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> D can however be used without a GC if needed

Honest question: is it the case in practice though? Last time I checked D, you could disable the GC in theory, but in practice many things would fail to work, most importantly their standard library. As this been fixed since then?

The Guardian is a pretty terrible choice for people who want less opinions mixed in with their news. Their front page with all opinion stuff removed would have a lot of blank space. Not only is your statement about proper labelling false (random recent example: [1]), but on top of that they seem to think that their own opinion entitle them to their own facts. A non-political example: they accused in passing the journalist Matt Taibbi of rape. When confronted with the debunked claim [2] the Guardian contributor's response was, essentially, "it wasn't news, it was opinion" (does that remind you of some cable news channel?). For context TG is not some 4-person blog with no fact-checker, they are a 1400 employees company, and yet somehow these "mistakes" happen.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jan/19/is-standup-c...

[2] https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/12/the-destructi...

You are mischaracterizing the research. His submitted papers were not "the data", they were the input. The actual data is how the editors reacted to the input.

I read the first book in that trilogy, and it struck me how much it was a product of the Hu Jintao era. Under the presidency of Xi Jinping this book would have never been allowed. Way too snarky about the Cultural Revolution (I mean, in it there's a university professor that gets literally lynched by 'revolutionary' students because he refuses to parrot some party line. And that's just chapter one), and the Xi administration are not known for their sense of humour.

"This article strikes me as a deliberate re-spinning of a story meant to be triumphal"

^ This right here.

There are many things to say about the damages caused by colonialism, but complaining that it's not covered in a book about Chan (who got immensely successful), in Hong Kong (which became very wealthy) in the 1960/70s (while the rest of China was basically burning down) misses the mark. There is a historical context that is quite specific to Hong Kong: the majority of its population actually moved there post-WW2 to escape the troubles on the mainland. Moreover before its decades of unrest, China had been ruled by the Qing, whom most Chinese considered to also be colonisers (the Qing were Manchus who imposed their customs on the Han Chinese majority), so in that regards the British were not some sort of uniquely evil rulers, they were yet another bunch of invaders, who happened to be slightly less violent than the other ones next door.

I think that's why Chan ignored the colonialist angle: it's kind of hard to hate on a city if your family willingly moved there. And yes there is hardship and injustice, but in the rest of China people are either getting purged or are literally dying of hunger. I believe his apolitical view of that era is quite common amongst his generation: yep HK was ruled by some foreigners for a while, next chapter please.

There are some Brits who would tell you that HK developed "thanks to" the UK (I am of the opinion that when a colonised city surpasses even the UK's GDP without being granted any meaningful democratic rights, they succeeded despite your rule, not because of it). This article takes the opposite position but still implies the same thing, that Hong-Kongers were victims with little agency, which I find patronizing when in reality they where a city of refugees who brilliantly navigated a difficult era. Likewise presenting Chan's physical trauma as representative of Hong-Kong's development strikes me as completely off. Lots and lots of people accessed the middle and upper class in the 70s and 80s. Most of them were not stuntmen, it turns out. I must say this is the first Western review I see of this book, and it's the first one that brings colonialism up seemingly out of nowhere. There is a little bit of "Chan's story is not really about him, it's about... us! the Western people" euro-centrism here, IMHO.

Also, since everyone is naming their favourite Jackie Chan movie, have a look at Project A and Project A2, they're a lot of fun (A2 actually tackles some colonialism-related topics in passing).

...And no doc. On the FreePascal wiki, the Brook page points to a 404 on GitHub.

Customer review: I bought one of those a few years ago and found the simili-trackpoint completely unusable. Very very stiff and nowhere near a laptop one, let alone a Thinkpad one. Unicomp are nice Model M substitutes, but don't buy one for the trackpoint, unless you're nostalic also for how trackpoints operated in the 1990s.

>> Likewise it was very embarrassing for the foreign policy establishment when their tools such as the oscar-winning White Helmets relief-workers were photographed arm-in-arm with rebel militants and shown staging videos

I looked this up and I found is this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-this-proof-white-helmet...

Wikipedia has a couple of incidents listed in the 'Controversies' section on White Helmets, that do not really show them as 'tools of the foreign policy establishment'.

>> but I didn't see any of this exposed as 'misinformation.'

Well there you go then.

You are correct, GP might be mistaking it with Prambanan [1] a nearby hindu temple that, like Borobudur, is located next to the city of Yogyakarta.

[1] https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/642

EU resident here. I am reasonably sure that your doctor has access to your medical records when you hand them your smartcard, regardless of which doctor(s) previously updated said records.

Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus (specifically, its city center) is essentially a giant star fort. The fortification walls are visible from a satellite view:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Walled+Old+City,+Nicosia,+...

> I'm deeply troubled by the discourse in the U.S., where the Left and the extreme Right use the same phraseology and attitude

It's pretty simple: there is a burgeoning Reactionary Left in the US. For the last few generations 'left' essentially meant 'progressive' so there's some lag in updating people's mental schema and naming it what it is. As a foreigner, I am less worried by its existence (it's not unique with regards to other countries, and it's relatively small) than by the willingness of the more mainstream left to either downplay or appease it... But the US also have a very opportunistic political culture, so they're probably used to foster some narrative (it reminds me of the Republicans in 2009 wondering how they can take advantage of this Tea Party thing. Same thing here, with the Dems trying to find a way to use these identitarians to their benefit -- what could possibly go wrong?).

