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A subtle shift that happened in the world of programming between the 1990's and the 2010's is that, these days, using a proprietary IDE, language and toolchain is kind of rare, whereas it was more common once? Borland (now Embarcadero) Delphi and C++ Builder still exist!

one perhaps more widely applicable learning of our recent experiences is that, when sleep deprived to an uncomfortable degree, doing relaxing things like looking at trees and listening to music makes one less tired, and intellectual stuff, reading, writing may make one more tired

Japanese company and product names have a different æsthetic in their use of English to American or European ones. For example, “Soft” is way more common there as an abbreviation of “Software”, even if it's not unheard of in the West — you've all heard of Microsoft!

Why is this?

English is a syllable-based language.

The word “software” in English is two syllables:

soft · ware

This is easy and quick for an English speaker to pronounce, but it should be noted that those syllables are both pretty complicated, lots of consonants and vowels:

/ˈsɒftˌwɛə/

Japanese on the other hand uses morae, which are usually only one consonant, one vowel, so “software” becomes rendered as:

ソ・フ・ト・ウェ・ア
so·fu·to·we·a

You can pronounce many Japanese morae quicker than most English syllables, but this word is still longer overall!

But if you abbreviate it to just “soft”:

ソ・フ・ト
so·fu·to

That's as quick to say as:

soft · ware
/ˈsɒftˌwɛə/

At least, speaking from our own experience.

And so that's probably why Japan has “AliceSoft”, “MonolithSoft”, and many kinds of “soft” (noun meaning “software”)!

<Risitas voice> So, we decided to make a BOSS multi-stomp pedal, and we made there be only 8 built-in effects, with most of them being ancient discontinued BOSS products nobody wants, plus an SD-1 and DS-1…

For €270!

(laughter)

And then… another of the effects is actually an OD-1! An SD-1 without a tone knob! Together with the SD-1! That's 2 of the 8 effects you can't remove!

(hysterical laughter)

And then… if you want any of the good shit like the CE-2 or OC-2, $10 extra! From Roland Cloud!

(incredibly hysterical laughter)

And there's only space for at most eight more $10 DLC effects on the device!

(at this point quite worryingly hysterical laughter)

And it relies on a mobile app, and Roland have a terrible track record on long-term support of digital products!

(the laughter, it is too intense)

And for €120 you could get a ZOOM MS-50G+ which has 100 excellent built-in effects!

(he's dying now. he's really starting to die)

And you can actually use several of those at once!

(he's dead. his life has ended from laughing too hard)

i went to the psykiatrisk akutmottagning and in only 4 hours i got top marks and impressed everyone and could leave early, which is a thing that is possible to achieve and normal to want

girl who really wishes she could have gone to the Star Wars Hotel while it was real and have a mini psychotic episode there

I think we might blast through a quick rewatch of Koimonogatari. It is after all, in Kanbaru-chan's opinion anyway, “peak”.

every time there's a news story where they show a little bit of some ordinary person's apartment and i see a guitar in the background, it makes me really happy

oshino the meme

it is very funny that hikari in november 2020 posted about kanbaru suruga breaking her brain slowly over time, changed her display name to “hikari, Kanbaru enthusiast”, posted about it many times since over the years, yet only last month believed she really was a kanbaru fictive