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by goblin89 7y ago
Interestingly enough, if you aren’t familiar with the location, there’s no foolproof method to tell whether it’s morning or evening by light alone. There may be cues, like if it’s a city then the properties of light could reflect the denser
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by goblin89 7y ago
On my own I could only translate the word on the left, “狗官”. The first character means “dog”, the second one means “officer” (that one is the same as in “警官”, which means “police officer”).
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by goblin89 7y ago
SCMP, it’s a pro-PRC publication but the footage seems to check out. The store pictured is in Mong Kok, this area has seen major unrest today. https://twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1185930191039655938 I wouldn’t
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Vandalized Xiaomi Store in Hong Kong(video.twimg.com)
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by goblin89 7y ago
I’m sure it depends on location, but there is the opportunistic crime—if home owners are away, probe the door to see whether it’s locked, get in and grab something if not. Routers and mass scans are somewhat similar.
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by goblin89 7y ago
If you are looking to replace the 32-bit-only Aperture with something else for photo editing on Catalina and don’t like Adobe’s subscription model, you may want to consider Capture One. It is actively supported, has the “buy and own” option
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by goblin89 7y ago
The damage from an unpatched router can be pretty far-reaching, especially in cases where it can be exploited over Internet (not sure about this one, but some other D-Link vulnerabilities reportedly could). I find it regrettable that the ar
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by goblin89 7y ago
Google Translate, Maps work in China, for example. Google Maps in particular, when viewed within the country, follows ruling party line on where to draw the borders[0], though it is not a practice they apply to China exclusively. [0] https
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by goblin89 7y ago
> Chinese political censorship is much, much older Since 20th century, isn’t it? Or are there any historical sources confirming that political censorship across provinces of China under Qing dynasty was comparable to the one currently un
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by goblin89 7y ago
I was only pointing out that the new MSFS has whole-planet terrain and many thousands airports, like X-Plane. Whether the terrain looks better or not I don't know and frankly don’t care that much, it probably heavily depends on the set
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by goblin89 7y ago
Apparently the author of that article is considered pro-PRC in HK, as he supports the Greater Bay Area idea. Uhm. On the merits, though, some of what he writes makes sense.
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by goblin89 7y ago
Depends on their near-term goals. If dismantling HK’s SAR status is on the list, make sure that protests in Hong Kong remain violent and feature people waving flags of USA. Use that as an excuse to intervene in order to fight terrorism and&
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by goblin89 7y ago
Yes, it’s really cool to be able to look up online the actual real-world area and airport charts with radio frequencies and all, plan your flight with something like SkyVector (free, no affiliation), and then reproduce it fully in the sim w
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by goblin89 7y ago
I use a flight sim (X-Plane, though) with mouse and keyboard alone. For me it’s mostly about navigation realism and IFR, most of the time I’m adjusting heading bug and watching needles on the instruments, takeoff/landing and emergencie
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by goblin89 7y ago
TL;DR: New MS Flight Simulator features overhauled flight model, bringing it closer to (or up to par with) X-Plane; overhauled whole-planet scenery (again, parity with XP); still apparently no cross-platform support. I’m a happy user of X-P
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by goblin89 7y ago
I’ve been using HN Replies for years and have nothing to say against it. Clean, only minimal functionality, delivery is prompt—kudos to maintainer.
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by goblin89 7y ago
Parts of the article are intensely horrifying. I almost wish there was a warning.
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by goblin89 7y ago
Like I wrote—it is my personal (and layperson’s to boot) view, I can only cite sources that treat them as unrelated emotions. I distinguish between fear as in immediate flight response, and fear as in deeper insecurity or non-obvious harm a
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by goblin89 7y ago
What about aiming not in the chest at least? Would a bullet in a foot have enough stopping power, without being so short of lethal outcome?
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by goblin89 7y ago
Why does anger exist? Personally I can’t see how anger can be anything else but a manifestation of certain underlying fear as a defensive response. (That said, those emotions seem to be conventionally recognized as mostly unrelated.)
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by goblin89 7y ago
> instead if getting beaten up To be fair, the comment you’re responding to is implying worse outcome than getting beaten up, claiming that the kid & his weapon posed lethal danger to an officer who was defenseless on the ground at t
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by goblin89 7y ago
> remained fighting Without interruption? Then I stand corrected. I imagine the point would be to confound, give the time to extract the officer from immediate danger, not to immobilize the attacker entirely with a rubber bullet. (And yo
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by goblin89 7y ago
> warrants the officer acting in self-defense I question the appropriateness of using a firearm with conventional lethal ammunition. A rubber bullet in lower body would have had enough stopping power. What happened looks like a blatant v
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by goblin89 7y ago
> you want to set the height of a div (i.e. an image) so it covers the whole landing area (what the user sees when the site loads) I believe “what the user sees when the site loads” is often referred to as “above-the-fold”. “Landing area
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by goblin89 7y ago
The one I took seemed like a somewhat new(ish) model both from inside and outside, but I’m hazy on details and wouldn’t be able to find a photo of it now. It was an enjoyable ride! (EDIT: Four tables sounds about right[0], but it was still
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by goblin89 7y ago
Last time I’ve been to a dining car was on a Budapest—Vienna train a few years back. My personal opinion on this, having a dedicated dining car (A) reduces the probability of fellow passengers eating in their seats around me and (B) provide
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by goblin89 7y ago
Hello from HK as well! I stand corrected as far as the date of signing the document goes.
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by goblin89 7y ago
In the part that I quoted “power”, I believe, stands for economical strength. How can it be useful or at all correct to count economical strength of, say, Kazakhstan (as another example) as part of Russia’s stats, if the former is developin
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by goblin89 7y ago
> Some countries simply can't exist in the long term, especially when they're right next to a much larger party with designs on them - doubly so if there's some sort of history. Ukraine was/is one. If we expand the Uk
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by goblin89 7y ago
> Counting the power of Taiwan for China and Ukraine for Russia is likely more predictive of the future than not counting them. More predictive in what regard? The only way I can see it being usefully predictive is if you count on the la

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