No one needs it and it’s inconvenient. Some people with money import foreign cars (particularly around Roppongi/Akasaka/Meguro in Tokyo)

As a farmer in Japan, not all tractors are even road legal here. It would also take me hours on a tractor to go get anything of size. That said, I also don’t need or want american-sized trucks for that. We have kei trucks.

Also out of Japan as well, please. We definitely don’t need these, especially in pedestrian- and cyclist-heavy areas. (I have seen hummers trying to drive some streets in Tokyo and it’s insane).

Again/still/it really took you this long??

Such hits as ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘x’, and ‘y’. I know the version of the language we were using didn’t have native utf-8 support, so I don’t think kanji varnames were possible. It even made comments in kana and kanji really wonky (I think the comments were shiftjis)

You got 3 letters?! Luck!

I worked at a japanese company whose engineers we’re former NTT developers. Copypasta (i.e. not using functions), inefficient algos, single-letter var names, remote code execution from code as root, etc. good times!

Maybe hematite? I seem to remember saying that about hematite when I was young and the whole neopagan and new age stuff had a moment.

I always thought people talking about seeing things that weren’t there was metaphore. It blew my mind to find out it was literal.

First, I start moving people to hotel rooms…

Why would I want to create an array called ‘layer’?

We’re stuck on Mac at work and I hate it.

My point is, if you’re using feet and inches you maybe want to divide by that. We in the metric world don’t so it’s not that big a deal. Our woodworking is done in CM and MM and we rarely need fractions of mm.

In metric, the 12 really isn’t important anymore which kinda invalidates that. We normally go to the nearest mm or, if needed, some fraction of that (not normally needed in my life at least)

We were taught it in my rural red state elementary school in the '80s. Maybe because metrification seemed like a more real possibility, I guess.

I’d love to at some point but, last I heard, it breaks the felica and wallet integration which I need to do japanese government stuff (and use the train and such)

English is notoriously awful regarding orthography vs pronunciation. I actually thought you meant something that rhymed with Bach just looking at the name with a longer ‘a’ for some reason (which is weird since vowel length isn’t phonemic in English).

Edit: you probably also could have said “hard a” or something since it probably literally thinks ‘long a’ means ‘hold the a sound for a longer duration’ (which makes sense to me)

Raych?

I now have a random wire antenna ~16m long (though not straight and the very ends wind around the structure I’m using to hold it up which I’m sure is not ideal), a ~4m counterpoise-ish-thing, a 9:1 balun, and cable to the SDR.

I’ve gotten wefax (though in negative and spotty, so still some figuring out to do). Still no IBP beacons at all, though.

I have fldigi working to a degree using soundcard as input. No hits using a regex of the beacons’ callsigns (including the one here in Japan) on any frequency I’ve tried. Not sure why that is yet.

My brain added an ‘n’ to the first word of “waking universe” and I think it still works

So far no luck, but I only seem to get flights when they are going to/from the nearest airport to places south of me; everyone else is going around. I’m not sure how far the range is meant to be　（EDIT: 370km or so per wiki). I can very faintly see something on the frequency, but Dump1090 isn’t catching anything.

I have some parts coming today to try a ~20m random wire antenna. I got 2x20m copper wire in case I need to do a counterpoise on the other side (which seems to be like 1/4 length (so 5m) of wire?).

Edit: also apparently it’s not required in Japan, so I’m guessing that’s why nothing domestic at least has it. Maybe if I leave dump1090 running long enough, it might catch some international flight, but none seem to go that near me.