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sphericalkat··on Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year
This was a bit painful for me when I first moved to Tokyo, since the building I was supposed to move into was newly build, and not on Google Maps yet. I had to ask a very nice old lady where 19番15号 was supposed to be, and it took 20 minutes of us searching to find the place.

First thing I did upon finding it was to add it to the map lol

sphericalkat··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
Handling the error still would've returned a 5xx in this case, since the config file was still over the limit of features the service could handle.
sphericalkat··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Japan Post has stopped shipments as well https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2025/0825_01_e...
sphericalkat··on Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
I just created mine 5 minutes ago, and they mentioned that they do have rate limiting built in.
sphericalkat··on Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience
I spent a few days agonizing over this same problem, and the culprit turned out to by my user-agent modifier extension.
sphericalkat··on [dead]
Seems pretty nice, have you guys considered allowing users to access audio from the shared browser?