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Now, how I manage is best described as "poorly". I'm still very much in the phase of getting things set up and learning. I started growing on my balcony before buying my small farm, but there's obviously a big difference between the two set-ups.

Automation is part of the plan. Whilst I'd ultimately like to get to doing no-till with automated driptape irrigation or similar, that's still a long way off. Getting the soil and your systems to a point that works with that is difficult in a property that was a traditional farm for years and then lay fallow and covered in weeds for several more. I'd also like to have sensors (maybe raspi or something off-the-shelf) for soil temp, etc. to better manage my resource usage.

Weeding is a neverending battle. I did get a wheel-hoe which is somewhat helpful, but not a panacea.

A typical summer day for me is getting up with the sun or a bit after (so 4ish here) and working outside before the heat really comes on. At that point, I come in, have a shower, have breakfast, and do my software job. I will also try to tackle yardwork during this time, but that might happen during my lunch break or in the evenings. I plan on cutting the yardwork number down by replacing yard with raised beds growing other crops and such, but it's not something I can afford to do overnight (neither monetarily nor physically).

I think learning more will also help bring efficiency later, both as I learn more in general as well as learn what works in my specific situation; not all of what I read (mostly from the Americas, Europe, or occasionally Australia) applies to farming in rural Japan. For example, trying to find a broadfork to use for aeration; that's not a thing in Japan at all. Trying to import one is also a nightmare. Our climate is technically like 8b IIRC in the US system, but Japan has rainy seasons and stuff. All that to say I still have a lot of inefficiency from mistakes as well.

The good news is: I mostly like the farmwork so it feels like a hobby as well most of the time (and I'm indeed not sure what the breakdown of hobby, work, and therapy for my time outside would look like; "this feels like work" is mostly time in putting plants in the ground and weeding, both of which are done by hand). I'm typing this now in part to avoid going out into the 28.8 degree sun at 76% humidity, but I had best get on it this Saturday morning since it's only going to get hotter.

To be clear, I don't think the choices are a coincidence; I think the general idea is one.

My guess: someone messed up trying to split an array and split a string from it and hilarity ensued.

ts beyond time for japan and korea to find commanality and join

Good luck with that. Especially the older generations that still hate each other. Add to that whenever the japanese right or Korean left want to stir shit up with their nationalist bases, the opposite country is the go-to. Previous agreements etc. be damned.

That wouldn't generally be needed here, though. At least in the cities where most people live, they are walking and using public transit just to live, eat, etc.

im not sure how true that is considering that they can always just open a gate for fish to pass

That's not how that actually works. Damming has huge impacts on downstream, now much drier, ecosystems. Even if there were a way to "open a gate for fish", that wouldn't solve the problem that their habitat is now gone. This is among reasons people have fought for dam removal. This also ignores the flooding of the environment that becomes the reservoir.

Over a certain percentage, I bite into chocolate and it just sucks all the moisture out of my mouth and is just terrible bitterness. I think 86% was the last one I tried, but even 50% is getting to be too bitter for me. I was always super sensitive to bitter compounds as a kid, though, so that may make sense. I do actually like black coffee of some beans/roasts, but it doesn't have nearly as much bitterness.

One of my teammates used AI (our company heavily encourages it) to write code. It did what it was supposed to and the tests passed, but it was the most ugly and unmaintainable shit ever. For one example, I don't want to have to untangle a for i = 0; i++; i <= len(foo) {} that has multiple ifs inside that separately increment and decrement the loop counter i when trying to troubleshoot an issue.

Constantly sold out here in Japan. Even the discounted Japan-only version that was meant to stop foreign purchase and resale with more restrictions such as Japanese-language-only

A friend told me about rust around 8 years ago and this was very much my first experience (at least with &str and lifetimes and borrow errors).

You have to file federal taxes. Maybe state taxes. You don't necessarily have to pay depending upon how much (in USD) you make. Things also depend upon per-country tax treaties. The shitty part, at least for me, is that I can't use the ISA and similar programs here in Japan for retirement because the US considers them all passive foreign investments (PFICs) which require copious paperwork and punitive taxes wiping out any tax-advantaged retirement savings. Also can't just invest non-taxed income in many things in the US either.

Voting being at the state level also just fucks all kinds of other things up with taxes and the like.

I moved to Japan back in 2015. If I had it to do over, I might do Finland or Norway.