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malikolivier commented on Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality   npr.org/2023/09/08/119837... · Posted by u/webmaven
malikolivier · 2 years ago
Is there anything I can do at a small scale on my own to sequestrate carbon dioxide? For example, I could install solar panels and use them to power a machine that sequestrate carbon dioxide. Does such technology exist?

After trying to reduce our emissions as much as possible, what kind of "best" choice to we have next?

malikolivier commented on What does Google say about “last day of march 2022”   google.com/search?q=last+... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
malikolivier · 3 years ago
Google is in Japanese on my side.

I get the following:

  2022. 開始:
  3月12日 土曜日
  終了:
  3月13日 日曜日
Which translates as:

  2022. Start:
  Saturday, March 12
  End:
  Sunday, March 13
Interestingly, this is a different result from what is reported by other people here.

For "last day of february 2022", I get the correct answer.

malikolivier commented on 30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled   surgehq.ai//blog/30-perce... · Posted by u/echen
malikolivier · 3 years ago
I assumed I was quite fluent in English, even in slangs, having seen a fair share of both American and British movies.

Now that I see the examples given, I think I would have mislabeled most of them too, even if I were highly motivated to label them.

Though it's normal for any language, it's very interesting how English is variable between dialects and time periods when it comes to slang. There are so many regional slangs of which I cannot understand all the nuances.

A few examples from this dataset, that I would not have labeled correctly:

- daaaaaamn girl! – mislabeled as ANGER

- [NAME] wept. – mislabeled as SADNESS

- [NAME] is bae, how dare you. – mislabeled as ANGER

And don't get me started on Australian/NZ slang. It's a completely different world.

malikolivier commented on Japan’s ‘killing stone’ splits in two   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/ksec
h2odragon · 3 years ago
I guess someone shoulda glued it back together when it cracked open? Is it too late to glue it back together now?

"For lack of some caulk civilization was lost"

malikolivier · 3 years ago
It seems some representatives of the town of Nasu, where the stone is, suggest it should be put back whole [1].

> 「自然現象の可能性が高いので致し方ない。可能であれば元の形に近い状態に戻すことが理想ではないか」

Rough translation: It's likely this was a natural phenomenon, it can't be help. If possible, I think it would be ideal to put it back to its original shape.

[1] https://www.shimotsuke.co.jp/articles/-/561829

malikolivier commented on Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (2013)   randomwire.com/why-japane... · Posted by u/zdw
JetAlone · 3 years ago
Ah, I misrecognized the Kanji 「科」as「料」, sorry. Editing now. Makes a lot more sense this way. 「料学」gets translated to "fees" which I took to be "tuition".
malikolivier · 3 years ago
Never heard such a word as 料学.

Tuition is usually called 学費.

malikolivier commented on Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up   river-runner-global.samle... · Posted by u/slowhand09
malikolivier · 4 years ago
This is a very interesting project and I had a lot of fun playing with it.

A note though: all place names in Arabic are wrongly displayed.

Take Morocco for example. The Arabic name is المغرب.

It is wrongly displayed as something like ال م غ رب (letters are not attached together; I added zero-width space to force the letter to not be attached). And probably worse than that, the letters are displayed from left to right instead of right to left. You end up with something like ب رغ م ل ا.

This makes the native place names almost unreadable.

There probably is a similar directionality issue for other right-to-left languages (e.g. Hebrew), but I cannot read Hebrew enough to quickly check!

This post that deals with displaying Arabic appeared on HN some times ago and may be of help! [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29544990

malikolivier commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
malikolivier · 4 years ago
Epigno | Front-end Engineer, DevOps, Data Engineer | Tokyo / Sendai, Japan | Full-time, part-time or intern | REMOTE | https://epigno.jp

Epigno is a start-up that provides management, optimization and visualization (business intelligence) solutions to streamline hospital management. We provide consulting services and software solutions to solve hospital business needs.

Our team is entirely remote. We are hiring fast learners that finish their job on time and do not work overtime.

Tech stack: VueJS / Nuxt / Vuetify / Laravel (mainly)

We also have some projects with Python / Flask / Docker / Rust.

As we are still small, professional Japanese proficiency is highly preferred for full-time staff to reduce communication overhead with our team and our customers. For part-time positions Japanese proficiency is good to have. We hire people located in Japan only.

The position we are hiring for is an SSR application front-end engineer (with Nuxt & Vuetify), but we are flexible.

Depending on your skillset, you do not need to exactly fit in the above positions. In addition to front-end, back-end experience would as well be welcome, though not necessary. Generalist, full-stack engineers are welcome. Feel free to contact me for applying: malik(at)epigno(dot)jp

国籍問わず、日本語のできる日本在住のエンジニアはエピグノへ大歓迎です!

u/malikolivier

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