This thread reminds me of a friend that was dismissive of anything Apple does. “They didn’t invent it”, “they rebranded someone else’s invention”, “maybe they invented it but all those features are just marketing”.
No, he has never used owned or used an Apple product. Not worth his time.
I think your friend spoke a kernel of truth while misunderstanding what Apple do well. It's pretty rare that they come out with something that hasn't been done at small scale previously, but they have insane scale (100s of millions of iPhones sold per model), and a well-developed ability to take cutting edge techniques, as well as some tech that is in development but not ready for prime time, and integrate it and release it in products a year before anyone else can tool up to compete.
Yes. My Japanese wife’s father and mine are the same age. FIL had a heart attack last year and almost died. Yet he’s still the president of the rotary club, travels every two weeks across the country to attend events or give lectures. Recently hosted an international student exchange at his workshop and is still making new pieces of art to be exhibited.
My father spends all day watching football or horses and has visibly started going senile.
I had a similar experience in Monza, Italy. Was taking a walk around some old church and a guy was giving an explanation in English so I stopped to listen. They started ushering the entire group into the crypts underground so I just went with the flow.
While showing us where the dead bodies were stored the guy said something like “but you’re all doctors so I’m sure you’re used to it” was when I realised this was an organised event.
I thought this was the difference between the laid back European culture vs the more, um… detailed mindset of the Far east one I grew up in. The Italians probably didn’t care if there were strays while the Singaporean or Japanese organisers would be doing a headcount at every stop.
I started off by memorising the hiragana table, then went hardcore. Got a simple manga (Hikaru no go) and a Japanese to English dictionary and just winged it.
Initially it took me a month to read an entire volume. It gets easier.
That was 20 years ago without any of the fancy tools people have today.
I salute you for your persistence.I suspect that very few people have a similar level of persistence to read a whole book when you do not understand 9 out of 10 words
My wife downloads plugins for every little thing. One to hide hide the title from a page, another to display a gallery of images. Often she’ll forget and download a similar one again and they all break.
Also instead of making multiple posts, she edits the same post over and over again, adding content to it.
That’s how she was taught to use Wordpress at her old job and no amount of explaining or demonstrating will make her change her ways.
I've only just realised people mean UTC0 when they say store/use dates in UTC. For some reason, I've always thought it meant storing it in the ISO format. YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.sssZ which I've always done.
I've used the default Calendar app on my iDevices since forever and it has always done the timezone conversions auto-magically for me. The only extra bit of work I have to do is convert the date to my local time zone during input.
As mentioned elsewhere, Japanese SaaS rarely ever deal with timezones because there's only 1 timezone. And I think this was originally built this way (using YYYY-MM-DD for filtering) to avoid having to think about time zones, with the assumption that the YMD values were all that mattered.
In our instance, it doesn't matter where the dashboard is used. It's a service built in Japan for people living in Japan. The dates are stored in Japan Standard Time in the database, so even when the dashboard is accessed from outside Japan, the user is only interested in filtering the values based on Japanese dates.
My then-gf (now wife) and I watched a movie together about an African man whose village got raided, him put into slavery to search for diamonds and his son becoming a child soldier by the same people and their struggles to get free, and finally pawn off a pink diamond to one of the largest diamond companies in London. At the end of it, she finally came to realise that the diamond trade was really quite shitty. And we had a long discussion about the whole thing, as well as the growth of the synthetic diamonds industry and how they’re much better on the supposed 4C properties as well as on price.
Yet in the end she still wanted to get a ring from one of the big names because that’s what she grew up with and what she had always dreamt of since young.
My wife too. She’s a jewelery buyer for national retailer, she was well aware, even has visited mines and seen the conditions first hand, admitted how good lab grown was for ethics, etc. yet- her inner 5 year old princess wedding dream won her mind and she couldn’t envision anything other than a natural diamond for her wedding set.
I have a diamond to sell her then. It a flawless synthetic diamond that has been hand curated. It’s a one of one. Therefore it is even more expensive than so called real diamonds
No, he has never used owned or used an Apple product. Not worth his time.
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