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My arbitrary limit is "not 5x from when I installed it". Like if my gallon milk jug was suddenly 36 inches tall.

Skinny milk jug.

Yes, I'll get my billion page graph paper pad, and get to solving.

>The first sentence or two has info you might get from Google. Then it riffs on that, drifting off into plausible nonsense.

Oh, it's a 2026 human simulator.


That's nobody's business but the Turks. Why did Turkey become Türkiye but Japan didn't become Nippon (or vice-versa!)? It's all very confusing to me.

Why did Turkey become Türkiye? I think mostly because they asked. I’m guessing that Japan/Nippon is enjoying the fact that English speakers use the Chinese name for Japan and the Sanskrit¹ name for China. It’s much like the Czech Republic became Czechia, although part of that was Czech speakers wanting to stop referring to their country as an adjective² (the Czech phrase for Czech Republic was often shortened to just Czech).

1. As a kid, my dad had told me that China was the Japanese name for the country, but according to Wikipedia, the name is actually derived from Sanskrit.

2. Which reminds me of the fun challenge of Czech (and many other Slavic languages) is that unlike other Indo-European languages³, the declensions of adjectives follow a different pattern than the declensions of their corresponding nouns,

3. Or at least the Indo-European languages that I have familiarity with.


Czech Republic didn't become Czechia, it's still called Czech Republic. Czechia is just the official English short name.

Turks did not really want it to become Türkiye in English, it was a government push. Most of us prefer having the name of our country be pronounceable and writable by anyone talking about it, and no one will even notice if you call it Turkey.

People just liked it better that way.

The answer is as simple as “they asked nicely”

> The answer is as simple as “they asked nicely”

Well that's a cute explanation, but strictly speaking the UN adopted the new spelling in 2022 and the ISO swiftly followed with a revision to ISO 3166.

If your "they asked nicely" was true then by that argument the people of Taiwan who constantly "ask nicely" regarding the removal of "(Province of China)" from their ISO 3166 entry would have had their wishes granted by now ... ;)


You seem to be ignoring the original question, which was “Why Türkiye but not Nihon”

Because Türkiye is a widely recognized sovereign state, while Taiwan (or more formally, the Republic of China) is not. Taiwan is also not a member of ISO.

> Because Türkiye is ....

All you are doing is re-enforcing my exact point that "because they asked nicely" is not the answer to the original question.


My grandma just clicks on the red fox and does whatever online. A lot of people don't use any software outside of the browser, so it's pretty good-enough I guess.

The business case for ChromeOS (Linux)

“Any clearance holders thinking of cashing in their access and knowledge for personal gain will be held accountable”

Yeah right.


4 horseman, you're welcome.


They're around 6,600lbs (3,000kg) so maybe even 3 tons of shitbox!


>series of cron jobs and Playwright scripts

This is approximately the Dropbox reply.

>I can only guess it's really not for "us"

Exactly correct.


> >series of cron jobs and Playwright scripts

> This is approximately the Dropbox reply.

lol that wasn't my intent but I totally see it now.

I actually don't want to be dismissive of OpenClaw; I want to believe the hype. It's just what I've heard and what I see don't add up to me. If anything, it's a calculus where I have to decide if it's worth the time of setting up a machine and the learning curve.


numberOfProgrammersInTheWorld : numberOfPeopleInTheWorld


Interesting, would there be a reason to keep the meat Mark around? Seems like there would be a duty to the shareholders to remove the meat Mark and use that $ for something else.


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