When I visited Paris a few years back I found the key was greeting people in French. Maybe spend a couple hours learning how to say hello, how to say "excuse me" and "thank you", how to ask where the nearest toilet is, how to ask for the cheque, etc.
If people see you making the effort, they'll switch to English, in my case, anyway. But you have to show some respect, first. You have to let people know you understand you're a guest in their country.
Of course, this was many years ago. Things may be different now. And of course, if you're going to live there you're going to have to learn the language as quickly as you can.
Yeah, none of this is about children. "Think of the children" is just a means to an end, and most likely what we'll find is even when we lose all pretense of anonymity somehow the kids will figure out a way to get access.
> somehow the kids will figure out a way to get access.
This is what they want to happen with the initial round of "it's just a DOB field bro" legislation. It'll be completely useless, easy to bypass, and annoying to adults. But, everyone will be warming up to this government mandated prompt in their OS. Perfect, now legislators know they have a foundation to work with to introduce "reasonable" amendments to this prompt that require you to upload ID, for example. Frogs in a pot.
The CdG incident is a little more serious given that about 90% of attacking a ship is figuring out where it is. Land bases don't move around and tend to be known already.
TBF a carrier group cannot be hidden from near-peer adversaries. I remember seeing a project that used CV with open data sat providers that could find smaller boats than that. (iirc they used a wake classifier, as that was the most obvious tell, even if the boat was small enough to not have enough pixels for identification).
Yes! Hardly anyone knows it all, and even people who know the basics adjust their behavior based on the situation. Eating out with your high school buddies requires a different level of observance than the dinner at which your girlfriend is introducing you to her parents.
The occupation authorities were focused on rebuilding Japan enough that it would become a bulwark against Soviet expansion. Anything that would demoralize or anger the population, like trying the Emperor for his part in the war or having trials related to Unit 731, was not going to happen.
Though even in that light it's difficult to understand why people like Ishii weren't quietly hanged. I can't imagine his cooperation produced a nontrivial amount of useful information we couldn't have gleaned from documentation.
I do wonder why the occupation authorities did the exact opposite for Germany, emphasizing war crimes, collective guilt, etc, since (West) Germany was also a bulwark against the Soviet bloc?
Cycles in an ecosystem.
During each phase of the cycle different groups and behaviors dominate.
In this case we are talking about moral ecosystems. 5 behaviors arranged in impact through the cycle >> exploration(morally neutral small groups) discovers something >> exploitation(morally negative but highly rewarding. small group) >> opportunism. rewards attract the majority. Morality is ambiguous. Costs multiply. >> moralists who have been screaming and taking hits through the entire cycle gain ground but dont have power to make change >> reputation/status sensitive actors(ie ppl with power) act on "moral grounds" only when they see themselves taking status/rep hits and stop acting as soon as they see status stabilize.
In Shinto religion the emperor is viewed as direct descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.
During the rule of the Shogunate, the Emperor was simply a figurehead, a role he was relegated to again after WW2.
I've always found ORMs to be performance killers. It always worked out better to write the SQL directly. The idea that you should have a one-to-one correspondence between your data objects and your database objects is disastrous unless your data storage is trivial.
The issue of creating a DB wrapper doesn't go away by using an ORM. One of the complaints about ORMs I have, in practice, is people often create another wrapper around it.
I saw that a lot, too. I remember one project using Hibernate where the people involved decided to keep the Hibernate objects "pure" and then had them all wrapped in another object they used to keep information that didn't go into the database.
The whole project must have had 3x the number of classes that the actual complexity required, and keeping it all straight was something of a headache. As was onboarding new people, who always struggled with Hibernate.
Java doesn't steer you into object pools. I wrote Java code for 20 years and never used a cache to avoid allocating objects, and never saw a colleague use one. The person you were talking to doesn't know what he's doing.
I honestly don't know who is still buying HP products, haven't seen one around me in years, probably just clueless people walking into a store and thinking "I've heard this name before"
Transitioning to renewables makes economic sense for the Saudis because they make more money selling a barrel of oil for transportation fuel and generating power with wind and solar.
The US has vast reserves of coal and natural gas. We generally don't use oil to generate power either -- oil is something like 0.4% of the total power generated, because we have vast amounts of natural gas and coal to use instead.
The situation isn't the result of some crafty master plan on the part of the Saudis. It's jusut what makes sense.
If people see you making the effort, they'll switch to English, in my case, anyway. But you have to show some respect, first. You have to let people know you understand you're a guest in their country.
Of course, this was many years ago. Things may be different now. And of course, if you're going to live there you're going to have to learn the language as quickly as you can.
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