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openuntil3amon Coconuts in Medieval Britain (2015)

Don't forget cashews.

openuntil3amon US may ask parents to prove citizenship to get passports for their children

Why? The 14th amendment is clear:

> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

openuntil3amon Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church

Christianity is no different.

openuntil3amon Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs

Don't worry. It'll trickle down.

openuntil3amon Pentagon puts building blocks in place for Cuba invasion

> the next president

I appreciate your optimism.

openuntil3amon Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

Which compiler would you like to use?

openuntil3amon Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

About $600 apparently. The regular S100X is $350.

openuntil3amon Ted Turner has died

Incidentally, Turner created Cartoon Network.

openuntil3amon Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

Your criticism of Haskell is entirely subjective. There are lots of people, myself included, that like and prefer Haskell's syntax.

openuntil3amon Why Japan has such good railways

> there is barely anything around Kyoto station

This is simply not true. Kyoto station is probably the most densely packed shopping / entertainment area in the city.

Source: I live in Kyoto.

openuntil3amon SEC Rubio Revokes Green Cards of Foreign Nationals W Ties to Iranian Terror

That is an important piece of context that isn't mentioned in the linked article. Instead, the state department makes it seem like they were kicked out for espousing opinions that the government doesn't like.

openuntil3amon SEC Rubio Revokes Green Cards of Foreign Nationals W Ties to Iranian Terror

I don't endorse their views, but "hailing the great deeds of Islamic terrorists" is protected speech.

openuntil3amon Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

Excellent opportunity to dump Tesla and pump SpaceX.

openuntil3amon Neighbors Say SF Tesla Supercharger Lot Has Become Urine Dumping Ground

I once saw a grown man pull his pants down and take a shit right on the sidewalk on market street. San Francisco just be like that.

openuntil3amon Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional

In Japan the driver's face needs to be clearly visible in the photo. At least that's what I've been told. I don't drive.

openuntil3amon Understanding Rust Closures

Closures are a complicated mess. Functional programming languages hide the mess with garbage collection.

openuntil3amon Ask HN: Are there any antifeature-free power tools you can still buy new?

I haven't worked in construction for over a decade, but I remember my Bosch tools being quite good. I would have loved to be able to afford Hilti though. Bosch is pro-sumer grade, so it wouldn't surprise me if they've enshittified as well; however Hilti tools are for professionals (and priced as such), so if you have deep pockets that's probably the best bet.

openuntil3amon Semiquincentennial $1 Coin Candidate Designs

I've read that after Commodus was assassinated, Rome tired to scrub his existence from history. I don't know why I'm mentioning this; it's completely unrelated.

openuntil3amon Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base/docs/Data-Maybe.htm...

"The fromJust function extracts the element out of a Just and throws an error if its argument is Nothing."

openuntil3amon What Does George Orwell's '1984' Mean in 2024?

Maybe it's pedantic, but Orwell's title is "Nineteen Eighty-Four", not "1984".

openuntil3amon How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap

I live in Kyoto. There are a lot of tourists, but they all go to the same handful of spots. I avoid those places as much as I can. Kyoto is an amazing city: clean, safe, convenient, inexpensive (outside the tourist spots), full of history, culture, and nature.