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miles
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  ものいはず
  客と亭主と
  白菊と
  (蓼太)

  Saying nothing:
  guest, host, and
  white chrysanthemum.
  —Ryōta

  1. Physician Michael Klaper puts it succinctly[1]:

    “We have no more need for the milk of a cow than we do the milk of a dog or a giraffe.”

    [1] https://www.doctorklaper.com/dairy-free

  2. > On a several occasions (most recently today), Thunderbird has "lost" my mail messages that are in my inbox when I move them to a local folder. Effectively it corrupts the messages - they appear in the local folder as 1 KB messages with no subject or sender info. They are empty messages.

    Apple's Mail app has had a virtually identical bug since Catalina; Michael Tsai's article on the issue currently has 636 comments:

    https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-1...

    After witnessing the bug myself, migrated to Thunderbird with Maildir enabled[1] for long-term storage; have yet to experience the issue despite a large database (>300,000 emails) and daily IMAP import to local folders.

    [1] https://tinyapps.org/blog/202207100700_thunderbird_mbox_to_m...

  3. After several hours, the HN title has been modified again to match the original much more closely, from "Hannah Cairo has solved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture"[1] to "Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago".

    [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250706185220/https://news.ycom...

  4. There is too much "helpful" title modification of late. The original title itself fits within HN limits:

    "A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago"

    The site's guidelines are clear[1] but increasingly ignored by some moderators:

    "...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  5. I was nodding in modest agreement with @behnamoh's comment on self-aggrandizement, but your reply brought a huge smile to my face. And visiting his linked website dialed the mirth up to 11.

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