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I agree that 新字体 is preferable to 简体字 for exactly the etymological reason you cite, the thing with 言 only being simplified when it is a radical in 簡體字 really irritates me (especially since it is not a difficult or slow radical to write anyhow), and there are more examples than just that. For me I practice with 正體字 most often despite being more familiar with Japanese; so my preference goes 新字體 > 正體字 > 簡體字.

P.S. adding lang attributes on those spans where you compare versions of the characters would be nice, though I get that you have to choose just one of several, when a character is nearly identical in two or more countries. In my browser it also fixes an issue where despite serif being in your CSS font stack, it will select a sans-serif/gothic font by default if no lang attribute is set.

Our approach is to start with a mildly-distributed (among threads within the process) monolith based on future passing, and my impression is that any latency-sensitive operation in a session cluster (that is, all of the sessions who are interacting directly with the same working set of processes and aggregates) can and should be supported by a single node. Rebalancing involves moving the cached aggregate (any blob, like a sqlite database or a JSON file) and/or† catching up the log (sequence of blobs) on the target node.

Futures are basically trivial to serialize, so the cost of involving a second node is as little as it could be; and node consolidation can be generalized because each node's dispatcher knows how many times it has accessed a remote process, which means that consensus on who should lead its log can be reached by simply sending it to the node that has the most use for it (with load balancing achieved by nodes simply not bidding for logs when their load factor or total service time is over some threshold, or say the 60th percentile of all the nodes, or whichever of those two is higher).

† In some cases it's faster to just catch up the log, rather than sending the aggregate.

> Openly selling it is ... brave, IMHO

What basis would they have for that? Seems it falls squarely into the exceptions for any law that could conceivably form the basis for a complaint.

I think that there are fewer parts in a common home firearm (an AR-15, even bolt bolt action firearms) that this applies to, since the most complicated parts are in the bolt carrier group, where mass and density are generally desirable as far as I'm aware. I don't think that there are small arms parts that really benefit significantly from sintering vs machining in terms of weight savings.

I switched much earlier, I learned Dvorak as a way to make a clean break when learning touch typing. I set up a little printout next to the computer and just forced myself to try remembering the correct finger movement for the key, then look at the printout, but never look at the keyboard.

It took just a day or so of ordinary computer use to beat my non-touch-typing speed; and having learned also to touch type on QWERTY I can say Dvorak is more comfortable, and looks/feels more graceful, for whatever that's worth.

Specifically for that example, Zoom is written and maintained in China, so I would expect the developers made special code for segmenting chinese names but not non-English latin ones.

At least on the hardware that I've had, it's basically rock-solid in practice. I use it with high-refresh-rate monitors, I've tried FreeSync and that works, it works with all my displays, and recently the older of my GPUs (Radeon Pro WX 7100) finally got audio output over DisplayPort, as the newer of them (Radeon VII), though I never really had any use for that feature.

The acceleration, particularly with RadeonSI and RADV, and particularly as the RADV developers (independents, Valve, and some smaller companies I wish I remembered the names of) have been making massive improvements on the shader compiler side. RADV's own shader compiler (ACO) is noticeably better than the first-party AMD LLVM stack, and RADV is substantially faster than any of the first-party AMD Vulkan drivers for both graphics and compute workloads. I hope ACO in RadeonSI becomes a thing, I think it will be a major improvement.

Message to anyone listening from AMD: maybe look into making ACO your primary target rather than LLVM, it is clearly a better design for your GPUs, it has substantially less overhead, and there's no legal reason it can't be a part of all of your drivers.

As for kernel support, it is often same-day or at least it can access the displays on launch day, provided you have the latest stable kernel. ArchLinux is rarely that far behind a new stable kernel release, so on ArchLinux, same-day support of one form or another, and full support that day or some day soon, is the norm.

> youtube has almost complete dropped h264 these days either

Only really true for VOD, and only really true for channels with 300k+ subs.

The solution for us is total endpoint control. Our application endpoints have their own DNS root. :+ )

> Have there been any leaps in Firewall tech, or will most companies still disable this?

QUIC is explicitly designed to frustrate this sort of thing, so the enterprise will just have to choose between having and not having it, or switch from MITM to endpoint backdoors.

