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zephrx1111··on ReMarkable Paper Pro
Does this one also have the too-dark screen?
zephrx1111··on Military sexual assaults far exceed DoD estimates, new report finds
Did you consider the age distribution difference of military and gen pop?
zephrx1111··on App Store in China: A "Good Business" for Fake Apps
Recently, there have been significant changes in the apple AppStore in China. According to the latest regulations, all apps available in China must be registered. The primary goal of this policy is to enhance supervision and ensure user safety. However, this policy has led to some unexpected problems, especially for foreign apps. Almost all the foreign app got their fake apps in the China store.
zephrx1111··on MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
My point: DEI is the result, not the mean. If you do “DEI”, you will result in something un-DEI. We you do things right, DEI will show itself eventually. You can't by controlling the thermometer to control the temperature.
zephrx1111··on Bicycle use now exceeds car use in Paris
Not me. I was fed up of riding bike half of my life. Just 5 year ago I bought my own car.
zephrx1111··on Seattle shuts down gifted program for having too many white and Asian students
Racists are the people who think of race, talk about race, and act based on race.
zephrx1111··on Get a person at the IRS
This technique can also be used to protect your copyright.

A Taiwanese YouTuber was annoyed because somebody always pirate his content to China mainland sites like bilibili. He complained to bilibili but no response.

So, he intentionally put a small Winnie-the-Pooh in the corner of the video, only on 1-2 frames. Then his contents got deleted immediately.

zephrx1111··on People hate the idea of car-free cities until they live in one
This is insulting my 30 years life in developing countries. My country was poor, everybody was biking.

I dreamt of leaving that country and could drive my own car.

zephrx1111··on X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet
Not really for me.
zephrx1111··on Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. – even if Americans don't believe it
I just want to know, who flagged this post and why?
zephrx1111··on How Boeing Lost Its Way [video]
Exactly.

In my work as a senior software engineer, half of my work is to write some “popular science” versions of documents to educate the leadership. I have to over simplify the system to fit into their needs. It seems to me they don’t have the patience to understand some real complexity of the system, or even don’t have the curiosity to.

They looks more like business man too me, instead of their title as software engineer director.

zephrx1111··on A math professor who objects to diversity statements
I'm not sure how I was wrong.

Diversity claims groups are different, hence there must be some different outcomes, due to their different culture, language, mindset, sex, etc. If the outcomes are the same, then the only difference will be just color. I'm sure it is not what you want.

Then, given the expected outcomes will be different, why DEI is asking for equity of outcomes?

A bag has 100 balls: 90 are white and 10 are black. Please randomly grab 10, and send to to university, or jail. In this the only way you can get your DEI equity.

zephrx1111··on A math professor who objects to diversity statements
Diversity is based on the belief that some group‘s behavior patterns are fitting better with the environment, even temporarily and locally.

But DEI is denying this difference, expecting any behavioral pattern should deserve the same result.

They can’t even reach a logic consistency.

zephrx1111··on Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns
If I hire unqualified people and pay them high salaries, does it count as bribery?
zephrx1111··on Details on Xiaomi EV
Why Porsche? Why not Tesla?
zephrx1111··on Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
In cosmology, "horizon isolation" refers to the phenomenon where regions of the universe are completely cut off from each other due to the expansion of the universe exceeding the speed of light, preventing any exchange of information or causal interaction.
zephrx1111··on Ex-Facebook diversity manager pleads guilty to bilking $4M from company
DEI is a such big industry that, the practitioners are starting corruption. It also usually correlates to the sunset of the industry.
zephrx1111··on The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
A more generalizable explanation is regression towards the mean: everybody thinks they are an average person.
zephrx1111··on Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming
Socialism country is pretty safe actually. Nobody, except government, has the privilege to rob people.
zephrx1111··on Paste without formatting on macOS
How to copy paste image?
zephrx1111··on Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
I’m not a native English speaker, but I can speak 4 languages. My previous manager always suggested me to take some English class when we had the 1:1. Once a day, I told him: I’m speaking English with you, is because I can speak English, but you can ONLY speak English.
zephrx1111··on China Former Premier Li Keqiang Dies of Heart Attack at Age 68
China’s former Premier Li Keqiang has suddenly died less than a year after stepping down from overseeing the world’s second-largest economy.
zephrx1111··on We caught technicians snooping on our personal devices
> Human nature is always unpredictable.

Human nature is always -un-predictable.

zephrx1111··on Wealth shown to a pixel scale (2021)
I don’t understand, did Jeff robbed somebody to get the money?
zephrx1111··on This is what the year actually looks like (2018)
In my head, I think the year as ladder, not clock.
zephrx1111··on Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
Ca we do both, 1 year ago: 2022-1-1?
zephrx1111··on Show HN: E-Ink Day Schedule
There are many android eink reader out there the can be used easily for this scenario, why ppl are always bothered on kindle?
zephrx1111··on Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade
How we measure the people killed by activists? Wild fire, ambulance etc.
zephrx1111··on Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color
Apparently the media wanted to sell an optical problem as racial problem.

Some saying: racists are people that are thinking of race, talking about race, and acting based upon race.

zephrx1111··on Xiaomi CyberDog 2
I’m more worried if a robo-dog army can be deployed with so cheap cost.
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