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They still are, they're still references in durability/quality for motorcycles as well (together with the other Japanese manufacturers).


On a self-balancing motorcycle


There's a time and place for everything, and an escalation of tooling/environmental context for me.

1. Printing vars in unit tests may be the fastest first approach. If i know where the bug may be.

2. When that fails i usually bring in debuggers to unit tests.

3. When these aren't helping, you need debuggers on the entire binary.

4. Still stuck? Use a debugger in production.


Isn't 4 very unsafe? I wouldn't trust my code to pause in places that it doesn't usually pause in.

3. What if the binary interacts with other networked computers, you gonna debug all of them? Do you end up instrumeting the whole internet? You scope out, you spiral out of control until someone puts a limit.


Twitter reached critical mass way before politics infected every post


I know a lot of American tourists have historically had issues in Sweden with credit cards not having NFC chips.

Is that still the case?

If not, I would just prepare my phone/smart watch with apple/google pay. Hopefully ATMs won't swallow those.


Never been to Sweden, so no idea, sorry.

My understanding from most EU countries I visited is that VISA/MC works and AMEX usually doesn't. Also now that I think about it, most of these things (except #3) happened before the widespread use of NFC. (IIRC 2017 and 2012).

My points were more "why would 100% cash-free bad", not necessarily just in Sweden.


They started issuing them with chips a couple years ago. Most should have been replaced by now.

But yes, this was a slight issue when traveling in previous times. Glad the US finally caught up.


As a Swede, this is a pretty interesting name. Jazz means what you expect it to mean in Swedish, but Kissa = to pee. Jazz cigarette is an old slang for a joint, thought it had some connection.


"Kissa" (喫茶) in Japanese means tea-sipping, and sometimes it's pronounced "kiccha". Jazz Kissas today would be places to be under influence of alcohol or caffeine and concentrate on listening to jazz, but kind of often in 60s also under influence of non-legal stuff. It's kind of interesting that we Japanese received what was originally a dance music and allocated it to our custom/culture to sit and listen like to a preaching. I guess people might had felt some kind of awe or something from it those days.


In English, it's close to "ass kisser" ... and I'm wondering if the pun is intentional.

My experience living in Japan tells me it's probably just a coincidence. They often seem to stumble into these!


In Finnish, kissa means cat. ”Jazz cat”, sounds pretty jazzy!


Was just about to see if someone mentioned this video. Really good explanation comparing JPEG XL vs AVIF.


Heard the project has < 100 billion stars on github.galaxy though, basically dead by this point.


The Farbrausch demo and a talk by Will Wright on the (originally planned) procedurally generated design of Spore lives rent free in my brain every time I see the list of 100's of gigabytes of queued game updates in Steam nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofA6YWVTURU&t=100s


> As a consequence of Go's mediocre type system, Go has very bad support for generic programming.

How old is this?


Publishing any content on the internet without a date is a cardinal sin in my book.


Old: Wayback Machine dates the article to 2014.


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