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by jeffchien 3y ago
I think that doesn't actually remove you from the GitHub contributors list. I had used the wrong identity for a commit and tried all manners of git manipulation and force push, but GitHub kept me on the list. In the end I just nuked th
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by jeffchien 3y ago
Coincidentally Japan just indefinitely suspended sales of their famous SVCs due to the semiconductor shortage, and BART had issued a similar warning about shortages last year.
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by jeffchien 3y ago
Unit conversions are inconvenient for sure, but I think the worst part is actually fractional length measurements. It may make sense for woodworking and handicraft, which I assume is the origin, but for any other use? Try reading 2 3/1
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by jeffchien 3y ago
Slightly besides your point, but there's a disagreement on Chinese SI prefixes for mega and tera. Most users might use Traditional Chinese in a Taiwan context in which 百萬 is correct, but it's possible for a Macau to use TCN and ex
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by jeffchien 3y ago
As you might read from that page, there are only 3 (4 if you add Hywind Tempen) of those in operation from this last decade, plus some demo projects like China's Haiyou Guanlan. The US just auctioned off 5 leases in 2 Californian Wind
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by jeffchien 3y ago
I know you didn't name a city, but since everyone says this about Los Angeles due to Roger Rabbit , I'll zoom in on LA. The LA street cars, Pacific Electric and LA Railways, were operated by Henry Huntington to sell real estate a
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by jeffchien 3y ago
Checks never took off in Japan because their 1947 Labor Standards Act (Art. 24) actually made it illegal to pay wages by check [1]. So it's not that checks were made obsolete, it's that they were smothered in their crib. Until the
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by jeffchien 3y ago
The most impactful solution for individuals is also enormously unpopular in certain societies, especially the US and Canada: eat less beef. Beef takes a horrendous amount of land to produce: https://ourworldindata.org/agricu
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by jeffchien 3y ago
Hideaki Anno of Evangelion fame has been talking about doing something with Nausicaa for a while. He worked on the original movie (which is only 1/4th of the source manga) with Miyazaki and became close friends with him, and Miyazaki s
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by jeffchien 3y ago
I think she might be more annoyed that people bother her with this specific meme. It sounds like the director or ADs might have told her to do this in the music video, and now the internet chooses to believe that somehow she was the one who
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by jeffchien 3y ago
It's curious that there seemed to be a 6% classification shift between Windows and Unknown in April, and that was reverted for the June data. I wonder what UA string caused that, and it honestly doesn't inspire confidence in their
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by jeffchien 3y ago
Transcript generated by Whisper (medium.en) with timestamps: https://pastebin.com/59mABz3L Without timestamps: https://pastebin.com/F1NVMeQq
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by jeffchien 3y ago
I think it's just missing a word, and it should be "Commuters prefer origin transfers to destination transfers". Perhaps it's immediately clear to his intended audience.
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by jeffchien 3y ago
Unrelated but I love that "The True Size of Africa" diagram lists area in "m km^2", also known as "Mm^2". It's interesting that there are some SI prefix and unit combinations that are just not used.
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by jeffchien 4y ago
I don't understand your reasoning. To me, you seem to be saying that since the state violated everyone's privacy, the general public now has the right to violate these individuals' privacy even further to get back at the stat
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by jeffchien 4y ago
I think you may not be reading the parent comment correctly. They're saying that those on the list have a right to privacy, therefore outright leaking the list is wrong. Being able to find out whether or not you are on the list is not
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by jeffchien 4y ago
The I5 Tejon Pass goes up to an altitude of 1.2km with a 6% section [1]. From a quick search, it appears that the steepest gradients in France/Germany and Japan's Shinkansen are 4% [2]. I'm not certain about China but it appe
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by jeffchien 4y ago
/r/weirddalle is also great for some inspiration, though most of the entries are memes generated by Dall-e Mini/Craiyon. I often find art styles and modifiers that I never considered, like "Byzantine mosaic" or &quo
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by jeffchien 4y ago
>- By trying to remodel stations cheaply for commerce, most stations in Germany have become unpleasant to navigate. Signage is particularly bad (compared to Japan). That's interesting. What are the worst examples of this? I had foun
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by jeffchien 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but those require an internet connection, right? I think Nintendo can't use online codesigning because (certain?) game carts have firmware upgrades that the game itself requires. Nintendo wants the user to
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by jeffchien 5y ago
Is it possible that people in your country simply got enough DVD burners that selling DVDs on the street was no longer profitable? Or street enforcement stepped up? I think that's what happened to Taiwan, at least. Edit: People pointed
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by jeffchien 5y ago
The UK tried it from 1968 to 1971 as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time#Periods_... But as others have said, Arizona (sans some reservations and jurisdictions) have been fine so maybe history won
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by jeffchien 5y ago
I was just in despair this last weekend when I discovered that vh decreases when the onscreen keyboard shows up and thus reflows my page where some elements have max-height: Xvh. I'm glad this is being addressed with lvh!
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by jeffchien 5y ago
I don't see why opinions have to be extreme and any mixed or nuanced takes have to be labeled as contradictory. It's possible to like aspects about WFH/remote work, and like aspects about on-site work (at least from before th
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by jeffchien 5y ago
Waiting for a bot that guesses based on Google Trends: * Wordle 218: https://i.imgur.com/PbYfLm6.jpg * Wordle 221: https://i.imgur.com/pTPbquL.jpg
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by jeffchien 5y ago
I think it's possible to both respect how they got there and their agency, but also feel some mixed feelings about their lifestyles. Especially if you see tyler1 and xqc do 8+/10+ hour streams every day respectively, while taking
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by jeffchien 5y ago
Not sure about tech, but for pop culture like games, I blame that partially on Wikia/Fandom. I would not wish the horror of scrolling through Wikia websites on a phone upon my worst enemies. It's a lot easier to write and view use
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by jeffchien 5y ago
Strong Towns page on it: https://www.strongtowns.org/parking LA-specific advocacy site: https://noparkinghere.com/ Back in 2019/11, LA was thinking about lifting the requirement in downtown, but that s
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by jeffchien 5y ago
Thank you!
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by jeffchien 5y ago
> They are planning to drop support for alert, confirm and prompt. Not in iframes, but everywhere. Can you cite this? Or is this just wild speculation?

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