EastToWest

6 ms·

1.
by EastToWest 5y ago
My naive implementation (as shown in the linked question) in Rust was mind boggling slow. C could do around 150MiB/s, while Rust could only do 10MiB/s. A simple `objdump -d` shows Rust is generating a lot more code. I'm not s
2.
by EastToWest 5y ago
> Btrfs has had no real work done on it since then, and anyone that is actually serious about data storage has moved to ZFS, or has left POSIX filesystems entirely. I'm not very familiar with this space, but if this were true why wo
3.
by EastToWest 5y ago
Source? The creator's twitter doesn't mention that at all.
4.
The Extreme 996 Work Culture in China [video](youtube.com)
2 points by EastToWest 5y ago|0 comments
5.
by EastToWest 5y ago
Linux is well funded in the sense that corporations put big money looking after their own interest in the kernel. Anything outside of their respective areas of interest? Good luck. Paragon, for better or worse, is just yet another corporati
6.
by EastToWest 5y ago
Not necessarily politics. It could be purely due to lack of interest from maintainers and reviewers.
7.
by EastToWest 5y ago
I would cry and run for any scientists who improve the wellbeing of tens of millions of people when they pass away.
8.
by EastToWest 5y ago
It is fine that you don't relate to or understand his contributions. I would have done the same if I were in Changsha. Feel free to believe in what you think is true. I'm done with this discussion. Have a nice day.
9.
by EastToWest 5y ago
I'm totally lost. Are you implying he's responsible for the great famine somehow? "Fighting famine" is a generic term. His contributions prevented future famine. That does count as "fighting famine", doesn&#x27
10.
by EastToWest 5y ago
Minor correction, his family name is Yuan. Longping is his given name.
11.
by EastToWest 5y ago
And? Should people hate him for what he did? What is the dispute here? Would you not feel grateful for his contributions, regardless of what end of the political spectrum you're on? Take your ideology crusade elsewhere.
12.
by EastToWest 5y ago
Yuan Longping's breakthrough happened in the 70s. The great famine happened in early 60s. I'm not sure what your post is about.
13.
by EastToWest 5y ago
Fun facts: 1. Mars is 火星 ("Planet of Fire") in Chinese. 2. 祝融 Zhurong, as mentioned in the article, is the god of fire in Chinese mythology.
14.
by EastToWest 5y ago
Bad, sure, we both agree. Dystopian has a very specific meaning though. From Cambridge dictionary: relating to a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, or to the descr
15.
by EastToWest 5y ago
I think it is rather dumb and annoying. Dystopian? Far from it. Do you consider a plane flying by with a banner behind it dystopian? Isn't this more or less the same kind of thing?
16.
by EastToWest 6y ago
Your first example lost me. Are you really talking about China?
17.
by EastToWest 6y ago
That someone is perhaps a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. I think a close equivalence is an MP in the UK or a congressman / congresswoman / senate in the US. They make proposals on various as
18.
by EastToWest 6y ago
Incorrect. A lot of Chinese people will see this. Chinese people know Twitter is blocked but largely don't care because Weibo is more fun. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing is left as an exercise to the readers.
19.
by EastToWest 6y ago
I now wonder what will happen to US Embassy's Weibo account. My impression is that their Weibo account promotes "unpopular" opinions but has mostly been left alone. But I haven't been a Weibo user for the past >5 year
20.
by EastToWest 6y ago
> I found the greatest offenders of media that portrays China in a poor light are CCTV, xinhua, people’s daily, etc... if you consume those media, you get the impression that China is a backwards authoritarian state with lots of flaws, b
21.
by EastToWest 7y ago
How do you expect a Chinese to respond to this kind of "Have you stopped beating your wife" questions? Whether some of the view points are valid in the first place (at least the second or third one) is deeply contested to Chinese.
22.
by EastToWest 7y ago
> It's not necessarily triggered by the government. Chinese are very patriotic, if not nationalistic, and the power of social media does the rest. I can relate. I have seen people who are very critical of the government but at the s
23.
by EastToWest 7y ago
At least one? https://www.cnet.com/news/wwdc-2018-apple-diss-android-faceb... (Scroll down for a picture)
24.
Why I translate all of Trump's tweets into Chinese(bbc.co.uk)
14 points by EastToWest 7y ago|0 comments
25.
Mulan: OSS License by China (CN/EN)(license.coscl.org.cn)
1 points by EastToWest 7y ago|0 comments
26.
by EastToWest 7y ago
Unfortunate side effect? Do you realize some of those Chinese are naturalized US citizens like you? Do you realize that you're advocating treating a portion of your fellow citizens as enemy or second-class citizens? I hope your country
27.
by EastToWest 7y ago
Why don't you have a look yourself? https://maimai.cn/ Does it resemble LinkedIn to you?
28.
by EastToWest 7y ago
My impression for the social credit system is that people seem to like it (mind you, I'm not in China), because it is a powerful tool against bad behaviors and law breakers. I'm not sure if people are aware of or care the invasion
29.
by EastToWest 7y ago
Hey, cool down a bit. I don't think posting here on HN has any effect on the piece or journalist's style. Westerners think any opinions Chinese people have, if not conforming to Western values, are due to either "brainwashed&
30.
by EastToWest 7y ago
The reverse, to a lesser extent (only about Western politics), is also true in Chinese media.

More ›