it reminds me Archer’s stakes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer%27s_stake

Ah, the machine penguins use to talk to humans. https://madagascar.fandom.com/wiki/Speak_and_Spell

I found this today from CI build failure of a golang project depend on git.apache.org/thrift.git...

They are called Hiden-no-tare (秘伝のタレ). The word is also used for undocumented steps of works like a server setup.

Agreed. Only reason why I’m using Chrome is the People menu.

Try https://scrapbox.io/ This is a cloud service. A kind of wiki, but easy to edit.

As a Japanese, first we MUST stop pronounce Chinese names, both place and person, in Japanese on-yomi rule. e.g. Beijing(北京) is called "Pekin". Xi Jinping (習近平) is Shu Kinpei. It always confuse me when first heard those name in English.

So that might be why Beijing is called Peking in German... Although the (generally closer to original pronunciation) English romanizations of some Chinese names are becoming more common.

It's called ~"Peking" in most European languages.

Most of Europe probably got it from France, who used the Cantonese pronunciation: bāk-gīng

The capital city of China is called "Beijing" in Mandarin and "Pekin" in Cantonese (as I understand it).

The Western world's engagement with China was via Hong Kong and Shanghai, where Cantonese is the dialect.

Why? You’re speaking Japanese, not Chinese, and all Chinese characters have onyomi. It’s like saying English speakers should call Germany Deutschland.

Dutch here, due to historical trade relations we also still use Peking!

That's how they pronounced the name of the city in southern China, which is where the trade started.

http://cantonese.org/search.php?q=北京

Are there any newsletter or campaign mail service that automatically schedule amount of mails so that they will not blocked? Say I'll going to send the first volume of newsletter to 10K email address (not a cold mail, they are our users).

https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ is still available.

And GCM was literally just renamed FCM. It’s been years since I worked with the libraries but iirc GCM v3 registered tokens worked with FCM. I don’t recall all the specifics of C2DM other than that it was recipe enough that we built a whole push network at Parse instead.

I’v been using cloud build for background tasks. You may need to write a function triggered by pub/sub and submit a cloud build though.