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Overnight guests are typically banned, but I've never seen an Airbnb listing that says you can't have someone over for a cup of tea.

Filming what happens next has often been proposed as a great revenue driver.

Where are you going to find a counterweight in space? Launching two Starships is much easier than trying to capture an asteroid or something.

A friend of a friend worked at NASA on essentially this, except that instead of fitting Japanese candy in a box, they were fitting cargo into the Space Shuttle. As you can imagine …

That book dates back to 2003, only a few years after the Tajik civil war ended.

What, no Simutrans? https://www.simutrans.com/en/ Don't be put off by the, uhh, legacy graphics and quirky UI, like Dwarf Fortress it has the the depth of decades of development (a…

No, he knocked out the two routers serving the entire country . NK sites were inaccessible to the outside world, and outside sites were inaccessible to NK.

Only the lines in/out. NK has their own intranet which is completely separate from the global internet, which was presumably entirely unaffected by this. https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

I suspect that's for regular olive-sized capers with the stem attached? The article is about peppercorn-sized baby capers, where you could fit thousands into a jar that big.

The caper jars in question are too small for a normal teaspoon to fit into. Me, I use a tiny little dessert fork. Also means you get only the capers and not the juice, which you do…

Vinegar is acidic, which stops the bacteria from reproducing.

Infused oils don't fall under most people's mental model of "canning" though.

It's not quite that straightforward: botulism can only happen if the garlic contains botulinum spores, which it probably does not. But if it does, and you don't heat, acidify, or o…

Sigh, autocorrupt strikes again.

It's 神奈川沖浪裏 in Japanese, which translates literally as Behind Kanagawa Open-Ocean Wave, referring to Fuji being behind the wave in the composition.

The article is from 2019, but the notes will be rolled out next month (July 2024), so it's quite timely.

Yes, it is. There was an episode of Jet Lag (Amazing Race-type YouTube show) where the contestants drew a challenge card requiring them to find a picture of the Great Wave, but the…

I'm not saying it's going to be a good revolution, just a change in the way we do many, many things.

We are in the middle of dot.com bubble v2. There's a lot of over hyped AI garbage that will deservedly flame out and die, but it's still sowing the seeds of a future revolution.

I lived in Tokyo before Google Maps, and the answer was: printed maps. Every business card had a map on the back, every ad for an event had a map, every personal invitation had a h…

Highly unlikely, since I presume all car windows would have been closed (winter in Finland is COLD) and they would have been strapped in with seatbelts. It's difficult to escape fr…

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