Hetare King

Doesn’t uv just use PyPI for its packages (i.e. it’s not talking to any servers owned by them)? There’s the possibility of hijinks on the client side, of course, but it would be hard to do without anyone noticing and causing a huge stink about it.

I’d say the more worrying aspects of uv is the use of AI in its development even before OpenAI bought them out and what’s going to happen to it after OpenAI eventually goes under.

Kami meaning god and kami* meaning paper do have different pitch accent patterns, but that’s never kept Japanese speakers from doing wordplay. In fact, the pun works even better in Japanese than it does in English. However, I think they would be confused why someone would want to name it that for a couple of reasons:

1. The suicide bombers from WW2 would probably not be the first thing on their mind when hearing the word “kamikaze”. In the first place, the reason they were called kamikaze was because they were likened to the “divine wind” that prevented the Mongols from invading Japan twice. And the few times I’ve actually heard “kamikaze” being used in Japanese, it’s always used figuratively.
2. It’s not actually made of folded paper. This is danbooru kurafuto (cardboard crafts), not origami.

*) It becomes “gami” in “origami” because it’s the second part of a compound word, but the word on its own is “kami”.

EDIT: I just realised something: the company making these is called AirKamuy. “Kamuy” is the Ainu word for god. So if you squint real hard, it does kind of invoke kamikaze. Probably not intentional, though.

“Mikan” on its own typically refers to citrus unshiu, but it’s also the name of a larger family of citruses that includes oranges (in fact, oranges are on the chart: of the four surrounding the big one in the middle, it’s the one on the lower left). It’s like how when you say “onion”, you probably mean the bulbous vegetable with the papery skin, but “onions” also includes green onions, welsh onions, leeks etc.

Well, that’s what the text says, anyway. It describes “Kahiitan” Golovinn as 7 shaku (30.3cm) and 2 sun (1/10 shaku) tall, and whatshisface behind him 7 shaku tall. But it’s most likely an exaggeration.

I looked some things up. This drawing depicts the Golovnin Incident and the person in front is Vasily Golovnin. Not sure how they got “Karoitan” from that, but anyway.
I can’t find anything about his height, but I imagine if he really was 2.18 meters tall, it would be written down everywhere, so it’s probably exaggerated.

EDIT: I misread, it’s not Karoitan, it’s Kahitan, meaning they thought his name was “captain”.

Karoitan (?) and Movoiri (?) here are apparently 2.18 and 2.12 meters tall, which is huge even by modern standards, so if those measurements are accurate, the height difference between them and their captors might not be that much of an embellishment as it looks.