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I too waited for the preview to load, but looking in the browser console I saw a file was in 404 ( /static/tritium-c69b2fe84b82a0da.js ) (so it silently failed as soon as "import i…

Your list made me remember doesthedogdie.com which lists diverse trigger warnings in movies and other media.

It was sadly hinted as a recent or non standard feature by Github's syntax highlighting not recognizing it either

> Dinosaurs are also miscategorized as reptilian but I can understand the mistake, because dinosaurs are extinct. Birds (Aves) are dinosaurs (Dinosauria), and dinosaurs are reptile…

There are a lot of obvious cognates between Japanese and Latin through recently borrowed English or Romance words, so I was wondering what was surprising about it. But it seems the…

This should matter if Kagi ever intends to do business in the EU. I suppose a serious breach of regulations, and if Kagi decided to ignore fines, apart from a bad reputation, could…

small nitpicking: it ought to be written as "20 m" instead of "20M" or else why bother including the equivalent in meters? (in the International System of Units, M is the prefix fo…

Aren't kaomoji a subset of emoticons? most western old emoticons are turned 90° CCW, whereas kaomoji are mostly horizontal and often using CJK characters.

> OLVID App by the French Government Recently the French Government required its members to use it, but it's made by a French startup, AFAIK.

Oh, it wasn't lost among all their replies, it was in the 4th paragraph of the header text section of that Show HN post.

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531759 its OP states "A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pyp…

After asserting it's a rubber duck, there are some claims without follow-up: - Just after that it doesn't translate the "rubber" part - It states there's no land nearby for it to r…

The etymology of "chauve" (bald) in "chauve-souris" (bat) is debated, but I've often read that it could be a deformation of a word designating an owl or a crow (it would be a cogna…

The post mentions Tipeee but it "charges 8%" and has "invasive personal documentation requirements". Seems Tipeee is based in Paris, so the cumbersomeness may be related to EU regu…

> When the kids recite the letters they don't recite äöüß. On a somehow related side note, I read that "&", which is derived from a ligature of the Latin conjunction "Et" (meaning …

Some other things that irk me a little with that font : The "@" looks thinner than the other chars. The "%" has its fraction slash cut in 2 non aligned non rectilinear parts (and n…

Is that a reference to the "Universal Paperclips" game?

For those wondering like me what "bart" might be in this context, it seems to be the heavy rail "Bay Area Rapid Transit" system in San Francisco, California.

btw, seems there's a small typo (see wikipedia article "Immanentize the eschaton", from adjective "immanent")

> there's no "caffeine crisis" On a less humorous side node, I remember having read there are scientific concerns about large-scale pollution caused by mankind high usage of caffei…

> I know imperial was invented by the British, but it's largely just the US left using it According to wikipedia, the US do not use the "Imperial System" but the "United States cus…

> a mix of two ends of the visible spectrum Wasn't that about magenta/fuchsia? ( #FF00FF )