Most people take a Japanese name when they become a citizen. A number of reasons, not the least of which is a lot of Japanese systems don't work well if you don't have a Kanji name (e.g. apply for credit cards or trying to open a bank account with just your name in katakana is hit or miss. You'll run into weird/frustrating situations like you can't pay your credit card with a bank transfer because the bank truncates your name so the don't match. KYC is a PITA here, even for Japanese citizens).

And your correct, one should not politeness with acceptance and that is a culturally ingrained distinction here (in-groups and out-groups) but would you rather be politely not accepted or have the crap beat out of you because someone doesn't like the way you look which is what happens in some countries. I think the best measure, for me, of what your talking about is having the last open seat on the train next to you. And you do see that but it's typically with the older generations, younger people (>40) typically don't care.

Also, Japanese tend to talk about personal traits more openly/freely than people do in the US. e.g. Saying someone is tall/short/fat/bald/half-japanese to their face is normal here... and it's not done to be mean. It's just an "observation" and that's the way they see it. 50/50 he was being racist or just making an observation.

The sad fact is that we're still a very tribal species and that shows up everywhere. If there are any problems, the ingrained reaction is to blame it on the guy who looks different. I remember flying into Zurich and there was really large political banner that had a bunch of white sheep and a white ram kicking a black sheep over a fence. I was like "What the f...?!?!"

No, I don't want to give up citizenship in my own country and that's what stops most people I know from getting it. I do work with several people who are naturalized citizens though. The process isn't that much different from most countries save for adequate Japanese fluency being difficult for a lot of people.

If you have an interest in the subject, I recommend you read academic material on the subject and talk to people who live here. Your understanding of the situation is misinformed.

Odd. Myself and over half the people I work with are foreigners. The same is true of most of the companies in our industry. The I've been here 5 years and only had one case of blatant racism/xenophobia. We live in a suburb and there are several other foreigners in our building, the neighborhood and the public school my son goes to (which has dedicated classes/teachers to help children catch up on Japanese). It's even becoming common for food in grocery stores to have some english labelling. Not marketing labels but this is "xxxx".

Have you ever been to Japan or are you just being racist yourself?

Agreed and understood. However, I think the lay person doesn't make the distinction of "imitation" or mimicry. They just assume the AI is magically making something unique when it's not. We even have supposed experts claiming that the current generation of AI's have emotions, agendas, intuition, etc. (e.g. that nut case that was dismissed from google). Unless they are working with something radically different than published work, it's simply not possible.

A work we have developers pushing hard to use CoPilot and similar generative coding tools and the developers who are actually working machine learning are the ones tapping the brakes a little because they understand how it works and that the generated code is only going to be as good as the original source material, bugs, security defects and all. It's not intelligent code, it's imitated/mimicked/copied code (which is honestly 50%+ of code out there, I regularly see code that was just copied from stackoverflow without any thought put into it... "Hey, this claims to do what I need." Ctrl-C Ctrl-V ).

Not sure if your serious or trolling but that is a unique legal argument.

"Your honor, my client is accused of stealing the Hope Diamond but can't have a fair trial because it's impossible for us to sort through the 1 million selfies our client took with the Hope Diamond that the prosecution submitted during discovery."

Your mistake is in attributing any motive or agenda to ChatGPT (or any GAN for that matter). There is no such thing as "artificial intelligence". We have systems that mimic intelligence through a giant if/else tree that has been trained on material we generate and we provide it. OpenAI can bias it with the material they select to train it with but the AI is not right wing or left wing... it just is. By cherry picking source material I could easily make a generative AI that make Hilter and Stalin look like reasonable, sane people by comparison. I could also make one that makes Gandhi look like a war monger. When you "call it out" on lying, it is not admitting to lying. It is simply mimicking similar conversations it was trained on. GaN is just a digital parrot. A clever, sophisticated parrot, but a parrot none the less.

I offerred facts. You just offerred "You don't use app store?" without explaining your point or what you were driving at. You're comparing a whole ecosystem (Windows) to a single App (AppStore) that you don't have to use. So... you elaborate.

Good for you. I've been using it since '94 and still do. My "get crap done" box is Linux which I'm using right now, my "I have a job" box is macOS because sometimes you just need to send and email and not *spins a wheel* debug issues with amdgpu-dkms the latest 6.2.d kernel not playing nice. People are spouting off about how the hate macOS. That's fine, opnions are like a$$holes, everyone has one... but what does have to do with Windows, it's dark patterns and Microsoft generally trying to be malicious. If you're trying equate Apple to Microsoft, you're delusional.

Except for Apple apps, nope not once. 90% of what I need is installed through homebrew. The rest of it is direct download/license. But, what is your arguement here. That the app store shows you ads for apps when you're *gasp* searching for apps. That's somehow worse than getting ads just because you hit the windows key? Please take you fanboy nonsense somewhere else, adults are talking here.

I get your point but Apple has never once:

1. Shown me an ad.
2. Done something clearly in their favor, not my mine.

*2 Apple has kneecapped a lot of functionality lately but 99% of the time is plausibly for the "user" and not for Apple and they generally document the backdoor (50% of the time). Microsoft clearly doesn't give a sh*t and would sell out your grandmother if it got them an extra $0.02.

I've been exclusively Mac for the past 8 or so years and installed Windows because my son needed it for project he was working on. I went through three distinct phases:

1. Hey, this isn't so bad.
2. Wait... what... ?!?!
3. Motherf*cker, this is my PC... not yours.

I started to type up a rant about how this headline was completely misleading... but instead I'll just same "I'm done".

/screw you guys, I'm going home.

Agreed... I just like the hips under it to be a little wider now :-)

Editors. I understand that any loss is bad but holy hyperbole batman... the title reads like a nuke was dropped on Gitlab's datacenters. I had to read halfway through the post to see they lost six (6!) hours of data. Again, really bad, but just losing six hours of data would be a case study in success for a lot of companies and definitely not a "melt-down".

If anything... the built in predictive text app is going to be a nuisance because it's trained for common text, not for latinglish that is legal text. For example.. if I type in "quid pro q" on my iPhone, I'm prompted with "q" "quality" and "queen" (I'm assuming that the iPhone and the Touchbar use the same predictive engine). It also fails "ad infinitum" and "de jure" and several other phrases that have made it into common vernacular. There's no chance that it's going to predict terms used on bar exams. I have a feeling that someone just read "predictive" and freaked out... without actually trying it.

/ IANAL, just too much catholic school.
// Latin is a dead language, as dead as can be. It killed off all the Roman's and now it's killing me.