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v-yadli··on Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
Looking at that partyful website vs. the author's app, an immediate analogy struck me as Discord vs. Microsoft Teams. (doge

So what is it? Colors? Animations? Gamification? Memes? "Crossing the line"?

v-yadli··on China markets in turmoil as Russia ties add to list of risks
Maybe it's fine for you guys that the a part of the population get eliminated because they are not strong enough against a disaster and "they are going to die anyway"...

But no, thank you. That's not the place/mindset I'd like to live in.

Good luck, and stay safe.

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Edit.

Just think of it.

Say Bob is a programmer so addicted to coding. He code and code, day and night, ignored necessary exercises, skipping meals, drinking too much soda. And then omicron hit and he didn't make it.

"He deserves it" you say? Why should not him get another chance to pull out of the rushing sessions and get better at taking care of himself?

v-yadli··on China markets in turmoil as Russia ties add to list of risks
> the rest of the world has moved on.

(Looking at thousands of deaths per day in the US alone)

`This is fine.jpg`

v-yadli··on Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?
Not sure if it's good analogy but consider playing music.

You practice your favourite instrument and post it on the tube. Worth it.

You get to know people with similar style and taste so you jam together. Worth it.

You guys stream the sessions on Twitch and got fans. Release EPs on bandcamp. But it starts to take too much personal time away from you. Worth it?

But the fans want it! You'll have to decide. Sometimes you work for months on an album. People cheer on the live stream, but not a lot of income from selling the art. Worth it?

Pick your RUNLEVEL. :)

v-yadli··on Corded headphones are making an unexpected return
Given that no manufacturers are going to mess with GND, there are really just two options -- Korg and Arturia ;)
v-yadli··on Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
I appreciate the work and wish the best for @csdvrx, with my emotions and the dream for better UX for the years to come.
v-yadli··on Functional, declarative audio applications
cool, so it's like PyTorch for audio where the heavy lifting is done in native code?
v-yadli··on If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
Now that the moon is only 1px. Imagine all the super massive 40pt text staring at you from space.
v-yadli··on 3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California
I'll probably be more confident about a dog if:

- It's well dressed instead of naked

- It walks on two feet

- It speaks English

... And vice versa.

v-yadli··on Using ASCII waveforms to test hardware designs (2020)
Yeah, the term "golden" is common in the hardware world, which corresponds to expected signal level traces either captured from a physical device with a logic analyzer, or generated with an ideal model.
v-yadli··on HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2009)
Nice idea. Could be better if this threshold is implemented into the user profile and let the user decide.
v-yadli··on Rust’s async isn’t colored
Those who _champion_ F# features :p
v-yadli··on Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of victims
> This is done to prevent the Chinese people from realizing that people in the West are on their side and they are not their government.

Currently there are more than 919.14 million CPC members in China (data point circa 2019), and this does not include the people working for 事业单位 (gov. funded public institutes). So for a random Chinese citizen, Western people have a, like, 3% chance of hate and 97% of love? If we propagate one hop further to the relatives/friends (let's say it knows 100 people in his/her life), the number goes to 4% of love and 96% of hate.

:-(

v-yadli··on The Boston Camera
What, other than ads, are you expecting from Neoliberalism? ;)
v-yadli··on Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”
I see now it is no longer about the postscript.

It's like a high priority, non-maskable interrupt -- when such conditions are met (China signal pulled up to 3.3v), it is immediately no longer about the matter at hand, but the thought experiments, hypothetical stuff.

This is not good in a few ways, but I don't think you care about most of them.

But at least, I think, this will matter: If this is necessary and inevitable, then you, as a whole community, will have more difficulty, less efficiency in thinking about, or discussing anything about China.

v-yadli··on Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”
I thought "every police is a piano" is clearly wrong, and based on that thought, I further refer to it as the misuse of deductive reasoning -- confusing subsets with supersets.

Take an example -- if we could agree on that -- it is well known that police will kill bad people when the bad people are doing really bad things -- with the precondition that the bad people must be alive to do really bad things, and to be killed. With the same faulty deduction rules, one could say that it is well known that police kill people whenever people are alive.

Sorry if that caused confusion.

> sit down and exchange information

For one.

I am a Chinese citizen. I know many people, including close friends, relatives, studying abroad. I am not aware of any cases that their relatives are held hostage by the government. I am aware that police go after bad people (of course, the definition of "bad people" may vary nation-wise, but please take a little break on that and assume it normal), even if the bad people are relative to one entity studying abroad.

For two, about Cixin Liu's case.

This is the part I genuinely don't understand -- why would he seek asylum outside China? Did he do anything illegal? This whole thread is about an English version of the postscript in his work. I have read both native and translated version, and can confirm that the same postscript is attached in both versions, and the translation is quite precise. And then people start to discuss about "seeking for help abroad", "HK protest" etc. -- do these people think the postscript is so offensive that the government will go after him?

