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I don’t use a smartphone enough to worry about it. If I am using my phone, most of the time it’s either Anki, Google Maps, or, like you mention, banking/government stuff.

Texting via SMS (or whatever it is these days) isn’t really a thing in Japan, either, which makes things more difficult especially as I despise talking on the phone. If, for example, I’m at the supermarket and wife remembers something she needs, getting that message is good

I was redhat/mandrake of which neither worked well on my PC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and mint (playing with distros like LoaF at various points).

I got started on Linux at home from the valley of despair on early-2000s Gentoo. It wasn’t that bad, but I did have a lot more time on my hands being too poor to go out most of the time.

I just put mint on a laptop yesterday; got no time for it anymore

I worked at a site with a karma system years before reddit and the like ever came into being. There will always be people who just downvote anything they don’t like. Unless you start finding and removing those users, nothing is going to change with them. And if you start removing chunks of your community, you have fewer posters, less interaction, etc.

My company thankfully still employs simultaneous interpreters for meetings and has one translator on staff. I think, at least in part, because of how bad translation tools can be from EN <> JA.

I’ve been in Japan a decade and you couldn’t pay me enough to live in the US. I have great work-life balance at my main job which is fully remote.

Both BYD and Tesla have announced humanoid robots for around $10k starting next year.

I can’t speak to BYD, but Tesla has claimed all kinds of things that never materialize or are not what they claimed to be.

That aside, I don’t think most people have $10k laying around. Most couldn’t even afford a $1k expense (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-money-emergency-expenses-2025/), so I don’t think we’ll be seeing any widespread adoption at that price in the near future (which is what I took your comment to mean, but maybe that’s not what you meant).

For clarity, I’m not someone who’s just anti-AI, I’m just someone who thinks it’s way over-hyped, is being shoved in places it doesn’t need to be (especially in a half-baked state), is an environmental disaster, and has many other problems.

Computer vision to track inventory and expiration of food in a refrigerator could be useful for busy households

I don’t think this is a problem in a lot of the world. Commercial kitchens already have rules and inventory management systems. The only thing I could think of where it might be useful is looking for mold on things, but I suspect most people are using containers into which something couldn’t clearly see.

A dishwasher could cut its cycle short if it sees that dishes are clean, saving water and energy.

Maybe? It would still need to learn all the dishes the person has and what clean and nonclean versions are. That training and calling the model has its own environmental impacts and I don’t know that implementing it would save energy over the life of the appliance due to the extra costs in energy to train and call it.

My washer has settings for heavier and lighter washes based on what’s going in (as does my clothes washer)

In addition, robots are home appliances that require AI

They do not.

Robotic vacuum cleaners learn their surroundings and navigate using machine learning

This could all be done with sensors and rules and, in fact, was. Unless we’re being super loose with what “machine learning” means here. We’ve been teaching robots to semi-autonomously navigate courses and return for ages.

We’re also likely to see humanoid robots(or similarly flexible platforms) becoming household appliances in the near future.

That’s so gross to me personally that I don’t want to think about it. Both from a security as well as environmental perspective. I also disagree that it’s close, at least for how I think you’re using “close” here.

As a software engineer, hard disagree. There is no need for any AI in any of that. The device will have gone through various testing. If they wanted to implement this, they could use what they learnt in all the testing to set threshold values and run occasional diagnostics, all on-board with no internet, to know about such things. The only internet even required might be updates to those tables of values (or if a user wanted to opt in to sharing their data for whatever reason).

It is twenty-fucking-twenty-five. Why on earth is this a thing that even exists?

So that means other states can just start randomly detaining members of their government, I guess? What a clusterfuck.

When my parents die, I will renounce. I need to be able to get to them without issue in the event of emergency.

I hold two citizenships but live in a third country. If I were to get citizenship here (Japan) I would be forced to renounce both my existing citizenships.

So the exact process seems to vary by state, but it generally boils down to:

• some for of verification and registration for the year (my state requires this yearly and you are expected to initiate this as it does not happen automatically)
• get an email or physical mail ballot (not all states allow email from what I gather)
• fill out the ballot, various other forms, and send them to the state via physical mail

I took “for us to go back to paper voting” to include somehow requiring overseas voters and did indeed wonder at the cost of it

Also those of us not in the military but living fulltime outside the US :/

Overseas voters exist. We still have to file taxes every year, can’t invest in a lot of things in retirement plans (look up PFICs), and generally are fucked by the IRS by laws presumably meant to keep the rich from hiding money. There is no way I could pay the thousands of dollars to fly to the states and back to vote in “my state” (in which I haven’t lived in 10 years, but the US system is a trainwreck).

Yeah, I haven’t bought beef that I recall in over a year now. Had it for the first time in ages last week at my wife’s parents’ house and her friend’s BBQ. Eating it only a couple of times makes the taste that much better when I do, but man was quitting it several times a week hard.

I still like pIRCh better

In Japan, employers who have permanent employees need to offer the paid leave. There are various schemes for other special types of leave and there is government assistance. There might be something from smaller companies, but I’m not sure. In Japan, the 10 days is only for 正社員 seishain full-time permanent employees. I think companies can also decide the dates for half of that for you, which is dumb.

Fewer hurricanes out there, and other natural disasters as well. I don’t know how tuscon is seismically, but otherwise it has a lot of lowere risks from nature, probably