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This is really neat! I thought I'd try it out before bed (in Japan) and I was talking to someone from Dallas (hi, if you see this!), but it disconnected us. :(

There was less automation and as far as I recall, none of us had "branches" -- everyone worked on a local trunk and everything would diverge rapidly. I wasn't working professionally at the time (I was 11-13), so I wasn't exactly up-to-date on the latest modern conveniences then either. :)

It was also much more difficult to figure out changes across multiple files with a single low-resolution (800 x 600 at the time, I think) monitor on a computer that could barely keep a few files open simultaneously.

Another big pain point was spending an hour or more downloading a patch (via dialup) only to realize that you needed other patches or files before you could actually start working on anything, or that you'd downloaded the wrong file, etc.

So there were many little inconveniences that added up to make it tremendously painful (in my memories) compared to today's experiences.

I remember downloading/emailing patch files around and groaning when your local changes had made it impossible to get the patch file to work smoothly, so you ended up going through line by line trying to figure out what was supposed to go where, when...

I have profound hearing loss and rely on the Windows 11 captions. They are absolutely best in class and head/shoulders above any other automatic captioning I've used. My coworkers have a variety of accents (Hispanic, Eastern European, South African) and it does a great job with all of them.

Additionally, it supports multiple languages (only one at a time sadly), so I also use it for Japanese captions and it's equally great there.

It's an American Chinese dish that contains garlic and onions.

This recently happened to me with DRF and JWTs -- the JWTs were invalid due to sporadic timing issues and we were unable to log in. There was no indication that anything was going on since DRF was swallowing the validation errors and returning a generic error, so I had to manually go down and add logging to find out what was even happening.

Ordinals and references, like this:

① Draw some circles

② Draw the rest of the owl

Commentary: ① is simple but ② is masking many complex steps that are necessary to draw an owl.

> they were in some old Japanese character set

This implies that they're obsolete, but they're not -- they're still in very common use today. You can type them in Japanese by typing まる (maru, circle) and the number, then pick it out of the IME menu. Some IMEs will bring them up if you just type the number and go to the menu, too. :)

> Sounds kind of gross.

To me this is the proof in the pudding!

It indicates a distinctive difference that one group of people enjoys and another group finds repulsive. But with these types of things, if we share food culture, then many people can open doors and find that what they imagined as repulsive can actually be quite delicious. :)

> Boom, a little cottage industry

This is the devil that lives in the details. You have an industry of people who are trying to get these charitable donations, and the towns that can't afford that industry or don't have anything particularly commercializable to sell get left in the dust.

For every town that becomes Country Ham Town, you have hundreds of small towns who are "random postcard town" who only get a few bucks a year. It's tough to say if they even make money vs losing money on that.

I was curious about what happened since the write-up ends abruptly before revealing the testing results.

Wikisimpsons has a bit more info sourced from DVD commentary revealing that the tomacco had no nicotine in it: https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Tomacco#Behind_the_Laughter

Wikidoc has even more detail but no sources: https://wikidoc.org/index.php/Tomacco

It sounds like you're sort of describing affordances, which Don Norman talks a lot about in The Design of Everyday Things. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things

I was thinking that about the movement too -- or you could go for a Miyota/Citizen, the high-beat (28800) movements were around $70-80 on ebay the last time I checked.

COVID and the general slowdown gave a lot of folks here the chance to breathe and think about what they want out of life and realize what a dead end many jobs and salaries [0] here are... and that the hope for improvement seems vanishingly small, especially for anyone who is some kind of minority.

[0] https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01631/#:~:text=A%20sur....

How about something like me@firstlast.com?

Simak included dogs in his stories so often (and especially in that anthology you mentioned) that any time someone mentions a sci fi story with a dog, my first thought is that it has to be a Simak story. :)

The precision and temperature control are what separate sous vide from retort pouches in my mind, which are often heated up with just boiling.

My general impression, possibly out of ignorance, has been that there have always been lots of these and people (read: me) were just unaware of them. Some, like this (and "88" on usernames) are sometimes (often?) legitimate but have also been used as dog whistles... and fascism stains everything it touches.

Just a heads up: "crypto Jew" is also an antisemitic buzz word, which is why I suspect the linked article says "hidden" instead.

The Clever Pork Theory

I wonder if you could change this to allow a video input via prompts to turn your head in various angels, like registering for facial recognition. Then it might not trigger the distaste for photos AND you could get better data for face placement.

This is an extremely common situation at many restaurants and is a reason I don't really enjoy going out to eat with friends without prior investigation.

I don't think anyone taps space four times; they just set tab to insert four spaces. So from a typing perspective, there's no difference.

It's a pretty standard setting in every editor I've used, including vim.

My uncle pulled this one on me when I was a kid. There was a willow tree out in the yard and he'd have me go to the "spaghetti tree" and "harvest some spaghetti" for dinner, which I went and did... and lo and behold, we had spaghetti for dinner. It's pretty hard to argue with that kind of delicious cause and effect when you're a little kid!

The Culture Map; it really helps with understanding not only cultural differences, but also personal differences.

I've been incredibly happy with the Win 11 captions as well; it's spoiled me on every other automatic captioning resource, honestly.

I saw a video (from Microsoft) about how their captions are best in class, especially for accents, and I can believe it. I work with people from around the world and the captions are almost always correct, except for contextually ambiguous words with a very heavy accent (like "job" for "shop").

There's a dead comment from one of the creators that needs some vouches: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33451938

In terms of costs of living and salary percentage, 100,000 yen feels like it's around $1000 or so.

For context, a new grad will probably end up making around 200,000 - 250,000 yen (before taxes) a month at a lot of places.

> If you have a shell open and echo "test", then history | grep echo, it will return something like: 891 echo "test".

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> However, if you issue 16 more unique commands, history | grep echo will no longer be able to find your 891 echo "test" entry.

On zsh, history only returns the last 16 commands, which is the default. But if you type `history 0`, it will return all commands since the zeroth index.

So if I want to search my entire history for instances of a command like this example, I don't modify anything, but just type `history 0 | grep echo` and that does what the author seems to be expecting.

Some anecdata... (two doses of Moderna, still haven't gotten the third shot available here and that's on me for not making time)

Got covid in the spring, lost my sense of taste, but it started gradually coming back after about six months.

Got it again a month ago, lost my senses of smell and taste, also have a persistent cough, persistent tinnitus, tiredness, and more frequent migraines.