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by aloisklink 2mo ago
2 letter TLDs/country-code TLDs, are determined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, and having a country code doesn't necessarily mean a country or a state. There are a bunch on there that I wouldn't consider states, e.g. bo
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by aloisklink 3mo ago
Actually, Diego Garcia (the British/American military base) already has it's own ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, DG: [1] It's "Exceptionally reserved" "at the request of International Telecommunication Union (ITU)&quo
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by aloisklink 3mo ago
The owners of `queer.af` thought that AF only meant “as f*ck”, without realizing that AF also happens to the be the ISO 3166 code for a country controlled by the Taliban, who didn’t like their domain name [1]. Brits that had `.eu` domains l
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by aloisklink 4mo ago
You can try looking at this manga posted by a Japanese person that was detained for marijuana possession https://xcancel.com/kime_neko/status/1634511023167381504 . It's in Japanese, but you can use a machine t
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by aloisklink 4mo ago
Not for the ones you buy in Japan, since those are legal. But, it's not unheard of to get randomly stopped by the police and searched, especially in touristy areas like train stations. Unless you're a Japanese citizen, you have to
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by aloisklink 4mo ago
You can still easily buy it here, but the over-the-counter pills are always mixed with other ingredients to make it more difficult to convert them into amphetamines. E.g. Contac 600 Plus can be found in basically all drug stores and it has
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by aloisklink 4mo ago
The author mentions it in a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2epTf2IW1g (at the 2:20 mark). But essentially, somebody else sent her a package with something illegal in it that she didn't ask for. The pol
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by aloisklink 5mo ago
At least in Japan on iOS, they have their own app, and it’s great. You can find a seat first, then order directly from your seat, for delivery to your seat (helpful since some McDonald’s in Japan are really busy, and are very vertical, so y
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by aloisklink 2y ago
I think there are two slightly different issues here! 1. SVGs generated by Mermaid use the SVG 2 features, but other than browsers, most libraries only support SVG 1.1 features, i.e. < https://github.com/mermaid-js/me
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by aloisklink 2y ago
POSIX does actually define what a "text file" is, but the definition is a bit unusual: See https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1... > 3.387 Text File > A file that conta
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by aloisklink 2y ago
I was at Fukushima Daiichi on Monday, and they explained that they only want to take a few grams of the melted material to test the composition of the melted fuel/debris, e.g. what elements are in it. Even just planning to remove all o
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by aloisklink 2y ago
Weirdly, enough, golang is one of the only programming languages that actually has built-in support for a cross-OS config dir location: [os.UserConfigDir()][1]. I don't really ever program in golang, but whenever I write a Node.JS&#x2F
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by aloisklink 2y ago
You should try the Moondrop Space Travel, you can buy them for USD 24.99 on Amazon. - Moondrop is a pretty well known brand in the ChiFi (Chinese Hi-Fi) space. - They support AAC so they even have good audio quality on Apple/iPhone dev
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by aloisklink 3y ago
One reason might be that `text/*` files follow the POSIX standard for text files [1], where no lines can exceed `{LINE_MAX}` bytes in length (and `LINE_MAX` depends on your OS). I don't believe the YAML spec has any rules on how l
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by aloisklink 3y ago
Unfortunately, they're not great to use with a phone in your pocket, since then the motion of walking around will adjust the knob and change the volume. Although, come to think of it, I could probably just glue the knob into a fixed −1
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by aloisklink 3y ago
I've had the same issue with some wired IEMs on iOS, using Apple's official USB-C to 3.5mm adaptor. I even have the EU model A2155 of the USB-C to 3.5mm adaptor that's supposed to have half the power of the US model. What I f
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by aloisklink 3y ago
The Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 apparently does have the hardware/software needed for Suica, even on non-Japanese editions of the phone. However, it's blocked by Google in software depending on the device SKU (maybe because Google doesn&#
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by aloisklink 3y ago
That's pretty much it. All modern browsers come with CSS layout functions [1], even Internet Explorer did! Pretty much every other Web API can be implemented in Node.JS using something like JSDom [2], but the CSS layout engine is the m
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by aloisklink 3y ago
I'm one of the maintainers of the mermaid-cli project, and unfortunately, no. Mermaid needs a browser's layout engine to run properly [1], but I haven't yet seen a library that will help us without puppeteer. And yep, NPM (or
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by aloisklink 3y ago
Btw, CMake has the [FindThreads][1] module to automatically link with `-lpthread`/`-pthread` in a platform-agnostic way. Even after this change in glibc, you may still need to use FindThreads to handle [HP-UX][2] (some of which still r
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by aloisklink 3y ago
Even better, you can use [C99 Flexible array members][1], e.g. something like: struct KeyedEntry { struct Entry entry; char key[]; // flexible array member }; It's not too much more useful when just u
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by aloisklink 3y ago
It's potentially related to the outage at Virgin Media (AS5089) in the United Kingdom, see https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/16430702601305047... . I'm guessing a lot of sites that had name-serve
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by aloisklink 4y ago
If you're installing a command-line tool globally, I usually go for the system package manager (e.g. `apt` on debian), or `pip` if I want a newer version. With pip, make sure to use the `--user` flag so things aren't installed wit
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by aloisklink 4y ago
If you think about it, isn't buying insurance pretty similar (especially if you pay extra for really rare insurance policies, like lightning strike insurance). You're essentially making a bet with your insurance company that xxxx
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by aloisklink 5y ago
DRM too is also a pain. The new Alder Lake CPUs apparently breaks a bunch of games, since their DRM thinks that the new Intel efficiency-cores are a second PC trying to play on the same license. Some games will only work if you upgrade to W
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by aloisklink 5y ago
There's also the [Steam Link app][1], if you have an Android TV. [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valvesoftw... You just need to install the app on your Android TV/TV box, and if yo
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by aloisklink 5y ago
Honestly, in the case of a shared computer, I wouldn't recommend even using a password. A lot of employers put monitoring software on their computers, and have keyloggers that can record your passwords. It's probably illegal for t
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by aloisklink 5y ago
GitHub mentioned this in their blog-post: https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirem... > Tokens offer a number of security benefits over password-based authentication: > - Unique – tokens are specif
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by aloisklink 5y ago
Commercial spaces and some houses in the UK already have 12V DC lighting and sockets for spotlights using the GU5.3 socket. It lets you have smaller and cheaper light-bulbs. They're not great to have as a renter, though; many of the AC
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by aloisklink 5y ago
The funny thing is, Estonia already has this feature in their ID cards (although, as I'm not Estonian, I'm not sure how often people actually use this feature). https://learn.e-resident.gov.ee/hc/en-us/ar

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