If you are waiting for studies that perfectly model every variable before you spend 5 minutes walking, you are unlikely to be satisfied within your rapidly decreasing lifespan.
It's not a 'Japan thing'. I pay a higher rate on my mortgage because my spouse was not a citizen of where we live when we took it out. There are fewer providers willing to offer mortgages in this situation but, presumably, there's still enough of a price incentive that the premium isn't pulled out of thin air.
It's also common for landlords to ask for higher deposits or months paid up-front.
This is such an odd thing to read & compare to how eager my colleagues are to upgrade the compiler to take advantage of new features. There's so much less need to specify types in situations where the information is implicitly available after C++ 20/17. So many boost libraries have been replaced by superior std versions.
And this has happened again and again on this enormous codebase that started before it was even called 'C++'.
to_lower is in the std namespace but is actually just part of the C89 standard, meaning it predates both UTF8 and UTF16. Is the alternative that it should be made unusable, and more existing code broken? A modern user has to include one of the c-prefix headers to use it, already hinting to them that 'here be dragons'.
But there are always dragons. It's strings. The mere assumption that they can be transformed int-by-int, irrespective of encoding, is wrong. As is the assumption that a sensible transformation to lower case without error handling exists.
The 'tech bros reinventing trains' refrain fails to take into account that the same people would love 1/100th of the coverage of the global road network for rail.
People who are capable of setting world records are capable of beating the competition, to allow them to qualify for a more prestigious competition, without 100% effort.
Well, for one thing, world records don't get ratified in a local pool.
And athletes are competent enough to achieve the time needed for qualification without going all-out. Look at the finish times of the heats. Pan Zhanle was over a second slower.
No, that's according to a theory to which you've added a strange caveat that a year is insufficient advance knowledge to know how to peak, despite annual world championships - and them often being the reason a competitor knows they're going to the Olympics at all.
Allow me to be equally facetious: according to your theory, Lamine Yamal is currently doing the same training he'd be doing deep into a season. Which is impressive, because his Instagram page currently suggests he's on holiday in another country.
>Perhaps comparing records across different times and places is meaningless.
This is a line of thought that leads to the consideration that sports as are whole are rationally meaningless. That leads to hobbies being meaningless. That leads to emotions and ethics being meaningless.
You can't apply rationality to explain why people care about things. But people do care about it, so it matters.