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"Hostel" may mean different things in different parts of the world. When I was growing up, I heard about "youth hostels" that were mostly in Europe and mostly providing inexpensive accommodations to college-age people who were backpacking through the continent or had a Eurail Pass for traveling, etc. But I have never stayed in one.

When I surveyed a few hostels in Hollywood, it seemed that they were indeed targeting college-age people. Furthermore, they were cultivating a "package deal" atmosphere where there were day trips and coffee hours and programmed activities, for residents to do while they were there. And with limited privacy and shared facilities, there could be bustling activity and interruptions of sleep all night long. They did not seem like places to check in, crash overnight and leave in the morning. And that is probably calculated to appeal to the clientele who are not homeless and did not simply save up $40 by panhandling during the past week.

And I made friends with one fellow tending the store there, and I would overhear him answering the store's phone: "Thank you for calling Radio Shack! You have questions; we have answers!"

And I would be mildly amused that he steadfastly held to the rules of grammar in verbal discourse, but I was also a bit disappointed; a loyal Radio Shack employee would lean into the dissonance and take one for the team.

I myself would gladly say the line, with a big grin on my face every time. I would, however, welcome my telephone persona being replaced by an A.I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_corde_Ecclesiae

https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_constit...

- Taking up more than one seat with girth, needing a seatbelt extender.

- Fitting through narrow passages, tight turns, limited headroom

- An unconscious person may need to be lifted, and transported somehow

- Toilets and life vests and other safety equipment, rated for your "standard average man size"

- Total mass of passengers/cargo, and its distribution on the aircraft itself

Elevators in the US have a maximum weight and maximum occupancy rating.

Arguably, if obesity is a disability, then appeal to the Americans with Disability Act or similar regulations, but from a standpoint of safety and the common good, it does not seem unreasonable for airlines to charge extra to cover their expenses above.

If you put a hashtag at the end of a Wikipedia URL, then I suppose it works, until the URL already has a hashtag in it, because these are used for section headings. It's not called "escaping" anything, it's just... an empty URI fragment: a link to the top of the article?

There is also nothing preventing a Wikipedia editor from creating a redirect from the title y'all linked. In fact it's a perfectly fine idea for a redirect. The fact is that the canonical title is in US English, and in US English, "Inc." takes a period as an abbreviation.

There's nothing wrong with your workaround or your percent-encodings to escape some dubious glyph, but I hoped to clarify things and derail the thread further on pedantic technicalities. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

பப்படம் → पापड़

The English Wikipedia covers the name's variants. And the jackfruit variety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papadam#Etymology

It is not my favorite appetizer, but the restaurants all seem to prepare them about the same. This is in the American Southwest with restaurants advertising cuisine of North India (vegetarian), Punjab, New Delhi, Pakistan, etc.

They are probably the most delicate crisp I've ever eaten. They crumble when I breathe on them or if they touch a drop of chutney. I wouldn't purchase them in a grocery store, for fear they would already be in crumbly pieces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign#Names

It still is, to this day: if you call an automated system such as voicemail, you may be prompted to "press 'pound'". This is really standardized, AFAICT, and no telephone system has told me to "press hash" or "press the 'number' key" [because that's ambiguous]

cks has a history of #! but not an etymology: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ExecAndShebang...

He links to Wikipedia which documents a good history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)#History

I was trying to recall what we called it. I used SVR3, so I would've been using "#!/bin/sh" as early as 1990, and even more on SunOS 4 and other Unix servers.

I can't recall having a name for it until "hash-bang" gained currency later. We knew it was activated by the magic(5) kernel interpretations. I often called "#" as "pound" from the telephone usage, and I recall being tempted to verbalize it in C64 BASIC programming, or shell comment characters, but knowing it was not the same.

"The whole shebang" is a Civil-War-era American idiom that survived with my grandparents, so I was familiar with that meaning. And not really paying attention to Ricky Martin's discography.

Wikipedia says that Larry Wall used it in 1989. I was a fervent follower of Larry Wall in the mid-90s and Perl was my #1 scripting language. If anyone would coin and/or popularize a term like that, it's Just Another Perl Hacker,

Likewise, "bang" came from the "bang path" of UUCP email addresses, or it stood for "not" in C programming, and so "#!/bin/sh" was ambiguously nameless for me, perhaps for a decade.

Come to think of it, vi and vim have a command "!" where you can filter your text through a shell command, or "shell out" from other programs. This is the semantic that makes sense for hash-bangs, but which came first?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IBM_Model_F_Keyb...

Specifying "IBM Model F keyboard" and placing it in quotation marks improves the search. But the front page of the search is tip-of-the-iceberg compared to whatever the model's scrapers ingested.

Eventually you may hit trademark protections. Reproducing a brand-name keyboard may be as difficult as simulating a celebrity's likeness.

I'm not even sure what my friends look like on Facebook, so it's not clear how an AI model would reproduce a brand-name keyboard design on request.

Per the HN formatting documentation: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joffe_v._Google,_Inc.>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_or_Astro-man%3F is another story -- since "?" is a reserved character in URLs for CGI queries. Enter the question mark anyway, and the article comes up! Why? There's a redirect without it!

For Wikipedia's gory details on technical restrictions for article titles: (note that HN properly parses this article title ending in a right-paren)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(...

This is a collaboration and international labor of love, with people hailing from Australia, England, and Canada. Go visit nasa.gov at top-level and see how the design changes, and the NASA logos are used.

