TwelveNights

Mandarin is a spoken form of Chinese. So Mandarin and Cantonese, for example, share the same character set (Chinese). There's also traditional vs simplified Chinese, technically; they're similar with some differences in how they're written. Japanese also has some differences which can be confusing because a lot of application developers just use the Chinese character sets for kanji: https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

One other thing about Chinese is that TV shows and movies usually have hard-coded subtitles while airing because the spoken versions of the language can be very different from one another. Including the text makes it more accessible to a wider audience regardless of what "dialect" is spoken in the show.

I've always thought that Twitter adopted the same line of thinking, preventing tweets from being editable.

I like using paper to journal about my day or write about random thoughts I might have that I'd like to flesh out further through writing. A few inconveniences of writing it though is that you might want to selectively share some stuff from time-to-time, lack of ability to add media (though a portable printer kinda solves this problem), and having a limit of space, relying on indexing journals when they fill up. A lot of the caveats are solved by privately blogging, though I do miss writing instead of typing everything.

Something like this is almost a sweet spot of keeping the paper version as a "draft copy" while being able to enrich a digital version of your journal. As someone in the thread mentioned, being able to have private pages would likely encourage people to try it out for their journalling purposes. Otherwise, the project looks amazing!

There was a TV show in Japan where a man had to stay in a room until he managed to win $10000 of value in sweepstakes. I wouldn't say you can make a full-time job out of trying to win sweepstakes, since he ended up staying in the room for about a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi#Denpa_Sh%C5%8Dnen_teki_...

I have heard of some people experiencing sensitivities to MSG, but as the exception and not the norm.

The Persians also have an expression for "drunkenness and truthfulness", masti o rasti. مستی و راستی

The ptrdiff doesn't have to be signed. I'm pretty sure negative numbers aren't used in this context.

I really hope that the actual study gives more details about how this research was conducted. This article is way too sparse and seems more like a marketing post for the company that did the research.

One way I've seen discussed on HN is by sending varying amounts to N different accounts, where some are owned by you / affiliates and others are not. In a sense, paying for obfuscation of which accounts are actually owned by you.

I've always thought that the value provided was in comparison to old-school advertising techniques, such as through physical media or broadcast-style presentation formats. Nowadays, even if some Youtube ads seem like a crapshoot, it's still much more focused than television.

HN has always felt rather US-centric and IMO it really reflects in the response that this type of news gets.

For Twitter, increasing its international presence and talent pool is a big win. The community stands to benefit in the opportunities the tech giant can provide.

I noticed that too. The copy on the casino site is especially odd.

Opal Ruby to JavaScript Compiler It is source-to-source, making it fast as a runtime. Opal includes a casino comparison compiler (which can be run in any browser), a corelib and runtime implementation. The corelib/runtime is also very small.

The only thing missing in OP's calculation is the cost of employees. Maintaining a fleet of 250 vending machines alone doesn't seem very possible.

While nobody expected books to have variable font sizes, the fact that ebooks do allow it to be adjusted means that people with deteriorating vision may still read them.

Any credentials that are pushed to GitHub are as good as immediately compromised.

Not an answer, but there's something about large companies updating their UI/UX that always makes it worse. Same goes with Jira. If there were any specific reasons to doing these re-styles, I'd love to know too.

I'm concerned about the effect on people who find meaning in the work they do. It's similar to how AlphaGo caused Lee Se-dol to retire. Once AI surpasses humans, a lot of work will seem meaningless, even if it previously gave meaning to people's lives.

Looking at extraordinary people can be both encouraging and disheartening. I've always wanted to practice drawing after seeing all the incredible things that extraordinary people can make. However, the more you dig into something, the more that chasm between you and the peak seems to widen.

The one point I appreciate about this article is how it points out that there are physical constraints that come with being extraordinary. With the example of drawing, reaching a higher level of understanding could be possible with more time dedication, though I personally may want to use my time for other purposes.

- Get up half an hour before the work day

- Coffee, sometimes something to eat from the kitchen

- Lightweight (email, meetings, planning) work until lunch

- Lunch with the fam

- Development / design / planning work for the rest of the day (with some breaks)

- Dinner with the fam

- Chill

The last activity varies from day-to-day, though.

I think in this case the wax lining on the pines would be moreso a property of the object rather than the apparatus through which we see the object.

Could this be why most Ask HN posts are desaturated? I always wondered why that was the case.

If everyone knew that debt resets were to happen, the contracts in the 49th year would likely be only for small things.

That probably also means that for larger purchases, more cash up-front is required the closer it is to the Jubilee year.

Although it's getting harder and harder since many platforms try to blend their ads in with the actual site content, I can avoid them reliably well by checking metadata such as the poster, some indication that it's an ad, or if the content is clearly different from what I was expecting.

I wouldn't say it's as bad as potholes on the road, since ads are more predictable.

We may harm ourselves or others around us for nothing but the feeling of control in our lives. I remember reading somewhere that eating disorders were an example of simultaneously losing and gaining control and, though I haven't had an eating disorder before, I could see how the same logic could apply to other actions.

I have never seen so many emojis used in a single rc announcement before. That being said, congratulations to the Traefik team for closing in on 2.0.0.

Firefox has the option to "block new requests asking to allow notifications". Just check under Preferences > Privacy & Security > Permissions.

I've had bed bugs in my apartment from library books too unfortunately. I'm not sure if there is an easy solution for public spaces - especially libraries where you have air conditioning, electricity, washroom facilities, and comfortable areas to sit and read.

Nucleics gave the people so much more than what 5G gives to us. I would imagine that it would be very difficult to impress anyone with the advantages it brings, versus being able to levitate and emit light.

Same. It took me a second to piece together the fact that the link directs to nature.com and that it's the other type of cold fusion.

It's a little interesting to see the contrast between the DEA as a straight-laced government agency, and the patches they make. Frankly speaking, there's an "edginess" to it that's hard to reconcile with their public image.