soruly

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by soruly 5mo ago
successful train lines in Japan are all built between CBD and some spots / attractions. Odakyu: odawara / hakone, Seibu: chichibu, keiou: Takao, toukyuu: Nikko / kinugawa, nankai: Takao. Tourists spots are usually in the moun
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by soruly 7mo ago
related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121029
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Hetzner's Statement on Price Adjustment(hetzner.com)
4 points by soruly 7mo ago|2 comments
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by soruly 7mo ago
The price changes will take effect on 1 April 2026 for both new orders and existing products.
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by soruly 8mo ago
same here. sometimes it makes me feels guilty for using light mode. Maybe we should yell out something like "hold-on can't see anything"
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by soruly 9mo ago
It seems the square "wafer" (silicon substrate) is developed by Mitsubishi Materials a year ago. https://www.mmc.co.jp/corporate/en/news/2024/news20240821.ht...
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by soruly 11mo ago
CSCI 3210: Modern text encoding and processing Learn unicode and utf-8. Unlearn the 1 char = 1 byte concept Not only encoding/decoding but searching and sorting is also different. We may also cover font rendering, unicode modifiers and
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by soruly 1y ago
Yes. As a site owner who keep fighting with bots and malicious traffic, I wish web browsers provide me a way to identify real users from bot traffic. Otherwise I'll have to put everything behind account registration.
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by soruly 1y ago
> "coherent desire" or "precise imagination" or "structured wishing." the most precise way to express your desire is by giving computer commands, or you may call it programming.
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by soruly 1y ago
thanks for the tips. As my data has very low entropy, both can compress down to 3-4% of original size, but xz is a lot faster in compression. raw size: 9612344 B zstd --ultra -22 --long=31 => 376181 B (3.91% original, 4.088s compress, 0.
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by soruly 1y ago
I think it depends on what you're compressing. I experimented with my data full of hex text xml files. xz -6 is both faster and smaller than zstd -19 by about 10%. For my data, xz -2 and zstd -17 achieve the same compressed size but xz
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by soruly 1y ago
Bi-directional gates are always open by default. One-way gate would close after a certain time to prevent people coming from the wrong side.
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by soruly 1y ago
There are charging machines that accept cash cards / debit cards, but only those issued by Japanese banks. So cash is the only option for touristists. You can go completely cash-less if you can use mobile Suica / ICOCA, which let&
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by soruly 1y ago
Yes, I believe so. JR East is now planning to fade-out magnetic tickets by using paper QR Code tickets.
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by soruly 1y ago
Japan has lots of IC cards in various regions, and they have spent a lot of effort integrating their system. Unfortunately some IC cards like Kumamon decided to opt-out due to high maintenance fees. AFAIK, you can go through up to 4 differe
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by soruly 1y ago
Suica has a pretty large sensing distance (85mm). So it can "power up" the card at a distance before getting close to the reader. To avoid large touch area causing accidental touches, places like vending machine requires you to ke
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by soruly 2y ago
and yes they did. aside from the keihin touhoku line that's already running in parallel with yamanote line, JR East added a new track called ueno-tokyo line about 10 years ago. And the trains on the new lines are mostly 15-cars (with 2
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by soruly 2y ago
> Rush hour had a train there every ~2 minutes actually 2 trains every ~2 minutes on the east side of the yamanote loop, it runs in parallel with keihin tohoku line every station from tabata to sinagawa. The platforms are arranged side b
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by soruly 4y ago
The domestic ISP I use has all its IP ranges assigned to spamhaus's Policy Block List. https://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/ However, the ISP does operate its own SMTP proxy that's free to use. So I can send and rece
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by soruly 4y ago
All my hobby websites I own have all these in-app browsers blocked.
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I have a confession: Windows is better in light mode(pcgamer.com)
2 points by soruly 4y ago|0 comments
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by soruly 4y ago
note that it's 35,613 code results, not 35k repos and 13K of the search results come from this org https://github.com/redhat-operator-ecosystem
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by soruly 4y ago
I like the way adminer packages everything into a single php file. It makes it super easy to deploy and update https://www.adminer.org/
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by soruly 4y ago
that's why letsencrypt use a single database on a powerful server https://letsencrypt.org/2021/01/21/next-gen-database-servers...
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by soruly 4y ago
I write my own powershell script for taking screenshots periodically https://gist.github.com/soruly/889d926fcd4b2b8e8dc113a100b9d...
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by soruly 4y ago
Unlike movies, the content on screen recordings usually remains roughly the same for minutes before switching scene. So it can achieve significantly higher compression ratio even at high fps
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by soruly 4y ago
I take screenshots of my computer screen every minute since 2008. I've a dedicated 2TB hdd storing these archives compressed with 7z It takes just about 100-200MB/day so it's quite easy to store. These archives saved me from
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by soruly 4y ago
I think Turbolinks is a nice balace bewteen traditional webpage and SPA. https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks It provides a smooth UX by fetching next page's HTML in background, then replace the DOM by compare
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by soruly 4y ago
This reminds me of the <meta> tag page transitions in Internet Explorer 20 year ago! http://www.simplehtmlguide.com/pagetransitions.php
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by soruly 4y ago
even for local development, I tend to serve the HTTP server with nginx for adding HTTPS. Because many of the web APIs, like service worker, clipboard APIs, are only available in HTTPS context.

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