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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang.

It's an autobiographical history which recounts the lives of the author, her mother, and her grandmother throughout an extremely transformational century in Chinese history.

I went into this knowing little to no Chinese history, and it has opened my eyes to this fascinating country. I hope to visit China for the first time in 2027. Before I go, I'm doing a deep dive into Chinese history. Open to recommendations on what to read next!

Chat Control was proposed and rejected in the European Union

> These days, what are American soldiers dying for? A society with great health care? Fantastic education? Wealth and social stability?

Yes, except it's not their own one.

The game always made me think of this line too. I wonder if they had it in mind when they came up with the name.

> I'll probably wait for a couple versions before trying it out on my game since I'm sure it's not exactly battle-tested yet

Who better to do the battle-testing?

But what if those complementary skills also become cheap?

There are surely more trees than this

The article doesn't make that claim. For example, the service n7 is used by multiple other nodes, namely n3 and n4. There is no cycle there, so it's okay.

Doesn't your advice contradict the BBC's phrasing? Collectively, the band lost its spot in the top ten. And, collectively, the crew has 35 seconds to prepare the stage for the next performer.

Aren't longer boards worth more per boardfoot too?

How does the graph representation help you solve the problem?

What are the musical equivalents to Kit-Kat and meth?

Why the focus on scorekeeping? I feel like an AI model is overkill here, when you have text-based sources readily available such as news apps, Twitter feeds, and apps such as Livescore which would be easier and cheaper to scrape. They probably cover more matches that aren't televised too.

I'd be curious to see what useful insights could be gleamed from the match commentary. You have the main commentator giving play-by-play objective reporting and then a 'colour' commentator giving some subjective analysis during breaks in play. I bet there's a lot of interesting ways this could be used.

The lengths of self delusion people will resort to rather than accept the fact they've been conned.

With the PSU and a micro SD its about 90 EUR from The Pi Hut. A case isn't necessary but can be got for a tenner.

That's at least twice as expensive as a new Pi.

As a recent graduate I'll miss asking for "help with my Coq" and proclaiming "my Coq isn't working" during lab sessions

Relevant excerpt from the Introduction chapter:

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Conversely, I think this book is applicable to non-game software too. I could just as well have called this book More Design Patterns, but I think games make for more engaging examples. Do you really want to read yet another book about employee records and bank accounts?

That being said, while the patterns introduced here are useful in other software, I think they’re particularly well-suited to engineering challenges commonly encountered in games:

- Time and sequencing are often a core part of a game’s architecture. Things must happen in the right order and at the right time.

- Development cycles are highly compressed, and a number of programmers need to be able to rapidly build and iterate on a rich set of different behavior without stepping on each other’s toes or leaving footprints all over the codebase.

- After all of this behavior is defined, it starts interacting. Monsters bite the hero, potions are mixed together, and bombs blast enemies and friends alike. Those interactions must happen without the codebase turning into an intertwined hairball.

- And, finally, performance is critical in games. Game developers are in a constant race to see who can squeeze the most out of their platform. Tricks for shaving off cycles can mean the difference between an A-rated game and millions of sales or dropped frames and angry reviewers.

It would look a lot better and probably be stronger if the grain was going vertically IMO

Turning off the Dark Reader plug-in made it work for me on FF

Click the cog and enable "mini Nerdle" for another (easier) challenge

I found this explanation helpful when I was developing a clone [1]

[1] https://sonorouschocolate.com/notes/index.php?title=The_best...

I had no idea there were original colour photos from the war. You often see images from this period re-coloured using modern image editing software or AI, but they never look convincing to me. These are fascinating.

He's advocating for the users to move away from the platforms, not for the platforms to change (or surrender) their business model.