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by ronyclau 1y ago
Here's an example. This is the PR they created in lodash's GitHub repo: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/5980
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Earthquake in Japan yesterday may have shifted land 1.3 meters(www3.nhk.or.jp)
119 points by ronyclau 3y ago|86 comments
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by ronyclau 3y ago
I don't think she meant her girlfriend is under house arrest (though possibly too), I guess she meant she can leave the country but her girlfriend can't. Uyghur are systematically suppressed and discriminated in China. It's
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by ronyclau 3y ago
ResMed AirSense user here. Do take note that the water reservoir in the recent versions is prone to leakage after around a year of use, and replacing it is pretty expensive. I sealed mine with food-grade silicone as fellow users in the inte
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by ronyclau 3y ago
Oh my gosh. That screenshot of the Calculator alone brought back memories from my childhood.
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by ronyclau 4y ago
> - basic constructs like the arg array are broken once you have special chars and spaces and want to pass those args to other commands. and UNICODE? Ha. Any example with this? The following works reasonably well for me. args=(-a --b
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by ronyclau 4y ago
There is a documentary named "Falling from the Sky"[1] from 2009, which depicts how scared and helpless people in a Hunan village were, every time a rocket wss launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The village was located
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by ronyclau 4y ago
Two suggestions: 1. Prefer sftp over scp whenever it's available. The scp protocol is pretty obsoleted. Just substitute `scp` with `sftp` in the command. 2. Turn on ssh multiplexing to drastically shorten the wait time when opening a f
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by ronyclau 4y ago
There's too much cognitive overhead if you do this. For example, to change a word we use `ciw`, which roughly means "Change Inner Word" as a mnemonic. There are quite a lot of similar keys with mnemonics, which would prolly m
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by ronyclau 4y ago
Not from the UK, I don't actually get why calling a local/in-country number could incur high cost. How could one identify a paid/free/local number without trial-and-error? In my country, you only incur normal minutes whe
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by ronyclau 5y ago
I'm guessing this is 表妹. In English, your male siblings are "brothers", and female siblings are "sisters", regardless of age. In Chinese, we differentiate between younger and elder siblings. Your elder brother is 哥哥
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by ronyclau 5y ago
Let's hope we can someday program it to find the answer to life, the universe and everything, and subsequently the ultimate question, just so we can render all philosophers jobless.
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by ronyclau 5y ago
Startpage was my preferred search engine for the past two years, however in the past half year, I get many of my searches blocked when they contain "site:" param. The situation got worse in thev part few months when some searches
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by ronyclau 5y ago
Syncthing now supports untrusted device sync[0] (i.e. storing an encrypted copy on an untrusted device) in a recent version, though this is still on beta. [0]: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html
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by ronyclau 5y ago
IIRC, this may also leak when `priority()` throws due to evaluation order. (Not exactly sure now, as I now always use `make_shared` whenever possible.) However in the Effective C++ example, the `shared_ptr` constructor gave a false sense of
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by ronyclau 5y ago
If you are using Firefox Nightly, you can install arbitrary add-ons (though quite a number of them don't work due to UI difference, container doesn't work too) now after going though some steps: https://blog.mozilla.org
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by ronyclau 6y ago
That common character is called a generation name, as it is shared among the same generation in a family. This practice is seen much less commonly in recent times. For example, none of my friends bear a name in this format. However, sometim
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by ronyclau 6y ago
One of the origin story of the term links to a once-popular Hong Kong actress Amy Yip[1], who was known for her cup size and sexy appearances in movies. The "nickname" 波霸, roughly translated to "Boobs overlord" in Englis
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by ronyclau 8y ago
As released by the the Department of Commerce, ZTE has a document detailing: 1. how they evaded the sanction against Iran (destroying documents, re-export through a third country, deliberately removing logos from cargos, etc) 2. rewarding,
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by ronyclau 9y ago
The first syllable in charcoal reads "tʃɑ:" in IPA. I was referring to the "ʃ" sound, formally the "voiceless palato-alveolar fricative" according to Wikipedia.
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by ronyclau 9y ago
Interesting! Never heard anyone use "tea" to describe the evening meal. Tea refers to the light meal at late afternoon, after lunch and before the evening meal (dinner) at my place, seems to be same as the "common" usage