Wish I didn’t have to cook today
A bipartisan delegation of Japanese parliamentarians kicks off a four-day visit to China on Monday, marking a tentative step toward renewed engagement after ties were strained by Takaichi's remarks over Taiwan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/24/japan/lawmakers-visit-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chinajapanrelations #sanaetakaichi #xijinping
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seen in NYC
This headline is misleading; the Court didn't "clear the way" for the vote-by-mail restrictions executive order, but rather dismissed one of two lower court injunctions currently blocking it, on relatively narrow procedural grounds. The court hasn't yet ruled directly on the legality of the EO's substance.
@mattblaze Yeah, but corporately captured news media, so they push their agenda, not journalism.
One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/style/china-tang-dynasty-never-existed-hoax-intl-hnk
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425819
#HackerNews #China #Internet #TangDynasty #Hoax #History #Culture
Also pls share more tofu recipes if you can
@farah I usually cube my tofu, toss with just a little oil, and cook it in a non stick skillet over a medium to medium-high flame until most of the moisture is cooked out and it gets a little brown. Then I mix some soy sauce, sweet chili sauce, and water (the water is to thin it out a little bit so the sauce is distributed evenly and soaks in better) dump it in the skillet and stir it up very well so the sauce soaks in to all the tofu. Then I'll turn up the heat and cook it just a bit more until it gets to the brownness I want. Once that's done, I'll use that tofu in a stir fry or whatever.
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Today's random tech support event...
I was on the phone with a utility company worker setting up a new account and things were not working correctly. The person asked what type of computer I was using to access their website. I answered "laptop" and they then instructed me to switch to a desktop computer and retry the operation
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Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) define a signficantly more-efficient datamodel for processing spatial information!
I'd use this in the feature-phone I'm planning, so I don't need a fancier CPU for a rarely-used feature.
Imagine triangles, hexagons, or squares tessellated across the earth's surface with more of the same nested inside. Give each an ID based on its position in this hierarchy & represent a location as a set of these zone IDs... Then its as cheap to process as any other set!
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There's several different grids defined, whose differences do matter when interpreting data encoded in them. But these differences barely make a difference to a computer.
Much of our analysis can be done from the perspective of sets, but we may also want to flatten the grid to a certain level to compute distances or buffer the surface area of a location. Which isn't any more computationally expensive than rendering numbers.
Or we might associate data with each "zone" to be processed.
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baseball players in war production. "safe," signals george stovall, retired manager of the cleveland indians as vince dimaggio slides home during a lunch-hour softball game in the california shipbuilding corporation shipyards. dimaggio, pittsburgh pirates outfielder, has been a warehouseman at the california shipyards since last fall; stovall has worked as checker in the yards for more than a year, 1943
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017696870/
2026-08-24
@neil i think you will find that it's actually 1787605922
@farah@beige.party for the G, just say "gum" instead of jidorah, and "gentle" instead of jiraffe /hj
i have no clue wtf a gidorah is supposed to be
and tbh i can't think of a starting-with-g word that i would find gentle-g usage as wrong, just slightly unusual
both jiraffe AND giraffe sound right to me
@6 A monster from Godzilla franchise?
Hmm I could say God I guess
Forget about how you pronounce GIF, tell me how you pronounce ALGAE:
@farah People who say it other than Al Gay are entitled to be wrong...but they are utterly wrong
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@stefano the only happy surprise I got is that it's still 12GB RAM. But they must have cut somewhere for it.
This headline is misleading; the Court didn't "clear the way" for the vote-by-mail restrictions executive order, but rather dismissed one of two lower court injunctions currently blocking it, on relatively narrow procedural grounds. The court hasn't yet ruled directly on the legality of the EO's substance.
