One major goal for native HarmonyOS applications in Shenzhen is to account for more than 10% of China’s total by 2024.

Ambitious, but I believe they could do it if they wanted to. I don’t know what their numbers look like right now and how close to that they reached. As far as I am aware since it is fully open-source this shouldn’t be something that Huawei alone has to spearhead. I’ve used Huawei phones before and I like it, but I have zero experience with it as a desktop OS.

This is impressive but we absolutey need to consider at what cost. Nowhere in the headline do they even raise the question!

On one hand, this is a cool technological development. On the other hand, given the location there are even odds on the technology just being used to massively downsize.

Definitely a bit of both. From what I am seeing on social media posts, a lot of those let go from ABK are developres working on the new survival game (that also got canned), artists, and customer service. They plan to bring in an outsourced contractor for customer service, and I would not be surprised at all if they plan to replace a bunch of the artists with AI.

The people who were cheerleading this merger as some giant win for video games and a net good thing will hopefully see why those of us who predicated that it would result in exactly this said so.

Oh who am I kidding, they will find another way to suck corporate boot. I already see people rationalizing this as “cutting the fat”. I hope that all those affected can find gainful employment, ideally in a [slightly less] exploitative industry.

A “senior China correspondent” that cites Radio Free Asia for anything can probably be safely ignored, especially given her history of articles.

Japanese permanent resident here.

Epidurals are very rare. They exist but they are not popular at all. Some is the belief that a “natural” birth is better. In some cases it is just availability of an anesthiaologist that is equipped to do one. Some people just don’t even realise it is an option. The only people I know here who have had one were non-Japanese residents.

I don’t think people necessarily look down on a mother who has one, it’s rare enough that nobody would even ask probably, but it’s just not a common procedure.

Technically the work week is the same, not factoring in commutes. Folks who work in Tokyo often live in neighboring cities like Saitama and commute in.

There’s typically a lot of unpaid overtime though. There is the concept of “black companies” that force employees to work up to 100 hours a week. To some degree the government has been trying to crack down on it, and has met with some success, especially with the bigger international. My company is the Japanese branch of a US company, so we are a little better than most, but some of that still happens. I probably work about 45-50 hours a week on the clock on average, plus maybe 2-3 off the clock. I don’t live or work in Tokyo anymore, so my commute is fairly insignificant.

Thankfully the “you have to go out drinking with all of your coworkers after work” thing has mostly fallen by the wayside. Those events still happen, but it is way more acceptable to just…not go.

Source: I have worked in Japan my entire adult life

I stand corrected comrade. I admit I lack the technical expertise on doohickeys, I need to study more.

The fact you guys have The Blaster as an emoji is just

Yamagami has enough fans now he definitely could, they just need to let him out.