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by chch 2y ago
I was surprised to see Gen Z called out here specifically, though I guess it depends on where you live/grow up as well. I'd hazard to guess most of the millennials I know also haven't been to a rave! I don't think there
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by chch 2y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! This video doesn't seem to be available in the US, so you can also see it in the slow motion footage here, right on the finish line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxyXnPIF4o#t=2m45s (Yo
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by chch 2y ago
I always saw Pale Fire as somewhat of self-parody, which made me enjoy it more. Seven years before Pale Fire came out, Nabokov was working on his translation of Eugene Onegin . Often, people argue that a translated novel should have no end
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by chch 3y ago
Less a need, more an easter egg. The short itself is based on the stereotypical American family sitcom;s opening credits, which would tend to show a character doing something 'representative' of their character, while showing the
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by chch 3y ago
I happened to accidentally stumble into a plastic food store while in Osaka a few months ago. I just looked up the name, and they have a web storefront! [1] Admittedly all in Japanese, but the top part of the side bar shows you examples of
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by chch 3y ago
I was actually just talking about this yesterday! That schedule I'd read about was the Überman schedule, where you sleep 20-30 minutes six times a day. Definitely a much more extreme form than most polyphasic sleep schedules. :) I read
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by chch 6y ago
Doing a bit more deep diving into the ICU code, it looks like the source code for the Break engine (used by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) is here: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/778d0a6d1d46faa724ea
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by chch 7y ago
Someone discovered it years ago online, and it's done a couple rounds in the media[1] as an example of an "overreaching software patent", similar to the "pop-under" patent, which patents a pop-up ad that opens after
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by chch 7y ago
Just be careful about Microsoft's Patent US6748582B1; it doesn't expire for another few months. ;) From the patent (edited down a bit): > According to various example implementations of the invention, a task list facilitates co
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by chch 8y ago
Additionally, if this flag ever goes away, the "kFormatUrlOmitTrivialSubdomains" is the internal flag for this, it seems[1], though its description says it's "Not in kFormatUrlOmitDefaults"[2]. Back when they remove
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by chch 8y ago
As anecdotal data: The Masters program I took (not in Cybersecurity) is offered online for the same price as it is in person (I did it in person). If I were to do it again today, according to its website, the program would cost a total of $
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by chch 8y ago
Agreed, the images do seem lower quality than they used to be. I was curious, though, and chose buildings at random around the Google office in NYC, just to do a side-by-side, and even the old pictures look better: https://i.img
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by chch 9y ago
This reminds me of the story of how composer John Cage was inspired to write his piece 4′33″ [1]: 'In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, c
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by chch 9y ago
I believe GP is talking about boten/wakiten, not dakuten :) https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tutorial/images/misc.png
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by chch 9y ago
Reminds me of a similar factoid: Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the National Hockey League record for most combined points by two brothers: Wayne Gretzky with 2,857, Brent Gretzky with 4.
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by chch 9y ago
Since the original article doesn't give a lot of context as to what these characters looks like in context, here is an image of a Japanese book [1] and some playing cards [2] to give context to the segmentation difficulties. [1] http
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by chch 9y ago
To quote myself from a year ago (although Delta and Alaska aren't partners anymore) [3]: One of the features I like to use a lot is the ability to specify fare classes. As an example, say I want to fly to Tokyo, and I am an Alaska Airl
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by chch 9y ago
Though it didn't run iOS (and the little detail that it never came out) the "single computing device" model was one of my favorite selling points of the Ubuntu Edge [1]: "From mobile... to desktop. Yes, it’s the full Ubu
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by chch 9y ago
The mathematics of juggling definitely continues out from there, as well! [1] is a video to get a taste of some of the ideas of the mathematics of the patterns of juggling. Then, when you figure out that a certain set of patterns are juggla
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by chch 9y ago
If you click through to the "release from the university" on phys.org[1], then the paper itself is listed at the bottom[2], though without a hyperlink. Via the abstract [3]: > "The n-Queens problem is to place n chess quee
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by chch 9y ago
That's one of the things I like about the auxiliary language Interlingua[1] over Esperanto[2]. To quote from Wikipedia: "Interlingua has detached itself from the movement for the development and introduction of a universal languag
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by chch 9y ago
Also not a cyclist, but [1] is a good (and slightly comical) view of this technique. In Sprint cycling, which is just three laps, it was found to be a good technique to stay behind the lead rider, because you have the advantage of surprise,
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by chch 9y ago
A bit off topic, but seeing "Livecode" combined into a single word, instead of the normal two, made me think this was about the HyperCard-inspired programming language[1], instead of the just-in-time coding technique. :) [1] http
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by chch 9y ago
As did the United States, for the coins [1][2]! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_piece_(United_States) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-cent_nickel
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by chch 9y ago
Here's a previous thread from when this was originally posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669179 I remember, because I made two of my most researched comments there [1]. :) I'm no historical linguist, b
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by chch 9y ago
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention my favorite, the simple Cookie: https://emojipedia.org/cookie/ Everyone decided cookies are probably chocolate chip cookies, except Samsung, who apparently got confus
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by chch 9y ago
I've been using Shape Catcher for a while for my non-CJK needs, but the best tool I've found that for Unihan characters has been the one from LINE[1]. Specifically, unlike others I've used, it tends to do a good job with semi
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by chch 9y ago
Probably no one is checking results here anymore, but I got 486. Wish I knew how many total turns it took!
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by chch 10y ago
For a short moment, I hoped that this was about a revival of one of my favorite non-Turing-computable esoteric programming languages, but I guess that's of pretty low probability! Unfortunately the original spec is long gone, but [1] a
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by chch 10y ago
Seems mostly like The Matthew Effect[1], with a touch of Stigler's law of eponymy[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect#Sociology_of_sc... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sti

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