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hippietrail
Aug 3, 2024 11:10
@qwr I was never much for Python though I used it a tiny handful of times. Yet I know I often test new languages I play with with this technique, so I'm pretty sure I became aware of it somewhere other than Python, but I'm not sure where or when.
hippietrail
Aug 3, 2024 11:10
@HABO is that different from normal index registers / indexing addressing modes? I kind of think of all those as pointer support since I think of arrays as having an end (or size) as well as a beginning. But there's more than one way to think about these things.
hippietrail
Aug 3, 2024 11:10
@AlexCannon Assembly language doesn't have a concept of arrays or strings. OP is asking about indexing into a 'range' where positive indices are from the start of the range and negative indices are from the end of the range. You are thinking about positive and negative offsets from an address.
 

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hippietrail
Jul 5, 2024 08:12
@supercat Ah good point. I never used anything with a tilemap. TRS-80 just had text mode, Apple II just had text and graphics modes, and Spectrum and Amiga just had bitmap graphics modes. I always thought of tilemaps as something totally different but I suppose they are quite like text modes with generally a few extra features like scrolling or tiles bigger than characters.
hippietrail
Jul 5, 2024 08:12
@supercat: Weird. There's a chance I could find myself at a retrocomputer meetup in Japan in the coming months. If so I'll have to ask about that. Even 'text screen' is a bit confusing though. Does it mean 'text mode'? Or does it refer to the area in the memory map that would be used when in text mode? It must mean something else though since I doubt consoles would even have a text mode.
hippietrail
Jul 5, 2024 08:12
'character names'?
 

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hippietrail
Jun 20, 2024 05:45
is it just me or is finding cheap accommodation in china using booking.com harder than ever? maybe it just got more expensive? maybe lots of cheap accommodation closed?
hippietrail
Oct 8, 2023 11:40
Are any other foreigners in Thailand having trouble with Aeon ATMs in 2023? All three in Hat Yai hung for about five minutes before returning my card. Thais behind me had the same problem but not the Thais before me.
hippietrail
Jul 28, 2023 03:12
@Willeke I noticed prices had gone up in Japan after years of staying the same and even more noticeably in Taiwan. Since I started over a year ago and came back to Malaysia things have gone up a dollar or two as well. But I actually expected much worse inflation over the year now past. I hear inflation is slowing down at home but it was really bad in the few months before I left.
hippietrail
Jul 21, 2023 04:54
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Q: This article in a major Australian newspaper says Aussies just gained visa-free access to Japan. Didn't we already have it?

hippietrailI've been visiting Japan for something like twenty years with Australian passports and never needed to obtain a visa in advance. I've always been granted 90-day stays. I was there a few months before the pandemic and a few months after it. But just now I was reading a July 20, 2023 article in the...

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hippietrail
Jul 19, 2023 08:42
Is it just me or is the price fibbing on Agoda and Booking.com getting worse? I'm seeing huge jumps in the prices of some properties in Malaysia as you progress through the booking steps from the search results
hippietrail
Jun 14, 2023 04:13
how is the vietnam e-visa at the moment? i last went just as it was coming in but still got a normal visa. the vietnam consulate in sydney's website is saying that evisa is still suspended due to covid...
hippietrail
Apr 14, 2023 14:23
but it's probably like in japan where high downtown rents mean fashion only and used more general stuff might be available out in the burbs where rent in cheaper. gotta suss that out
hippietrail
Apr 14, 2023 14:23
actually hiking is one of the national pastimes here and glamping is huge but involves fancier equipment. i've even seen tents with aircon and big screen tv's. but about more basic camping i don't really know. unlike in my recent visits before covid there are now secondhand shops but so far i've only found used fashion
hippietrail
Apr 13, 2023 15:22
OK so while normal to biggish sized RT Mart and Carrefour don't carry any camping gear, the gigantic ones do, like the ones in Neihu in Taipei. They both sell a cheap Chinese brand "Treewalker" and prices seem to start at about 900 TWD but might be better than the cheap Chinese ones for 14 AUD in Australia. Might have two doors for better airflow, or double skin, or both. Trying to verify...
hippietrail
Apr 13, 2023 07:41
in australia from $14 AUD, about 280 NTD. cheapest i can find so far in taiwan 1200 NTD
hippietrail
Apr 13, 2023 07:10
Does anybody know where to buy a tent in Taiwan cheaper than Decathlon? I'm OK that the quality will be lower
hippietrail
Feb 7, 2023 03:55
well it has the criteria to be a one-right-answer objective question if nothing else
hippietrail
Jan 29, 2023 07:26
@SaaruLindestøkke nice! i had searched in the chat and thought i tried every combination but obviously not. i do seem to remember that somebody actually identified the building though and that's how i marked it on google maps, but not seeing that in the old chat
hippietrail
Jan 23, 2023 23:58
@Willeke all i can think is it got deleted at some point. i know i got an answer and put a marker on google maps based on the answer and the marker is still there. unless it got answered in the chat room?
hippietrail
Jan 18, 2023 07:19
I thought I asked here years ago a question to identify a building that looked like Milan or Venice from the ferry between Shimonoseki or Moji and Busan. But now I can't find it. Is it hard to find or deleted or am I imagining it?
hippietrail
Jan 16, 2023 05:10
Does anyone have any tips for finding the best accommodation prices these days? I don't think it would be allowable for a site question. It seems to be getting more subtle over the years. In Thailand one place was substantially cheaper if I clicked on it in Google Maps even though that took me to Agoda where I'd already checked. In other cases either or maybe both Booking.com and Agoda could have different prices on their website vs their app.
hippietrail
Jan 14, 2023 05:41
In my case I had to fill out an old paper form separately that would've been taken care of if I had fully completed the online version.
hippietrail
Jan 14, 2023 05:40
I think it was just not set up well enough and not translated well enough. Some fields said "not registered" after you had registered. Did that mean there was a separate registration? Something you do when you arrive? That that field was incomplete and it was actually a button you had to click on? So arrival was very disorganized but the staff had been dealing with that so helped with whatever parts were missing.
hippietrail
Jan 10, 2023 06:37
well partway through posting I figured out that there was another step. the website itself doesn't make it that clear, but the guide to the website filled in the blanks. i believe i've now done everything necessary
hippietrail
Jan 10, 2023 06:15
guess i'll post a question on it
hippietrail
Jan 10, 2023 06:08
i just registered my trip on Visit Japan Web and it didn't ask me for my vax certificate like i was expecting. do they do that at the arrival airport? maybe before boarding?
hippietrail
Jan 10, 2023 06:07
anyone here been to japan recently?
hippietrail
Dec 27, 2022 13:15
i wonder if anybody knows somewhere in the mountains anywhere in japan that's not well known but has a cheap hostel
hippietrail
Dec 27, 2022 13:01
yo
hippietrail
Jun 23, 2022 07:54
@JonathanReez someone will complain it's too broad
hippietrail
Jun 23, 2022 04:37
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Q: How do small local Malay restaurants in non-touristy areas in Malaysia work?

