the right thing to do. Luckily, probably thanks to my Canadian upbringing, I’ve always been able to say no to ridiculous shit like this. That, and I work for myself, so the only ones who boss me around are my wife and kids.
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 2 days ago:
It might actually be China. All the robots I see here are the one with the cat face and I’m pretty sure that’s where they come from. We don have remote control robot cafes where people with physical/mental disabilities to serve you using avatar bots which is cool!
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 3 days ago:
Japanese people tend to make a big deal out of the “human touch,” especially when it comes to service, so I can see how companies aren’t jumping on to the hype. We’re also pretty slow to adopt change.
Oh and maybe the shit exchange rate makes it expensive to use the service as everything is pretty much foreign tech.
- Comment on YouTuber PatMan QC has passed away 😔 4 days ago:
As a Japanese person, I’d say this is pretty conventional. But manga panel orders can be pretty chaotic, just like our writing.
- Comment on YouTuber PatMan QC has passed away 😔 4 days ago:
Do you mean from the panel where she’s putting the mits on to the part where she’s showing them? Then, yeah, since we also write top to bottom in a vertical line, we can also go from bottom to top when going to the next line.
Another commenter says the mangaka screwed up, but I don’t agree. Japanese writing is chaotic, so this manga is pretty conventional. Here’s what we have to deal with when it comes to reading the news paper.
The text within the fuchsia line is one article. You start reading from the green line — top to bottom, left to right. You’d think it would keep going that way until the left edge of the paper, but for some reason, they decided to put a second article, so the green paragraph’s height is cut in half. Then we start the yellow paragraph and you’d think the article is done when it reaches the left edge of the green paragraph, but nope, there’s one more paragraph starting from the blue arrow.
- Comment on YouTuber PatMan QC has passed away 😔 4 days ago:
They’re putting them on. It’s right to left with Japanese manga.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
So it’s just what pre-LLM bots have been doing, except it probably spews more toxic fumes and wastes more electricity than ever before.
- Comment on Musk's AI firm deletes posts after chatbot praises Hitler 1 week ago:
I’ll diagnose him as a Nazi then.
- Comment on The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might 1 week ago:
I get that Nintendo’s policy is fucking you and the good friends in Europe and Australia, but it still makes the title misleading. My (Japanese) government didn’t impose the tariff on Nintendo products — the Americans’ did.
- Comment on The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might 1 week ago:
What do they mean by Japan’s tariffs? It’s not ours, it’s the stupid Americans that’s imposing them.
- Comment on Apple Just Proved They're No Different Than Google 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s the video format, presenter, or the fact that nobody ever thought one is better than the other so it’s not even interesting info.
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 1 week ago:
It helps with translating. My job is basically double-checking the translation quality and people are essentially paying me for my assurance. Of course, I take responsibility for any mistakes.
- Comment on China hits 1 TW solar milestone 3 weeks ago:
Oops, I missed that! Thanks.
- Comment on China hits 1 TW solar milestone 3 weeks ago:
Why wouldn’t it just stay a linear graph?
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 3 weeks ago:
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon 3 weeks ago:
I had just watched a video about they need lead as well? Is that true?
- Comment on Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering' 4 weeks ago:
But, but, they’re been blasted. Didn’t you see in the article? Surely, they’ll stop this behaviour this time.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 5 weeks ago:
Perfect since he’s being invited to Russia now. They can share their know-how of sinking ships.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 month ago:
Thank you kindly!
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 month ago:
In this situation, a user on lemm.ee would have to export their settings and create a new account elsewhere, right? Do their comments and post histories get exported too? I joined Lemmy only a month ago; this is the first time seeing an instance go down, so I’d appreciate it if someone here could clarify that.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
Same for me, sorta. I have to dualboot Windows and Linux because I just can’t seem to fix the jankiness of my gaming experience on the latter. I wanna make a full AMD build but I not really a good idea to splurge in this economy.
- Comment on OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men 1 month ago:
Are we surprised that it’s doing exactly it was instructed to do, that there are dipshits who would struct such things, that OpenAI would feature a GPT like this, or some combination of the three?
- Comment on Want a humanoid, open source robot for just $3,000? Hugging Face is on it. 1 month ago:
Right, so I’m just supposed to trust a robot called face hugger.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 1 month ago:
Shouldn’t the 5G covid brain control serum chip nanobot people be upset about this?
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 month ago:
主よ、如何なさいましたか。
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 month ago:
If anyone wants to practice their Japanese or have questions, they can message me.
