4cao

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by 4cao 2y ago
At first glance I thought it was a far-fetched conclusion but then I read in a subsequent reply he wrote: > With your current rate, I very doubt to see 5.4.0 release this year. The only progress since april has been small changes to tes
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by 4cao 3y ago
Whether Taiwanese Mandarin is a separate language or not is a matter of opinion. Delving further into this debate will not lead to an interesting discussion as the definition of what constitutes a language is ultimately blurry. So I'm
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by 4cao 3y ago
Shouldn't it be a "no.", with a period at the end? Anyway, the translation is wrong given the context as no numeral follows.
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by 4cao 3y ago
Yes, but the island of Hainan is considered part of "Mainland China," while the mainland areas of Hong Kong and Macau are not, so in this context it's a purely political term, trying to shape reality as opposed to just desc
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by 4cao 3y ago
大陸 /dàlù/ 'mainland' is used but often pejoratively. It's a politically charged issue as this article from a pro-KMT newspaper can attest: https://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20180520000567-26
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by 4cao 3y ago
Is having "lived in Taipei for almost three years," really enough to confidently claim that "this is not a big deal at all?" Especially if you "use Google Translate every day of [your] life," presumably not bec
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by 4cao 3y ago
If, as you are claiming, the Taiwanese don't have their own Taiwanese Mandarin, with their language being just the same as the Mandarin used in China, how can it be that at the same time they also don't get to have a say in what c
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by 4cao 3y ago
Because it's part of the cultural heritage. Very much like the weird spelling of many English words is. In particular, the phonetics of Mandarin Chinese underwent several waves of simplification to the point that many characters are pr
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by 4cao 3y ago
I'd say perhaps 5 or so of the ~100 entries on the list are somewhat debatable. The rest seems pretty obvious and indisputable, and among these I would count the "通過"/"透過" that you mentioned. If anything, perha
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by 4cao 3y ago
Thing is, Google forces their translations upon everyone. For example if I want to check Taipei restaurant reviews on Google Maps with my interface language set to English, each of them shows up translated (poorly), and I have to click or t
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by 4cao 3y ago
> I am paywalled from the article [...] Just a technical note: by HN guidelines, the submission URL must point to the original source but I also linked to a mirror that bypasses the paywall in a parallel comment: https://news.
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by 4cao 3y ago
The article was not written by "HN." The author, Edward Luce, is an Oxford University graduate whose father holds the title of a baron in the UK, was at some point the Governor of Gibraltar, and then a member of the British parlia
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by 4cao 3y ago
I posted the link to bypass the paywall together with the submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36603895 It's a soft paywall anyway, there are multiple other ways to access the content.
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by 4cao 3y ago
Mirror: https://archive.is/tlA8T
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The moral bankruptcy of Ivy League America(ft.com)
48 points by 4cao 3y ago|42 comments
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by 4cao 3y ago
I was expecting this would be about the letter Ⱶ or one of the other Claudian letters of the Latin alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudian_letters
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by 4cao 3y ago
I'm not saying what they did was in any way justified, just providing context that seems to be missing from the reporting: to sideload e.g. SmartTube you need an app like this first, and it must be available from the Play Store. Google
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by 4cao 3y ago
I think there might be more to this story. This app is what people generally use to sideload apps on a locked Google TV device such as the Google Chromecast. One such commonly sideloaded app is SmartTube, an unofficial YouTube client with n
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by 4cao 4y ago
Please see my other comment before taking the above linked "list" seriously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34706914 For years there's been another ranking with much better methodology: https:/&#x
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by 4cao 4y ago
The safest carriers are those that have just been founded recently, by this logic. Since they have no incident history. According to this website, Air Asia is supposedly safer than Singapore. And Xiamen Airlines are safer than Cathay? CX an
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by 4cao 4y ago
Security from the user, not for the user, is an anti-feature from the user's point of view. Security features in general are not.
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by 4cao 4y ago
These defaults seem like a reasonable, pro-consumer choice. Great to know there's at least one vendor that helps to get around the restrictions Secure Boot creates for the user. Secure Boot has always been an anti-feature, at least fro
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by 4cao 4y ago
The ranking should more appropriately be called "tourist passport ranking", "visitor passport ranking" or something the like. It's a misnomer to call it a "passport ranking" without any qualifiers as this
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by 4cao 4y ago
That or an even cheaper CH341A (which is what I use).
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by 4cao 4y ago
Being "rooted" can mean different things, so I'm answering in the broadest sense. You're right of course. You don't need actual superuser access to the live system to make it work (only through recovery). And, as is
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by 4cao 4y ago
> What benefits are you guys reaping from taking root, these days? On stock Android 12+ (LineageOS 19+), superuser access is necessary even to customize the default color scheme. (Except on Google Pixel devices, which have the UI for thi
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by 4cao 4y ago
As a matter of fact, there have been unofficial builds [1], so it's not like the newer Pixel hardware isn't supported at all. Although being Exynos-based likely doesn't help. Besides Graphene, there's also CalyxOS [2], w
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by 4cao 4y ago
Since it's compatible with so many devices, it should probably run on most others too as long they support the same Camera API. As for downloading, I'm not sure if it's available separately, which of course would be the easie
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by 4cao 4y ago
Follow the link to NSA's Privacy Policy on https://ghidra-sre.org/ and you get a "404 Not Found." Guess it serves as the final proof nobody reads privacy policies that it apparently has been like this for mon
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NSA Privacy Policy: 404 Not Found(nsa.gov)
2 points by 4cao 4y ago|1 comments

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