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by jpatokal 8y ago
The joke is blowing up on Japanese Twitter, so yes, people do get the joke: https://twitter.com/groebner_basis/status/111254775708283289...
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Japan reveals name of new imperial era will be 'Reiwa'(bbc.co.uk)
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Yeet.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
According to ArchiveTeam's own tracker, there was a temporary dip around 1 AM PT (when this tweet was posted), but the speed has recovered and they are again crunching through 100k+ items/hour. http://tracker.archivetea
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The company in question is a domain registrar competing mostly on good service. I'm sure it's a profitable niche, but it's not the kind of thing that's aiming for a giant IPO or is likely to attract acquisition interest
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Citation needed. If anything, capitalism seems antifragile: individual wealth never seems to last beyond the 3rd generation.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There are plenty of alternatives to W3W, most notably Open Location Codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code Alternatively, try a W3W parody: https://what3emojis.com/ http://w
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Except that you don't control the signaling or the switching, meaning you can't choose where to go and you will very quickly be noticed and depending on the level of signaling automation either stopped completely or at least shunt
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Again, there is no one "system". The system discussed here, 失信人名单, has nothing to do with social networks, it's operated by the courts. The video discussed below goes into this in detail, discussing what does exist, what exp
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The Continuation War doesn't have the same kind of simple, plucky David vs Goliath narrative. Small country strikes back to reconquer lost territory with Nazi help, goes a bit beyond the original borders, tacitly contributes to the Si
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by jpatokal 8y ago
This sounds... implausible, given that every metric I've seen for k8s is pretty much hockey-sticking. For example, it's the 2nd largest open source project ever (after Linux) by contributors & commits. The OP's hypothesis
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Cute visualization, but the data is sketchy and handling of modern megalopolises is really inconsistent. If greater Tokyo is currently in the top spot at 38M, then greater Shanghai and greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek) should be #2 and #3. ht
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by jpatokal 8y ago
That's 2-3 a week across the entire company (of unknown size), not a single engineer.
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FWIW, many cities in Saudi Arabia including the capital Riyadh ban even tobacco in public: you need to drive 30km out of the town to the city limits to find a cluster of hookah bars.
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For the non-Indians in the audience, what is "CTC"?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Fair enough, but it's worth pointing out that Denarau & the Mamanuca island resorts are the "Fiji experience" for the vast majority of visitors to the island. I need to rewrite that last paragraph though...
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It was meant to be tongue firmly in cheek. Poe's law strikes again...
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So we have 800 scientists signing a paper, but there are on the order of 7 million scientists worldwide. To prove the hypothesis "scientists rise up against statistical significance" with 95% confidence level and a .1 confidence
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Fascinating story -- and the author really lucked out in that the technicians were there at the same time, because just showing up in places like this without making arrangements is not a good idea. For comparison, some thoughts about the
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Came here to post this. Japan has vast plantations of cedar (sugi) forests and a huge percentage of Japan's population is allergic to the pollen, which in spring can be seen in quantities large enough to form visible clouds.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There was no mistake: by Korean law he's Korean and thus has to be conscripted. Of course it sucks that he wasn't aware of this, but the letter of the law was followed here.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
People, even dual citizens, are often under the mistaken impression that having another citizenship is a "get out of jail free" card for the obligations of the other one. This is very much not the case.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The other secret must be not having kids. Or maybe I need to extend my evening routine to dropping them off at school/childcare the night before, which would both reduce the time needed for my morning routine and guarantee quality s
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Now You Can Try to Catch Carmen Sandiego in Google Earth(theverge.com)
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I presume this is due to tokenization or something, but there's a lot of extra whitespace in the code samples that make them look very unrealistic: def _ _ init__(self, default): " " " See if the default value
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Aviation doesn't work that way. If a moving plane screws up in any way (too close to another plane, wrong taxiway, botched takeoff/landing, etc) it will be noticed. The US also has the widely used ASRS system for confidentially
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by jpatokal 8y ago
"Red" incidents on the GCP status dashboard, like this one, will typically have public incident reports. Disclaimer: I used to work in GCP Support, but no longer do.
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> the third option, the skewered kushi-katsu is an inferior cut Them's fighting words: kushikatsu is a quintessential Osakan dish, and while originally cheap food, there are plenty of gourmet places serving things like foie gras k
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Manufacturing Bula: Mass Tourism in Fiji(driftingclouds.net)
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There are a lot of products at Aldi/Lidl that are literally identical to what's sold in regular supermarkets (except for the label), because it comes from the same factory. This is particularly obvious in smaller markets like Aust

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