hippietrailI've been in Johor Bahru over two weeks now and I've been to Malaysia quite a few times, and I've been around Southeast Asia a fair bit. But I can't figure this out and haven't run into it elsewhere. My guesthouse is in a residential area where most of the locals and eateries are Malay and a ther...

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hippietrail
Jun 22, 2022 16:22
you seem to be the expert knowing its full history intimately though
hippietrail
Jun 22, 2022 16:21
it's mostly all kinds of social media and/or big/old tech companies that have been doing various dodgy things
hippietrail
Jun 22, 2022 16:19
never heard any of it from journalists before. heard it from computer nerd friends for years and non nerds joined in a bit later
hippietrail
Jun 21, 2022 14:04
yeah i had a very close call with a canadian eta/esta flying from china. being an aussie i didn't expect i'd need one but being in china the great firewall broke the canadian website that informs you about it. had to apply for it at the airport counter and would've missed the flight had it not been delayed 15mins unexpectedly. singapore introduced something more lightweight that might be more to do with covid than the usual "visa that's not a visa" and it was almost instant and cost zilch
hippietrail
Jun 21, 2022 14:01
i still "hate" facebook on principal but not enough to delete my account
hippietrail
Jun 14, 2022 18:23
other than changing cities twice in australia i did no travelling for over two years during covid
hippietrail
Jun 14, 2022 18:22
@NeanDerThal that's the main reason i haven't deleted my facebook. lost touch with so many old friends, mostly germans, who deleted theirs
hippietrail
Jun 13, 2022 14:03
@JoErNanO It's not a who. It's a where.
hippietrail
Jun 9, 2022 15:58
greetings from Johor Bahru
hippietrail
May 3, 2022 01:46
Since this chatroom is no longer useful, can anybody recommend some similar chat room or forum that is populated with seasoned travellers? maybe something on discord?
hippietrail
May 1, 2022 04:36
well nz is not on my current to-visit list but what changes did they make?
hippietrail
May 1, 2022 03:11
Does anyone know which countries have changed their covid entry rules for the start of may?
hippietrail
Apr 29, 2022 02:59
@JonathanReez Almost. Getting stuff sorted out beforehand is the part I hate most. Not even ready to book a flight yet (-:
hippietrail
Apr 28, 2022 06:22
yeah i've only popped in a tiny handful of times since the covids came
 

 Discussion on answer by Raffzahn: Whe…

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hippietrail
Jan 8, 2024 16:38
@Raffzahn I mostly only worked on the presses and the dark room making printing plates. I believe my boss took over the place from his father and that it had been there for quite a long time so maybe they did more publishing before I was there or maybe it was only ever very very small-time. I remember one thing we published and printed was a very small book, almost a pamphlet, on Aboriginal words. I found its ISBN: 0858080087. I don't think we ever did a new run while I was there but there were some copies or boxes around.
hippietrail
Jan 8, 2024 16:38
Oh I nearly forgot, a friend of mine even before my apprenticeship, 1980-82 era, had a dad who was an even smaller publisher working out of a home office. He used what I assume was a regular consumer level IBM Selectric golfball typewriter. We were allowed to use the TRS-80 Model 1 with Exidy Stringy Floppy, but we were forbidden from touching the Selectric. So I suppose it depends how small is "small". My print shop had 3 machinists, 2 in the art/typesetting department, 1 who only used the computerized film typesetter, and the boss and secretary/receptionist in the office.
hippietrail
Jan 8, 2024 16:38
Typesetting wasn't an inhouse issue back then especially not "your typical small publisher". - This must be an assumption, because it's not true. I worked as an apprentice printing machinist in the mid '80s for a very small publisher. We had an already ancient Linotype only the boss knew how to use, and a computerized film phototypesetter that I was almost as fascinated by but was never shown how to use. We were such a small publisher that I don't know what we published as we mostly did office stationery, wedding invitations, and the like. I doubt we were very atypical.
 

 Discussion on question by Therac: Why…

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hippietrail
Aug 30, 2023 09:58
@another-dave Is this monitor a CRT or flat panel? CRTs had to rely on phosphor persistence, which is not the case for panels. Though I wonder if there is some kind of equivalent for panels. Their light comes from the backlight with only the colours coming from the panel, so what happens for refreshing is surely different, and different for every panel technology. Long persistance phosphors are good for eliminating flicker but cause ghost trails when things are moving so there's a tradeoff there too.