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It does indeed, with the dot on خ being the central dot (repeated once per rotation).

As an aside, I found the analyst's reference to "Quemoy and Matsu, Pratas, and Kinmen Islands" strange -- after all, Quemoy and Kinmen are two names for the same place.

If we look in `collections`, we can see `defaultdict` sitting side-by-side with `OrderedDict` and `Counter`. I've long since resigned myself to the fact that naming consistency is not Python's strong suit :)

To be fair, software engineering connects better to the interests of STEM-ish kids (video games, robotics, electronics) than spreadsheets ever could.

This is a great counterpart to this slightly more implementation-focused article on the Obra Dinn aesthetic: https://danielilett.com/2020-02-26-tut3-9-obra-dithering/

> "We are not familiar with Hong Kong’s consumer protection laws, but they are probably the same ones China adopts."

Despite recent events, I don't think this is necessarily a safe assumption. Many of Hong Kong's organisations, such as the ICAC (Independent Commission against Corruption) originate from the previous British administration and will be very different from any corresponding organisations in the PRC.

I note with horror that "activated" is misspelt in "itemsnotacivated" but spelt correctly in "activateditems".

Incidentally, it's wild seeing the physical models of 3D surfaces in the Open University video you linked -- nowadays, the equivalent visualisations can be obtained so quickly, at such low cost, and reach so many more people.

What makes one Toledo "the" Toledo? Which is "the" Springfield or "the" Newtown?

The occurrence of images of Pokémon and Spongebob do sound out of character for the station -- is it plausible that someone with a very strong transmitter is toying with the operators?

On a whim, I decided to search for "quicksort", and found a judgment where a loan company was trying to sue for infringement on the grounds that a competitor copied the SQL schema of their product. The complaint was upheld.

https://www.judyrecords.com/record/3nqi41qycaf9

While PIE-inspired, the dialogue there was not recognisably related to any PIE reconstruction -- check out https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4008 for more on this.

The author made a conscious choice to use л instead, on the grounds that it would be a better etymological (albeit worse phonetic) correspondence.

This reminded me of a certain creative "solution" to the lack of generics in Go: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...

Since he did modify the spelling, I don't think it's that hard to imagine.

I admit the error. They both post videos on speedruns, and I mixed them up.

EDIT: I mixed up two retro gaming YouTubers. The below refers to Bisqwit, not Bismuth. His personal views aside, I hope you find Bisqwit's other videos interesting.

I really respect this guy as an engineer and a retro gaming enthusiast, but he has some videos explaining his personal irrational Islamophobia that really make me wonder about him as a person -- here's one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVxSAi4sueQ

Yes, insofar as organisations and corporations are named after people: .agakhan, .bentley, .dupont, .lamborghini, .scjohnson etc.

It's a money grab for ICANN, precisely. Neither users nor developers have any say in this process, and the body that stands to benefit financially from accepting trademarks as TLDs is _not_ going to be acting in the interest of users or developers, are they?

My argument wasn't specifically about .bananarepublic or .calvinklein. It was more that I don't believe trademarks should have been admitted, full stop. There's no way ICANN can make impartial decisions here that benefit the bulk of Internet users.

I reserve judgement on generic TLDs, although I really don't like the implications to user confusion caused by .photo, .photos, .pics and the like.

.calvinklein? .bananarepublic? A clear money-grab that has no benefit to users, complicates validation and security for developers, and seals off vast swathes of the namespace for the sole use of corporations.

https://www.instantpeoplefinder.com/optout.php goes directly to a 404. Honestly doesn't surprise me, but there's a special place in tech hell for these people.

Two data points: our cat's poop doesn't smell bad at all when she's eaten homemade food, while if we feed her canned food or dry food, it smells stereotypically bad.

Also, cats don't necessarily knock things over just because they don't have access to the outdoors. Our indoor cat is very careful and has never knocked anything over intentionally in her life.

Beautiful aesthetic! Just a note, the front page has my pet peeve typo "it's" on it.

I did see that a verified Blockbuster Twitter account briefly came out of retirement this month -- don't know who would be operating that anymore, as I doubt they have a social media manager...

https://twitter.com/blockbuster/status/1293318870074302467

What is most galling about this is that even if we assume that culture X yields candidates with personality characteristics undervalued by culture Y, _racial background doesn't indicate culture_. How should a second-generation Taiwanese American raised predominantly in American culture answer the race question on their application?

The "fully scriptable" link (configure dijo to track your git commits!) seems to be broken.

True, but what you wrote suggested that the fact it was detected elsewhere exonerates China. It does not.

The fact that the virus was detected in wastewater samples in Italy earlier doesn't by itself rule out an origin from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or from China.

I had no idea khinkali were so similar to xiaolongbao!

The most interesting thing here for me is the use of redirected walking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirected_walking). I saw the video accompanying the paper but this would be the first game I've seen try to use it.