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Re:PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @11:09PM (#41991631)
For what it's worth, TFA does mention that the site is:

> "hidden in plain site", the archaeologists say, as it is just 15 minutes hike from a major road

Re:A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @02:48PM (#40989040)
Describing the K of K&R as "Awk creator" is like describing Einstein as a "refrigerator engineer".
Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:11PM (#38944880)
You can register a legal alias (通称名) that you can use on forms. I know people who have done this with just single a single kanji to avoid a lot of the headache associated with having a foreign name or (god forbid) a middle name. I've considered a few times registering my legal alias as 一一 to have a two stroke full name.
Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:07PM (#38944839)
Same in Japan. My name is truncated on nearly every single form I receive from utilities companies. online forms will regularly limit your full name to 9 kana in total.
Re:Tokyo by Train (2016) [video] on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:45AM (#37290227)
Worth noting that if you have a US-issued visa card, you cannot use it to pay for IC via Apple pay.
Re:Oppenheimer, Nullified and Vindicated on Saturday July 08, 2023 @11:23AM (#36645278)
> The inventor of the atomic bomb

I'm not sure I understand this characterization of Oppenheimer. There are a few people who could take this title but I don't think Oppenheimer has anywhere near the same claims to it as someone like Leo Szilard or even Enrico Fermi.

If by inventor they mean man who "put into practice", I don't see why the director of a project employing hundreds deserves the title of "inventor".

Re:P Language on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:55PM (#34280928)
My guess is that it's the next entry in the BCPL "lineage".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL