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by lyall 1y ago
Good opportunity to repost this gem: "Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV" https://www.dampfkraft.com/posuto.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25023673
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by lyall 1y ago
FWIW The Japan Times is a fully English language publication, so no need to excuse anything based on language ability
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by lyall 1y ago
The whole system is quite tightly controlled by the transit companies (e.g. JR East). For example, your average payment terminal can take money off of a card but not load money onto it (refunds have to be done out of band). Loading money on
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by lyall 2y ago
Kotlin is gaining steam in the Java world. We're moving to make it our default server-side language at my company instead of Java. Given its great Java interop, you can basically think of it as a modern, more functional Java that doesn
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by lyall 2y ago
Black companies certainly still exist and still mistreat their employees—I know quite a few people that work a lot of overtime with no extra pay, experience パワハラ, are the longest tenured employee around after just one year because of the ma
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by lyall 2y ago
It's "Up to $800" for an "iPhone 12 or newer". You won't get more than $200 for trading in an iPhone 12. The max value is reserved for the newest and highest end phones, i.e. 15 Pro Max.
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by lyall 2y ago
In article form: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-roblox-pedophile-pro...
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by lyall 2y ago
I'm not sure exactly what GP is referring to, but it might be things like this? > Facebook report they maintain an allow-list of queries extracted from from their source code at build time, to fix this. I've not seen any other
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by lyall 2y ago
I don’t believe there is any evidence that vitamin C reduces inflammation or helps with depression. Vitamin C is an antioxidant, not an anti-inflammatory agent. There is evidence that things that reduce systemic inflammation help with depre
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by lyall 2y ago
I use Hidden Bar ( https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden ) for this. It works well enough despite not being updated in a while, though there is a bit of jank. Just tried out Ice and it seems to be a nice, lower jank replace
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by lyall 2y ago
In my experience as a Colemak typist and heavy vim (or vim-emulation) user, the best solution is to bite the bullet and _not_ remap any of the keys. This is obviously annoying for hjkl navigation at first but you get used to it pretty quick
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by lyall 3y ago
https://archive.is/Ith3n
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by lyall 4y ago
The payment processing space, like basically anything when you look close enough, has a fractal-like complexity to it. And in my opinion the industry as a whole does a pretty poor job of abstracting away that complexity, often leaking it th
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by lyall 4y ago
Funnily enough, this is very common in Japan via so called "e-money" stored value cards such as Suica[1], Pasmo, Waon, Nanaco. Those four you can even provision right now into Apple Wallet and load with money via a card if you&#x2
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by lyall 4y ago
Yes, the rails used should not affect the consumer protections you do or do not receive. If it's a debit card, it's a debit card regardless of if it's processed over a credit network. Exactly how long the transaction takes to
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by lyall 4y ago
Kanji in Context targets intermediate/advanced students that already know at least a few hundred kanji, and it doesn't provide mnemonics or radicals or anything. It's fundamentally just a list of words to memorize, which thro
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by lyall 4y ago
The radicals and mnemonics are useful for bridging the gap between learning a word and truly acquiring it. Think of it like learning how to read in English: when starting out you have to sound out every letter, recall the weird rules about
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by lyall 4y ago
I fell off the WaniKani wagon pretty hard. Made it to level 28 (out of 60) going about as fast as it'll let you then took a break during a trip to Japan, of all places. Long story short, almost three years later my review queue still c
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by lyall 4y ago
Maybe that's how IC cards work in some places, but that's definitely not the normal EMV standard. I've worked on the implementation of EMV chip card processing through basically all the major networks and can tell you that we
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by lyall 4y ago
Chip cards do send the card number as part of the transaction. They just also send other information that makes it easier to tell if the original card is physically present, meaning you don’t have to worry as much about someone stealing the
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by lyall 5y ago
I've found doing something that sounds crazy very helpful in overcoming my own personal tab overload: automatically closing tabs after they go ignored for a certain amount of time (~12 hours for me). It's garbage collection for ta
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by lyall 6y ago
Discussion from when the article was originally posted two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19490832 I was reminded of this today, and thought it was interesting enough to bear reposting.
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Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track (2018)(medium.com)
1 points by lyall 6y ago|1 comments
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by lyall 6y ago
Not just used to! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiATy-FfjI
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by lyall 7y ago
I work on this type of stuff thing at a major payments company and I can say this is _not_ true. For refunds, almost all of the interchange fee is returned. Sometimes even more than the original interchange fee is returned (don't ask w
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by lyall 8y ago
Even if it's deserved ;)
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by lyall 8y ago
Monkeybrains ( https://www.monkeybrains.net/ ) operates a mesh network in SF. They're not community owned but they are very much a local business.
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Deep Painterly Harmonization–Style transfer for composite images(github.com)
1 points by lyall 8y ago|0 comments
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The Security of Classic Game Consoles [video](youtube.com)
2 points by lyall 9y ago|0 comments
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by lyall 9y ago
For those want a great intro and overview of category theory aimed at programmers, Bartosz Milewski's lecture series on YouTube [0] is worth the time investment. It covers the topics this post discusses and more, but crucially with ple

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