I mean DMA (direct memory access) devices are only like 170 bucks now:

https://www.dma-cheats.com/dma-cards

These are almost impossible to do anything about even client-side because they operate on a hardware level.

In general state-reading hacks (like invisible walls and Gameworld state information hacks) are almost impossible to do anything about, to the point where when companies are able to find a way to defeat one of these things it’s huge news.

I’m not sure why your friends are paying that… Most cities in Saitama, Chiba, and the 23 wards at least I know that the 学費 was set as 無償化.

There are some instances where you don’t qualify for free school if you make too much money. (Or it could just be they didn’t have a good guide at the city office to walk them through the maze of beaurocracy)

Also 23 wards and most of the cities in Saitama and Chiba have daycare and kindergarten entry that’s points based(the larger cities have more kids than daycare spots, which is my favorite bit of irony about the Japanese birthrate problems), the more points you have (points based on need, like are you a single mother, both parents working full time etc.)

When you move from the US you lose like half your salary for an equivalent position (more now cause of the relative power of the dollar to the yen).

The people that live like kings are the ones that are in Japan at the behest of American companies on American salaries living at like a third of their American costs.

Daycare/Kindergarten is already free across the country for all children starting at 3 years old.

All child healthcare is also free after a prefecture-set monthly premium (usually about 1000 yen).

This policy announcement is specifically about making the 0-3 year old gap free.

Honestly I’d rather just see the government pay more into the shakai hoken (the national insurance that pays for mother/father leave) so people can take more time off from work early on in the kids’ lives.

Making it easier for parents to go back to work instead of focusing what’s good for children and parents seems par for the course.

Housing in Japan is treated the same as a car, it depreciates as soon as you move in.

Usually the newer buildings owned by larger real estate groups don’t do they kept money thing anymore.

I’ve only really seen it in buildings owned by small real estate concerns and old dudes.

It’s luckily getting kind of pushed out as a normal thing, just slowly.

Not in Tokyo, but farther out in Tokyo’s residential cities (outside the 23 wards like Chiba and Saitama)

It’s even cheaper the farther you get from train stations. There’s a 30 minute walk “cliff” where residential land prices plummet when you’re more than 30 minutes walk away from a train station.

Somebody hit the token chain jackpot

Do you have any sources about this?

I had suspected stuff like this happened at the end of WW2 but I’ve never heard any concrete stories

What’s great about lawsuits like this is you really only have to prove intent and they have a record of them asking for similar imagery.

I used to work for an algorithmic advertising company.

The gist is that if you get one big spender it offsets the cost of losing a thousand or more other people because those large contracts usually last past the official sale

Isn’t fusion power not as clean as people say it is?

The Practicalities of actual fusion reactors make this seem a lot less appealing than I think I grew up hearing.

I’m happy to see china continue to pump resources into their clean energy mix, but at the same time it feels like this entire concept might end up being more of a meme than we think.

They can’t form new trade unions because everyone already has to join a registered trade union.

Most data centers evaporative cooling from what I understand, and according to This

Cooling towers use water evaporation to reject heat from the data center causing losses approximately equal to the latent heat of vaporization for water, along with some additional losses for drift and blowdown. In larger data centers this on site water consumption can be significant, with data centers that have 15 MW of IT capacity consuming between 80-130 million gallons annually. n this study, on-site water consumption is estimated at 1.8 liters (0.46 gallons) per kWh of total data center site energy use for all data centers except for closet and room data centers, which are assumed to use direct expansion (air-cooled chillers).

And seeing as hyperscale data centers usually use between 20-50 megawatts per data center, and there’s three of them in Colon, that’s like at least 240 million gallons of water a year.

Yikes.

For the usability of the clock, likely nothing.

I did mention In another comment that there are a number of advantages a round clockface provides to the creation of the clock, however.

Yea that’s kind of what I was thinking when I said eventually handwriting will go the same way.

If people never encounter it and do all their writing on keyboards, it’ll eventually be a useless skill as well.

From a practicality standpoint, a round clockface is easier to create a mechanical drive system for.

You can create a digital mechanical face (see: Flipboard style numerical displays) but they usually require more gears and are more susceptible to wear and tear than the gears of a round clock face.

The simplest designs for mechanical digital displays actually just take 24 hour and 60 minute/second circular displays and hide the other numerals as the clock face spins around. Technically this I suppose counts as both analog and digital?

Example:

As for electronic displays? Nah not much of a reason to use a round display unless again, you have an electric-mechanical drive and want to save on gears and parts.

It floors me just how many people in this thread feel like analog clock reading is a useless/outdated skill.

But I’m of the opinion that there’s no such thing as a truly outdated and useless skill, so I’m not sure I have the capability to empathize with those people…

How so?

I genuinely don’t understand the clock-face-reading-is-a-useless-skill opinion so both seem equally important to me.

There’s nothing stopping an analog clock face from representing 24h time: