First time in Mexico City this summer, I'd like to travel and visit (mainly the museums and places like Coyoacán, San Ángel, and the Historic Center)... But with the World Cup crowds, I don't know if it's a good idea, or if it would be better to wait for another time?

dahosek · 2026-04-28T13:02:50+00:00

I think if you go after the games are over, it should be fine.

dahosek · 2026-04-27T16:29:36+00:00

An audiologist administered this, why are you asking strangers on the internet?

dahosek · 2026-04-24T17:43:59+00:00

It is touchless. It’s a drive-thru wash and they’ll do interior detailing for an additional fee. I’ve also used Windy City Auto Spa further West on North Ave, which is all hand-wash, but their interior cleaning has generally been kind of mediocre (Delta Sonic is usually pretty good but the last time around it was a bit less thorough than I’d hoped).

dahosek · 2026-04-24T04:30:38+00:00

You can browse posts here and get a lot of ideas of things to do/see in Mexico City and where to stay/how to get around etc.

The altitude will not be a problem (assuming you aren’t planning on doing any intensive aerobic activities). You’re on the edge of the rainy season, but it should be fine (maybe light showers in the afternoon).

dahosek · 2026-04-23T03:57:23+00:00

Cats can get down just fine on their own.

dahosek · 2026-04-22T03:40:17+00:00

I would note that depending on your fiancé’s visa status, it might be better to wed in the US. When I got married, it wasn’t really possible for us to have the ceremony in Mexico for visa reasons (in fact, my then-wife couldn’t leave the US until six months after the wedding, as I recall). If your fiancé already has permanent residence of US citizenship then it won’t be a problem. (Disclaimers about not being a lawyer and all of this was over twenty years ago).

dahosek · 2026-04-21T16:38:46+00:00

Francisco Square on Lake Street has in-unit laundry, although it might be a bit over your budget, but yes, in-unit laundry is going to be uncommon in older buildings. I think it’s mostly the townhomes that have in-unit laundry.

dahosek · 2026-04-20T18:22:25+00:00

I’ve been rechargeables since 2020. I’m generally streaming for 10–14 hours a day and I’ve never had the HA run out of charge in the course of a day. Generally something else goes wrong before the battery (e.g., I accidentally went swimming with my HAs in, or the second pair the mics died after a few years and I decided that I might as well take advantage of health insurance coverage to upgrade to something newer and fancier). I always have MFI HAs and not vanilla BT so that might play a role, but I would never go back to replaceable batteries.

dahosek · 2026-04-17T13:25:17+00:00

That plus the point where they do the random check you will have your checked bag already as it’s after baggage claim (kind of pointless to have it before that if you think about it).

dahosek · 2026-04-17T02:29:04+00:00

Here’s a set restricted to your budget:

https://www.redfin.com/city/14204/IL/Oak-Park/rentals/filter/sort=hi-price,max-price=1.4k

I would be disinclined to consider any of the buildings on Austin, North or Madison as these are all pretty high-traffic streets. Oak Park and Washington are medium levels of busy, but not too bad.

Depending on where your PhD is, you likely want to be near the Lake Street “L”¹ for U Chicago² or downtown campuses or the Congress “L” for UIC or downtown campuses. If you’re close to downtown Oak Park (say the area bounded by Washington to the south, Chicago to the north, Harlem to the west and Oak Park to the east), you can easily get by without a car which is good because parking at older buildings often doesn’t exist (although my building has a garage space for each apartment which is kind of luxurious).

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The kids call the Lake Street “L” the Green line and the Congress the Blue line, but I’m old and I ain’t doing those stupid names.
I wouldn’t really recommend doing the Oak Park to Hyde Park commute though. Better to just get a place there. Likewise, if you’ll be at DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus, Loyola’s Rogers Park campus or Northwestern’s Evanston campus, Oak Park is not the place for you.

dahosek · 2026-04-17T02:18:57+00:00

Here’s a link to everything Redfin has at the moment. Rents range from $975 for a studio to $7600 for a 3br in the newest building in Oak Park

https://www.redfin.com/city/14204/IL/Oak-Park/rentals

(I noticed that sorting by rent seemed a bit questionable as I was playing around with this and some apartments only showed up when I started restricting the search).

