While I am a strong supporter of ISO8601 (e.g. 2023-07-12) there is an argument that decreasing specificity is preferable (as in ISO8601) and that for most day-to-day usage the year is somewhat implicit, hence being at the end.
Personally, I write the month out if I'm not using 8601 formatting to avoid any ambiguity.
For any sort of recordkeeping, though, I think it's preferable to go full on YYYY-MM-DD. It's more thorough, precise, and sorts properly on a computer.
In most contexts I would never use the cardinal number "3", it'd always be "the 3rd of May" or "May (the) 3rd", but in a country like Australia (with a high number of speakers from different cultural backgrounds) you hear all sorts of conventions used in casual conversation.
With the caveat that I'm not an expert, that's the pommel (hilt is the entire handle) and it is at the bottom to prevent the sword from slipping out of your hand.
Yeah, think about how leverage works, those things really suck to swing around and manipulate if you just bang them out without consideration for balance. Especially the larger ones...
In my experience, the twitter police scanner communities are dominated by racism and general hatred towards cities and city government (excluding police and other rescue).
These apps and communities will always self select for people who are predisposed to see their neighbors and strangers as threatening. Not a lot of people who aren't already scared of their community will download a tool to "monitor" their community.
And you think racism has nothing to do with that being the case? Meaning why do you think a country as successful as Japan is not filled with a diversity of immigrants from other races?
I think it's no secret that Japan has a reputation for racism, and that you have it harder as an immigrant.
Still, the board of Mitsubishi is perfectly reflective of the Japanese population (ignoring the gender ratio, which isn't great but in line with the global average for boards of directors)
It's a self fulfilling prophecy, you apply to Mitsubishi or any other company as an immigrant and don't get picked and you tell your friends how hard it is so they don't apply either, and you leave the country instead of starting a family there.
> I think this article goes through a lot of micro-exercizes and micro-corrections and semantics to avoid the obvious conclusion that Japan is mostly honogenous, and to a far more degree than the US or a lot of European countries.
I argue there is a difference because of the nature of the work. Machines aiding in farming is only a good thing, because it can maximize output and minimize input. People (largely) don't care about the process of how it was grown, but rather having the product to eat (Of course there's cruelty free agriculture, organic, etc. but stay with me here). But artistry is a personal thing, and maximizing the output of art pieces isn't something that most are interested in. Art is a uniquely unquantifiable subject, and we want it to have a personal and emotional connection to both the creator and the viewer, something that is lost when AI boil it down to it's essential components and rebuild them in it's image.
I think that this doesn't really help artists as much as just do it for them. Art, the way I see it, requires a human to do because it is something that requires emotion, something a robot could replicate but not feel. For example, a gut wrenching image of innocents being beat by police is gut wrenching because it's something that exists in the real world, and the artist and the subjects are real and their emotion is real. But a computer generated image only has a likeness; it doesn't have actual emotion.
I aldo don't think that it makes it "cheaper, more accessible, and allows more people to create". Digital art supplies being something readily available and relatively cheap to their classic counterparts is what makes things more accessible, and to make it more so would be to drive the cost down or something. Having the computer draw for you isn't exactly creating art.
And art isn't a commodity and I argue it shouldn't be a commodity. It's something, again, personal and special.
And this doesn't end at the visual arts, I think it applies too to writing. AI could write what's written in my journal word for word but my journal would have more value just by virtue of it being written by me.
fungibility is a binary quality where one thing is indistinguishable from another. Sites like whereisgeorge.com use this feature of non-fungibility, as an example, to show where the money has been.
By virtue of this non-fungible quality, not all dollars are equal. Imagine you are a business owner, and someone pays with cash, and part of those bills are marked, or observed, as part of a criminal act like bank robbery or drug buy, you name it. As the business owner, that money can and will be seized and your operations will be complicated as a result of something outside of your control.
In a perfect world, you just show how you got the money and there is no problem, but what if you couldn't? What if you as the business owner have paid your rent with this cash, and your landlord is the one who is targeted for questioning, and deciding to avoid the hassle or speculation they just decide to terminate your lease agreement?
Fungibility means every dollar is indistinguishable (in value) from the rest, and for this reason, cash is not fungible.
What would you propose qualifies as a private instrument given this definition? Anything with a public ledger lends itself to really detailed forensic accounting, and durable goods tend to be uniquely identifiable. Gold can be melted and reforged, but it could be chemically altered so that it would remain traceable.
Maybe this a dumb question, but is the AirTag configured to Notify When Left Behind except when left at your home? I've never heard an AirTag beep before.
So these are good.
- year / month / day
- day / month / year
And this is bad.
- month / day / year