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hohohmm··on China
If there was much sympathy for the students in the Tiananmen square incident, it's now totally wiped clean by the Hong Kong rioting.

Use YouTube, it does slightly better than your main stream fake news.

hohohmm··on China
Full of bs that rides the trending US narrative on China. How much a self-fulfilling bubble of lies the western propaganda machine has weaved. Reading this article makes me feel like reading a white day dream that totally misses the reality, but checks all the right marks for the crusader mentality.

I see how quickly this gets down voted. I guess the media is not to be blamed for fabricating all kinds of lies, for it what does is only a reflection of what the western audience wants to see. The world is dividing just as quickly as the US is dividing internally. I would not doubt the possibility of another cold war, if the US bloc continues down this path by painting rivaling nations with a different ideology as a heretic against US' version of democracy and freedom, as an ultimate evil to be crusaded, its people as mindless zombies brainwashed and eager for a quick dose of freedom drug. After all, the zealous fever commits all the worst atrocities with the most self-righteous goals. History has repeated itself enough times to not see the obvious.

hohohmm··on Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links
Please make wireguard available in App Store China region.
hohohmm··on Vue RFC: Expose logic-related component options via function-based APIs instead
adams is a visionary :P
hohohmm··on When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet
True. I'm merely commenting on the total value of Youtube vs generic western media. Btw there are browser plugins that block the whole recommendation thing.
hohohmm··on When Chinese students were given the uncensored internet
There are many ways to criticize the draconian Chinese censorship, but implying western media as the benefit of uncensored internet and objective and healthy source of information is just laughable.

Particularly funny is this piece: "Chen and Yang found that students who were consistently exposed to uncensored foreign media outlets became more informed of events that are usually unreported in Chinese media, such as President Donald Trump’s businesses in China and surveillance in Xinjiang."

You might as well say that encouraged exposure to Chinese media outlets help people become more informed of events that are usually unreported in Western media...

Next time when you do something like this, use the the abundance of extremely well-done and educational videos on Youtube that beat the crap out of your regular western media in both objectivity and healthiness, and might just save the monetary rewards entirely.

hohohmm··on China orders its airlines to suspend use of Boeing 737 Max aircraft
It befuddles me to see people relating this to external motivations, not a genuine concern for safety. Would you fly 737 max8 tomorrow? Anybody who knows anything about Chinese aviation industry knows that it is severely government-regulated industry and the top 1 priority is safety. It has better records than the American counterpart. While BOEING(being one of the pillars of American industry) might twist arms in corporate America, it simply doesn't have enough influence to warrant such risks with the Chinese government. Simple as that. I would very much appreciate FAA doing the same.

And it saddens me to see my comment being downvoted so rapidly. Has it become too hard in this corporate America to not buy into this bs? Has it not been obvious from history lessons that companies can only be held up to the moral standards that the law could effectively demand? A thorough investigation means potentially losing hundreds of billions of dollars. I would not expect Boeing to jump into this without some iron-fisted slaps. In the current trade circumstances, doubly not so. It is FAA's job to be doubtful and strict, not Boeing's. And it disappoints when FAA is testing reasonable doubts with human lives, not Boeing's profits.

If you are so inclined to downvote this, fly 737 max8 whenever you can probably help your corporate daddies more. Put your life on it where you mean it.

hohohmm··on SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017)
Isn't the whole point of SIMD being as similar to original x86 instructions as possible? reusing as much the existing cpu as possible? Otherwise you would have something like the ps3?
hohohmm··on Jack Ma Confirmed as Chinese Communist Party Member
Is Bloomberg trying to sound absurdly stupid to cover up their previous really stupid story on Chinese spy chip?
hohohmm··on Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
The recruiter is an idiot who doesn't really know the hiring requirement of his/her employer, which is exactly the job he/she is supposed to do. Simple as that. I marvel at people who can spin it as the student's bad communication. Maybe you communicated your way to your current position? The recruiter is tasked with a job to find appropriate candidates, and is apparently failing. If it were to happen in my company I'll just fire the recruiter on the spot.

The lesson that should be learned: HR should have some technical background to do technical hiring.

hohohmm··on The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover
How convenient it is for you to equate history books with guns. Let me hit you with a gun instead of a history book.
hohohmm··on The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover
>The people of Hong Kong were not party to the discussions, nor were they consulted about the final decision, which had a profound effect on their futures and freedoms.

