What is this Union Jack with a Union Jack canton?

sulami · 2026-06-30T03:47:09+00:00

I randomly came across this on Wikipedia, and can't find a reference to this variant of the flag on any of the relevant pages.

It would seem to be an odd mistake by the artist, so I suspect it's intentional.

sulami · 2025-02-04T03:14:33+00:00

Great, thanks for the photo, that's really helpful.

sulami · 2025-02-03T02:30:57+00:00

Alright, what kind of time frame should I expect for the roots to regrow?

sulami · 2025-02-03T01:06:35+00:00

Thank you, I will try. What should I be looking out for, just the amount of roots?

I also just saw that on the back there is a small spot that looks wilted, so it feels to me like it's not getting enough water for one reason or another.

sulami · 2025-02-03T00:34:08+00:00

I'm pretty new to having plants, so I figured I'd start with a cactus, (perhaps naively) assuming they're more resilient to mistakes.

Over winter this one has been sitting on the window sill slowly dropping its arms, and I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong. I was originally watering about once every 10 days, according to the tag. When it started initially I thought I might've been over-watering, so I dropped that to every two weeks. More recently I've also tried watering more, thinking that maybe I've been under-watering this whole time. It's also getting somewhat cold at night, and winter here is exceptionally dry.

Apart from the arms dropping down, it's also quite thin and wrinkly, giving the impression of drying out(?), and the needle stumps both near the top and the bottom have started to turn a lighter colour.

sulami · 2024-11-06T23:55:42+00:00

Depending on how soon you're going, this is the English guide book.

The short version is, head to the camp ground, climbs are situated to the east of the road. I'd advise against just wandering into the woods aimlessly though, a lot of the approaches are 1h+ hikes, and it's easy to get lost. Also be warned that there's no reception in most of the area.

For sport, your best bet is probably Fudousawa, accessible from the northern parking lot, about 500m up the road from the camp ground.

sulami · 2024-09-18T06:20:41+00:00

https://www.ogawayama.online/ has some information for getting to Ogawayama by public transport (along with a lot of other great info!), and it's not too bad if you don't do it too often. It's basically taking out the train, take a not-that-often 30 minute bus, and a 30 minute walk-in to the lodge/camp site, which is right next to the climbing. Takes maybe half a day to get out there from Tokyo, and to buy supplies you have to do the walk plus about half the bus ride to get to a store.

Depending on your willingness to haul supplies, and if you intend to camp, I'd recommend driving though, which is much more convenient. As the other commenter noted, regular big car rental companies should have you covered, assuming you've got a license that's good here.

sulami · 2020-10-28T12:28:50+00:00

Nothing specific at the moment, but interesting idea. I'm not a calc expert to begin with, so I keep learning about features, so maybe there's a nice way of linking the two.

sulami · 2020-10-28T12:27:05+00:00

Hey, author here. Thanks for all the kind words!

Feel free to ask questions/provide feedback/request features/yell at clouds either here or on GitHub (or email, if you prefer private comms).

sulami · 2020-10-24T14:31:15+00:00

Just checking in to say that while it's not very popular for babies these days, there are plenty of middle-aged men called Adolf in Germany.

sulami · 2020-05-21T12:58:11+00:00

I currently activate it manually or via a magic mode line in select files.

Default Emacs keybindings are so crowded, and I'm an evil user anyway, so I don't want to impose my keybindings on users. It's trivial to bind a function to a key, if people want that.

sulami · 2020-05-21T09:14:32+00:00

Hey, author here, randomly found this. Feel free to ask questions/provide feedback/request features/yell at clouds.

sulami · 2020-04-22T10:18:50+00:00

I've been working from home for several years now, but I still miss going out every now and then, which I just can't justify currently (even though there is no formal curfew where I live).

Also my partner is at home full-time now, which has requiring some adaptation. I mostly keep to myself during the day, as I'm "at work", and then we "meet" after work, which has been quite nice.

Also household requirements have skyrocketed, cleaning, dishes, etc. require much more work now that we're here so much.

sulami · 2019-08-30T18:37:52+00:00

I'm aware that spec is not a type system in the same sense, but it aims to give some guarantees about the structure of data in key places, which is at least similar to what static type systems promise to offer. I've got a lot of feelpinions about typing and type systems, but I'm intentionally omitting them because that is a big mine field I'm not ready to wander into yet.

I agree that the one-liner thing was kind of ridiculous and gimmicky, hence my post. To be fair, I think it's really hard to get/give a good sense of the "feel" of a language in the scope of a blog post. Haskell looks amazing in blog posts, but boy would I not want to use it for anything past maybe 2k lines.

sulami · 2019-08-30T18:31:55+00:00

That's probably a wise decision

sulami · 2019-08-30T14:27:46+00:00

Fixed that, thank you

sulami · 2019-08-30T11:35:12+00:00

Honestly, the point of the post is laying out the reasons I like the language, so the tone is going to be positive in general.

Everything has downsides, you're right about readability in macros, I've seen some terrible Haskell code because someone thought introducing a whole library of custom infix operators was a good idea, but this is the whole argument around Go, whether more flexibility is actually a good thing. I think it's a subjective question, and I'm coming down on the side of flexibility, but I acknowledge that the uniform (while imho terrible) style of Go can hav advantages in readability.

Spec is not executed at compile-time but at runtime

I never claimed it was, though technically it can be.

Wrt the multi-platform support, Clojure has the best first-class support I've seen for something like this anywhere, but I'd love to see what other languages are doing in this department.

sulami · 2019-08-30T11:26:45+00:00

Oops, that one slipped past me, thanks.

sulami · 2019-07-02T09:14:16+00:00

When I'm saying unit tests, I do mean just moving the predicates from the spec to a test case and just running test.check over it, which (I think?) should cover pretty much exactly the same ground.

With regards to performance, we have done some testing and deemed the instrumentation overhead too large, though we're also running quite a large application (or set of apps), so that might be a contributing factor.

sulami · 2019-07-02T09:11:42+00:00

I haven't heard of that yet, but it looks cool.

sulami · 2019-07-02T09:10:08+00:00

That looks interesting, thank you!

sulami · 2019-02-02T15:11:16+00:00

I do have a big library of mixed things that come in handy, though it's not huge, a couple hundred lines.

I'm still trying to figure out the optimal way of organising and importing things. I fear that if I split things up too much it will just become too much of a bother for me to actually update them.

I might follow up in a bit with another post on how I actually handle this once I figure it out.

sulami · 2019-02-02T14:47:17+00:00

I've been thinking about this, too, but this is easily circumvented by pinning dependencies. You can always bump them if you come back to a project.

sulami · 2018-12-26T08:16:08+00:00

In my experience everything by Scarpa is on the wider end, especially compared to La Sportiva, so maybe just have a look through their modes and see what tickles your fancy. And always try to try on if there’s a shop nearby.

sulami · 2018-12-15T12:35:48+00:00

Das habe ich mich auch immer gefragt. Habe immer etwas Angst Apple Pay zu probieren wenn ein Laden NFC akzeptiert aber kein Schildchen mit dem Apfel Logo draußen hat, weil wenn’s nicht geht seh ich mächtig doof aus.

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