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by k_sze 4y ago
For those curious: you can see that they drew the top part of the crown first, if you zoom in enough.
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by k_sze 4y ago
I'm Chinese and I love bitter gourd. It's one of our staple vegetables and we have multiple cultivars of it for different levels of bitterness, crunchiness, etc. Some dishes we often make: bitter gourd slices stir-fried with bee
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by k_sze 4y ago
Am I the only one who thought this would be used for some “unconventional” cuisine before opening the link?
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by k_sze 4y ago
Part of the reason this was all acceptable in the LAN party era was that you were having fun together with friends while dealing with the annoyances. You could curse, you could laugh, and you could eat pizza together while you were wres
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by k_sze 4y ago
The problem with even the flat-bottom wok or concave cooktop is that you’re still missing out on some wok cooking techniques. E.g. flambé, wok tilting (for concentrating on a thick/stubborn part of a fish), wok throwing (do you want to
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by k_sze 4y ago
Hah! We Chinese (generally) swear by open flame cooking! Induction/heating element doesn’t add the same flavour. In rural areas that still use firewood, we can tell the different flavours given by wood from different trees. You don’t n
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by k_sze 4y ago
like PhD-level postmodernism essays, right?
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by k_sze 4y ago
It gives me great relief to know that we’re still very VERY far from the singularity.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Wait, you don’t have that in your country? Voice-announced floors is pretty much universal in China. In Hong Kong, it’s also done in three languages. The current direction (up or down) of the elevator is also announced. There are exceptions
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by k_sze 4y ago
That would have costed extra and made things more complicated for the crew who assembles the setup at the venues.
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by k_sze 4y ago
It is a problem if the device does not expose any unique ID and you somehow need to depend on the device path enumeration. For instance, I used to work on a project where I needed to control multiple Epson thermal printers from a single Ras
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by k_sze 4y ago
As a side note, I've never understood why Windows and macOS updates take so long compared to Linux updates.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Reminds me of "Knights of Sidonia".
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by k_sze 4y ago
I find it relatively easy to remember, while also helping narrow down search results from most search engines.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Somehow this makes me think of the “Deck of Dragons” in “Malazan” because the faces can change.
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by k_sze 4y ago
I believe you are correct. Within the gravitational field around it, the whole Earth is in free fall and has no weight. The Earth has a mass , however.
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by k_sze 4y ago
I came here to say the same thing, but I'm gonna be an optimist and say that we'll get it by the 50th anniversary, not the 80th. We'll have MSFS in a form of VR that is not ergonomically awkward so that this is all possible.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Trying to find occurrences of “mouse”/“mice” in Alzheimer’s articles as soon as they show up on HN frontpage is now a meme of mine. PS: there is none this time, which is progress, I guess?
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by k_sze 4y ago
Strictly speaking, the wording isn't a call to violence. It's more like a prediction.
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by k_sze 4y ago
If the world wants a calendar system based on the cycles of nature, with very little political/religious baggage, there is the lunar calendar with the 24 solar terms, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese people.
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by k_sze 4y ago
This. Can we use anti-trust laws to break it up?
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by k_sze 4y ago
Strictly speaking, Li’s Field is (was?) his dad’s. Not sure whether Richard inherited it, and even if he did, whether he has mastered it to the same level as his dad. BTW, the Wikipedia article says “repels” tropical cyclones, but that seem
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by k_sze 4y ago
My bad. The problem also does not state that Mary has adequate eyesight to use a computer or that she even has access to electricity to power a computer. Life is so hard
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by k_sze 4y ago
You have LibreOffice nowadays.
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by k_sze 4y ago
I wonder if we could have a government body step in on the grounds of hostility towards consumers. I imagine this might be something the EU could do.
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by k_sze 4y ago
And if you think the practice is unethical, I would tell you that China is simply operating from a completely different frame of ethical reference. For China, every sport in the Olympics is a team sport, even the ones that are not explici
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by k_sze 4y ago
Right, if I correctly understand the page you linked, this concern about competition manipulation is relatively recent (less than 10 years ago), while the "scandal" surrounding Ye happened 20 years ago. Keeping in mind that the sc
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by k_sze 4y ago
I would say you are getting to the core of the issue: conflicting expectations and interests among the IOC, the hosting country, the sponsors, the individual athletes, the national teams, the spectators both at home and at the venue: -
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by k_sze 4y ago
I think one possible explanation is that this is a weird side effect of the modern games being heavily commercialized. If athletes just quit without a fight, spectators won’t like it and tickets won’t sell.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Celebration of excellence, yes. Just not personal excellence. The ancient Olympic games were already used as a political tool to assert dominance among Greek city-states. One of the points of the games since ancient Greece has been for th

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