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successful train lines in Japan are all built between CBD and some spots / attractions. Odakyu: odawara / hakone, Seibu: chichibu, keiou: Takao, toukyuu: Nikko / kinugawa, nankai: …

related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121029

The price changes will take effect on 1 April 2026 for both new orders and existing products.

same here. sometimes it makes me feels guilty for using light mode. Maybe we should yell out something like "hold-on can't see anything"

It seems the square "wafer" (silicon substrate) is developed by Mitsubishi Materials a year ago. https://www.mmc.co.jp/corporate/en/news/2024/news20240821.ht...

CSCI 3210: Modern text encoding and processing Learn unicode and utf-8. Unlearn the 1 char = 1 byte concept Not only encoding/decoding but searching and sorting is also different. …

Yes. As a site owner who keep fighting with bots and malicious traffic, I wish web browsers provide me a way to identify real users from bot traffic. Otherwise I'll have to put eve…

> "coherent desire" or "precise imagination" or "structured wishing." the most precise way to express your desire is by giving computer commands, or you may call it programming.

thanks for the tips. As my data has very low entropy, both can compress down to 3-4% of original size, but xz is a lot faster in compression. raw size: 9612344 B zstd --ultra -22 -…

I think it depends on what you're compressing. I experimented with my data full of hex text xml files. xz -6 is both faster and smaller than zstd -19 by about 10%. For my data, xz …

Bi-directional gates are always open by default. One-way gate would close after a certain time to prevent people coming from the wrong side.

There are charging machines that accept cash cards / debit cards, but only those issued by Japanese banks. So cash is the only option for touristists. You can go completely cash-le…

Yes, I believe so. JR East is now planning to fade-out magnetic tickets by using paper QR Code tickets.

Japan has lots of IC cards in various regions, and they have spent a lot of effort integrating their system. Unfortunately some IC cards like Kumamon decided to opt-out due to high…

Suica has a pretty large sensing distance (85mm). So it can "power up" the card at a distance before getting close to the reader. To avoid large touch area causing accidental touch…

and yes they did. aside from the keihin touhoku line that's already running in parallel with yamanote line, JR East added a new track called ueno-tokyo line about 10 years ago. And…

> Rush hour had a train there every ~2 minutes actually 2 trains every ~2 minutes on the east side of the yamanote loop, it runs in parallel with keihin tohoku line every station f…

The domestic ISP I use has all its IP ranges assigned to spamhaus's Policy Block List. https://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/ However, the ISP does operate its own SMTP proxy that's free to…

All my hobby websites I own have all these in-app browsers blocked.

note that it's 35,613 code results, not 35k repos and 13K of the search results come from this org https://github.com/redhat-operator-ecosystem

I like the way adminer packages everything into a single php file. It makes it super easy to deploy and update https://www.adminer.org/

that's why letsencrypt use a single database on a powerful server https://letsencrypt.org/2021/01/21/next-gen-database-servers...

I write my own powershell script for taking screenshots periodically https://gist.github.com/soruly/889d926fcd4b2b8e8dc113a100b9d...