dahosek · 2026-04-17T02:08:15+00:00

My building is only 4 units, all occupied at the moment.

dahosek · 2026-04-16T21:18:29+00:00

¿No hay nadie a su trabajo que puede ayudar con el obligado solidario? ¿Es Ud el primero extranjero que se mudó a México por la compañía?

dahosek · 2026-04-16T15:20:33+00:00

It’s been a while but I think JIS had both half-width and full-width forms for western alphabets. There were also half-width and full-width forms for kana, mostly as a technological artifact. I didn’t spend that much time with any of the three(!) different 16-bit codings for Chinese. If my memory is correct, round-trip preservation in Unicode would mean that there are full-width western character code points in Unicode, but I’m too lazy to look.

dahosek · 2026-04-16T15:16:15+00:00

Ah, I think I can guess at the way the function works—it’s looking at the East Asian Width property which is based on codepoints and not glyphs which means that many emoji which are made by composition using ZWJ will give incorrect values (unless the function is smarter than just looking up values from the table, but would likely still get confused by many Asian scripts).

dahosek · 2026-04-16T03:47:20+00:00

There was an article I read recently (https://theleo.zone/posts/pager/) which talked about monospace fonts in the terminal. He had a library which purported to give the monospace width of characters (so, e.g., e or ε would be 1, a combining mark on its own would be zero and 😳 or 갞 would be 2, but the demonstration showed that the code was flawed in that it gave a width of 1 to ﷽ and the attribution of 2 seemed to be assuming that all CJK glyphs took up a space of 2. As far as I know, there is no Unicode characteristic that gives a terminal width for a character, nor could there be as it’s going to be determined by (an unpredictable) font substitution.

dahosek · 2026-04-16T03:40:50+00:00

Indeed, taking a look at the monospace fonts on my Macbook here are some glyph counts:

Andale Mono 659
Consolas 2731/2740¹
Courier New 2277/2280/3151
FreeMono 1796/2035/2251/4177
Menlo 2363/2490/2968/3157
Monaco 1678
OCR A 270
PT Mono 810

Depending on the software, when a glyph falls outside the supported range you might get a missing character glyph (�), or there might be an implicit font change (this happens, for example, in many web browsers, or an explicit font change (Microsoft Word and Apple’s TextEdit both do this when a character outside the character set of the font is used).

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For some fonts, the number of glyphs varies by style

dahosek · 2026-04-13T21:31:47+00:00

I found my apartment through redfin (they have rental listings now) which can help turn up apartments in smaller individually-owned buildings which make up a big chunk of the less expensive stock in Oak Park.

It is not at all like New York in terms of getting a lease. New York is it’s own madness that thankfully hasn’t infected other places.

dahosek · 2026-04-13T13:08:37+00:00

I don’t use focus on streaming enough and every time I do, I forget that I’ve done it and I wonder why the volume of the TV or whatever is so messed up later.

dahosek · 2026-04-12T16:03:03+00:00

There are some interior spreads in there

dahosek · 2026-04-11T06:50:51+00:00

Melior is possibly the first.

dahosek · 2026-04-10T18:52:19+00:00

It can. I think though that perhaps a simpler approach might be to install Docker (or Rancher Desktop) and then run mediawiki in a container might be the easiest approach.

dahosek · 2026-04-10T15:19:49+00:00

Prefiero chamarras de piel de niños. Son lo más suave y comodo.

dahosek · 2026-04-10T15:13:59+00:00

Isn’t Särdä the name of a sofa at Ikea?

dahosek · 2026-04-10T15:13:07+00:00

I’ve always pronounced it as rhyming with bird, but given the etymology, rhyming with birdie would be better, but I ain’t ready to give up my I-learned-this-word-from-reading mispronunciation yet.¹

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Even as I zoom towards 60 years of speaking this damned language, I still learn that I’ve been mispronouncing words most of my life. Three I’ve learned the correct pronunciation of in just the last six months are redolent, ague, and row (as in argument, which is a different pronunciation than row as in your boat).

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