My fellow lemming, I worked in a shoe store in the US for two years. I can tell you that yes, in fact, every shoe has an associated letter denoting width along with the number denoting length.

However, unless the width is special it may or may not be printed on the box.

Yes but the number doesn’t have to change. Just like in the US, they use letters to denote relative foot wdith vs. the average. No need for multiple numbering schemes.

In Japan everyone knows their shoe size in centimeters. Those stay the same regardless of gender or whatever other crazy unrelated topic to how big something is.

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Do you see toilet paper in that photo? Because I don’t. It could be behind the camera!

It is called the Martingale system.

Oscars grind works in a completely different fashion, and you do not raise your bet when you lose.

Did you try…two periods instead of three?

I sometimes accidentally do this and then get angry that the feature exists

Postscript is also literally just a text based programming language for drawing stuff. You can create loops and recursions and all kinds of crazy transformations with a few lines of code.

I still own an electronic Japanese dictionary but haven’t used it in about 10 years. I have a dictionary app on my phone that I use nearly every day.

About the only thing the electronic version still does better than any of the apps I’ve tried, surprisingly, is handwritten kanji recognition, I think perhaps because it comes with a little stylus that makes it more precise.

I guess maybe we have different requirements, but I built a similar controller using a 68HC05 when I was in college (yes I am that old) and it had plenty of cycles left to burn. This thing is nearly an order of magnitude faster than the microcontroller I used.

EDIT: I will grant you the I/O is pretty limited, but you could also offload some of the work to an external timer/accumulator

The original DOOM ran on a 80386 which was actually slower than or roughly equivalent to this controller. Recommended system specs were for a 486 though which was maybe 2-3x as fast.

A 32bit @24MHz CPU is extremely overpowered for those use cases.

Qi operates in the 87-205 KHz range. A power tool is several orders of magnitude slower.

I know that toy store! It’s right next to a brewery tasting room in the same little building/complex. The place is loaded with crazily expensive vintage action figures.

Not if you have IOT smart bricks!

I think the Raquel Welch film you are referring to is Myra Breckenridge, but I am not aware of Ebert’s involvement in that at all.

He did write Beyond the Valley of the Dolls though, which was a sex farce.

Brother is a Japanese company.

Hey, don’t forget about C:\ProgramData !

Have you played Doki Doki Literature Club?

Home prices in (many) metro areas are riding steadily. Edit: some cities where the primary industry for the area is declining, this trend is going the other way

In many rural areas home prices have fallen dramatically due to a combination of migration to cities and overall declining population.

If this is a comment about homeless people, there are still plenty of homeless people all over Japan.