geowwy

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by geowwy 7y ago
There is a nativist/anti-mainlander/anti-mandarin-speaker aspect to the protests that isn't being talked about by Western media. Once you realise that it starts to become less clear cut.
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by geowwy 7y ago
If you support Hong Kong's struggle for democracy, please don't turn your back on Puerto Rico's. The US has denied Puerto Ricans democratic rights for almost 120 years now.
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by geowwy 7y ago
He means the guy with a hammer looks like a Hong Kong-er's stereotype of a mainlander.
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by geowwy 7y ago
Usually it's a mixture. Same thing happens in the West, except in the West it's usually NGOs instead of governments themselves.
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by geowwy 7y ago
The point is that mob justice is bad, not that those things are good.
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by geowwy 7y ago
> If it had been SQL it would have been easy to drop in another database. Not true at all. Way too many organisations are locked into Oracle just because it's too hard to switch to something cheaper.
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by geowwy 7y ago
I doubt the PLA will march into Hong Kong. 1989 was seen as an existential threat to the CCP. The HK protests are not.
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by geowwy 7y ago
> Marketing at its best, they want everyone to be fully aware of > their capabilities. Wouldn't be surprised if they were > overstated, so as to keep citizens in check. The marketing is aimed at foreign countries
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by geowwy 7y ago
It's not that bad IMO
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by geowwy 7y ago
I found mapping Caps to Ctrl caused too much RSI. It's better to use a full size keyboard and use two hands for keyboard combos, e.g. for Ctrl+A use right Ctrl, for Ctrl+N use left Ctrl, for Ctrl+E use right control. Takes a little whi
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by geowwy 7y ago
I always think it's better to go back to the original source material, so here's the white paper mentioned: http://english.gov.cn/archive/white_paper/2019/07/24/content... The basic messag
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by geowwy 7y ago
> Young people are an excellent fit for technology jobs. They > are quick to pick up new tech, enthusiastic, energetic, > open minded. I just wonder much we really gain from all these new languages and frameworks. Do th
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by geowwy 7y ago
> Even the average person today would have been considered a genius compared to someone born in 1919 If you didn't already suspect that IQ is a load of crap, this sentence should tip you off. Can you really imagine a 100 IQ
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Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the info he wants? (2011)(serverfault.com)
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Industrial seed oils are making us sick(chriskresser.com)
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by geowwy 7y ago
I would probably only make a token effort to contact the owner – $13.45 isn't very much. I would make proper effort if the wallet contained more money or a drivers license or bank cards. But around here no one is going to miss $13.45 a
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by geowwy 7y ago
I use AdGuard too. It does the job.
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by geowwy 7y ago
It's not really supposed to teach anything, just foment a general loathing towards guys who build their identity around being a doting husband.
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by geowwy 7y ago
I love Crystal. I'm really enjoying the type system and the the introduction of tuples and named tuples (instead of just using arrays and hashes everywhere). It makes it so much easier to reason about your code and catch common bugs.
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by geowwy 7y ago
I used fish for a while. It was nice but way too many compatibility issues. Zsh is a nice compromise.
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by geowwy 7y ago
The nesting makes it look similar but Shoes isn't declarative so it works very differently under the hood
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by geowwy 7y ago
Ruby and Python aren’t any more productive than C# or Java in my opinion. Especially when you consider the errors static typing helps you avoid.
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by geowwy 7y ago
How do you figure that?
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by geowwy 7y ago
> Also I re-read his tweets and I can't find the part where > it's clearly stated that transfat are used I don't think he's saying Beyond Burgers contain trans fats. I think he's saying Beyond Meats
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by geowwy 7y ago
Local traditions like headhunting? The Naga were headhunters before converting to Christianity, National Geographic has a clip about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLs-UoqzLlU
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by geowwy 7y ago
The stock market geniuses probably enjoy their work. I imagine it's exciting and pays well. Can't say the same about academic work.
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by geowwy 7y ago
It's worth mentioning that cities traditionally were shared with free-roaming cats and dogs. It's only recently that we've taken them off the streets. I'm often dismissed as some kind of a troll for advocating the reintr
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by geowwy 7y ago
The majority of people throughout all history have believed in the supernatural. If you're one of them then this is probably the best explanation for the UFO phenomena. None of the naturalistic explanations are 100% satisfying. As a si
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by geowwy 7y ago
I'm underwhelmed. It fits age, sex, ethnicity and face shape. The part it does well is age, sex and ethnicity. It's not really surprising that voice can give those away. Most people can guess those correctly from a voice sample. F
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by geowwy 7y ago
An example is the Hagia Sophia which had a lot of reinforcements added after the original design was found to be unstable. The building you see today is not how it was originally designed to look, not just because of the minarets.

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