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New comment by usrnm in "A spectre is haunting Unicode"

usrnm — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:52:49 +0000

Most kanji are a combination of several smaller parts called "radicals" in English. If you look at these two kanji through this lens, you will see that it's actually a very simple mistake, one existing radical is replaced by another existing radical. It is very easy to imagine software that was working exactly like that: interpreting kanji as a combination of radicals rather than individual unrelated symbols

New comment by usrnm in "Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data"

usrnm — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:50:48 +0000

> indefinitely

Which, in practical terms, means "while I or my investors have money". These guys have 70 years worth of data, can you guarantee to keep it for another 70? The real answer to these kinds of problems is managing the data yourself

New comment by usrnm in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

usrnm — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:30:33 +0000

There is a different between a conflict and a war. Humans are uniquely violent and cruel to each other, there is nothing even close in the animal world

New comment by usrnm in "To save C, we must save ABI (2022)"

usrnm — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:27:00 +0000

The famous C dilemma: we want to be as close to the machine as possible, but don't want to change anything when the machine changes

New comment by usrnm in "Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse"

usrnm — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:41:59 +0000

"Saragossa" is an old and well-established spelling of that city's name in English and this is an English-speaking forum

New comment by usrnm in "Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse"

usrnm — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:09:50 +0000

Can we please stop with this nonsense? No matter where you live and which language you speak you never call the majority of places on Earth right. Can we just accept it and move on?

New comment by usrnm in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

usrnm — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:10:18 +0000

Until we get any tangible proof of life outside Earth, there is no difference

New comment by usrnm in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

usrnm — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:11:54 +0000

Vote. It's literally the best thing you can do, apart from going into politics yourself

New comment by usrnm in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

usrnm — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:59:44 +0000

What are you talking about, it powers a lot of people I know

New comment by usrnm in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

usrnm — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:04:20 +0000

Now think what ingesting a smartphone would do to your body. That's a very silly metric

New comment by usrnm in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

usrnm — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:05:39 +0000

> english happens to be spoken all over the globe due to a big goofy empire that went places

Why do you think Latin was popular?

New comment by usrnm in "After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted"

usrnm — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:10:43 +0000

> I live outside Seoul, and the infrastructure gap is about 10 to 20 years behind

That actually sounds like a business opportunity, if there is a steady stream of people moving out if Seoul.

> On top of that, there are no IT companies

Why don't Korean companies embrace WFH? Again sounds like a huge competitive advantage on the job market

New comment by usrnm in "Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July"

usrnm — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:12:40 +0000

In Europe? A lot of people live in apartment buildings

New comment by usrnm in "ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children"

usrnm — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:19:13 +0000

Life in general would be a lot simpler and nicer in a perfect world with perfect (whatever it means) people in it

New comment by usrnm in "More German than many Germans"

usrnm — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:20:46 +0000

Are from the Alsace region or maybe your ancestors are? If so, maybe not so secretly

New comment by usrnm in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

usrnm — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:40:11 +0000

Not even humans can do that, you're literally asking for something beyond AGI

New comment by usrnm in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

usrnm — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:25:22 +0000

The difference here is that in a functioning democracy people have some control over their government. All the institutions are specifically built to be transparent and work for the public good, at least, in some sense of the word. A corporation, especially a monopoly doesn't care what you think, you have no control over it and the only thing that really matters to them is their bottom line. Are governments perfect? Of course not. Are random corpos better? Again, of course not.

New comment by usrnm in "Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used"

usrnm — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:47:22 +0000

There are several large parks that resemble forests and are barely touched by human activity in Moscow as well. Can't say I liked walking in them very much when I was still living there, but I support the idea, it's good that they exist

New comment by usrnm in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

usrnm — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:50:59 +0000

Some time ago I would've considered that a joke, but this year NS has been about as reliable as DB, so I might actually consider that option

New comment by usrnm in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

usrnm — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:40:24 +0000

> if not a heat pump

Most heat pump installations in Europe are air-to-water systems fitted to use the existing piping in old homes and is used only for heating. Such installations can, in theory, be used for cooling, but very inefficiently.