ガザで何百人ものアスリートが殺されていることが不問に付されるなか、アムステルダムで「暴徒化」したのは誰だったのか（英文法解説つき） - Hoarding Examples (英語例文等集積所)
11月8日（金）の深夜、「アムステルダムでサッカーファンが暴徒化してイスラエル人が襲われた」的な話が流れてきた。まるでアムステルダムでユダヤ人標的のテロ計画でもあったかのような書きぶりの記事もあったが、何があったのか、具体的に中身を見てみたら、そういう話ではなかった。 もはや「フェイクニュース」などということばを誰も使わなくなった今、こういうことが白日のもとで起きている。しかも「欧米」が主導している。日本で盛り上がる「背後にロシアの影」云々のたわごとすらも出る状況にない。 唖然とするよりない。 以下、とても長い。あと、今回は英文法解説もある。 ■目次■ イスラエルの軍事攻撃で標的とされているガザ地区のスポーツ UEFAもFIFAもIOCも、ガザ地区でアスリートが殺害されていることはスルーしている アムステルダムでのフーリガン暴動 マッカビ・テルアビブFC 追記 襲い掛かっているのはテルアビ
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Japan’s politics gets a rare dose of upheaval after snap election
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WebKit Features in Safari 17.2
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This is my closing talk (video) from the GopherConAU conference in Sydney, given November 10, 2023, the 14th anniversary of Go being launched as an open source project. The text is interspersed with the slides used in the presentation. What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong INTRODUCTION Hello. Let me start by thanking Katie and Chewy for the giving me the honor of presenting the closing talk for the
Hello again. Obviously, this article deals with adult topics, so don’t read it if you’re under 18. I won’t have any super explicit images on screen, but I don’t recommend reading this in public nonetheless. With that out of the way, I wanna preface this piece with some thoughts. The goal of this Substack is to record parts of VTuber history that have been forgotten or aren’t well known, in a way t
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Good morning and welcome to Vittles. Each Monday we publish a different piece of writing related to food, whether it’s an essay, a dispatch, a polemic, a review, or even poetry. This week, Tim Anderson writes about the phenomenon of katsuification — the process under which everything in Britain has become katsu curry — and how this can be explained by the cyclical history of the dish. If you wish
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“Cover, bring to a boil, then reduce heat. Simmer for 20 minutes.” These directions seem simple enough, and yet I have messed up many, many pots of rice over the years. My sympathies to anyone who’s ever had to boil rice on a stovetop, cook it in a clay pot over a kerosene or charcoal burner, or prepare it in a cast-iron cauldron. All hail the 1955 invention of the automatic rice cooker! How the a
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Name: Anand Joshi Title: Software Engineer Organization: SmartNews Inc., Japan Hometown: Mumbai, India Living in Japan: Since January, 2017 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandhjoshi/ Blog: https://anandjoshi.me/about/ This is the 12th interview in the “Interviews with Foreign Information Technology Engineers in Japan” series. “ EJable.com’s Ryoko Nagai talks to Anand Joshi of SmartNews, Ja
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Review of chapters 9-11 & overall thoughts For Context: All the previous posts in this series Chapter 1: Setting Up an SML# Environment Chapter 2: The Essense of ML Programming Chapter 3: List Processing Chapter 4: Defining and Using Datatypes Chapter 5: Modules and Partial Compilation Chapter 6: Techniques of Designing and Developing ML-style Systems Chapter 7: Interoperability with the C Languag
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We have long heard that houses in Japan are expensive. What if, all of a sudden, someone tells you that you can buy a cheap house in Japan? Imagine the waves such a statement will cause! The same thing happened with the Akiya phenomenon in Japan. A relatively unknown word, “Akiya,” suddenly became a commonly used word among foreigners in Japan and many outside Japan. You will frequently hear forei
Manga is a famous form of Japanese art developed as a comic. For the Japanese, Manga is not just a source of entertainment but a core part of their culture. The word Manga (漫画) consists of two Kanji characters 漫, which means comics, and 画, which means drawing or painting. Meaning of MangaIf you are new to the world of manga, you may wonder what manga literally means. What is the meaning of the wor
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Welcome to Part 2 of The History of 18+ VTubers, where I’ll talk about what happened in this world in the year 2020. If you haven’t read Part 1, covering everything from 2017 to 2019, you can find it down below. 2020 - The year 18+ VTubing exploded2020 brought with it many, many new faces to the VTuber world. The subculture, already pretty big in Japan, would reach unprecedented heights this year
The concept of year-end tax adjustments is the same across the world; however, the processes may vary. As a foreigner working in Japan, it’s crucial to understand the Japanese tax rules, including the year-end tax adjustment (Nenmatsu Chosei). What is Nenmatsu Chosei? Nenmatsu Chosei (年末調整 or ねんまつちょうせい) is the annual tax adjustment process in Japan. This tax adjustment for the previous year must b
Large Text Compression Benchmark Matt Mahoney Last update: Sept 19, 2024. history This competition ranks lossless data compression programs by the compressed size (including the size of the decompression program) of the first 109 bytes of the XML text dump of the English version of Wikipedia on Mar. 3, 2006. About the test data. The goal of this benchmark is not to find the best overall compress
lestrrat looking for work2024.md I unexpectedly had to quit my previous job and am now in search of a new one. If you are interested in hiring me or have leads, I would very much appreciate it if you could contact me at my ID + gmail. Past experiences https://lestrrat.github.io/ During 2000-2019, I worked as a backend software engineer, writing anything from small tools to servers handling billion
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