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[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

AI is finally taking over economist's job. It's all over.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Incredible journalism.

60 Minutes has a convicted felon go undercover to talk to “pardon brokers,” people who will try to get you a pardon from Trump if you pay them.

This administration’s corruption has created entire new job categories.

[Fun Fact Ass Nigga @Maxx_Power81]

"Dying for your country is a patriotic fairy tale. In reality, you will bleed out in the mud like a butchered dog for absolutely nothing." - Ernest Hemingway

[Guy @thatoneguy7560]

it'd be nice if anime & manga fans took an academic interest in anime and otaku studies instead of treating the medium purely as entertainment or arguing about surface-level fandom discourse

[🀄️ @RapsInSixxxx]

Need more of these from togashi lowkey

[retired tbh @nilnullnada]

@Felixszalonna We also used to be on tiny corners of the internet. Today, Crunchyroll is a business. Doujin games are landing on Steam. This an open field now. Everyone's finding pockets they can belong in. Best thing you can do is create a good one for yourself.

[Man of Fine Taste @ManOfFineTaste]

@NicoparaDEV @Jonathan_Blow That's part of it but it's also about how massively bloated dev teams have led to dangerous amounts of specialisation, drying up the pipeline of generalists can pivot successfully to a new environment where teams need to be leaner to control costs.

[Xudong Han @Xudong07452910]

简单谈谈我跟一个日本人在同一实验室相处三四年的感��和我对日本人的印象。

他是我在国外除去中国留学生朋友之外，最好的朋友。我们基本上每天都在一个实验室待着，每天都有新的话题聊，很开心。

他极度的自律，自律到我觉得的他的生活很单调。但是因为实验室里有他，我才每天可以沉浸式的学习，他是我的榜样。

他很爱去中国旅游，之前去过中国的好几个地方，像武汉，上海，重庆等等，我们经常拿着中国地图去研究，我告诉他很多好玩的地方和中国历史。

他很爱中国美食，我经常把他带到家里给他做各种美食，卤肉饭、饺子、火锅都是他喜欢吃的，但是他最喜欢的还是螺蛳粉，哈哈，很开心可以和他一起嗦粉。

他很爱中国文化，他一直有在学习简单的中文，一本中文入门小书一直放在他电脑的旁边。他也了解一些中国历史，我们也不会避讳去谈起一些中日现代史，他给予足够的尊重。同时他也很无奈中日现在的紧张关系。

每次我进入实验室，我都会不自觉的的朝着他的座位上看，因为我知道他看到我的第一眼总会说”Hello bro, how are you?”。我们相视一笑，然后开启我们一天在实验室的生活。

去年年底毕业之后他回到了日本，本想着等他来英国这边找工作，还可以继续见面。但很多现实原因，他最后选择留在了日本。我也很开心他找了一份不错的工作。

我相信我们的缘分不会就此结束，之后有一天我会去日本找他，就像他也会想着来中国找我一样。

[E-Kon @out_sall]

Eh, I'm a lot less reverential of the classics nowadays. Oh, you can't understand Eva without watching Ultraman and Ideon. But can you really grasp Tomino's work without a background in 70s anime? Tiger Mask is great and all but it's obviously influenced by prior radio drama.

[ehoba @htGOIW]

I think I have said the same thing, but
it seems that the creator didn't have the theme like "the fear of totalitarianism" or "fascist dystopia" in Kerberos Saga.

The world of The Red Spectacles, Kerberos, JIN-ROH, Panzer Cop, etc is basically an allegory of real post-war Japan.

[Ronan Berder (SF + SG) @hunvreus]

I keep my AGENTS.md (and skills) concise and unambiguous. Basically what I would tell an intern before they touch my codebase. Things like "Prefer short names (ideally one word) for tables, columns, symbols, and files.".

The agent doesn't always honor all of it, but neither would an intern.

https://t.co/a5ZEG25uDF

[David Friend @DavidMFriend1]

Sonny Rollins wrote a new essay about jazz. Today, VF published it, exclusively—a day after his death, at 95–along w/Steve Schapiro’s photos, from his new book, JAZZ. @sonnyrollins @SchapiroPhoto #jazz #jazzphotography #sonnyrollins
https://t.co/nOoM3yKGkj

[gingerBill @TheGingerBill]

In Odin, it's common to see people try to emulate sum types (`enum` in Rust). Odin opted for `union` types instead, which solve a similar set of problems but are interacted with a little differently. A `union` is a set of `distinct` types, while a sum type is a summation of labelled values/types. Both can only inhabit one variant at a time, and the total number of states is the sum of the states of the variants.

