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901.
by glandium 5y ago
Fun fact: In Japanese there is no "Si" sound and the closest is "Shi", so "Siri" is pronounced "Shiri". You know what else is pronounced "Shiri" in Japanese? Buttocks (尻).
902.
by glandium 5y ago
It went downhill as early as 1.44MB floppies being 1440*1024.
903.
by glandium 5y ago
You already need a Microsoft account to enable FDE on Windows 10 Home.
904.
by glandium 5y ago
Something I've often wondered but don't think I've seen studies of is whether those decreases in fatalities are "compensated" by an increase of injuries. IoW, there could very much be more accidents and at the same
905.
by glandium 5y ago
Indeed, that one can be funny especially when split over a line ending. You start reading it as one, and no, it was the other. I've had this experience several times with this specific word.
906.
by glandium 5y ago
Also some independent words can have different readings. Eg. 紅葉 is both こうよう and もみじ.
907.
by glandium 5y ago
> Well, that's the purpose of "reset" Well, that's the purpose or "reset --hard". "reset" alone doesn't do that. That's the difference with "rm". With "rm" you expec
908.
by glandium 5y ago
It does delete whatever uncommitted changes you had.
909.
by glandium 5y ago
cxx doesn't necessarily help for cases like refactoring legacy C++ code. It seems to require more work than bindgen. I suspect switching to cxx in Firefox, to replace bindgen, would be quite involved.
910.
by glandium 5y ago
In this specific case, the files were under the CDDL, which is copyleft. The only thing that Sun did that was not allowed by the license was to remove the copyright notice. Had the scripts been under GPL, nothing would have been different.
911.
by glandium 5y ago
And you wrote it for someone in the future. Who would eventually comment in the present after reading in the past.
912.
by glandium 5y ago
That's probably not the case of the land attached to the houses mentioned in the article, though. That said, I also read somewhere else that the $500 are not actually a sell price, but a rent price. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
913.
by glandium 5y ago
As siblings have already said, the land is not worth nothing, but the article doesn't seem to say, from a quick glance, whether property of the land is included in the transaction. Because in Japan, land can be rented too (yes, you can
914.
by glandium 5y ago
That's the trick though: she'd be banned from future events, which she doesn't have a contract for yet.
915.
by glandium 5y ago
Fun fact: in tennis, you can actually win a match with less points overall.
916.
by glandium 5y ago
246 wins vs. 136 losses according to the WTA site as of writing. A lot more victories, but still a lot of losses.
917.
by glandium 5y ago
"see Apple ISA Extensions to ARMv8: version H14, chapter 23". If only it were available outside Apple...
918.
by glandium 5y ago
Amazon JP got a little worse ever since they started having their own delivery, which is not great compared to Yamato or Sagawa, which they were using before (and are still using sometimes, it's not clear under what conditions). But th
919.
by glandium 5y ago
Add Mozilla, Mercurial and LLVM to the list.
920.
by glandium 5y ago
Interesting related fact: Kids in the west usually draw the sun yellow, but in Japan, they draw it red.
921.
by glandium 5y ago
The back button is still larger than the other buttons right now. Not anymore in the new UI, though.
922.
by glandium 5y ago
Note that "key money" is a "translation" of 礼金, which literally means "gratitude money" and has nothing to do with keys. That doesn't make it less bullshit, but it makes it clearly unrelated to lock change
923.
by glandium 5y ago
Whether you want it or not, you'll end up encountering them, not necessarily with enough context to tell you what they are. Example from regular news: 1000軒停電.1000世帯停電.1000戸停電.(and they all point to something slightly different) Of cou
924.
by glandium 5y ago
Translating the GP example literally in French: Je suis en bonne santé vs. J'ai une bonne santé. Funnily enough, Google Translate gives the former for both portuguese versions. I guess it is still translating through English.
925.
by glandium 5y ago
To me the most annoying thing about Japanese counters is not so much that there are so many, but that you also have to remember when the numbers that go with them will need on-yomi or kun-yomi (ichi, ni... vs. hito, futa...) (well, okay, th
926.
by glandium 5y ago
Same in French and Spanish. It's probably similar in all Romance languages.
927.
by glandium 5y ago
Nitpicks follow. Tomatoes are counted in 個 (ko). The counter 本 for carrots and other things does not mean book in that context. The character just also means book, but has other meanings. Both magazines and pamphlets are counted in 冊(satsu)
928.
by glandium 5y ago
Firefox uses cargo and has to go through a lot of hoops for the build system to work. And the result is flaky and far from ideal for fast builds. Build plans support would help but has not progressed in the past few years. Worse, it was rem
929.
by glandium 5y ago
Title says 2 minutes, but it's actually 2:37, which is 30% more. Or actually 3 minutes if you don't disable optimizations, which is 50% more. Those 2x80 cores machines are also quite expensive. For reference, my Threadripper 3970X
930.
by glandium 5y ago
20 years or so ago, I went to the movies in Brussels. A movie in English with subtitles. Both in French and Flemish at the same time, and in many cases the subtitles were taking close to half the height, it was ridiculous.

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