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PJ_Maybe··on Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets
I saw one in Austria for the first time just a couple of weeks ago. It had Polish number plates, so presumably it is legal to buy and register one there, and to drive it in other EU countries.
PJ_Maybe··on My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022)
MLModern [0] is a thicker version of Donald Knuth's Computer Modern and the Latin Modern project, in case you are interested.

[0] https://ctan.org/pkg/mlmodern

PJ_Maybe··on Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”
One I like is the phrase "the tell-tale signs", which refers to a sailing boat's tell-tales. These are small strings attached to the sails to indicate if the sail needs to be trimmed for optimal performance.
PJ_Maybe··on My love-hate relationship with mechanical watches
Indeed, which is some kind of mechanical-quartz hybrid.
PJ_Maybe··on My love-hate relationship with mechanical watches
"For those of you who aren't into watches (consider yourself lucky), watches can either be mechanical or quartz."

Not quite. There are other types of movement, for example the tuning fork movement first used in the Bulova Accutron:

https://electric-watches.co.uk/movement-types/tuning-fork/

PJ_Maybe··on Why has the price of electricity in Europe reached record highs?
Yeah well these are the raw prices per kWh, there are also a lot of fees added by the state and the state run suppliers who provide the infrastructure. Pretty sure you can double whatever I have quoted for the actual per kWh prices.
PJ_Maybe··on Why has the price of electricity in Europe reached record highs?
In Austria, the price per kWh has quadrupled since May 2020, which is when I moved in to a new home. Unfortunately this [0] chart from my provider only goes back 12 months, but you can see even during this short time that the price increased from 5.81c per kWh to 12.43c per kWh, which is more than 200%. I checked some of my statements, and in May 2020 the electricity price was 3.13c per kWh, which represents an increase of about 397% compared to today's price.

[0] https://www.easygreenenergy.at/dam/jcr:a5800c50-948e-43e9-90...

PJ_Maybe··on Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision
Try this: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome or https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
PJ_Maybe··on Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
Yeah it looks rather unmaintained, but can still be installed via apt on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So yeah should be fine for a few years to come if you are a Ubuntu user (the system I use, I have no idea about other distros).
PJ_Maybe··on Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
dtrx - Do The Right Extraction. It's a tool "for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives": https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/

In Debian/Ubuntu you can install via apt.

Also, I'd second tldr which has been mentioned here already. It provides simplified man pages which common usage examples that normally fit on a few lines on screen: https://tldr.sh/

PJ_Maybe··on Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC
Nice project - just one bit of feedback, on a German keyboard y and z are swapped and it makes playing pretty difficult. Maybe alter it so that y or z can be used for A.

Edit: Also, the buttons are mapped the wrong way around. On a NES controller B is the leftmost button and A is the rightmost button.