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schneehertz··on 63 Chinese Cuisines: The Complete Guide (2024)
Stereotypes about regions are not uncommon on the Chinese internet. For example, Henan Province and stealing manhole covers, Chengdu and homosexuality. But in daily life, I have not seen discrimination against specific groups of people. I live in Shenzhen, where there are people from all over China, and everyone is not much different from each other, nor does anyone care where someone comes from.
schneehertz··on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
Do you think pornography is harmful to you, and can it be inferred that pornography is also harmful to others? This is the reason why your viewpoint is not accepted by others
schneehertz··on GPT-4.5
Mainly to prevent you from using it
schneehertz··on Burning in woman's legs turned out to be slug parasites migrating to her brain
Eat cooked meat and vegetables, drink boiled water, and avoid contact with wild water sources and wild animals.

May parasites stay away from you.

schneehertz··on Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
11 is an even-digit palindrome and is a prime number
schneehertz··on Seconds Since the Epoch
Yes, negative leap seconds are possible in the future if leap second adjustments are not abandoned
schneehertz··on Seconds Since the Epoch
The positive leap second of UTC is inserted at midnight, resulting in 86,401 seconds on that day. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
schneehertz··on Seconds Since the Epoch
This means that some time points cannot be represented by POSIX timestamps, and some POSIX timestamps do not correspond to any real time
schneehertz··on Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die
Interesting and useless, it's really great!
schneehertz··on Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript
Basically, this is an Electron that replaces Node.js with Bun and Chromium with WebView?
schneehertz··on CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`
Good taste, I also think cornflowerblue is a very balanced color
schneehertz··on I fixed a server with a precisely placed piece of tape (2023)
A fix without finding the cause cannot be called a fix

As the comments say:

> Now waiting for the war story from your successor "you'll never guess what I found when I took apart this one server that wouldn't wake-on-lan"

schneehertz··on Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet
Moreover, the classification was not done on 500,000 PDF files themselves, but rather on the metadata of those 500,000 PDFs.
schneehertz··on NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025
What a terrible comparison; I believe that the current state of America has not yet fallen to the level it was at before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
schneehertz··on We Love Writing Software So Much, We're Willing to Do It for Free
Even after reading the entire article, I still don't understand what the author is trying to convey. In my personal opinion, open-source software is just like what the MIT license implies. By sharing the code I wrote, I give up all rights and also refuse to take on any obligations.
schneehertz··on Vision language models are blind
I am not sure where their experimental data came from. I tested it on GPT-4o using the prompt and images they provided, and the success rate was quite high, with significant differences from the results they provided.
schneehertz··on 40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent
The German government subsidizes multinational corporations' oil facilities in China. This article mentions "China" too many times, but what does this have to do with China? Isn't it the multinational companies that are suspected of fraud? Not a single name of any multinational corporation is even mentioned in the article.
schneehertz··on Qwen2 LLM Released
keyword: Ascend 910B
schneehertz··on Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words (2005)
A platinum crucible is a laboratory container used to contain chemical compounds when subjected to extremely high temperatures.
schneehertz··on Slack AI Training with Customer Data
> We offer Customers a choice around these practices.

I remembered the joke from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, maybe they will have a small hint in a very inconspicuous place, like inserting this into the user agreement on page 300 or so.

schneehertz··on Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
""free stuff" shelves"

When I realized that antisocial individuals might place toxic food there, I fell into panic.

schneehertz··on Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
Many software programs fail to achieve ultimate efficiency either because the software engineers are unable to do so, or because external factors prevent them from achieving it. I believe that in most cases, it is the latter.
schneehertz··on Meta Horizon OS
The previous company that gave up hardware and only focused on software is called SEGA.
schneehertz··on Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA
Graphics card manufacturers believe that selling high-memory consumer graphics cards will affect the market for commercial computing cards, so they will not do so, that's all.
schneehertz··on Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL
I used the example on the GitHub page, but found that I need to wait for Embedding. It would be beneficial to reduce latency and save API costs if there is a common cache.
schneehertz··on Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer activity on Wikipedia
Are you talking about Quora?
schneehertz··on Desktop GUI Is an Efficient and Fulfilling Way of Human-Computer Interaction
I like developing applications using Electron because the development process is smooth and efficient. As for the fact that Electron includes Node.js and Chromium, I don't care about it. Users who focus on my application's functionality rather than nitpicking details also don't care about it. That's enough.
schneehertz··on GPU-Accelerated Indexing in LanceDB
LanceDB is one of the few options for embeddable vector databases, and I have used it in my Electron application. If they could choose a less confusing npm package name than "vectordb," maybe I would be more forgiving towards them. Moreover, the documentation for LanceDB is also poorly written.
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