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Where I grew up, we only ever gave the last four digits of our number because the whole town and then some was the same. Later, they changed the area code since it was running out of numbers and then we moved to 10-digit dialing. I remember how weird it felt when things like long distance calls just kinda stopped being a thing

Yes, I’m looking for an “exten dedwaranty” is there an “exten dedwaranty” here?

In at least parts of northern Japan, a lot are set at 90 degrees to each other so wind doesn’t blow straight in (along with the snow/dirt)

True but, for example, a younger me working tech support in the early 2000s would not have known what an ‘igg’ is to even try to spell it.

I’m still stuck with Google voice for now

I always said “in GIN icks” (gin like the alcohol) based on someone else’s pronunciation years ago. I never realized it was meant to have anything to do with “engine” as a result.

E for egg isn’t even consistent throughout the English-speaking world. That vowel might be quite different in something like South African or Kiwi English compared to other dialects.

Well, do we know which one it was?

Every time I think I’ve managed to erase NetWare from my brain, someone has to drag it back up angry fist-shaking

Yeah, I’m generally overseas and many things need a US number for 2fa. It’s the only thing that I still need it for. Translate as well for Japanese.

Nice! We made a bunch of jam. I need to get a food dehydrator for so many things.

Good News! Unless something has changed since I worked in healthcare IT, those systems are far too old to be impacted!

I’m half-joking. I don’t know what that kind of equipment runs, but I would guess something embedded. The nuke-med stuff was mostly linux and various lab analyzers were also something embedded though they interface with all sorts of things (which can very well be windows). Pharmaceutical dispensers ran various linux-like OS’s (though I couldn’t even tell you the names anymore). Some medical records stuff was also proprietary, but Windows was replacing most of it near the end of my time.

One place we had ran their keycard system all on a windows 3.1 box still. I don’t doubt some modern systems also are running on Windows which has interesting implications for getting into/out of places.

That said, a lot of that stuff doesn’t touch the outside internet at all unless someone has done something horribly wrong. Medical records systems often do, though (including for billing and insurance stuff).

Doctor’s notes are usually up to the company to decide. There are various insurances and such as well that can kick in for long-term illness. Japan has a program that pays 60% of salary for some period of time, though I don’t know the details.

I associate it with on-call rotation. We definitely didn’t have money for them when I was in high school. I think one rich kid had one.

Another shocker for others, maybe, is that many companies require you to use those same pool of days as your sick leave. Get sick and no vacation for you. Japan does this as well (though Japan actually has ma-/pa-ternity leave which is more than I can say for the US)

This was in Tokyo, but the owner travelled a lot and quite probably had them in either Australia or Thailand.

Nope, shoestring

A place I used to go had sour cream and chili sauce fries on the menu.

Wasps can emit alarm pheromones that inform other wasps that it’s in trouble. Smashing it can I think also cause this. https://phys.org/news/2015-12-arms-social-wasps-alarm-pheromones.html

It’s 26.7c @ 62% humidity in my office right now. It’s fine (the aircon will kick on monetarily to bring the humidity back down). However, had you asked me this years ago, I would have thought you were insane. I lived in a much cooler place and people had the air on all summer set down to like 22c. I’ve gotten used to my new climate (well, more used to it, anyway), and it helps that I don’t have to go spend all day in an office whose temperature I don’t control.