alexlur

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by alexlur 2y ago
I don’t have a position. I’m simply very curious how this will play out. You don’t have to guess what they mean since the CEO did an interview about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845612
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by alexlur 2y ago
Note: Author is the CEO of Anthropic.
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by alexlur 2y ago
Not to mention that temporary seasonal agricultural workers have ever been called “expats” either.
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by alexlur 2y ago
Is it just me or the “Read in other languages” links in the article are just plaintexts that don’t link to anywhere?
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by alexlur 2y ago
This isn’t factually correct. The French colonial administration romanized their writing and enforced chữ Quốc ngữ.
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by alexlur 2y ago
The modernization argument only makes sense if your society is economically or militarily inferior to the society you want to emulate. It was the case 100 years ago, but not today. The Japanese economy has been stagnant for over 30 years wi
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by alexlur 2y ago
They are not comparable. The Chinese script was tailor-made for Chinese languages, while it was simply adopted by the Koreans, which arguably was a bad fit because it’s 1) agglutinative and 2) not even a Sino-Tibetan language. Even then han
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by alexlur 2y ago
Because China is not the only place where Chinese languages are spoken. There’s more than 10 million ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia alone. And it’s not only a mainland-centric view: it’s a mainland–Mandarin speaking centric view.
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by alexlur 2y ago
It’s really bizarre to see someone claim kana has anything to do with “modernization”. The Japanese modernization and industrialization period is famously associated with translating Western concepts and terminologies into Sinitic words t
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by alexlur 2y ago
It’s only almost all if you only interact with the millennials or younger. Pinyin is an IME for Mandarin. If you aren’t fluent in Mandarin, chances are you use voice input or stroke typing.
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by alexlur 2y ago
This is an extremely mainland-centric view. Cangjie is the dominant IME in Hong Kong.
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by alexlur 2y ago
> how inefficient Chinese characters are in general (but especially evident in computing) We are not in the 90s anymore. UTF-8 has been around for 32 years now. If you’re working for a system that has no UTF-8 support, you have a much bi
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by alexlur 2y ago
Chữ Nôm is a borrowed writing system and not native to Vietnamese, which isn’t even a Sino-Tibetan language to begin with.
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by alexlur 2y ago
Thank God it didn’t happen.
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by alexlur 2y ago
Old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32264372 > "Powered by LibertOS, our proprietary privacy OS" > James O’Keefe quote on the front page > Gettr link in the sidebar This is not a phone for pr
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by alexlur 3y ago
Worked for Switzerland.
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by alexlur 3y ago
For people using Cloudflare DNS: > By pausing work on iOS 18 — along with iPadOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11 and other next-generation operating systems — engineers could spend a week focused exclusively on rooting out glitches. > The de
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by alexlur 3y ago
A wrapper for Fig that doesn’t require me to create an account in order to use my terminal. I’d say it’s a good thing.
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by alexlur 3y ago
For people who don’t want to open Twitter: > These filters have been obsolete since a long time, no content blockers is using these. They are just being spread by non-official sources since at least last June
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by alexlur 3y ago
Aren’t you American?
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by alexlur 3y ago
I’d just like to say thank you for your team’s hard work on TypeScript. I can’t imagine writing JavaScript without TypeScript.
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by alexlur 3y ago
You can’t modify ToS without asking the user’s consent. See Sifuentes v. Dropbox, Inc. (20-cv-07908-HSG).
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by alexlur 3y ago
Anyone got a screenshot?
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by alexlur 3y ago
Is your DNS 1.1.1.1 by any chance?
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by alexlur 3y ago
NextAuth also intentionally made username-password authentication difficult to use because they think signing in with your Twitter or Google account is better. Meanwhile their home page advertises “own your data”.
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by alexlur 3y ago
> So much so that people talk about dropping it every now and then. They did consider it in the 20th century when Japan was modernizing and catching up with the Western world. Nowadays nobody takes you seriously if you propose abolishing
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by alexlur 3y ago
Desktop link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeLite
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by alexlur 3y ago
Runtime type checks usually decrease the performance.
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by alexlur 3y ago
Programmatically yes: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/28cd1fbd13b8d09... You just need to call this from somewhere like ts-morph.
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by alexlur 3y ago
It really says something that when faced with _universal_ opposition, he still asked people to either provide “constructive” criticism or GTFO, which is just a nicer way to say “we will push forward this no matter what you say”.

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