I was surprised to see Gen Z called out here specifically, though I guess it depends on where you live/grow up as well. I'd hazard to guess most of the millennials I know also haven't been to a rave! I don't think there…
Thanks for pointing that out! This video doesn't seem to be available in the US, so you can also see it in the slow motion footage here, right on the finish line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxyXnPIF4o#t=2m45s (You…
I always saw Pale Fire as somewhat of self-parody, which made me enjoy it more. Seven years before Pale Fire came out, Nabokov was working on his translation of Eugene Onegin. Often, people argue that a translated novel…
Less a need, more an easter egg. The short itself is based on the stereotypical American family sitcom;s opening credits, which would tend to show a character doing something 'representative' of their character, while…
I happened to accidentally stumble into a plastic food store while in Osaka a few months ago. I just looked up the name, and they have a web storefront! [1] Admittedly all in Japanese, but the top part of the side bar…
I was actually just talking about this yesterday! That schedule I'd read about was the Überman schedule, where you sleep 20-30 minutes six times a day. Definitely a much more extreme form than most polyphasic sleep…
Doing a bit more deep diving into the ICU code, it looks like the source code for the Break engine (used by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) is here: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/778d0a6d1d46faa724ea... and…
Someone discovered it years ago online, and it's done a couple rounds in the media[1] as an example of an "overreaching software patent", similar to the "pop-under" patent, which patents a pop-up ad that opens after a…
Just be careful about Microsoft's Patent US6748582B1; it doesn't expire for another few months. ;) From the patent (edited down a bit): > According to various example implementations of the invention, a task list…
As anecdotal data: The Masters program I took (not in Cybersecurity) is offered online for the same price as it is in person (I did it in person). If I were to do it again today, according to its website, the program…
Agreed, the images do seem lower quality than they used to be. I was curious, though, and chose buildings at random around the Google office in NYC, just to do a side-by-side, and even the old pictures look better:…
This reminds me of the story of how composer John Cage was inspired to write his piece 4′33″ [1]: 'In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way…
I believe GP is talking about boten/wakiten, not dakuten :) https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tutorial/images/misc.png
Reminds me of a similar factoid: Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the National Hockey League record for most combined points by two brothers: Wayne Gretzky with 2,857, Brent Gretzky with 4.
Since the original article doesn't give a lot of context as to what these characters looks like in context, here is an image of a Japanese book [1] and some playing cards [2] to give context to the segmentation…
To quote myself from a year ago (although Delta and Alaska aren't partners anymore) [3]: One of the features I like to use a lot is the ability to specify fare classes. As an example, say I want to fly to Tokyo, and I…
Though it didn't run iOS (and the little detail that it never came out) the "single computing device" model was one of my favorite selling points of the Ubuntu Edge [1]: "From mobile... to desktop. Yes, it’s the full…
If you click through to the "release from the university" on phys.org[1], then the paper itself is listed at the bottom[2], though without a hyperlink. Via the abstract [3]: > "The n-Queens problem is to place n chess…
That's one of the things I like about the auxiliary language Interlingua[1] over Esperanto[2]. To quote from Wikipedia: "Interlingua has detached itself from the movement for the development and introduction of a…
Also not a cyclist, but [1] is a good (and slightly comical) view of this technique. In Sprint cycling, which is just three laps, it was found to be a good technique to stay behind the lead rider, because you have the…
A bit off topic, but seeing "Livecode" combined into a single word, instead of the normal two, made me think this was about the HyperCard-inspired programming language[1], instead of the just-in-time coding technique.…
As did the United States, for the coins [1][2]! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_piece_(United_States) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-cent_nickel
Here's a previous thread from when this was originally posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669179 I remember, because I made two of my most researched comments there [1]. :) I'm no historical linguist, but I'd…
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention my favorite, the simple Cookie: https://emojipedia.org/cookie/ Everyone decided cookies are probably chocolate chip cookies, except Samsung, who apparently got confused during…
I've been using Shape Catcher for a while for my non-CJK needs, but the best tool I've found that for Unihan characters has been the one from LINE[1]. Specifically, unlike others I've used, it tends to do a good job…
