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by k_sze 7y ago
It's funny. I have watched so much TV/anime with subtitles that I am now used to having them, even for shows with dialogue already in my mother tongue (Cantonese). Sometimes I watch TV and forget to turn on the subtitles, and I st
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by k_sze 7y ago
Good point, but I guess even voice-overs were (from a technological/economical stand-point) out of the question during those olden times. Hong Kong back then was not exactly known to be technologically advanced or even on par with the
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by k_sze 7y ago
Still common? Or was common?
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by k_sze 7y ago
Now that you mention it, I imagine that other Romance languages of continental Europe (e.g. Spanish and Portuguese) could work really well, too. How does German work? Is it possible that Germanic/Saxon languages aren't good for du
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by k_sze 7y ago
> All of the _hard_ parts are people being terribly clever to eek out the last bit of performance in a given technology. Is that a skill that's related to how you do optimisation in certain puzzle games? E.g. TIS-100, Opus Magnum, F
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by k_sze 7y ago
There's a quasi exception though: French dub of Japanese anime. For some reason, the French language's intonations work really well to accurately portray and convey the original tones in Japanese anime. e.g. Lupin III (the anime)
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by k_sze 7y ago
I don't understand the language in the video, but you mean like this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2sZoMgtEXY EDIT: so I guess it's only obsolete in some parts of the world.
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by k_sze 7y ago
Which makes me wonder: who would wake the knocker-upper so they go wake other people on time? Turtles all the way down. Or maybe a rooster?
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by k_sze 7y ago
Couldn't read that in Hong Kong because GoDaddy automatically redirects me to the hk.godaddy.com domain, which doesn't have that article. Update: If you are like me and can't see the article at your localised GoDaddy.com webs
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by k_sze 7y ago
Could you elaborate on the "better texts"? Can you give some examples and why/in what respect they are better than (David) Patterson's books? Or are those "better texts" the Ars Technica CPU reviews and manufac
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by k_sze 7y ago
Here is a fun one: film interpreter (解畫員 in Chinese/Cantonese) Many many years ago, foreign films (primarily from Hollywood and in English?) were becoming popular in Hong Kong, but the general populace was either too illiterate or didn
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by k_sze 7y ago
Tangentially related question: how does one learn "computer architecture" or "computer engineering" as a hobbyist ? I'm actually not even sure what those terms really mean. I'm amazed that people can build hom
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by k_sze 7y ago
Thanks!
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by k_sze 7y ago
And where does that auth-info-via-file-handle come from? I did a bit of duckduckgoing and couldn’t spot anything about that.
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by k_sze 7y ago
What does “DBJ” stand for?
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by k_sze 7y ago
Perhaps. But if I'm the proverbial twentieth person to ask the same question, it's probably a hint that it should be documented/explained prominently - maybe in a README, maybe as a comment in the source code, maybe some othe
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by k_sze 7y ago
A slight twist to this approach: "What if we tried using sshd here?" I think this would make it sound like you are on their side/on the same team, and that you are trying to help, not trying to mock them.
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by k_sze 7y ago
> My only frustration with this release announcement is dropping Python 3.5 support now. Because Python 3.5 is not EOL and used in LTS OS releases that have vendor support through 2021, this forces us to choose between our policy of supp
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by k_sze 7y ago
I think that if you frame it in the context of “class war”, it all makes sense. E.g. there is the Taiwan as corporate interests and Taiwan the people. The corporate interests don’t give a rat’s ass about who has ultimate sovereignty, or dem
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by k_sze 7y ago
I’d love the idea of “Twitch goes fishing”, where viewers vote to control the boat (heading, speed, the crane, etc). “Oh look! There’s a storm coming from the East!” Captain and seamen onboard panic as they watch the Twitch input stream.
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by k_sze 7y ago
But then it bursts people’s political and opinion bubbles, which is something Facebook might not want. Keeping people in bubbles is how Facebook keeps people browsing and wasting their time on Facebook. Because people like their bubbles.
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by k_sze 7y ago
Where are fiberglass and carbon fiber?
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by k_sze 7y ago
This needs to come with a Blip mode where the pods are not killed, but completely frozen/suspended for a period of time, and then you bring them back and see what happens.
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by k_sze 7y ago
How about giving the students a quiz first, one that doesn't count towards the students' grades, just to see where they stand in terms of CS/IT knowledge? You don't want to be developing a syllabus, only to realize that
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by k_sze 7y ago
Answering my own question: tracking protection breaks some of the examples because some of them try to pull scripts from, e.g. SoundCloud.
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by k_sze 7y ago
Some of the examples in this thread load up as empty for me. e.g. the Fluid Mosaic one. Anybody knows why?
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by k_sze 7y ago
What you are talking about is the "action". I don't think that really invalidates my point: good old democracy via voting may not be your preferred mode of political action, but you still need to be informed about issues so
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by k_sze 7y ago
I'm an avid reader of Chomsky. He often gets his sources from financial and foreign policy publications. I think I remember him writing something to the effect of: the best source of truthful journalism is in the finance and foreign
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by k_sze 7y ago
I'm afraid that in the bigger picture of modern media landscape, that's not going to have much of an effect. Let's say you disbar some John Doe so he cannot be hired by a news media organisation any more. There is still nothi
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by k_sze 7y ago
The problem is that, in order to protect the ones you love, especially their future, you need to make some important decisions like voting, joining protests when you need to, and maybe even trying to convince other people to vote for the sa

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