I don't think the text is offensive by any means. I don't think the government will go after him.

If that's not the case, what are they talking about? Am I missing something?

v-yadli··on Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”
The GP is basically saying, it is well known that every police is a piano (police is an instrument for keeping order, piano is an instrument).

This kind of logic misusage is strangely common in affairs towards China but I'm not too surprised.

I still recommend just sit down, exchange information, and think.

v-yadli··on Std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++ (2017)
I love to write F# (I built FVim), but there's still gap towards high performance game programming. In C# you get a lot of low-level unsafe constructs with zero allocation overhead that integrates very well with the external libraries. In F#, you either get a clumsy library special form (without proper syntax support), or the idea itself is considered "only for C# interop uses" and thus not prioritized.

F# has been in this position: a smaller team that tries to align with C#, without a language implementation team backing them (unlike Roslyn-C#), yet constantly feeding innovations back into the dotnet ecosystem. You can see a lot of example where F# piloted the idea, and later C# adopted and extended it in its own way, and F# struggling to catch up in that OO-centric world

(Disclaimer: MS employee, but not on the language teams)

v-yadli··on Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10
The XDC 2020 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mnbyRgXkY&feature=emb_logo

If you're interested in the lowlevel WDDM driver <-> VM driver mapping, seek to 1:18:01 -- it also talks about the compute APIs like CUDA and OpenCL.

If you're interested in WSLG, seek to 2:13:01 -- this is the GUI part of the story.

v-yadli··on Vimflowy
I usually think of cw vs. dw as changing the data in a node vs. removing a node (together with its next pointer), in a linked list.
v-yadli··on Bongo Cat
FYI: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrMH132hWAcvZu1nL1k7-vA

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT1Rowl-EFM

:D

v-yadli··on OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker
Wow, thanks for revealing that. Didn't know TE has connection with IKEA! The big yellow dial on the top makes me think it's a XXL-sized op-z.

..And

> like the Ikea line taken to a very far extreme

Looking up the specs, 1x2.2W vs. 2x38W.

Wondering how they designed the structure so that the speakers don't blow up the unit into pieces.

v-yadli··on On Browser Tabs
1000 pages make a decent book already.

Maybe we need some kind of page mark and index system?

v-yadli··on Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now
> When I started out I assumed I just needed a cable with USB A on one end and MIDI on the other end ... hah!

And now we just need a cable with USB on one end and USB on the other end ;)

Even pre-amped mics have a USB port.

There are also instruments that go digital -- Line6 Variax guitars/basses have an RJ45 socket beside the century-old audio jack -- you plug it into the stomp box with an ethernet cable, and then USB to computer, and you can start recording without worrying about the impedance mismatch.

And actually I think RJ45 makes more sense than USB in this scenario because the jack is locked in the port so you don't worry about accidental disconnection that would damage the PAs..

v-yadli··on US, Taiwan seek 'like-minded' democracies in supply chain shift from China
To some deleted comment --

I believe there are many Chinese people, visiting HN everyday to discover and share cool stuff, and look forward to conversations that are intellectually beneficial to the participants. If anything, I hope I'm one of these good people, not a troll.

When the situation started to get tight, the meaning of word "we" here is shifting to "we Americans", but you see, unless HN put up a rule to block Chinese users, they will be here. Still looking for fun stuff, but end up seeing the theme turning to "tension", "conflict".

They think differently. Some views may seem unfair, or don't make sense to them. They usually just keep quiet, hide the entries and move on. But sometimes it gets too annoying, so they'll also raise a few points.

It is you who thinks defending China is not ok. So in converse, there will be people who think it is.

It doesn't make one troll because she's not speaking in your favor. I thought this was all fine? Can we just, sit down and compute?

v-yadli··on Matplot++ – A Plotting Tool for C++
> Do x and y have to be arrays?

Nope. Ranges are anything enumerable (can run an iterator through it by calling begin()/end() to get the boundaries), so you can do lists, arrays, generators etc.

v-yadli··on Anachro-PC – The Anachronistic Personal Computer
For anyone wondering about the CIPO /COPI thing instead of MOSI/MISO:

https://www.oshwa.org/a-resolution-to-redefine-spi-signal-na...

v-yadli··on The Floppy Disk of Floating Point
The system will also be more tolerant for ill-formed numbers, and thus numerically more stable (not running into NAN / INF as frequently).
v-yadli··on “Huh” exists in all human languages, according to research (2019)
Enter 嗯(polyphonic):

ng1: indeed, so what? ng2: huh? ng3: what? ng4: yeah, yes. ng~: nooo.

v-yadli··on Guitar – Git GUI Client
Why isn't this name used for a tar gui frontend? :p
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