I was surprised to see Gen Z called out here specifically, though I guess it depends on where you live/grow up as well. I'd hazard to guess most of the millennials I know also haven't been to a rave! I don't think there…
Thanks for pointing that out! This video doesn't seem to be available in the US, so you can also see it in the slow motion footage here, right on the finish line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxyXnPIF4o#t=2m45s (You…
I always saw Pale Fire as somewhat of self-parody, which made me enjoy it more. Seven years before Pale Fire came out, Nabokov was working on his translation of Eugene Onegin. Often, people argue that a translated novel…
Less a need, more an easter egg. The short itself is based on the stereotypical American family sitcom;s opening credits, which would tend to show a character doing something 'representative' of their character, while…
I happened to accidentally stumble into a plastic food store while in Osaka a few months ago. I just looked up the name, and they have a web storefront! [1] Admittedly all in Japanese, but the top part of the side bar…
I was actually just talking about this yesterday! That schedule I'd read about was the Überman schedule, where you sleep 20-30 minutes six times a day. Definitely a much more extreme form than most polyphasic sleep…
Doing a bit more deep diving into the ICU code, it looks like the source code for the Break engine (used by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) is here: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/778d0a6d1d46faa724ea... and…
Someone discovered it years ago online, and it's done a couple rounds in the media[1] as an example of an "overreaching software patent", similar to the "pop-under" patent, which patents a pop-up ad that opens after a…
Just be careful about Microsoft's Patent US6748582B1; it doesn't expire for another few months. ;) From the patent (edited down a bit): > According to various example implementations of the invention, a task list…
As anecdotal data: The Masters program I took (not in Cybersecurity) is offered online for the same price as it is in person (I did it in person). If I were to do it again today, according to its website, the program…
Agreed, the images do seem lower quality than they used to be. I was curious, though, and chose buildings at random around the Google office in NYC, just to do a side-by-side, and even the old pictures look better:…
This reminds me of the story of how composer John Cage was inspired to write his piece 4′33″ [1]: 'In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way…
I believe GP is talking about boten/wakiten, not dakuten :) https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tutorial/images/misc.png
Reminds me of a similar factoid: Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the National Hockey League record for most combined points by two brothers: Wayne Gretzky with 2,857, Brent Gretzky with 4.
Since the original article doesn't give a lot of context as to what these characters looks like in context, here is an image of a Japanese book [1] and some playing cards [2] to give context to the segmentation…
To quote myself from a year ago (although Delta and Alaska aren't partners anymore) [3]: One of the features I like to use a lot is the ability to specify fare classes. As an example, say I want to fly to Tokyo, and I…
Though it didn't run iOS (and the little detail that it never came out) the "single computing device" model was one of my favorite selling points of the Ubuntu Edge [1]: "From mobile... to desktop. Yes, it’s the full…
If you click through to the "release from the university" on phys.org[1], then the paper itself is listed at the bottom[2], though without a hyperlink. Via the abstract [3]: > "The n-Queens problem is to place n chess…
That's one of the things I like about the auxiliary language Interlingua[1] over Esperanto[2]. To quote from Wikipedia: "Interlingua has detached itself from the movement for the development and introduction of a…
Also not a cyclist, but [1] is a good (and slightly comical) view of this technique. In Sprint cycling, which is just three laps, it was found to be a good technique to stay behind the lead rider, because you have the…
A bit off topic, but seeing "Livecode" combined into a single word, instead of the normal two, made me think this was about the HyperCard-inspired programming language[1], instead of the just-in-time coding technique.…
As did the United States, for the coins [1][2]! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_piece_(United_States) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-cent_nickel
Here's a previous thread from when this was originally posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669179 I remember, because I made two of my most researched comments there [1]. :) I'm no historical linguist, but I'd…
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention my favorite, the simple Cookie: https://emojipedia.org/cookie/ Everyone decided cookies are probably chocolate chip cookies, except Samsung, who apparently got confused during…
I've been using Shape Catcher for a while for my non-CJK needs, but the best tool I've found that for Unihan characters has been the one from LINE[1]. Specifically, unlike others I've used, it tends to do a good job…