Describing the K of K&R as "Awk creator" is like describing Einstein as a "refrigerator engineer".
Readit Newskansai commented on A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022) pldb.io/blog/brianKernigh... · Posted by u/breck
kansai commented on Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) blog.jgc.org/2010/06/your... · Posted by u/redbell
I wonder if a kanji name is a legally recognized name. Like, I don't know kanji, could I just pick random characters that end up being nonsense? or will I get in trouble
interesting anecdote
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.
kansai commented on Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) blog.jgc.org/2010/06/your... · Posted by u/redbell
My wife's last name is only 2 letters long. Some websites don't accept that as it's too short (take that, Xi Jinping!)
Conversely, I've had to fill forms in Korea that included space for only 4 letters, including both first and last name. Needless to say, my 3 first names plus last name didn't fit.
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.
kansai commented on Tokyo by Train (2016) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Y49Vf... · Posted by u/CaliforniaKarl
> The trains can be paid for with a specific card called the Suica card and/or pasmo card. This can also be used as a debit card at various shops. But recently due to the chip shortage these cards have been harder to get.
Something to note is that if you have a recent-ish iPhone (iPhone 8 or later), Apple Watch (Series 3 or later), Pixel (4 or later), or Pixel Watch, regardless of where they're sold those all have the Japan-specific bits in their NFC hardware required for the digital wallet version of Suica and other Japanese IC cards. For other Android manufacturers (Samsung, etc), you'll have to get ahold of Japanese models for that capability.
Worth noting that if you have a US-issued visa card, you cannot use it to pay for IC via Apple pay.
Also Polish auto repair shop using Commodore 64:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12604414
I also remember a discussion here about a camp site that was still using a booking system on an eighties computer, but couldn't find it.
It was an Atari ST:
https://youtu.be/6LxPEz9x2fs
kansai commented on Oppenheimer, Nullified and Vindicated newyorker.com/culture/cul... · Posted by u/Leary
> 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".
kansai commented on P Language: a state machine-based programming language (2021) p-org.github.io/P/whatisP... · Posted by u/nine_k
Is the name a reference to Pascal's P-code machine?
My guess is that it's the next entry in the BCPL "lineage".
> "hidden in plain site", the archaeologists say, as it is just 15 minutes hike from a major road