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Comment · 11 days ago
How about a nice game of chess?
Comment · 5 months ago
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, which in Windows-1252 renders as ’. A WYSIWYG cleanup replacing that mojibake with the Windows-1252 ' (byte 0x92) and saving back as UTF-8 gets you to \xC2 \x92 on disk.

Edit: Although maybe that's not the most parsimonious explanation.

Comment · 8 months ago
Anecdata, but I took Spanish all four years in high school in Southern California—I knew of vosotros, but was never really taught it
Comment · 9 months ago
Their practice of comingling SKUs eroded so much trust I had over the years.
Comment · 9 months ago
I never connect my TVs to WiFi, and I loathe the day they start slipping cell antennas into these things.
Comment · 10 months ago
I'll never install Windows on another machine.
Comment · 10 months ago
All content is political. Some gets removed.
Comment · 1 year ago
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 educated and more technically oriented, traits that tend, on average, to correlate with liberal or left-leaning political views.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
This is essentially the adversarial generator/discriminator set-up that GANs use.
Comment · 1 year ago
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 these publications are shells of their former selves, but I suppose it could be argued that a lot of written media has gone that way—Gawker-associated and otherwise.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.

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