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The Onion Front Page: September 10, 2024
  • That doesn't sound like headline grammar to me. You wouldn't introduce confusion about who is doing the shooting on purpose, I don't think.

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    Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive
  • My point is not about how case is meant to be used my point is that it is very easy to make a mistake that is difficult to spot. I think it makes a lot more sense to the case insensitive, and force different names to be used.

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    Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive
  • I feel the same way about programming languages. There is no way that "User" and "user" should refer to different variables. How many times has that screwed people up, especially in a weekly typed language?

    One of the many things that I feel modern versions of Pascal got right.

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    TIL: In Japan, if your spouse dies you can divorce your in-laws
  • The Japanese government wants people to choose citizenship by the end of their 20th year, because 20 is the age of majority in Japan. But if you don't say anything, they won't ask, and you can keep renewing your Japanese passport along with your other nationality's.

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    TIL: In Japan, if your spouse dies you can divorce your in-laws
  • I'm a Canadian, and I was married to a Japanese woman. She was on the family registry, and our children were, but I was a comment. Way to show a commitment to treating all people equally, Japan!

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    TIL: In Japan, if your spouse dies you can divorce your in-laws
  • I would imagine that it also has to do with the family registry. If a woman marries a man, she is taken from her own Family Registry and entered in her husband's. I would imagine that upon the husband's death nothing changes for the wife, but she has the option of returning to her own family registry.

    I'm not 100% sure that this is how it works, or the reason for this termination, but it seems like a valid one.

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    Marvel's 'Nova' Series Will Be a Blend of 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar Galactica'
  • Claiming to be a spiritual descendant of two established TV shows that have rabid followings but completely different styles, strengths, and weaknesses is rather suspect in my books. It will have to earn those comparisons, and I don't think it's very likely.

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    New idea for a language course
  • I think that's part of the puzzle is definitely that small children don't get embarrassed or ashamed if they make a mistake. Adults and older kids do, so they stop trying or they limit themselves to what they know they can do well.

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    Queen sucks
  • As he himself says, he writes songs about the working man, but has never held the job in his life.

    However I did go to see him this summer for the first time. The cheesy Rock Icon bit is tedious, but by the middle of the show I was enjoying myself. He really is an excellent showman.

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    [Discussion] Of all the films you’ve gone into blind, which one truly stands out as your favorite find?
  • I went to a double feature because I wanted to see The Tin Drum. First I had to sit through another movie I had never heard of that sounded really corny: Runaway Train.

    Starring John Voight and Eric Roberts, and with a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, it was extraordinary. Certainly not just a cheap action flick.

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    I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!
  • I've been using this for about 3 months. I would estimate that my dog walks are now about twice as long as they used to be. I don't really enjoy walking, but this gives me just enough incentive to do it everyday and, if I feel like taking a shortcut, taking the long way instead.

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    What hobby was easier to get into than you thought?
  • The chainmail creators for tge Lord of the Rings movies made so much chainmail that they were their fingerprints completely off.

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    Has there ever been anything originally dismissed as pseudoscience that was later proven to be legit?
  • The U.S. supplied more than $600 billion (in 2023 dollars) in lend-lease aid, mostly to Britain and the USSR, starting in March 1941. It's ludicrous to say that they were ever considering joining the Axis powers.

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