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by girzel 8y ago
Out of everything you've said, my only takeaway is that og:image is useful for Facebook and Twitter. I'll happily admit that's true, and I use it on my own sites. Otherwise... What does "MUCH more reliable" even mea
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by girzel 8y ago
The Scandinavia influence is showing: they have allemansrecht.
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by girzel 8y ago
> what we've been able to predict by mathematical inference Or purely mathematical intuition.
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by girzel 8y ago
I got a cast iron Lodge pizza pan (iron, not steel), admittedly in large part because I have a cast iron fetish. It was cheap, has served excellently for making pizzas, and doubles as an extraordinarily large griddle for making bulk pancake
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by girzel 8y ago
If I had disposable income I'd get a https://ooni.com/
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by girzel 8y ago
For anything larger than a medium-sized single-file script, I use pipenv. It's basically a tie-in between pip and virtualenv, and in my opinion is ideal for creating isolated environments quickly, intuitively, and reproducibly. I haven
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by girzel 8y ago
Is that dom.webnotifications.enabled? God I hope so, I don't know why I didn't look there sooner to turn off this crap.
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by girzel 8y ago
We've got a neti-pot-like thing that comes with a built-in filter. I don't worry about it past that.
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by girzel 8y ago
One of my four-month-old daughter's nicknames is Baby Octagon. She's destructive.
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by girzel 8y ago
I had a migraine a couple of months ago that I thought was a stroke. I didn't even really have a headache, just suddenly had tingling in my hands, and limited vision. I pulled by bike to the side of the road and sat down on the grass,
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by girzel 8y ago
Right, I think there's a distinction to be made between education-based cultural continuity ("we all learn Tang poetry in school") and personal cultural continuity ("I learned this knowledge/value/principle fro
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by girzel 8y ago
Knuth goes in the "old books" category (meant positively).
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by girzel 8y ago
The writing is a little ambiguous, but I read that more as saying that, as a foreigner, he simply wasn't part of the "real monks'" training regimen. He doesn't say if he tried to get in and wasn't welcome, or p
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by girzel 8y ago
Now I can't decide if 在地上 is really necessary to get in there. If so, the first line is: "A screw drops to the ground" And the last: "A man dropped to the ground"
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by girzel 8y ago
Here's my version! The only regret is the "man", which in Chinese should be "person", but "person" has always seemed so poetically dead, to my sense. 《一颗螺丝掉在地上》 A Screw Drops 一颗螺丝掉在地上 A screw drops 在这个加班的夜
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by girzel 8y ago
You're not alone.
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by girzel 8y ago
FWIW, I have the same complaint about OsmAnd on Android. I can zoom right in to a street, so I there's essentially nothing else on the screen, and it will still only show me the name occasionally .
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by girzel 8y ago
Aw, it wasn't meant to be shade! Just the best assessment I could make. They are definitely comparable in the sense that they are both creators of categories. Edit: Tolkien is also dead.
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by girzel 8y ago
Try translating 江湖! That's what really stumps us.
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by girzel 8y ago
"The Tolkien of Chinese literature" is a marketing phrase produced by the English publisher, and while I totally understand the impetus, I don't think it's quite accurate. Tolkien melded multiple cultural traditions (the
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by girzel 8y ago
I'm a translator from the Chinese. Yan Lianke has had a couple of different translators, and his writing reads completely differently in different cases. I would recommend trying Cindy Carter's Dream of Ding Village -- I think she
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by girzel 8y ago
WeChat is meant to be the only real app on your phone. They are essentially aiming to replace your phone, the way that AOL tried to be "the internet". So they don't really care if the app occupies your whole phone -- that&#x2
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by girzel 8y ago
My brother put his (Seattle) house on the market about a month too late. What he was expecting to move in days took two months, and at a significant reduction in price. Something definitely changed around mid/late-summer.
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by girzel 8y ago
Wait until you're 40! The things that are important to you will make themselves known. I'm 40 and have decided the things that matter are my family, writing, piano, taiji, and baking, in that order. A short list, but each one of t
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by girzel 8y ago
I think the main problem with the author of the article is that he's still essentially reacting passively to the world around him. He's acting in response to things that bump up against him -- maybe he's trying to assess whet
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by girzel 8y ago
I agree here: liking Murakami is no guarantee of liking other contemporary Japanese authors (as you can gather from the article in question).
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by girzel 8y ago
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata might be up your alley. It's a (little) bit Murakami-esque, and I hear that her upcoming translations are even weirder, which I'm looking forward to.
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by girzel 8y ago
Going to Walgreens with a hangover sounds like way more work than five minutes fumbling with measuring cups in my kitchen.
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by girzel 8y ago
How are these things different from home-made rehydration solutions? Basically it's sugar and salt in a specific proportion, right? Or are the salts more complicated than what you have available in your average kitchen cupboard?
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by girzel 8y ago
Hmmm, with pull-stops to activate various minor modes...

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