These pages carry the Apollo insignias, and "last modified: November 2017".

https://www.pringles.com/en-us/products/pringles-the-origina...

Whilst "dried potatoes" are the top ingredient, they also contain plenty of corn, rice, and wheat products.

Surprisingly, I have found that in the States, the "purest" seeming snack food is Fritos Original Corn Chips:

https://www.pepsicoproductfacts.com/Home/product?formula=LBS...

"Ingredients: Corn, vegetable oil (corn and/or canola oil), and salt."

Some of you may have read my story of the Olive Section at Carrefour in Catalonia. The same thing had happened with the same friend when she visited me in Phoenix. She had heard tell of a vast selection of crisp flavours. So we went to the convenience store/Subway/gas station on the corner, where half of the store shelves are chips, dip, and salty snacks. She was impressed and chose two bags, including a chili lime flavour.

And here I sit with the Kalamata olives and the Manchego cheese. Jamón Serrano is not easy to come by; sometimes I settle for Prosciutto.

My PS/2 HDD was only 20MB, and I recall having enough free space after the install. For Minix 1.5, there's another estimate here of 9 DD floppies -- 6.5MB compressed. That seems about right.

I definitely went for the compiler and all the accessories. The C compiler was far from ANSI-compliant and barely K&R. It made for some interesting times.

Minix 3 is BSD-licensed, and distributed on CD-ROM now, and can still be purchased from Pearson! https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/operating-sy...

Also, papadums are spelled differently by Indian restaurants around here, because it is, after all, in transliteration.

This was inevitable as mass-produced snack food is influenced and derived from foreign cuisine. Papadums served in a restaurant are about 6” diameter, puffy, thin and delicate. Caraway seeds and other bumps are often noticeable. Always need a good chutney to dip into.

The Indian groceries also sell shelves full of savory crispy snacks that run the gamut. I hope that Walkers can hold their niche amongst cricket fans.

And programmers should allocate buffers of absurd size in order to contain pathnames of unpredictable depth?

Some would even have configurable parameters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob

- Victor or Vanna: A verifier, who requires proof from the prover.

Farmers love distilling grain alcohol. Because it can take their crops and make the product easy to transport. If you're trying to ship lots of corn, barley, rye, or potatoes, etc., overland, you're looking at a large volume and mass. It is cumbersome to load and unload. It spoils easily, and pests can make lots of problems in storage.

So [historically,] if you're a farmer in Kentucky or Western Pennsylvania and you grow plenty grain to feed your townspeople and livestock, and there's anything left over, it's only logical to distill it and ship it out to an urban market.

But on the market side, it's feeding into vices, so what's an honest farmer to do? Contract for torpedo juice?

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In biological taxonomy, new names are coined all the time. Aliases for species are quite common. Common names for species are also common. We just learned that a "Buzzard" in the US is different than "Buzzards" in Europe/UK.

Pharmaceutical companies and scientists coin new "fake Latin-sounding" names all the time. So do astronomers! If there can be an asteroid named "25924 Douglasadams" then why can't Activia add a brand-name alias to something they use? Arguably, bacteria replicate so fast that Danone could have a new species if they cultivated it in a lab, rather than in animals.

Conversely, the food industry has taken names such as "milk" and "water", and expanded their definitions far beyond what common people recognize as those substances. Always receiving legal assent to sell fruit juice [nuts are fruits] with a mammalian name.

I've not had much experience with supplements, but more than a few I've purchased made proprietary blends of substances, and named that blend. Totally FDA-compliant.

I think your website got left up because it's fundamentally not a threat to any such practice in labelling.

I hereby address the candida albicans growing in my intestines, to announce that I dub thee candida hackernewsensis because sitting here has undoubtedly helped it grow.

EMV, NFC, and RFID are all related technologies which may underlie “tap to pay / sign” features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_payment

When I sign in to Informed Delivery, every month or so the USPS sends a postcard advertising their podcast (“Mailin’ It!”)

https://usps-mailin-it.simplecast.com/

This is a virtual postcard, so while I can read it in my email or on usps.com, I won’t necessarily find a paper copy delivered.

It is my understanding that commercial mailings can also use this mechanism. I receive some marketing as original JPEG quality, rather than being scanned in grayscale.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/sep/01/waffle-ho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sen-Sen

It was much later that I learned that it was one of the powerful breath mints which people often used to cover-up after drinking booze.

[Grandma didn't drink! I don't think that Grandpa did, either. Their house never had alcoholic drinks or anything else related.]

This theory has been widely accepted in the English speaking world for 70 years, and provided a model for expanding the theory sixfold. However a competing theory was introduced there at Oxford, which was more complex and had something to do with Illuvitar.

Novelty and Theory are mutually exclusive to scientists. Likewise with Obscurity. Now a lack of empiricism and even less falsifiablilty has never stopped them. Paleontologists love to play Mad Libs with sedimentary layers and connect the dots with mythical lost worlds.

If scientists want to weave myths to share with one another and entertain 8-year-old STEM aspirants, that’s fine, but we’ve boldly gone where Theories and Scientific Facts fear to tread.

wall(8) (previously invoked from /bin) is a Unix command to "write all", and wall used to emit a humorous error message, which IIRC was output when you provided no text to send as a message:

  But what do you want to do with the wall?

Or, employees begin to rely on domain squatter's map, argue with supervisor over whether they need to come into work, and N employees lost their jobs because of a third-party misinformation site.