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New comment by well_actulily in "Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt"

well_actulily — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:32:56 +0000

The double-encoding path gets you there too: the original UTF-8 \xE2 \x80 \x99 mis-decoded as iso-8859-1 or Windows-1252 and saved back as UTF-8 gives \xC3 \xA2 \xC2 \x80 \xC2 \x99, which in Windows-1252 renders as Ã¢Â€Â™. A WYSIWYG cleanup replacing that mojibake with the Windows-1252 ' (byte 0x92) and saving back as UTF-8 gets you to \xC2 \x92 on disk.

Edit: Although maybe that's not the most parsimonious explanation.

New comment by well_actulily in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

well_actulily — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:30:54 +0000

Anecdata, but I took Spanish all four years in high school in Southern California—I knew of vosotros, but was never really taught it

New comment by well_actulily in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

well_actulily — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:16:48 +0000

Their practice of comingling SKUs eroded so much trust I had over the years.

New comment by well_actulily in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

well_actulily — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:55:16 +0000

I never connect my TVs to WiFi, and I loathe the day they start slipping cell antennas into these things.

New comment by well_actulily in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

well_actulily — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:45:14 +0000

I'll never install Windows on another machine.

New comment by well_actulily in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

well_actulily — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:03:01 +0000

All content is political. Some gets removed.

New comment by well_actulily in "The right wing is coming for Wikipedia"

well_actulily — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:00:46 +0000

Those in the United States who choose to contribute to a collaborative encyclopedia likely don't mirror the population as a whole; it's reasonable to assume they're more formally educated and more technically oriented, traits that tend, on average, to correlate with liberal or left-leaning political views.

New comment by well_actulily in "Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor"

well_actulily — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:22:44 +0000

With heavy use of SVG , one would hope!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...

New comment by well_actulily in "Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy"

well_actulily — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:49:10 +0000

This is essentially the adversarial generator/discriminator set-up that GANs use.

New comment by well_actulily in "NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along an Odd Line: Car Ownership"

well_actulily — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:24:36 +0000

Notably the litigation-induced bankruptcy of Gawker Media (of which Jalopnik was a part) in 2016 is the reason why Jalopnik wound up owned by these private equity groups. Most of these publications are shells of their former selves, but I suppose it could be argued that a lot of written media has gone that way—Gawker-associated and otherwise.

New comment by well_actulily in "Airbnb CEO says it's still too early for AI trip planning"

well_actulily — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:58:11 +0000

We used it for a two week trip to Singapore and Japan last year, and yeah, I agree the app performance for packed trips is pretty rough.

New comment by well_actulily in "Nordstrom family to take company private"

well_actulily — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:56:53 +0000

Anecdotally, but it seems like a lot of these sites that once hosted these department or big box stores don't wind up getting redeveloped. At best, they might be home to a Spirit Halloween for a couple months out of a year. Having to compete with online retailers is certainly a challenge, but it doesn't seem like what private equity does to these legacy companies benefits anyone but their investors' desire for short-term profits.

New comment by well_actulily in "Visit Bletchley Park"

well_actulily — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:34:29 +0000

Sure, but if Versailles is 30-45 minutes outside of central Paris by train, and Bletchley Park is about an hour or so outside of London, I'd venture that the extra ~hour round trip of travel time isn't that meaningful to most tourists.

New comment by well_actulily in "Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?"

well_actulily — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:51:13 +0000

And similarly for Los Angeles, the current proposal is to have swimming events at SoFi, a ~70,000 seat NFL stadium.

New comment by well_actulily in "An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming"

well_actulily — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:58:24 +0000

This phenomena also occurs in the transgender community; people put a lot of thought and intention choosing their new names only to wind up surrounded by other people who also landed on the same name, often for similar reasons. There's even a whole subreddit specifically for transfeminine people who are named some variation of Lily: https://www.reddit.com/r/LilyIsTrans/

New comment by well_actulily in "California to impose permanent water restrictions on cities and towns"

well_actulily — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:27:34 +0000

You still have the potential to fuck up marine and littoral ecosystems if you're discharging concentrated brine back into the ocean willy-nilly, though.

New comment by well_actulily in "Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute"

well_actulily — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:29:32 +0000

Believe it or not, jail.

New comment by well_actulily in "Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made"

well_actulily — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:52:05 +0000

Highlights include:

- "In Search of a Flat Earth" (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

- "Line Goes Up" (2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

- "The Future is a Dead Mall" (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

New comment by well_actulily in "DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it"

well_actulily — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 08:39:38 +0000

Sure, it's "legal"—but so is them banning you from playing blackjack or tresspassing you from their property.

New comment by well_actulily in "Can Earthquakes Be Predicted? (2022)"

well_actulily — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 09:36:27 +0000

A broken clock is right twice a day.