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New comment by krispyfi in "Japan to require language proficiency proof for engineer, specialist visa"

krispyfi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:44:42 +0000

Cyclist in Tokyo here. Maybe I wouldn't need to go on the sidewalk so much if they didn't let cars treat the bicycle lane like roadside parking. Enforce that before enforcing some stupid green ticket. We need dedicated bicycle lanes partitioned from the car lanes like I've seen in Australia.

New comment by krispyfi in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"

krispyfi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:36:31 +0000

Also blocked connecting from Japan. Fuck cloudflare.

New comment by krispyfi in "Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps"

krispyfi — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:11:13 +0000

Yes, I assumed it was a macos equivalent to suckless-tabbed. https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/

New comment by krispyfi in "Super Mario 64 for the PS1"

krispyfi — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:37:35 +0000

I had the opposite reaction. As someone who was on team PSX, the wobbly jank is pleasingly nostalgic. Didn't someone say that the limitations and artifacts of the obsolete media of the past become the sought-after aesthetics of the future?

New comment by krispyfi in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

krispyfi — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:44:53 +0000

Yeah, it's more of a cherry on top than a primary goal.

New comment by krispyfi in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

krispyfi — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:38:40 +0000

The war on drugs is a scam. Cocaine prohibition is a pretext to oppress indigenous peoples of the Andes. https://filtermag.org/world-health-organization-coca-prohibi...

New comment by krispyfi in "'Attention is all you need' coauthor says he's 'sick' of transformers"

krispyfi — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 05:13:27 +0000

Aside: "Hallucinate" was an unfortunate choice of words. It should have been "confabulate". And, yes, humans confabulate, too.

New comment by krispyfi in "Comcast Executives Warn Workers to Not Say the Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk"

krispyfi — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:47:41 +0000

> The Terminids Icon Terminids, sometimes referred to as the Terminid Horde[1] or Terminid Swarm, and commonly called Bugs, are one of the enemy factions in the Second Galactic War. They have control over 21 planets. The Terminids have been identified as "Fascist"[2] by Super Earth Icon Super Earth, despite the individual Terminid clearly being incapable of comprehending the ideology.

https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Terminids

But you're missing my point, which is that it's too early to speculate. Pundits were blaming trans people and leftists before the bullets were even found.

New comment by krispyfi in "Comcast Executives Warn Workers to Not Say the Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk"

krispyfi — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 01:31:47 +0000

Calling the markings on the casings, "antifa" is premature, in my opinion. The arrows are a Helldivers II reference. "Bella Ciao" appears in Far Cry 6 and is featured on a Groyper Spotify playlist. (The suspect cosplayed as a Groyper meme, and Groypers hate Charlie Kirk, so it adds up.) UwU is a reference to furries.

My guess is he's a terminally-online gamer/channer/Groyper and he was trying to troll news organizations into broadcasting his spicy memes. But this is just my guess, and until we get more evidence, my guess is worth about as much as your "antifa" theory, i.e., zilch.

New comment by krispyfi in "The U.K. closed a tax loophole for the global rich, now they're fleeing"

krispyfi — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:24:29 +0000

There are other kinds of wealth, like the ability to have your enemies accidentally fall out of windows.

New comment by krispyfi in "Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman"

krispyfi — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:39:17 +0000

Source? Their patent expired, and Wikipedia says they stopped making it on the 60s. Occasionally a sealed bottle of Delysid will surface somewhere, but I think that they are all vintage.

New comment by krispyfi in "The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"

krispyfi — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:22:22 +0000

Remind me to never toss your salad

New comment by krispyfi in "The world of Japan's PC-98 computer"

krispyfi — Sat, 24 May 2025 13:08:58 +0000

> Metal Gear creator / problematic gaming legend Hideo Kojima got his start on the platform with his classic potboiler “Policenauts”

That should be "Snatcher". Criminally overlooked game.

New comment by krispyfi in "Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read"

krispyfi — Tue, 13 May 2025 06:38:37 +0000

Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

New comment by krispyfi in "The Acid King (2001)"

krispyfi — Tue, 13 May 2025 00:37:43 +0000

Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says it's an urban legend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legends_about_drugs?se...

New comment by krispyfi in "The Cannae Problem"

krispyfi — Sat, 03 May 2025 00:31:34 +0000

And they are mischaracterizing the concept of "normalization of deviance".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

New comment by krispyfi in "Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale"

krispyfi — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 05:23:37 +0000

Also Albert Hofmann and Alexander Shulgin

New comment by krispyfi in "Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS"

krispyfi — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:51:59 +0000

A ruler is called a "ruler" because it has rules.

> A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge or metre/meter stick, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a length is read from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruler

New comment by krispyfi in "Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS"

krispyfi — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:53:52 +0000

> From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root h₃reǵ-; see regent. Doublet of rail, regal, regula and rigol.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/rule#English

New comment by krispyfi in "Dose-dependent effects of LSD in double-blind placebo-controlled study (2020)"

krispyfi — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 02:02:03 +0000

> if you don't have a way of measuring potency yourself

>Why don't you display actual milligram quantitative amounts? #

> In short, we are not allowed to do so. In the United States, the handling of Schedule I substances (MDMA, LSD, Cannabis, etc) is restricted to those with a valid license. Forensic labs such as DDL and others require and obtain licensure in order to operate. An unpublished administrative rule stipulates that licensed labs are not allowed to provide quantitative data to the public, reportedly for fear of providing 'quality control' to dealers and suppliers of black market products.

https://www.drugsdata.org/about_data.php

In Europe, one can send samples to drug checking services and get information about potency, but here the US Government is basically admitting that it's artificially inflating the risk of overdose by denying consumers information they need to stay safe. They can point to these inflated harms as justification for continued persecution of individuals who use drugs.