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2 points·by stuartcw·2 years ago·1 comments

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stuartcw
·10 months ago·discuss
I want the ability to turn off romaji completely.
stuartcw
·last year·discuss
One way to do this, but before the mails arrive, is to use a service like IFTTT or Zapier that can both read your mails that match a search and write to Google Sheets. Then you can configure them to save any mails that match the criteria automatically. However, that would be for future mails only.

You can definitely make a Python script do this using the Gmail and Sheets API libraries to do this or use Google Apps Script to do it. ChatGTP and/or Claude can probably write the code for you to do it if you know enough programming to understand and debug it.
stuartcw
·last year·discuss
If you used the kanji names of the cities and towns it would be a lot more realistic.

I’ve lived in Japan since 1988 and this just seems like a list of jibberish to me. Japanese city names are, like English city names, made up of meaningful components i.e. Newbridge, 新橋,しんばし, Shinbashi. So there is nothing to get a hook on. It’s just syllables.

Try it with 2000 English city names and you will get the same quality of output.
stuartcw
·2 years ago·discuss
I live on the Miura peninsular not too far from William Adams fiefdom. It’s possible to walk up the hill from Anjinzuka Station (The navigator’s hill) and see his and his wife’s grave.
stuartcw
·2 years ago·discuss
By the way, the first link on Google for “Japan developer salary” is https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/software-developer-salarie... which is based on an annual survey of developer salaries.
stuartcw
·2 years ago·discuss
That’s probably double what a developer in Japan would get for similar experience unless you are bringing some exceptional talent to the company.
stuartcw
·2 years ago·discuss
It’s the last collision of the day but the previous collisions are pretty entertaining too.
stuartcw
·3 years ago·discuss
Earthquakes are so common here in Japan that unless there is a death toll it doesn’t make sense to raise them as news.
stuartcw
·3 years ago·discuss
Exactly this.
stuartcw
·3 years ago·discuss
This is almost a daily occurrence.

The news this time is that government used the J-Alert system to mass broadcast to everyone in Hokkaido to announce that, instead of coming down in the sea of Japan, it might come down on the land. NHK is reporting that it might be a new type ICBM which I guess might be the reason for the general alert this time.