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by hinoki 6y ago
Or politics, like the greens vs the blues in the eastern Roman Empire. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
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by hinoki 6y ago
> Furthermore, the suit also accuses Amazon of making Scott and others use their personal cell phones for company tasks Apparently those were personal phones.
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by hinoki 6y ago
Noguchi Hideyo is on the ¥1000 bill, so I think GP just added an extra zero? But that’s odd, since king crab is pretty expensive. I’d be suspicious of any place serving it for ¥1000!
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by hinoki 6y ago
> Note that managing resources is much harder when swap is in the picture, because you can get the resident memory of a process, but not the swap usage of a process. Why can you not get swap usage? It’s in smaps, right?
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by hinoki 6y ago
Naturally, you should use base e, which gives about 3 orders of magnitude.
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by hinoki 6y ago
Yeah, maybe calling them pow3, pow5, pow7 would be a bit clearer? But a 10s search for a comment cleared it up, so I don’t really see the problem...
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by hinoki 6y ago
Not always: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar%27s_hippos Although I think that’s because people object to killing them. But that could also happen with megafauna.
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by hinoki 6y ago
In Japan, the train companies own the land immediately around the station to develop themselves, so the incentives line up to provide both good transportation service and things people actually need near the stations.
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by hinoki 6y ago
I just found this [0] paper about the development of the Tsukuba Express, one of the more recent train lines into central Tokyo. Land owners whose land is taken away are given new plots of land that are smaller, but closer to stations. Thes
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by hinoki 6y ago
So we’ll see mod chips for GPUs soon?
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by hinoki 6y ago
Even native speakers run into this a lot. There are words that are quite rare in spoken English but more common when writing. And then you hear someone else pronounce it and it’s completely different than how you say it, and you’re both not
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by hinoki 6y ago
That might be down to preference. French croissants tend to be crispier, saltier, less sweet, and more sour (from the cultured butter) than Japanese croissants. But you can get French style croissants in Tokyo, Maison Landemaine [0] in Ropp
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by hinoki 6y ago
I’m not an expert on Buddhism or Japan, but I found this[0] on Wikipedia which states that the colour is 藤黄 (tou-ou), wisteria yellow. Today I learned that wisteria can be yellow. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by hinoki 6y ago
In Japanese, you would usually say オレンジ色 (orenji-iro), orange colour, オレンジ being a foreign loan word. But the older way to say the colour is 橙色 (daidai-iro), where daidai is Japanese for orange. I have no idea what caused this shift between
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by hinoki 6y ago
At least for running, my experience is that suffering is most definitely a skill that you can improve. You get faster when you realise that the level of discomfort that stopped you the last run could actually be so much worse, and yet someh
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by hinoki 6y ago
I saw this sitting in what looked like a brutalist parking spot when out Christmas shopping. There was no label or explanation, so I thought it was some artwork being moved somewhere. Thanks HN for providing an explanation. Google maps with
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by hinoki 6y ago
I use Frink to convert all my ingredients to mass before starting a recipe. It has different units for { sifted, scooped, spooned } x { cake, bread, all-purpose } flour. Different sugar types, etc. It’s always my first step before baking a
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by hinoki 6y ago
They don’t call the F-22 and F-35 fifth generation fighters for no reason. There have been many iterative improvements since the ME-262 and Gloster Meteor that would not have happened without the intermediate steps.
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by hinoki 6y ago
Wikipedia link [0], which describes telegraph operators getting shocked. I don’t think horse wires would be a problem, since I think the induced current depends on the change in flux, which needs 100s of km to get large enough. Our high vol
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by hinoki 6y ago
Japan is the same DVD region as the EU, but you can’t play EU DVDs because Japan players are NTSC instead of PAL in the EU. Which is probably what the GP was referring to?
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by hinoki 6y ago
Google translates “口水鶏” as mouthwater chicken, which still lacks some appeal :)
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by hinoki 6y ago
The most interesting possible source of lost books that I know of are the burned scrolls found in Herculaneum [0]. We just need medical imaging to advance a bit more. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papy
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by hinoki 6y ago
I thought it was because X is Chi, short for Christ? Wikipedia only mentions the Greek origin, do you have any references?
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by hinoki 6y ago
Please buy goggles too!
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by hinoki 6y ago
So nostalgic. In all the example images, the Matrix (1999) soundtrack will play after the Winamp intro sound. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HaF-nRS_CWM
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by hinoki 6y ago
I wonder if there have been any entries that use return oriented programming? I wasn’t able to find one...
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by hinoki 6y ago
My (poor) understanding of existing compression techniques is that you have to know what frequencies are OK to discard, otherwise the amount of information remains the same. For things like mp3 or jpg, this depends a lot on human perception
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by hinoki 6y ago
I much prefer Spacechem. Opus Magnum has the control separated from the machine, so it’s easy to optimise all the timings. With Spacechem, you have to play with having the red Waldo control the blue, because the blue already has a command a
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by hinoki 6y ago
They do, it’s just GP is saying that’s not the most likely thing to have caused the reduction in infection rates. There different strains, but apparently the virulence is pretty similar [0]. [0] https://coronavirusexplained.ukri.
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by hinoki 6y ago
My first guess was that the centre of the baseball, without the leather, could fit through the mouth. Then the baseball is carefully re-stitched. If that’s the way it was done, it would need quite a bit of skill and patience!

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