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by k_sze 6y ago
Or the interceptor in one of the GotS:SAC episodes.
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by k_sze 6y ago
GP completely flew over my head. Care to explain?
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by k_sze 6y ago
“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting) I really should be
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by k_sze 6y ago
I think an even higher level of thinking is to think thoroughly about the ways the system can fail. Idempotence just happens to be _one_ way of dealing with certain failure modes. As an engineer, the more exposure and experience you get, th
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by k_sze 6y ago
If you don't already know about Calibre, I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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by k_sze 6y ago
A counter anecdatum: I have been keeping a lone, unmated Pseudoneoponera rufipes queen since August 2020. Since she is unmated, she cannot produce any worker. She just keeps eating all the eggs she lays after a few days. I keep her in a tes
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by k_sze 6y ago
Maybe I'm just weird, but I believe that readable code is a prerequisite for correctness and security. Some people would argue that readable code is not needed for correctness and security if you have good test coverage. But I'd a
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by k_sze 6y ago
That’s interesting. I wonder if the teeth thus formed are recognizable/classifiable as molars/incisors/canines. If so, that could shed further light on the development of the normal teeth.
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by k_sze 6y ago
But that’s exactly what happened when HK was a British colony. People worked hard back then and built up HK. Besides, that's exactly the kind of thinking that makes people stuck: when all you can think of is how your hard work will ben
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by k_sze 6y ago
If the plot of "Saving Private Ryan" is to be viewed as realistic, then Little Spicy Pen Ball's conclusion is non sequitur. (I know it's fiction, but still.)
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Hurricane China as Viewed from Hong Kong(kalunite.net)
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by k_sze 6y ago
When I was in high school in Montréal, waaay back in 1995, our French teacher would tell us “qui écrit, lit deux fois” (“the one who writes, reads twice”), as a motto to encourage us to copy the texts we read via handwriting, instead of rea
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by k_sze 6y ago
Like I’ve said before, there need to be laws that require companies like Qualcomm to open source their stuff once they stop supporting them in any meaningful way.
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by k_sze 6y ago
What if Gödel never actually found a loophole but simply intentionally left behind a cryptic puzzle, with the influence of his celebrity friends, so that future generations will keep scrutinizing the constitution, watching it for dangerous
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by k_sze 6y ago
Same. :(
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by k_sze 6y ago
Yep. Opus evolved from merging SILK and CELT. It’s like magic. Unfortunately, adoption in the digital audiophile hardware world seems very low. E.g. none of the flagship digital audio players from FiiO, Shanling, Cowon, Astell&Kern has
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by k_sze 6y ago
I live in HK. 1.7M-2M is a really large exaggeration.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Then you add a step for adding the content hash as an environment variable in the installation instructions, and include the actual content hash as an _example_ ( wink wink ) in the documentation.
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by k_sze 6y ago
I wonder how much of this rhizophagy cycle applies to plants that don't really rely on the soil for nutrients. e.g. many of the insectivore plans (venus fly trap, pitcher plant, etc.). In fact, if you try to plant venus fly trap in ri
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by k_sze 6y ago
> But people are not getting irate customer phone calls or losing revenue because of product downtime due to this. It could be an indirect cause of irate calls because there’s a bug in production but the dev environment is broken by Dock
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by k_sze 6y ago
Still easier said than done. There are still many websites that break in weird ways because the developers don’t care about Firefox. I myself religiously use Firefox by default and only use Chrome if I bump into some websites don’t work in
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by k_sze 6y ago
That sounds really backwards, from an environmental point of view. I imagine that nowadays, anybody who can afford any smartphone already has access to some standard 5V USB power supply. In fact, for returning buyers of iPhone, I would
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by k_sze 6y ago
> My family’s genealogical book was mandated to be destroyed in the 1960s, hence I won’t able to tell my grandchildren which character was selected for his kids as my grandparents wasn’t able to recall the remaining. That sucks to hear.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Deng is a pretty big family name with many clans. Does your father or grand father still know the name of their Hall (堂號)? Alternatively, if you know a fragment of the poem, you can DuckDuckGo it and see.
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by k_sze 6y ago
I would suggest getting in touch with a local chapter of your clan association (宗親會). To those who are not Chinese: yes, “clan association” is a thing among the Chinese, especially among clans who are likely to have expats - e.g. clans from
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by k_sze 6y ago
I belong to Shi Lang’s clan and, traditionally, my clan has the second character following a poem bestowed by Emperor Kangxi for the recovery of Taiwan. It’s really cool when I bump into random Shi people, even some from Malaysia, and we ca
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by k_sze 6y ago
If you are interested in hacking, you might want to look into DLT1: https://hackaday.io/project/164845-dlt-one-a-damn-linux-tabl... It's not completed yet, but it's already looking awesome. Timon (a.k.a. Prof
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by k_sze 6y ago
Unicorn was seriously epic. The opening battle between the Stark Jegan and Kshatriya has to be one of the most blood-boiling battles in the Gundam universe. Hiroyuki Sawano’s music also really helped.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Does ibus work seamlessly in Wayland yet? As a person who regularly needs to input French, Chinese, and Japanese, besides English, I tried Wayland in Kubuntu 20.04 and a non-working ibus was a complete showstopper for me.
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by k_sze 6y ago
You need to have bigger ambitions. Let's turn the whole planet into a crypto experiment. We can change the name of the planet Earth to ... Crypton.

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