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Re:Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web by supercasio on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:21PM (#21623868)
I think the name is really bad in Brazilian Portuguese. Here "pika"* is a slang for dick. At the same time, it is still the sound Pikachu makes ("pika pika"). So maybe there is no problem.

* I don't know about European Portuguese. The correct spelling for the slang would be "pica", but both have the same pronunciation.

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Re:Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web by dagurp on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:26PM (#21623892)
It means vagina in Icelandic
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Re:Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web by jacurtis on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:35PM (#21623949)
Well at least it is equally offensive to everyone then
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Re:Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web by godDLL on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:01PM (#21630127)
По-русски it is a "lance". So maybe a bit fallic.
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Re:Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web by supercasio on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:29PM (#21623916)
I don't know why but someone edited my comment. The original had 2 footnotes which were combined into one. Now it is ambiguous. Thank you for your disservice.
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Re:Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web by jdminhbg on Sunday November 24, 2019 @06:21PM (#21624226)
Most likely, you had a single line break between the two footnotes, but you need two to actually start a new paragraph. And if you started your second footnote with two asterisks, that gets read as an empty italicized string.
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Re:Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web by ufo on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:27PM (#21624536)
Programmers are always debugging their surroundings :)
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Re:Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web by ulucs on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:33PM (#21624991)
It's definitely a Pikachu call-out. See the mouse logo and the lightning favico.
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Re:Pika – A JavaScript package registry for the modern web by zbentley on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:23PM (#21625439)
I believe that "mouse" may be a Pika, a real animal.

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

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