I assume the GP, like me, is not American: in most cultures the very notion of made-up taboo words (i.e. words that are forbidden regardless of what context/sentence they're used in) is considered a decadent aberration. Whether you call it "taboo word" or "reclaimed slur" makes no difference.

One possible reason: Shenzhen is an economic behemoth that's also a new city (it was basically a fishing village until the 80s), which mean it has fewer 'old hands' there and is relatively free of corruption and socially more liberal (by Mainland standards). In other words, the Communist Party is less influential there than in other major urban centers. Under the reign of Uncle Xi this might be frowned upon.

"The year is 50 BC. The HN front page is entirely occupied by Silicon Valley posts. Entirely? Well, not entirely. One small post about indomitable Gauls still holds out..."

Moreover, you'd think that such a "high profile" petition would be hosted on something a little bit more prominent than, you know, a Google Drive shared doc.

I can't find a source for the price-matching clause (I'm on my phone, sorry) but have read it several times. The lower-priced keys typically come from cheaper markets/regions (e.g. Russia), which AFAIK is kind of a grey area depending on jurisdiction, or from time-limited offers.

I base part of my reasoning on this article, where the author points out there are already cheaper options with good tooling such as itch.io, yet they do not attract a lot of titles: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-...

Sadly this is unlikely to happen for anything above indie/niche games, unless the newcomer has some sort of groundbreaking advantage: first, these platforms also act as ad/exposure for game studios with limited advertisement budget by giving them access to a massive existing audience, which you're just not gonna get at this point from a new platform, and second (and more pernicious) they all have some sort of price matching clause, so if you want to take advantage of lower fees to cut the prices on the new platform and attract more people there, by contract the incumbents can adjust the price of your app unilaterally, cancelling out this move. There is also the fact that not all 30% are equal, so to speak : for example, Steam gets a lot less bad rap than the others due to the amount of tooling/services they provide. There is no easy fix to this situation.

Gandi are nice to you until you move your domain somewhere else, at which point they will immediately drop the privacy on your whois record until their version expires, as a nice parting gift. I complained to their support when that happened and they basically lied to my face, pretending to see only the new registrar's whois. Caveat emptor.

This is a good thing, but frankly I would rather Mozilla fix their own stuff first, like that password manager that is synchronized across instances but unlocked by default... You have to remember to set a (new and local) master-password after each install. Not optimal.

Last year I used a VPS with specs similar to yours at LeaseWeb, for around €50/year. They're OK. I don't remember any downtime but I wasn't monitoring that VM 24/7.

From your link:

"...mainly followed in the tolerant policy of his father and also granted autonomy to the Jews in the matter of communal administration and laid the foundation for the power of the Qahal, or autonomous Jewish community."

I stand corrected, I was not aware of that point.

The only way I know is: read "Programming in Ada 2012" by John Barnes:

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ada-2012-John-Barnes/dp/1...

900+ pages of Good Luck With That. All other resources I've seen regarding Ada are really scattered around, so this book is the one go-to reference.

(Also, SPARK is a more demanding subset of Ada, so maybe wait until you have come to grip with the language before breaching that topic.)

In fact, considering FB's past attempt in India to offer something leaning heavily toward "Facebook-only Internet"[0], it's more likely a misconception they want to reinforce, not correct.

[0] No source because I'm on my phone and fuck all those AMP links returned by Google. Just look up 'facebook internet.org fiasco'.

"this review shows that the 16-core 2950X compiles Chromium faster than the 32-core 2990WX, presumably this means something other than the thread count becomes a bottleneck after 16 threads"

The article mentions that, due to the die packaging, only 16 of the cores have direct access to RAM. So for the 32-core version, half the cores are memory-starved and have to go through the 'connected' cores (also impacting these), while the 16-core version doesn't have that problem and can be at 100% for all process loads.

Interesting take, since the BJP comes from the RSS who modeled themselves after the Italian fascists, to enact anti-minorities views, which themselves come from the British: the empire relied on the good old "divide to rule" scheme to control India after they discovered Indians would rebel together, regardless of their religion. They then started to privilege minorities in order to stoke religious resentment and prevent an unified front. It took a Mahatma Gandhi to break that cycle (until he was himself killed. By a RSS activist).

The BJP is doing the bidding of a colonial master that is now long gone, using brown-shirt mentality. So who exactly is importing "blight from the West" here?

You're not providing a lot of details. What registrar did you use? Did you opt in with the anonymity/privacy most of them offer? Because if you don't anyone can get your info from a simple whois lookup.

Good. Anything that rattles Red Emperor Xi is a good thing.

The article is from 2014. Maybe put the year in the title?

Meanwhile, Hong Kong and Tokyo have higher population density, and they're not as noisy. These cities have 2 things in common: first, they have top notch public transportation (especially HK. If you have tried the MTR, Elon Musk's past jabs at public transportation ring hollow: clearly he doesn't know), which means much reduced traffic -- it's still busy mind you, but "European capital" level of busy. And second, they have (or have learnt) that most essential of things in urban life: etiquette. They know when to shut up. I will add that around 40% of Hong-Kongers are immigrants, mostly from (much more noisy & unruly) Mainland China, so clearly that etiquette thing is not innate and can be learnt.

So I would make the case that if you want a high-density city in the West to remain tolerable noise-wise, basic regulations are not enough. You need some 'investment', both in the local administration and in the local culture.