I tend to wash the cookware while I'm cooking, and wash my dishes when I'm done, rather than letting them pile up. It takes a handful of seconds each time, and they're often seconds I can't spend anywhere else to begin with.

Semi-related: anyone here, like me, not find automated dishwashers very useful? To me it seems to take nearly the same amount of soap exposure, and time at the sink, to wash dishes by hand.

Maybe if I needed gloves, I'd get frustrated with the smell your hands take on from dishgloves, but honestly washing dishes (particularly dishes that aren't precious) is pretty easy.

I think this says more about the virtues of the American legal system, and less about the efficiency of lawyers or any trend in the quality of judgments relative to the standard.

I believe they are required to gather PII and tie it to the connection.

Probably just somebody decided they didn't like him, and found some BS to charge him with.

Maybe there should be a "butts was here" sticker.

> Oh, the things it won't do! It won't baste, mist, sense, probe, convect, or take your food for a horsy ride. It doesn't care to know if you're cooking pork or potatoes, or if something's thawed or frozen, solid or liquid, or 1 lb. or 5. It doesn't issue odd advice ("Stand and Cover"! "Pull Apart"!). You can't use it as a nightlight. It won't tell you the time. It won't match your decor. It won't even cook anything for more than 6 minutes at a time. There's nothing to choose, nothing to alter, nothing to select, nothing to enter. All it's got is a big, smooth 1950's style dial that does a backwards countdown, with an accompanying red light marking the time as it goes. A great appliance that hardly does anything at all. Highly recommend.

I see you're in love.

They don't even have an Android app? wtf.

> You can do all of that on a recent iPhone.

Not sure what you mean exactly, I'm talking about the service, not the basic existence of dual-SIM functionality (something I already have).

If I could do dual-SIM on one account for 99 bucks and get both AT&T and T-Mobile backends, that would be killer. The only thing more killer than that would be swapping one of them for Verizon.

I've found a mix with background checks in the U.S; a lot of rental landlords want background checks for the obvious reasons (e.g. housing a convicted rapist with a young woman), employers can go either way, and in my experience it has tended to be reasonable (but I've always worked as a professional, and for people I know through colleagues or acquaintances).

A background check is, in my experience, unusal for renters in Canada, but that might just be my bias, having mostly rented from slumlords and acquaintances.

It's also good for if you have a VGA LCD, automatic clock tuning works really well with the root weave.

Through various channels I've seen a lot of stuff like this happen, it is the norm especially in Ontario. There is no real accountability in our Provincial government, and the ministries tend to do more or less as they please, and enable it retroactively through the legislature if it looks like they may get sued.

They're not accountable for their budget approvals, or to follow their own regulations, so the main thing limiting them is whether the public is familiar enough with what their actions mean to be disgusted.

This was a time (there was a similar period in the U.S, but it was earlier) when the direct operation of computers was essentially secretarial work, a level more sophisticated than operating a typewriter; it was not some magical era where women were the majority of people designing and implementing computer programs at the highest levels.

OpenOffice maybe.

They go over that. The idea is that the air ambulance can't necessarily land that close to the patient, the jetsuit can allow the medic to cover severe terrain rapidly between the helicopter and the patient; ditto for terrestrial ambulances trying to reach patients over difficult terrain.

Not sure what you're really getting at here. There are so many people who do the (yes, tedious) work of captioning videos from people they appreciate because there was a button right there. Some of those people may go on to find a third party caption editing package, and try to contact the content creator and coach them through uploading the subtitles... But isn't it obvious that this is going to reduce the aggregate quality of captions on YouTube?

The process before was straightforward: a community member would author captions and submit them to the producer, the producer would choose whether to approve them right there on YouTube's site; the new workflow involves email, forms, files, and community members who are motivated to go out of their way to figure out how to create and communicate YouTube-compatible captions that will now be less likely to be published even if they are high quality.

It's amazing how committed YouTube is to destroying everything that makes their platform worthwhile, and turning it into a TV channel where You can just go ahead and join a major media corporation for access to the Tube.

My WM has no bars or decorations, it's always funny to send a screen-sized black or root weave PNG when somebody says "show me your desktop".

I like Googlers but a lot of the time when Google loses in court, I feel like the court did the right thing.