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Comment · 6 months ago
Only 650 units worldwide, according to The Verge.
Comment · 1 year ago
The site allows the user to pick a font, but most of them are gimmicky.

A textbook font like Motoya Kyotai would be ideal.

Comment · 1 year ago
> “The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June [2014],” Justin Oakes, a spokesman for the Eighth Air Force, said in an email. “This replacement effort exponentially increased message storage capacity and operator response times for critical nuclear command and control message receipt and processing.”
Comment · 1 year ago
It seems the developer has no plans to support MPEG-4 audio files.
Comment · 5 years ago
The immediate situation is a problem of money market funds having more inflows than they could allocate (without nominal losses) in a zero interest rate environment. It's not about inflation per se.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Sherritt International's operations in Cuba are well-known, and their cobalt products are not sold in the United States.
Comment · 5 years ago
But you won't find 儿 in Japanese character dictionaries. It will come up if you type ひとあし in an IME, but most people wouldn't know that.
Comment · 5 years ago
The word is spelled incorrectly.
Comment · 5 years ago
I saw Dialpad
Comment · 5 years ago
He wrote "second hand, refurbished" so it's not entirely clear that it was Apple refurbished.
Comment · 6 years ago
Only the Pro has that option, not the Air.
Comment · 6 years ago
The easiest way is to move to Puerto Rico.
Comment · 6 years ago
Read it by the implied phonetic component, 哥。

More broadly speaking, there are some true facts cited in this post, but the basic premise is horseshit, and the whole of it should be retracted.

As Andrew West has pointed out, these characters were not "made up" as they are real characters attested in Chinese texts. From a Unicode perspective, none of them is a "ghost character" at all.

Comment · 6 years ago

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