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lulouieon China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas

Take a look around "中國 GDP 灌水", lead to this latest research claim that China's GDP has been misrepresent after 2008.

CITE: Relative to the official numbers, we estimate that GDP growth from 2008-2016 is 1.7 percentage points lower and the investment and savings rate in 2016 is 7 percentage points lower.

Ref: https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/a-forensic-examinati...

lulouieon China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas

1984, 7.23% :)

Plus, you really trust the number which come from CCP?

lulouieon Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

In my case, the most competitive UI in desktop e-reader

lulouieon Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

I think it is mostly done by: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs

lulouieon Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

I test it on macOS, it can't work will with epub from Kobo :(

lulouieon Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

yep, is because Arch (basically because qt5 upgrade...), and with the issue on it: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63051

$ calibre

Fatal Python error: PyQt5.QtCore: Unable to embed qt.conf

[1] 13321 abort (core dumped) calibre

At that moment, I didn't have time to workaround on it :(

lulouieon Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

I'm using Linux and trying to find a e-reader recently. Here is what I tested on Arch:

Calibre: Failed to open

Okular: Ugly, cannot modify margin

bookworm: No two-page view, only scrolling-mode, and scrolling-mode cannot get the reading progress

zathura: too simplify resulting in not know how to use

lector: cannot recognize epub......

Buka: cannot open the book. (I don't get the logic flow, create a list first, then import the book, then crash)

Until I found Foliate, it support two-page view w/ progress bar, it support epub will in different language (I test en_US and zh_TW), fast lookup (gtrans, Wiktionary, Wikipedia), good UI, ...etc

lulouieon The Day “/Proc” Died

Yep, when Chromium ate up all the memory, it just hang the whole OS, waiting for OOM killer about 10+ min, then the cursor can be moved again, then freeze again...