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Comment · 5 days ago
Matter of taste. I like eating cocoa beans. Oddly, I cannot stand the smell of coffee.
Comment · 28 days ago
I read somewhere that transplanted organs adopt the age of the recipient, contradicting the hopes of people who want to live forever by replacing their organs regularly.

Didn’t Putin allude to that recently ?

In any case that’d be good news, it would augment the organ availability by allowing older donors!

Comment · 29 days ago
> Considering that aging only happens later in life,

In other news, widows outlive their husbands.

Comment · 1 month ago
When in Rome do as the romans. Different cultural habits can shock Japanese; this has nothing to do with race.

There are lots of ethnic Japanese, born and raised in Brazil, who went on to work & live in Japan. Many street signs in Nagoya are in Japanese and Portuguese.

However, they are direct, outspoken, have late loud parties that annoy the general population. It will take a generation to acclimate to local customs.

Must be that beyond a certain threshold (10% ?), Japanese are worried about their culture and identity.

Comment · 1 month ago
I was introduced to ucsd pascal on apple 2 but switched to Ada by the time turbo pascal came out. This intro is nice but I feel Ada is the way to go if one is into wirthian languages.
Comment · 1 month ago
Chademo is a turn off though
Comment · 1 month ago
Two days ago while fixing our 7 year old Samsung washer (a 1 cent coin blocking the drain pump impeller) I read the user manual for the first time and found out you can install an app that connects with it and “smart things “.

Not doing that !

Comment · 1 month ago
Tried it on my 2010 iMac. Works like a charm, interesting setup and ui choices. Not sure I’ll stick with it but I’m impressed.
Comment · 1 month ago
These apologetic “no fan of musk”, “before Elon became crazy” are tiresome. You got a Tesla, just own it. We liked the guy when he started that electric car thing, now it’s different but he’s no mass murderer.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Was "being agentic" and "being keyboard shortcut oriented" the big gaps preventing the adoption of linux on desktop?

Of course not but dhh makes it clear omarchy is not for everybody. And that’s all right.

Comment · 1 month ago
My favorite logo on macOS is https://www.alancsmith.co.uk/logo/ First dabbled with logo on my apple ][, attracted by turtle graphics like many others.
Comment · 1 month ago
Katakana (the above character set representing syllables) is used for words of foreign origin, which this pastry is. In turn it stems from French « langue de chat ».
Comment · 1 month ago
When we shifted houses and used a Japanese moving company, I was very surprised as movers removed their shoes every time they stepped into our places, both old and new. Oh, they also had gloves on when packing our plates and utensils!
Comment · 2 months ago
Would a satellite positioned at Earth Moon L2 be stable enough? It would also need a relay to communicate with earth…
Comment · 2 months ago
I used to eat rabbit often until the 2000’s. Most butcher shops in France had rabbit, presented skinned, gutted and whole. Pretty good meat!

A colleague was even including rabbit in the «poultry» category …

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