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Re:Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100 on Saturday September 13, 2025 @10:16AM (#45232248)
馬鹿
And the brewery got the name from Ebisu, a god who is believed to protect fishermen.
I was there a few days ago. Doesn't seem dead to me, but I don't know what it was like pre-covid.
> A deposition is a verbal Q & A that's transcribed by a court reporter based on what they hear the person saying.

Nishitani was most likely deposed in his native language where the particular English ambiguity you point out probably wouldn't happen. Listing things and marking possession use spoken helper words rather than punctuation.

Re:Why I Program in Lisp on Friday April 11, 2025 @07:49AM (#43652779)
"You're a very clever man, Mr. James, and that's a very good question," replied the little old lady, "but I have an answer to it. And it's this: The first turtle stands on the back of a second, far larger, turtle, who stands directly under him."

"But what does this second turtle stand on?" persisted James patiently.

To this, the little old lady crowed triumphantly,

"It's no use, Mr. James—it's turtles all the way down."

Re:The Tao of Go on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:44PM (#43041774)
I think you missed the joke. The first line of the tao te ching says something to the effect of the tao that can be named is not the real tao.
Re:Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:07PM (#41872077)
I think it's a bit of word play. 苺 (strawberry) and 一語 (one word) are both read "Ichigo".
Re:Gleam Is Pragmatic on Sunday October 06, 2024 @10:09PM (#41762140)
One thing I hate about F# and SQL is that they use <> as a "not equals" operator. In Haskell, <> is the binary operator of any Semigroup instance.
Re:Roc Lang – Elm but for everywhere [video] on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:10PM (#41305024)
Haskell:

    import Data.IORef
    
    main :: IO ()
    main = do
      x <- newIORef (0 :: Int)
      writeIORef x 5
      y <- readIORef x
      print y
Re:How to Send an SMS in Haskell (2017) on Saturday April 13, 2024 @08:05AM (#40022594)
I'd recommend using ghcup to install Haskell nowadays. (https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/) It makes it easy to install and switch versions of the compiler, language server, and build tools.
Re:Japan is experiencing nationwide credit card payments issues on Saturday November 11, 2023 @07:32PM (#38236043)
Not true. I bought a new Icoca recently.
Re:OCaml: a Rust developer's first impressions on Saturday November 11, 2023 @07:17PM (#38235941)
> still way too imperative and not as functional to be called a true ML

As a Haskell fanboy, this is how I feel about Ocaml and F#.

The same principle applies to programming. Functions that know less about their arguments are more generally applicable.
Re:Indians Are Entering the U.S. Illegally in Record Numbers on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:28AM (#38056493)
How do illegal immigrants become voters?
"Top engineers" aren't the tech workers that are getting laid off.
Re:Word Warriors' "Words that deserve wider use" on Saturday October 14, 2023 @03:28AM (#37878727)
I have a strong suspicion that Christopher Williams invented some of these words.
Re:MangaReader – Read Manga Website on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:26AM (#37842789)
Looks like a good resource for people learning Japanese. You can switch between the available languages seemlessly. The legality seems questionable, though.
Re:Dwarf Fortress is now available for Linux on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @08:14PM (#37578853)
I suppose this means there's a native Linux build? Because it's been playable via proton since release.

Looking forward to this change: "...soldiers that don't hoard rotten food in their rooms"

And spend the rest of the day golfing.
Re:Can LLMs Reason and Plan? on Thursday September 14, 2023 @05:48AM (#37506868)
"plausible sounding" is probably the best two word summary of LLM output. A good one word summary might be "bullshit".
Re:Learn COBOL in 1 Day on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:22AM (#37388846)
Do you ride a horse to the grocery store?
Re:Leaving Haskell Behind on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:27AM (#37247993)
Anyone hiring Haskell devs?
Re:Railway Oriented Programming on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:52AM (#37172529)
Yes, I also was born knowing about ovens and flour. If these other things were important we'd be born knowing them as well.
Re:Italy shocks banks with 40 percent windfall tax for 2023 on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:21AM (#37059614)
Yes, but we call them bailouts.
Re: on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:58AM (#37010551)
I use warp to serve my projects and configure nginx as a reverse proxy. There might be a bit of overhead with this setup, but I like how simple it is.
As philosophy professors often do.
Belize is not an island.
Mediocrity thrives on drama.
Re:It's Impossible to Sing and Play the Bass on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @11:37PM (#35534736)
Les Claypool uses a fretless bass on a bunch of songs. He often plays it with a bow as well.

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