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Comment Re:Languages don't work like that (Score 3, Insightful) 163

Yeaaahhh. Google Translate still makes a mess of written Japanese, despite being trained on that.

Conversational Japanese is pretty much impossible to translate well to English on a phrase-by-phrase basis without loads of context. Even for humans. No way an earplug and google translate is going to pull that off.

It would be pretty useful for tourist stuff though. asking prices, directions etc. I've seen some quite good demos of on-the-fly translation in that context.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 2) 395

I'd think that very few software engineering graduates are coders.

Software engineering teaches a very broad base of various coding styles, computer science, and tops it off with a lot of software design methodology.

A software engineer is training to be an architect, not a builder. An automotive engineer (design), not a machinist.

Comment Justification for theft. (Score 1) 170

That's the justification given, but in reality Honolulu PD already gives out $300 tickets for jaywalking. Not during the day when town is busy and plenty of people are crossing the street on red when they can do so safely. No... HPD gives out tickets at quiet times, when there's little to no traffic, hence zero justification for safety, and it's easy to single out the few pedestrians who are around.

Comment Re:Is there any actual benefit to that schedule? (Score 1) 162

Northern spain is about the same latitude as Hokkaido, Japan. Northern spain rarely sees snow, Hokkaido routinely sees -30 degree C weather and ice floes on the ocean. Comparing by latitude isn't really valid.

The whole of Europe is warmer than the latitude suggests, if you compare to other parts of the world, thanks to the jet stream. I guess in a similar way to N. California vs East Coast USA. Spain is famously sunny and hot during the afternoons in summer. They also have their clocks set relatively late, so the sun is out till 9pm and it's still twilight well past 10pm.

Comment Warehoused stock. (Score 1) 103

What Tesla did to soften the blow, was to register around 500 cars as owned by Tesla HK.

So you can still buy a "used" Tesla with less than 20 miles on the clock, the 'one previous owner' being Tesla itself.

Obviously this took quite a bit of investment, and won't last long, but it's managed to keep down the price of used Teslas for now.

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