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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 have…

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.youtu…

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 . Oft…

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 'repr…

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 Japan…

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 extre…

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/i…

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 p…

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 implementatio…

Additionally, if this flag ever goes away, the "kFormatUrlOmitTrivialSubdomains" is the internal flag for this, it seems[1], though its description says it's "Not in kFormatUrlOmit…

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, a…

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 …

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 cha…

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 wi…

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 gi…

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 examp…

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 mobi…

The mathematics of juggling definitely continues out from there, as well! [1] is a video to get a taste of some of the ideas of the mathematics of the patterns of juggling. Then, w…

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…

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 d…

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…

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 …

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].…