tombh

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   by tombh 7y ago

   Location: Currently SE Asia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes. UK passport holder Technologies: Full stack, Kubernetes, DevOps, Golang, Elixir, Ruby, Python, JS, React, Typescript, CSS. Résumé/CV: https://tomb
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   by tombh 7y ago

   SEEKING WORK | REMOTE/RELOCATE (UK passport, currently in SE Asia) 13 years experience. Full stack, Kubernetes, DevOps, Golang, Elixir, Ruby, Python, JS, React, Typescript, CSS. BTW I use Arch. I made https://brow.sh the mo
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   by tombh 7y ago

   Wow!
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   by tombh 7y ago

   Try ALT+m to toggle monochrome mode.
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   by tombh 7y ago

   Author here. As is often misunderstood about this project, it is designed to be run on a remote server and connected to via SSH/MoSH. So it's not really a direct replacement for those greats such as lynx/links/elinks e
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   by tombh 7y ago

   SEEKING WORK | Remote (UK passport, currently in SE Asia) but willing to relocate 13 years experience. Full stack, Kubernetes, DevOps, Golang, Elixir, Ruby, Python, JS, React, Typescript, CSS I made https://brow.sh the modern te
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   by tombh 7y ago

   There's also Browsh's demo services for purely text-based browsing: https://html.brow.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21... `ssh brow.sh -t https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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   by tombh 7y ago

   I'm surprised too. This algorithm is about understanding language, and surely that includes understanding the intended usage . This is something humans have to do all the time. So what if there isn't a formally archived consensus
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   by tombh 7y ago

   Tangential, but I recently got a massive speed up in my zplug-based load time with a simple `touch $ZPLUG_LOADFILE`. More discussion here: https://github.com/zplug/zplug/issues/368
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    by tombh 7y ago

    But it's not even what the words means. Merriam-Webster: > capable of being physically or emotionally wounded That can certainly be interpreted as a weakness. And it certainly is for things like vehicles, buildings, etc. But in the
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    by tombh 7y ago

    Tldr; seems to be that the student bought followers, which is what likely associated the account with Chinese-run bot networks, etc.
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    by tombh 7y ago

    The downvoters probably aren't aware that in fact Hong Kong's entire existence is due to a British war solely over China's refusal to trade opium.
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    by tombh 7y ago

    You still seem to think that I'm trying to argue that we should take China's side. Let me put it like this. Imagine I'm an alcoholic, but I can't afford rehab, so I steal the money to check myself in. I get better and ev
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    by tombh 7y ago

    HK is simultaneously supporting the vilification of China and the continued integration of China into the world. How are we supposed to oppose China and have cheap iPhones? If the citizen's of the world actually understood the situatio
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    by tombh 7y ago

    I know it may look like I'm taking China's side, but I'm not. In fact it's the automatic dismissal of all possible attempts to understand the Chinese perspective that I'm fighting against. How does simply asserting
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    by tombh 7y ago

    Wow, that's really interesting, I didn't know that, thanks. So are you indeed saying HK identifies more with the plight of Guangdong than the principles of British democracy? To me it still would seem that Guangdong's resista
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    by tombh 7y ago

    多谢！我会联系你。 Thanks a lot! I'll contact you.
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    by tombh 7y ago

    I sometimes like to have a little thought experiment like this: I'm British, so what if, during the 1800s, China had, through unprovoked war, forced the handing over of the port city of Liverpool because we didn't let them sell us
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    by tombh 7y ago

    I think you've misunderstood both them and the geography of South China. They're clearly referring to the Cantonese speaking region, which is called Guangdong (which the British never owned), of which HK is a very small part (perh
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    by tombh 7y ago

    And that is exactly what Western propaganda looks like: absolute and automatic conviction of superiority. The truth is large Western corporations invented most of the things you describe and are now so advanced you don't even recogni
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    by tombh 7y ago

    Yes, so I think you're supporting my point right? Of course HK would be a haven for anti-CCP refugees and in in the last few decades that has come to be an important part of HK's identity. But that doesn't change the facts su
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    by tombh 7y ago

    I'm troubled to disagree with your comment, because I usually get so little feedback to such opinions and also it makes it look like I'm CCP stooge. So I should add that I'm British, I just lived in China for a year. Your com
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    by tombh 7y ago

    Of course their yearning and indeed protest actions are legitimate. To what extent though would you agree that, using the computer world's RFC vocabulary (MUST, SHOULD, MAY, OPTIONAL, etc), Hong Kong MAY ask for recognition whereas Tai
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    by tombh 7y ago

    If anyone else is open to the other point of view, I could use some help. I'm struggling a lot at the moment with how little relevance seems to be given to how significant HK was in defining China's modern identity. How many peopl
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    by tombh 7y ago

    Quite. Cynically it feels more like it describes the internal European and American image of the those people east of Europe. Asia is far more diverse than either America or Europe. Sarcastically speaking, such stereotyping is typical of ar
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    by tombh 7y ago

    You're right, it's completely irrelevant to them. But can you honestly say that the mainland Chinese great, great children have also forgotten about it? Why not? It's because it's convenient for HK to forget whilst it wa
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    by tombh 7y ago

    For sure I don't think I've made myself clear enough, that's all on me, I'm sorry. So just for the sake of clarity let me over simplify it. Imagine that my long-term girlfriend who worked in a coffee shop all her life fo
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    by tombh 7y ago

    Justice isn't a soppy feel-good, everybody hug now thing. As the quote says, it's about the method of escaping the cycles of history. Of course descendants can't be blamed for the past, and that's not what anybody is say
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    by tombh 7y ago

    Responsibility for justice. Perhaps legally nothing will ever happen, but without moral justice, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". The opinions and freedoms of the Chinese in 1842 were the same as Ho
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    by tombh 7y ago

    I'd never heard of Blockstack, I quit the sign up as soon as I saw it. I didn't want to waste my time being forced into yet another unknown brand.