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2 letter TLDs/country-code TLDs, are determined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, and having a country code doesn't necessarily mean a country or a state. There are a bunch on t…

Actually, Diego Garcia (the British/American military base) already has it's own ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, DG: [1] It's "Exceptionally reserved" "at the request of International Tel…

The owners of `queer.af` thought that AF only meant “as f*ck”, without realizing that AF also happens to the be the ISO 3166 code for a country controlled by the Taliban, who didn’…

You can try looking at this manga posted by a Japanese person that was detained for marijuana possession https://xcancel.com/kime_neko/status/1634511023167381504 . It's in Japanese…

Not for the ones you buy in Japan, since those are legal. But, it's not unheard of to get randomly stopped by the police and searched, especially in touristy areas like train stati…

You can still easily buy it here, but the over-the-counter pills are always mixed with other ingredients to make it more difficult to convert them into amphetamines. E.g. Contac 60…

The author mentions it in a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2epTf2IW1g (at the 2:20 mark). But essentially, somebody else sent her a package with something illegal …

At least in Japan on iOS, they have their own app, and it’s great. You can find a seat first, then order directly from your seat, for delivery to your seat (helpful since some McDo…

I think there are two slightly different issues here! 1. SVGs generated by Mermaid use the SVG 2 features, but other than browsers, most libraries only support SVG 1.1 features, i.…

POSIX does actually define what a "text file" is, but the definition is a bit unusual: See https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1... > 3.387 Text File > A fil…

I was at Fukushima Daiichi on Monday, and they explained that they only want to take a few grams of the melted material to test the composition of the melted fuel/debris, e.g. what…

Weirdly, enough, golang is one of the only programming languages that actually has built-in support for a cross-OS config dir location: [os.UserConfigDir()][1]. I don't really ever…

You should try the Moondrop Space Travel, you can buy them for USD 24.99 on Amazon. - Moondrop is a pretty well known brand in the ChiFi (Chinese Hi-Fi) space. - They support AAC s…

One reason might be that `text/*` files follow the POSIX standard for text files [1], where no lines can exceed `{LINE_MAX}` bytes in length (and `LINE_MAX` depends on your OS). I …

Unfortunately, they're not great to use with a phone in your pocket, since then the motion of walking around will adjust the knob and change the volume. Although, come to think of …

I've had the same issue with some wired IEMs on iOS, using Apple's official USB-C to 3.5mm adaptor. I even have the EU model A2155 of the USB-C to 3.5mm adaptor that's supposed to …

The Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 apparently does have the hardware/software needed for Suica, even on non-Japanese editions of the phone. However, it's blocked by Google in software dependi…

That's pretty much it. All modern browsers come with CSS layout functions [1], even Internet Explorer did! Pretty much every other Web API can be implemented in Node.JS using somet…

I'm one of the maintainers of the mermaid-cli project, and unfortunately, no. Mermaid needs a browser's layout engine to run properly [1], but I haven't yet seen a library that wil…

Btw, CMake has the [FindThreads][1] module to automatically link with `-lpthread`/`-pthread` in a platform-agnostic way. Even after this change in glibc, you may still need to use …

Even better, you can use [C99 Flexible array members][1], e.g. something like: struct KeyedEntry { struct Entry entry; char key[]; // flexible array member }; It's not too much mor…

It's potentially related to the outage at Virgin Media (AS5089) in the United Kingdom, see https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/16430702601305047... . I'm guessing a lot of s…

If you're installing a command-line tool globally, I usually go for the system package manager (e.g. `apt` on debian), or `pip` if I want a newer version. With pip, make sure to us…

If you think about it, isn't buying insurance pretty similar (especially if you pay extra for really rare insurance policies, like lightning strike insurance). You're essentially m…

DRM too is also a pain. The new Alder Lake CPUs apparently breaks a bunch of games, since their DRM thinks that the new Intel efficiency-cores are a second PC trying to play on the…