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by glandium 3y ago
What they did , though, is change Tokyo from a fu (符) to a to (都). Tokyo is the only to, and there wasn't one before, they came up with it for Tokyo. There were other fus, but there are only two left nowadays: Kyoto-fu and Ōsaka-fu. W
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by glandium 3y ago
> Segihara Sekigahara
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by glandium 3y ago
Something I learned last year at Sinéad O'Connor's death, is that her hit Nothing compares to you, was written by Prince.
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by glandium 3y ago
And these keys end up not doing anything because the service dies or something.
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by glandium 3y ago
> Packing is an implementation detail. It's so much of an implementation detail that even if the pack has a diff/delta between the two objects to diff, that WON'T be used to produce the output from git diff.
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by glandium 3y ago
I mean there has been a concentration of strong earthquakes in that specific area. That's not usual, even in a seismically active country.
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by glandium 3y ago
Title says 7.4 but text actually says 7.6 (also what JMA says). Felt it in Aichi. I think it was Shindo 3 or 4 here. A quite long one. Also felt the one before and the one after too, at Shindo 1. At this point there have been 19 earthquakes
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by glandium 3y ago
Or make a lookup table with bits. It'd only be 512MB of 0xaa or 0x55. (but wouldn't use ifs)
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by glandium 3y ago
> For example, if HP programs printers to start failing after N pages printed, would that ever be uncovered? I can't find it right now, but wasn't there a story some months ago about some printers doing exactly that to make you
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by glandium 3y ago
It's kind of ironic that the python generator script uses modulo. The author could have pushed it to the point of not using one. I'm tempted to write a followup doing even crazier things...
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by glandium 3y ago
Except when the spot around Hachiko is crammed with tourists, local or foreign because of its 100th anniversary.
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by glandium 3y ago
Google Maps has subway exits in Tokyo, for that matter.
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by glandium 3y ago
> Sure, the police don't arrest people they can't convict Police do arrest plenty of people, but IIRC, only 30% of them are prosecuted. Because the prosecutors only send to court cases they know they'll win.
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by glandium 3y ago
> This said, I am all for a simplification of French Interestingly, they tried 15 or 20 years ago, and that went nowhere. The only thing I remember about it is they wanted to simplify oignon, but I don't even remember if they sugges
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by glandium 3y ago
French here, living abroad for more than 10 years. > sa va koi Phonetically, it's easy. "ça va quoi" > vzy cr vas-y... you lost me here. crève? That kind of reminds me of a joke some rapper (I think) made about, I wanna
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by glandium 3y ago
And what's Disney doing now? Rehashing its own movies.
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by glandium 3y ago
The Kimba anime is almost 30 years older than the Lion King movie. The Kimba manga is 15 years older than that.
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by glandium 3y ago
Interestingly, I had a weird experience with that very word. I had seen it written. And I had heard it. But I didn't know they were the same word until one time I randomly saw captions in a video where it was said.
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by glandium 3y ago
XUL is not the whole story, though. There was an Android native Firefox before the current Fenix and after the XUL Fennec, and it had Web Extensions, IIRC. From that perspective, that people complained is understandable.
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by glandium 3y ago
My new car has voice control too. It's actually not too bad at recognizing what it's said (that is, it properly displays in text what was spoken, most the time), but it usually can't handle the commands properly. However, it
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by glandium 3y ago
I'm not sure how exactly ChatGPT uses its own responses in the context, but I've found that it can ignore the instructions you've made it repeat over and over, even though it just did it successfully in the last response. I&#
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by glandium 3y ago
It's the same in Japan, actually.
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by glandium 3y ago
> I felt a lot of pressure to make another Big Giant Thing but didn't really have anything compelling. Easier said than done, but don't feel like you have to provide a constant flux of interesting things. That kind of pressure
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by glandium 3y ago
With this kind of logic, you don't fix any security hole, because you can't fix them all at once.
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by glandium 3y ago
The screenshot in the post looks like https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/trace-event-prof...
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by glandium 3y ago
You can have multiple work trees for the same commit, for that matter, as long as they are the same branch (so with different branches pointing at the same commit, or detached heads)
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by glandium 3y ago
Navigo has had an anonymous version for at least 15 years. Navigo itself is older than Oyster.
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by glandium 3y ago
One place where you learn not to use [ or [[, or be very careful about them is autoconf shell scripts (and that applies to more than `if`, like globs, sed, awk, etc.). Because square brackets are quote characters in autoconf. https:&#x2F
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by glandium 3y ago
There are plenty other commands that change the working tree. rebase, cherry-pick, revert, merge, etc. Are you suggesting that all these should be done by checkout? pull is fetch + rebase or merge. You can use fetch instead of pull if you p
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by glandium 3y ago
Is this the thread where Mozillians assemble?

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