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by wdutch 6y ago
> Most of Line’s 86 million userbase is made up of Japanese users The app is also ubiquitous in Taiwan and Thailand from my personal experience. It's very bad news for Taiwan if the PRoC has been snooping on its citizens.
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by wdutch 6y ago
Vietnam is currently closed to tourists but the trains are running as usual. I travelled along the south central coast hard seat class in July which has some amazing seaside and mountain views. I also did a personal first took the once-dail
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by wdutch 6y ago
I've also travelled in China and Russia in the past. I understand your concern regarding China and I have similar feelings. But I'm curious why you feel this way about Russia; have westerners been disappeared in Russia recently?
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by wdutch 6y ago
I used to work in a big company where people would often drop a "hello" and then wait for a response before saying why they were messaging. It was mildly infuriating because I would check the internal chat about once an hour in or
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by wdutch 6y ago
During my stint as a math tutor I used sympy to automate producing worksheets in LaTeX that involved algebra and calculus - great library.
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by wdutch 6y ago
Maths tutor here. At that age I was very inspired by Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh. It's not a technical book but gave me my first idea of what mathematicians actually do and how the process works. This book motivated me to
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by wdutch 6y ago
No I don't remember this ever being the case. Most projects I care about host their repos on their own servers.
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by wdutch 6y ago
And what credit this lobste does to the Republic of Serbia. I hope they pay their taxes there.
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by wdutch 6y ago
This looks a lot like the xyproblem[1] which I have fallen prey to many times. You start out by thinking about something - highways in your case - then you formulate a model, which might turn out to work or might not. But then you make the
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by wdutch 6y ago
I think you're dead right but it goes even deeper. With more bugs the company starts evaluating devs on their ability to fix bugs and put out fires. Eventually the devs who can build a sane product are squeezed out and all the devs are
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by wdutch 7y ago
I think IRC will always have a place in certain communities. I drop into IRC whenever I need help with an Arduino project or want to catchup with old colleagues. From my own personal experience, all the open source communities I get involve
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by wdutch 7y ago
I came here to say this. If you want to predict how the CCP will behave, the first step is to get a good understanding of Confucianism then work up from there.
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by wdutch 7y ago
I love using terminals and I've always wanted a VR window manager so I've put some thought into how it could work. I've always envisioned an infinite 2D plane. I would love a terminal that stretches off forever above me, like
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by wdutch 7y ago
I've never worked in China but I spent years wanting to work in Southeast Asia and being put off by visa requirements. Eventually I learned that the way to do it is come over on a regular business visa you just get like a tourist visa,
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by wdutch 7y ago
Complex Analysis (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Plane) by Ian Stewart and David Tall was a particular favorite of mine as an undergrad
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by wdutch 7y ago
I'm from the UK and have used duckduckgo as my default search engine for about 3 years. It's probably due to my specific searching habits but I have never noticed the issue you have.
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by wdutch 7y ago
It's funny how "working the system" has connotations of foul play but if you're talking about software or a machine and you say "I don't know how to work it" you're saying that you don't know how
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by wdutch 7y ago
Times have changed since then! Now most journalism is gifs and embedded tweets. What a time to be alive...
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by wdutch 7y ago
I can't find a reliable online source to back this up (I think I read it in Welty's "The Thai & I") but I seem to recall that Thai culture predominantly dined in the Indian style using their hand before adopting fork
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by wdutch 8y ago
I had a similar impression there too. I think they have a difficult decision to make in terms of balancing raising the quality of life of the people through industrialization and tourism against preserving their natural heritage. Here in th
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by wdutch 8y ago
Great advice! I'm definitely going to put this into practice.
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by wdutch 8y ago
> What this shows is that participants used my face to predict where I would throw the ball Being someone who likes to avoid eye contact, this explains why when I'm walking I always end up doing the get-past-you shuffle.
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by wdutch 8y ago
that's the rgb compliment[1], this app uses the traditional colour wheel[2] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors#Colors_pr... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_wheel
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by wdutch 8y ago
> what the median student actually learns seems to mostly be a set of low order correlations. They know what words to use, which words tend to go together, which combinations tend to have positive associations, and so on. This really res
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by wdutch 8y ago
Every time my dad takes something to the till and they say "this is actually on buy-one-get-one-free" he says "can I just have the free one?". Every. Time.
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by wdutch 8y ago
there's a tactic called a loss leader where the merchant has a discount and sells a product at a loss to get people into the store (and hopefully buy other things that make them a profit). Loss leaders are pretty hard to spot unless yo
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by wdutch 8y ago
This is new to me and looks really cool despite the sensational style of journalism. I imagine in the near future we will have a variety of widely available methods for making physical objects from digital models, each with advantages and d
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by wdutch 8y ago
I was looking for a job in Vietnam in 2016. My impression was that there were a lot of big codeshops in Hanoi and Saigon writing outsourced code. There was also a not insignificant startup ecosystem, mostly using PHP.
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by wdutch 8y ago
in china this process is known as 工夫茶 (gongfu cha). You can also get upwards of 10 brews from good quality oolong.