I just cannot find a better example of double thinking than this. So UK grabbed a piece of land from China, and now they discuss the return of this piece of land. Suddenly UK created this moral failure on China to involve this piece of land into the discussion. Let's stop creating new countries and races in this hypocrisy of democratic regional self-determinism narrative with mindless and idiotic public voting. No land is only the land of its residents, but by the people of that country.

hohohmm··on Hidden Away for 28 Years, Tiananmen Protest Pictures See Light of Day
You can write off anything with that, to be honest. It's like the nuclear weapon of arguments that ensures mutual destruction
hohohmm··on Hidden Away for 28 Years, Tiananmen Protest Pictures See Light of Day
Read some real opinions please:

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-todays-young-adults-in-China-s...

hohohmm··on Hidden Away for 28 Years, Tiananmen Protest Pictures See Light of Day
read some real opinions please:

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-todays-young-adults-in-China-s...

hohohmm··on China congress: BBC team forced to sign confession
Why am I seeing stuff like this on Hacker News? Which part of it is relevant?
hohohmm··on A man overrides his camera's firmware to bring rare pictures of North Korea back
Pictures are okay if not just generic NK photos, definitely not rare, and the captions, wtf?

"At night, the elderly Chinese dance in the streets in unison avoiding any displays of individuality." What is this? To avoid any display of individuality??? I just marvel at this wishful thinking. They do that in unison because it's fun to do activities with other people sharing the same interest. If i'm playing Starcraft with a bunch of friends, am I avoiding display of individuality? Why can't the biased eyes just state the obvious that the elderly are just enjoying themselves.

Honestly I've seen way better NK photos and way better wishful NK journalism. Why is this even on Hacker News?

hohohmm··on Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X
I asked a question last year about whether there is an app like Evernote but more tailored to the programmer's need. Quiver's developer answered my post then but the app was lacking one major functionality - cloud sync. Let's see if it's addressed now :D
hohohmm··on Dinosaur Feathers Found in Amber Reinforce Evolution Theories (2011)
Is US the only place that Evolution needs constant reinforcing?
hohohmm··on I need a product
I do not want the add/commit/pull cycle.
hohohmm··on I need a product
it's actually pretty close to what I need. Will try.
hohohmm··on I need a product
Neat idea, but I'm afraid it may interfere with certain type of documents. I want it to be versatile first. Probably different modes? like normal text, auto text, ext.

It still needs a native client!

hohohmm··on Dynamic Code Injection for Good
The biggest problem that forces you to run through all the pre-setup UI views and other stuff is that often time you need those to recreate states, and when you have a bug, more often that not, you have a corrupt state, which will stay corrupted with or without code injection. dyci is definitely a very neat method but of limited use.
hohohmm··on Dear Google Recruiting...
Why's this post even up? He just needs to get a bigger inbox and learn to use the archive button.
hohohmm··on I want a text editor that is a pain in the ass
True. The need for a full IDE is probably not always necessary. The need for no more than a notepad.exe? Hell no.
hohohmm··on I want a text editor that is a pain in the ass
Can't agree more. I have yet seen a good programmer who complained about their tool making them write fast. When you write shitty code you don't blame it on the good IDE.
hohohmm··on I want a text editor that is a pain in the ass
Try it on Java and say you still want a dumb editor. It's like saying you want to do rocket science while doing all the math by hand. Why drive a car. Why not walk to grocery so you could reflect carefully on what you want to buy and feel your muscle twitching after carrying 30 pounds of grocery back. Tools are there to help out with the labor and free up your mind for the more important. There is nothing wrong with understanding all the details, but there is no point repeating it all the time once you do.

Edit: That post also mentioned the fear of exploding complexity. The whole point of abstraction is to manage complexity. The fact that you have a function being called at a hundred places and you don't keep track of them all in your mind is not something to fear, if you do the abstraction right. The fact that the previous fact makes you feel unsettling, should make you feel doubly unsettling.

hohohmm··on When the Nerds Go Marching In
Totally agree. You should go ahead with the lobby group.
hohohmm··on China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08
The report didn't pin it on China. What kinda moronic title is this?
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