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The double-encoding path gets you there too: the original UTF-8 \xE2 \x80 \x99 mis-decoded as iso-8859-1 or Windows-1252 and saved back as UTF-8 gives \xC3 \xA2 \xC2 \x80 \xC2 \x99…

Anecdata, but I took Spanish all four years in high school in Southern California—I knew of vosotros, but was never really taught it

Their practice of comingling SKUs eroded so much trust I had over the years.

I never connect my TVs to WiFi, and I loathe the day they start slipping cell antennas into these things.

I'll never install Windows on another machine.

All content is political. Some gets removed.

Those in the United States who choose to contribute to a collaborative encyclopedia likely don't mirror the population as a whole; it's reasonable to assume they're more formally e…

With heavy use of SVG , one would hope! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...

This is essentially the adversarial generator/discriminator set-up that GANs use.

Notably the litigation-induced bankruptcy of Gawker Media (of which Jalopnik was a part) in 2016 is the reason why Jalopnik wound up owned by these private equity groups. Most of t…

We used it for a two week trip to Singapore and Japan last year, and yeah, I agree the app performance for packed trips is pretty rough.

Anecdotally, but it seems like a lot of these sites that once hosted these department or big box stores don't wind up getting redeveloped. At best, they might be home to a Spirit H…

Sure, but if Versailles is 30-45 minutes outside of central Paris by train, and Bletchley Park is about an hour or so outside of London, I'd venture that the extra ~hour round trip…

And similarly for Los Angeles, the current proposal is to have swimming events at SoFi, a ~70,000 seat NFL stadium.

This phenomena also occurs in the transgender community; people put a lot of thought and intention choosing their new names only to wind up surrounded by other people who also land…

You still have the potential to fuck up marine and littoral ecosystems if you're discharging concentrated brine back into the ocean willy-nilly, though.

Believe it or not, jail.

Highlights include: - "In Search of a Flat Earth" (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44 - "Line Goes Up" (2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g - "The Fu…

Sure, it's "legal"—but so is them banning you from playing blackjack or tresspassing you from their property.

A broken clock is right twice a day.

Some states in the US have laws on the books so that if you can sign up to a service online, you need to be able to cancel online—at least.

Lessig isn't saying we should keep children away from morals. He's criticizing how Disney adapted the Brothers Grimm's stories, which often preached heavy-handed and regressive mor…

I always hated the biocular NVGs when I was in, but that was back when the conversation was between PVS-14s and PVS-7s. Hopefully the dual tube design helps with the nausea I had t…

I'd suggest that anyone coming into a comment section with vague anti-democratic platitudes is not worthy of a good faith discussion over their precise meaning. If they're unwillin…