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1. 361.▲
   by ximeng 8y ago

   “And in some stations, security staff with neon-colored vests stand watch and guide people.“ if they really want to prevent people walking, just get a staff member to stand still on the escalator. It will cause traffic and normalise standin
2. 362.▲
   by ximeng 8y ago

   This article http://www.sohu.com/a/246081485_119218 says it's just because the QT is shared between the company name qiantu and the logo qingting.
3. 363.▲
   by ximeng 8y ago

   So bootstrap chain here is g++->mrustc->several iterations of rust. (Rather than original bootstrap chain via ocaml.) Bootstrap for g++ is presumably something like machine code->asm->c->g++. And the overall goal is something
4. 364.▲
   by ximeng 8y ago

   Rather than generalising about all non-Chinese reporting about China you could comment specifically about what you think is misleading or untruthful about this specific article, that might be more enlightening.
5. 365.▲
   by ximeng 8y ago

   Last taxi ride in Shenzhen I took was in an electric car.
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   Funding pledge for UK rival to EU sat-nav(bbc.com)

   2 points by ximeng 8y ago|0 comments
7. 367.▲
   by ximeng 8y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17735324 I assume this comment
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   by ximeng 8y ago

   Circumference of the earth 40,000km Power loss .5-1.1% for 160km If we assume 200km has 1% power loss then 20,000km is around 63% power loss.
9. 369.▲
   by ximeng 8y ago

   https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-agg...
10. 370.▲
    by ximeng 8y ago

    I've absentmindedly pinched to zoom on books and occasionally mentally ctrl+z when I screw up. Not a major problem.
11. 371.▲
    by ximeng 8y ago

    I wouldn't bet on it personally - I did run linux ok on my old Surface Pro, but found the hardware less than reliable in general and had a couple of driver problems to work around.
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    There is also https://dlang.org/foundation/about.html which has links to a donations page which has around 3k USD a year of income.
13. 373.▲
    by ximeng 8y ago

    What's the business model / long term plan for sustaining development on the compiler / D?
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    by ximeng 8y ago

    Yes - most other DBMS don't do this. If you have a filter on a derived table that uses a CTE, Postgres will not be able to push it down to the CTE. If the CTE is expensive to calculate (a lot of rows, or joins, or complicated functions
15. 375.▲
    by ximeng 8y ago

    http://www.ctex.org/documents/shredder/src/texbook.pdf Page 449
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    by ximeng 9y ago

    This would help! There are no direct links between the urls below which both have the same content. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/index.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs&#x
17. 377.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    Not aiming to be unfair to postgres - it's not an easy problem and the documentation is great, and it is different to Wikipedia where old content is generally objectively worse. I guess for postgres 80% of people would be happy with al
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    by ximeng 9y ago

    The above comment is one of my most upvoted ever. It's annoying to have to click twice to get to the latest version. Maybe they make it too easy to get to old versions - I don't think I've ever seen a link to Wikipedia that p
19. 379.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    Except that every Google search returns a result from a different random version number.
20. 380.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    Had two surface pros fail just out of warranty, if that’s the price of a tightly integrated device it’s too high for me. No more surface devices here.
21. 381.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    Until the screen breaks and you can’t turn it on...
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    China discourages hackers from foreign competitions so they don’t help others(m.scmp.com)

    6 points by ximeng 9y ago|0 comments
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    Fancy charging up your electric car in 10 minutes?(bbc.com)

    1 points by ximeng 9y ago|0 comments
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    by ximeng 9y ago

    Not sure open street map really wants to be in that business...
25. 385.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120887 my estimate was 200% a long time ago
26. 386.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    http://about.ag/debate.htm There’s lots of reasons
27. 387.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    Any part list you could suggest for the replaced components?
28. 388.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    Beijing has just announced a population cap
29. 389.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    Orca successfully baiting birds with fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_t89NgVCk
30. 390.▲
    by ximeng 9y ago

    skritter.com is good for Chinese writing.