My gut is that food safety rules here probably make that difficult (though I don't know for sure). They have a pretty short shelf life being raw seafood (in many cases) and are already steadily discounted as the day goes on before being tossed.
Edit: the article also mentioned things like Christmas cake that do last longer but can't really be turned into anything else. I bought a Christmas cake a day or two after once
Yeah, I had never seen a connector that looks anything like that, but I figured I was just behind the times (since it didn't look like Ethernet plugged into it to me)
I moved from social to run a few months ago after being fed up. I like it.
The japanese article mentions some of it is sent to recycling companies with the one example using it for pig feed. The numbers are also probably higher because some had been thrown away before the volunteers/workers did their survey
As a programmer, I don't even know what we're looking at. A switch, I would guess, but I haven't seen hardware in years. In any case wouldn't "port 21 <bottom|top>" been better?
I just assumed we already were (well, was, in my case, having moved to a place with septic). Several of my family worked in wastewater treatment. It doesn't bother me
I bought a kerosene weed burner for my farm. (Propane ones are more common in the US and perhaps elsewhere, but not really here). I have a bit of fear of it, which isn't unreasonable for a big, pressurized tank of hydrocarbons near an open flame. I haven't gotten it to work right yet and I'm not sure why, so I'm a bit on the fence about it. We'll see how it works out in the long term. I am afraid to store it without the tank empty so it's sitting outside instead of in my shop.
Plants for now. Chickens will be next but not until next year sometime (we want to do some travel before we have animals we need to care for and potentially to find a farm sitter). Maybe something to eat all of the kudzu and stuff we get in the future, but I'm not thinking that far ahead. Japan has really strict laws on butchery even just for personal consumption. I think goats are OK to self-butcher, but I also don't know that I really want a goat.
My primary job is IT, but I am starting a farm and worked on one as a teenager.
Could you also please allow those of us overseas to use silly things like retirement accounts without having it all be considered PFICs? I just wanna contribute to my current country's equivalent of an ISA/401K type of thing.
Can confirm as someone who lives in Japan. It's an oft-dis used thing in foreigner groups when the new arrivals show up and notice
Reduce to a sane number. Like less than 20.
I have an m3 now (I had an m1. I later found out about 3 other laptops had issues around the same time so I actually suspect something weird in remote management, but I don't know mac well enough to assert that more). They decided that since I technically, however frustratingly and measurably more slowly, can do my work, it's not worth the "security risk". I still bring it up at basically every opportunity and I'm not the only one. I live in a very remote area of Japan and remote jobs are hard to come by, so, at the same time, I'm not making too much noise.
We do that in English as well in some cases.
q: "Where's the beer?" a: "fridge".
say them aloud
Wait 'till you learn about pitch accent :)
At least most things are pronounced like they are written but not all.
n -> m is a common one such as in 新聞 because Japanese doesn't have standalone m.
Japanese also has 7 vowels: standard aeiou and devoiced i and u. It's the reason people say です (desu) like 'des'. A fun example of this playing out is 靴下 (kutsushita - socks). My wife (native Japanese speaker) didn't even realize this until I was watching a video about it.
I wonder if it's meant to contrast to a "chaste courtship" sort of thing. Just a wild guess, though.
I had some success with this, but ran into some issues as well that also made it annoying. The first laptop the gave me died and I lost all that progress and haven't tried again since.
That really depends on the person, I think. I last used mac in like 2003 until last year with my new job. I hate almost everything about it. Nothing works the way I expect it to. I love clicking on an app in the dock just to have it... not show up? It gains focus and, wherever it is, will have input if I'm typing. Same with command+tab sometimes. I also can't switch between fullscreen windows of the same app without installing something, apparently (my coworker who uses mac at home couldn't figure it out either). It has slowed me down and made me less productive. Work won't let us have linux laptops for whatever reason which, as a developer, would be so much nicer.
And 'I have an empire' bragging rights like the other cool kids; can't forget about that one.