TL;DR: Prefer table-oriented thinking rather than trying to model type hierarchies.

People with experience with sum types tend to reach for them everywhere, even when it's not a good idea. As many people know, I'm in the "fat struct" camp, and the short reason is: flat record/product types minimize the combinatorial possibilities of control flow when dealing with related things (at the possible expense of increased possible states). Keeping things flatter lets you see patterns much more easily.

The desire to use a sum/union usually comes from a love of modelling type hierarchies, the same affliction common in OOP languages. OOP models an open set of behaviours through types; a sum/union models a closed set of variants. These patterns do come up, but embedding that explicit hierarchy directly into the type system isn't necessarily a good engineering decision.

A good example of when using a sum/union for different kinds of messages might be a bad idea:

Message_Sender :: struct {sender_id: int, message: string, timestamp: time.Time}

Message_Receiver :: struct {received_id: int, message: string, timestamp: time.Time}

Message :: union {Message_Sender, Message_Receiver}

Both variants share effectively the same fields and will be treated the same way. In fact, every field could be accessed without knowing the variant's type. The flattened approach:

Message_Kind :: enum { Sender, Receiver }

Message :: struct {kind: Message_Kind, id: int, message: string, timestamp: time.Time}

This might seem minor, but it's a fundamentally different way of thinking. It's closer to reasoning about tables in a database rather than a type hierarchy. A common complaint is the loss of "safety", but was the original version actually providing anything useful, or just embedding a hierarchy where it didn't need to be?

There are plenty of cases where a sum/union is the right choice, especially around memory layout and access. But the default position many people take—reaching for sum types first—is a poor one, and not just in a language like Odin.

P.S. Odin's `union` is not technically a "union" for two reasons: it has a `nil` state by default (disableable with `#no_nil`), which is useful given the rest design of the language; and the compiler disallows `union{int, int, f32}` because variants must be distinct types; allowing duplicates would not be useful in practice and would almost certainly be a bug.

[ehoba @htGOIW]

btw, there is JIN-ROH's spiritual remake by the JIN-ROH original writer himself.
It's Harahara-dokei no Shoujo.

Unlike JIN-ROH, this story is told from the perspective of the terrorist girl.

[makkutokyo @makkutokyo]

私たちの世代は８０年代当時「大人の鑑賞に耐えるアニメ作品を！」とか言ってましたけど、こうして振り返ってみると、私たちはバイクとおっぱいの事しか考えてなかったんじゃないかと思います。
どういう大人イメージだったんでしょう。

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

Very insightful & nuanced review.
It’s true that Japan can be very strict about rules & procedures. As I mentioned in my post two posts ago, if there were a WAFFLE HOUSE in Japan, they probably would never have sold me their actual physical menu as a souvenir due to store policy, even if I asked.

The game market is unique in some ways as well, but when it comes to PC gaming, Western games are actually quite widespread and sell very well here.

As for living in Japan, I do think it can suit some people more than others. It’s true that work tends to occupy a relatively large portion of people’s lifestyles here, and more importantly — although this exists in every country to some extent (this is an important premise, and I’ll say it again: this exists in every country) — Japan comparatively tends to reward “personal relationships and internal politics” over pure competence when it comes to promotions.

In other words, there’s definitely a “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down” culture, and I think a lot of people struggle with that.

(And by the way, situations where someone who 99 out of 100 people would consider completely incompetent — someone basically unknown in the industry except for endless stories about their incompetence — somehow gets promoted into an absurdly high executive position, leaving entire organizations shocked and dumbfounded… those situations genuinely exist around us. The kind of unbelievably bad personnel placement that feels like it belongs in a movie scene.)

[日本かぶれクルー @The_Weeb_Crew]

The use of Judeo-Christian occultic imagery and themes isn't really a "right-wing" thing per se, but rather falls into a broader fascination with western esotericism in Japan dating back to about the 1970s. It's not because Anno and Arakawa are "based and trad" or whatever.

[Study of Swords @study_of_swords]

Princess Sapphire did not have magic of any kind, so the idea that she's the origin of the magical girl is as nonsensical as Tezuka inventing shōjo.

The death of genre discourse which can be traced back to the emergence of The Sandwich Alignment Chart ~ 2016 an utter disaster!

[Seven Stars Messenger @7starsmessenger]

Embodiment of the Poverty Goddess