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kakkunon Credit cards have a privacy problem

I feel like it would be pretty easy to link together an online purchase with the confirmation email to my Gmail account using purchase location / time of purchase / price.

kakkunon Consider Renaming Gimp to a Less Offensive Name

Yeah, I definitely ran into issues when Googling to see whether I could use LaTeX within GIMP.

kakkunon The Case for Eating Jellyfish

We call those fungi, "tree jellyfish" in Japan :)

kakkunon Digitized minutes of Royal Society meetings taken between 1686 and 1711

For those that are interested in what else the Royal Society archives hold, I wholly recommend the Objectivity YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg) created by Brady Haran (of Periodic Videos, Numberphile, Computerphile, etc.)

kakkunon O2 'to seek millions' in damages over data outage

Softbank's press release [0] mentions that a total of 11 countries were affected by the outage. I can't seem to find any information on what other countries were affected though.

[0] https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/group/sbm/news/press/2018/20...

kakkunon Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

A bit disappointed to not see any stories by Kenji Miyazawa [0]. I'd love to see him gain more recognition outside of Japan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Miyazawa

kakkunon EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border

I'll be visiting the US in April this year, and I'm worried about the border crossing.

I'm guessing the best I can do as a non-US citizen is to have my previous phone on me with convincing-enough amount of dummy data in it. Is there any better way?

I will be entering the US via car from Canada by the way.

kakkunon Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful

It's because the NPS rating numbers are ordinal, meaning that you can put the rating numbers in order, but the likelihood gap between the numbers may not be equal.

For example, 6 on the NPS scale would be less likely to recommend compared to 7 and 7 would be less likely than 8. However, the gap between 6 and 7 and the gap between 7 and 8 may not be equal. If you were to get the mean of 6, 7, and 8, you would get a value of 6, but there is no guarantee that the average of the participants' likelihood to recommend was actually equal to a 6.

Measuring the mean would work if the interval between the numbers were equal. See here for details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement

kakkunon Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach

I got an email too. The thing is, I don't have a Disqus account. The only mention of Disqus in my gmail account is the haveibeenpwned email. Any idea what's going on?

kakkunon Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

I enjoyed this one: https://practicaltypography.com/

kakkunon New York Subway X-Ray Area Maps

Wow, those are amazing!

I've commuted through / worked near Shinjuku station (the first image) for 10 years or so. I'm still finding new places to get lost in. The fact that it seems to be perpetually under construction doesn't help things.

kakkunon Airbnb expands to experiences

Am I missing something, or is there no way to search the Experiences?

kakkunon What.CD is shutting down

Same here. I remember the private tracker scene being referred to as a hydra (cut one head off, and two will grow back) back when oink went down. I wonder if that hydra is still alive...

kakkunon How I built a keyboard by hand

Yeah, here's where I bought it: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_det... and here are the instructions: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Phantom_instruction_guide

kakkunon How I built a keyboard by hand

Welp, might as well hop on the bandwagon, and share mine as well. https://imgur.com/a/SP4Ng

I used a pre-made PCB, so not quite as hand made as the OP's, but it's something I'm still quite proud of.