No one must find out how many times I far-finger the same number and new and inventive ways

I’ve been in Japan a decade and don’t recall ever seeing one of these. It says ネコ飛出し注意 cat jumping out caution.

• an absence of quick-time events (I hate those things in cut-scenes, parry systems, etc.)
• a mode that allows the player to destroy the environment, NPCs, etc. including, when on, making the game unable to be completed potentially. I think having that be a toggle will still allow people to relive older RPGs where you could easily ruin your life without knowing for hours.
• Off-the-wall weapons. I think Blood 2 had a few and even halflife 2
• Counting beyond 2, speaking of the above.

I was in my 20s when Shrek came out. I’ve still never seen any of them. Maybe I’ll get around to it one of these days.

Such hits as ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘x’, and ‘y’. I know the version of the language we were using didn’t have native utf-8 support, so I don’t think kanji varnames were possible. It even made comments in kana and kanji really wonky (I think the comments were shiftjis)

You got 3 letters?! Luck!

I worked at a japanese company whose engineers we’re former NTT developers. Copypasta (i.e. not using functions), inefficient algos, single-letter var names, remote code execution from code as root, etc. good times!

Maybe hematite? I seem to remember saying that about hematite when I was young and the whole neopagan and new age stuff had a moment.

I always thought people talking about seeing things that weren’t there was metaphore. It blew my mind to find out it was literal.

US English is , in some cases, more conservative than British English. A lot of words in the us were used by those from the UK that came. But later fell out of fashion in the UK

First, I start moving people to hotel rooms…

We’re stuck on Mac at work and I hate it.

English is notoriously awful regarding orthography vs pronunciation. I actually thought you meant something that rhymed with Bach just looking at the name with a longer ‘a’ for some reason (which is weird since vowel length isn’t phonemic in English).

Edit: you probably also could have said “hard a” or something since it probably literally thinks ‘long a’ means ‘hold the a sound for a longer duration’ (which makes sense to me)

Raych?

I now have a random wire antenna ~16m long (though not straight and the very ends wind around the structure I’m using to hold it up which I’m sure is not ideal), a ~4m counterpoise-ish-thing, a 9:1 balun, and cable to the SDR.

I’ve gotten wefax (though in negative and spotty, so still some figuring out to do). Still no IBP beacons at all, though.

I have fldigi working to a degree using soundcard as input. No hits using a regex of the beacons’ callsigns (including the one here in Japan) on any frequency I’ve tried. Not sure why that is yet.

My brain added an ‘n’ to the first word of “waking universe” and I think it still works

So far no luck, but I only seem to get flights when they are going to/from the nearest airport to places south of me; everyone else is going around. I’m not sure how far the range is meant to be　（EDIT: 370km or so per wiki). I can very faintly see something on the frequency, but Dump1090 isn’t catching anything.

I have some parts coming today to try a ~20m random wire antenna. I got 2x20m copper wire in case I need to do a counterpoise on the other side (which seems to be like 1/4 length (so 5m) of wire?).

Edit: also apparently it’s not required in Japan, so I’m guessing that’s why nothing domestic at least has it. Maybe if I leave dump1090 running long enough, it might catch some international flight, but none seem to go that near me.

Thanks very much. I had a feeling antenna size was at least part of the problem there. I appreciate the help and tools. Thanks!

I worked at a site with a karma system years before reddit and the like ever came into being. There will always be people who just downvote anything they don’t like. Unless you start finding and removing those users, nothing is going to change with them. And if you start removing chunks of your community, you have fewer posters, less interaction, etc.

I think Feynman would be interesting based on the videos of him I’ve seen. It probably also aligns best with where my knowledge is. Einstein is probably too theoretical and too much math I don’t know (or have long forgotten in the decades since I learnt it).

I have zero Polish and my French is mostly forgotten so Curie is out, though she would be my second choice of those listed (I don’t recall if she spoke English off-hand).

move things, breakfast

Ah, sorry. Stupid race conditions.