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by spacehunt 5y ago
Before PulseAudio there was ESD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_Sound_Daemon
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by spacehunt 5y ago
Singapore COVID-19 contact-tracing data accessible to police https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-singap...
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by spacehunt 5y ago
I wouldn't say it's "very few", all flights from HKG to LHR are fully booked despite the ongoing pandemic.
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by spacehunt 5y ago
> What westerners do not understand is that the 2019 riots in HK are motivated by hatred toward Chinese mainlanders who have risen in wealth in recent decades and to whom HK residents have historically felt superior. No it was not. Stop
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by spacehunt 5y ago
date-fns's insistence on using the native Date object makes handling timezones horrible and error-prone though. Luxon is much better in this regard.
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by spacehunt 5y ago
HK can easily afford desalination (especially since the mainland water is quite costly), but of course the Chinese occupation won't ever let that happen.
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by spacehunt 5y ago
They use country-level data for many factors, including for "Inclusivity & Tolerance". Having also lived in both cities, it's clear why this list is flawed.
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by spacehunt 5y ago
This is a very weird list. I'll just comment on the places I've lived and worked in: - Why is Hong Kong even on the list? - Sydney and Melbourne: expensive; Internet is both low bandwidth and high latency; lack of travel destinati
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by spacehunt 5y ago
When you click Download you are given the list of supported platforms.
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by spacehunt 5y ago
Wait, isn't Porkbun based out of Portland?
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by spacehunt 6y ago
The browser in S60 phones was actually WebKit. In fact it was Nokia that started the work of fitting WebKit into memory-constrained devices.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
> I d be more interested to move on and start discussing how we elect the president of our country now that we all agree we should be patriotic ;) I take this as evidence that you are planning to overthrow the current government? You do
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by spacehunt 6y ago
> In Hong Kong, the most common thing I heard was vaguely racist grumblings about mainlanders. People were unhappy with mainlanders behaving in an "uncivil" manner. There was a majority acknowledgement of China's sovereign
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by spacehunt 6y ago
I'm also in HK. Keep in mind that there are solid walls and floorings between my home and other apartments and buildings. I can count 67 APs right now.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
Here's a popular, commercial Japanese IME: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATOK
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by spacehunt 6y ago
There's been a very noticeable drop in quality in The Age's reporting though. And then there was this back in June: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/14/journalists-at... https:/
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by spacehunt 6y ago
https://www.afr.com/rear-window/is-news-corp-still-paying-ze... > ... there’s the withholding tax [News Australia Holdings] pays on interest it pays to a News Corp associate offshore, which News likes to lump in wit
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by spacehunt 6y ago
This is only because almost all native Cantonese speakers are trained to read and write in Standard Chinese from the very beginning. Standard Chinese can be spoken in Cantonese, but while understandable, it is never done, in contrast to Man
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by spacehunt 6y ago
The context you're missing is that in Australia, the "big monopoly" is News Corp and not FAANG.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
If you look a few lines down in the same infobox, you'll see its parent is "News Corp" which is in the US.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
> Xi was praised by majority of mainlanders because he lifted the country out of poverty. No, CCP is the entity people often attribute China's economic rise to. And even that is not completely correct; Deng opened up the market a bi
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by spacehunt 6y ago
> a leader who violated the national security law As a Hong Konger, I'm always amused by how much influence the CCP thinks Jimmy Lai / Apple Daily / Next Media wields. Inciting riots? Really? Can you point to a single Appl
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by spacehunt 6y ago
Airtable is closer to a database than a spreadsheet. Records are represented as rows in their default grid view, but there are other views available. They can also be retrieved as JSON objects through the API that Airtable automatically gen
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by spacehunt 6y ago
Airtable has a hard limit of 50,000 records across all tables in a base though.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
He did not start the Linux Foundation.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
Little known fact: Motorola's Dragonball series of CPUs, used in the original Palm, was designed by Motorola's lab in Hong Kong.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
That's... not what happened. LF was formed by merging the FSG and OSDL. Only then did the combined entity have sufficient funding to hire Linus.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
Did you even read the article? It's about Trump defunding OTF, which funds Signal.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
Ctrl-K goes to the search field. It's easy to remember because the shortcut for the URL/Omnibar is more often cited as Ctrl-L.
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by spacehunt 6y ago
But even the Home Office doesn't know the exact number. They know how many current BN(O) holders there are. But they don't know how many are eligible exactly -- they have the entire list of people who have received one, but that&#

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