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by k_sze 4y ago
I'm in the South though. XD
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by k_sze 4y ago
No coverage of Mainland China is a HUGE bummer for me.
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by k_sze 4y ago
During the Brexit debacle, I joked with my Scottish ex-boss that, one day, Scotland will leave the UK, rejoin the EU, and then reabsorb the UK. And then the UK will be renamed United Kingdom of Scotland instead of United Kingdom of Great Br
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by k_sze 4y ago
You don't know that they are the same group.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Note, however, that in some places, it is OK to combine the name + title for disambiguity, instead of relying solely on the attachment of an ordinal number. e.g. for your father's sister, who is the 3rd child, you could say either: - 三
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by k_sze 4y ago
Given that spoken Urdu is supposedly very similar to spoken Hindi except some vocabulary stemming from religious differences, does what you describe apply in Hindi? If not, I wonder what cultural insight a difference might reveal.
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by k_sze 4y ago
I was hoping for more RAM, like 8 GiB.
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“How do you (I) know?” “Why should they be trusted?” “How do they know?” “What motive(s) could they have behind their claims?” “Do they have an agenda? Who funds them?” “Are there gaps in the story?” “There are lots of people saying the s
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by k_sze 4y ago
Now you're giving them ideas.
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by k_sze 4y ago
I believe an unmentioned counterside to the above question is: how old can you afford to start getting into mathematics in order to still be able to make great discoveries?
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by k_sze 4y ago
iNaturalist as a Pokémon Go style game. - take photos of animals/plants/fungi, upload them to iNaturalist, and submit a correct identification in order to "capture" them. - the initial CP of your "captured pet"
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by k_sze 4y ago
Not suddenly. Lots of people have spent effort to criticize and debunk his stuff for a long time, if you know where to look.
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Xinjiang stories the West turns a blind eye to(news.cgtn.com)
1 points by k_sze 4y ago|0 comments
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Wimbledon stripped of ranking points after banning Russians and Belarusians(dailymail.co.uk)
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China launches quantum-secured, 'unhackable' smartphone(chinadaily.com.cn)
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by k_sze 4y ago
Relay attacks (not specific to BLE) had been demonstrated at least more than 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608452 The lesson should have been to 1) pick or come up with an adequate protocol that includ
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by k_sze 4y ago
In Quebecois French as well, "mongol" can be a pejorative for someone with DS. (That's because "Mongolian idiocy" is the obsolete medical term for DS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idi
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by k_sze 4y ago
> It's definitely not "human nature" to feel envy towards your friends and family. Let me tell you how I had envied my cousin when he had a Super Famicom (a.k.a. SNES in North America) with a stash of great games and I did
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by k_sze 4y ago
> especially not if it makes me sad. Now I wonder whether you're pulling my leg.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Maybe social media gives you a much more concentrated feed of things that can trigger your inferiority complex, compared to normal, real-life social interactions? And if you have to resort to unfollowing, you’re basically agreeing that it
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by k_sze 4y ago
This is not even the first time, if we look at the car industry. Possibly different wireless protocol, but same idea: proximity without (tight-enough) time-of-flight check. How has Tesla not learned the lesson?
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by k_sze 4y ago
I believe the argument would be that social media exacerbates the problem.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Maybe you’re lucky to not be plagued by inferiority complex and/or impostor syndrome.
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by k_sze 4y ago
One could be “happy”* for a friend and also feel shitty about themself. “Damn. Matthew has changed jobs 3 times in the past 5 years already, each time to a better paying job. Look at you. You’re still stuck in this shitty job because you su
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by k_sze 4y ago
Speaking of ChiFi, the latest Fiio flagship portable DAP, the M17, looks like what happens when your industrial engineer has a mental breakdown and completely loses his shit. The thing is thick and dissipates so much heat that they have an
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by k_sze 4y ago
I blame it on machine translation. DeepL, for example, fails hilariously with certain inputs. I once got it to mistranslate things like these: - "孔明" (Kongming, the genius strategist/statesman from China's Three Kingdoms
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by k_sze 4y ago
Not necessarily. Most businesses don’t go out of their way to look for unemployed people (e.g. the random beggar at the corner of the street who seems at least physically fit for light manual labour) to employ. If you are physically, mental
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by k_sze 4y ago
That's what I don't understand as well. Where is the conflict of interest in the case of the mayor of Lima? Why is there such a rule against that?
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by k_sze 4y ago
How do you learn electronics when you don’t have access to a lab? I live in HK, where real estate is at a premium. I’m a family of 4 people, living in a 700 sq-ft home with no garage. (And I’m reckoned to be on the fortunate side of things.
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Tools for a Culture of Writing (2021)(matt.blwt.io)
123 points by k_sze 4y ago|25 comments

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