squaresmile

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by squaresmile 3mo ago
These are not 1000 page books (but combined they can be): - God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (more about the Taiping and their leader) - Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story
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by squaresmile 10mo ago
> higher-passenger-capacity trains Length is limited by platform length and width is limited by tunnel loading gauge and platform sizes. To increase the platform length, you have to do it at most if not all stations. Crowded stations are
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by squaresmile 10mo ago
There are problems with rail privatization but I don't think this is one. > Privatization results in requiring riders to sometimes exit a station of one company, go all the way up to ground level, walk a block or to two another diff
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by squaresmile 1y ago
Same, ClaudeBot makes a stupid amount of requests on my git storage. I just blocked them all on Cloudflare.
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by squaresmile 1y ago
I find Accuweather MinutecastTM quite good for the Northeast. I'm using Breezy Weather with them as the data source. Sometimes, I found their API data was not as updated as their website/app but most of the time, the API is good e
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by squaresmile 1y ago
Yep, it's a straight up safety issue with all the scam ads. I pay for YouTube premium but sometimes my parents and grandparents don't log in, accidentally sign out, watch it on the browsers, etc that it's safer to block them
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by squaresmile 2y ago
The translation should be "Under the glorious flag of the Party, the people of Nghệ An Soviet are heros/will heroically do something..." Soviet refers to this one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_(c
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by squaresmile 2y ago
Yes you can
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by squaresmile 2y ago
If self-host is your thing, there are blocky [0] or Adguard Home [1]. I self-host DOH using blocky so my Android devices can use it via "Private DNS" that is active on both wifi and cellular. [0] https://0xerr0r.github.
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by squaresmile 2y ago
> thanks to that universal language, I can express my thoughts to most people in India, China, Japan, South America, etc due to having 1 common language. My lazy ass wishes that English is enough to access those communities too. There ar
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by squaresmile 2y ago
Yes, it's one of the reason. As a result, it's super rare to refer to someone by their family name in Vietnamese. Casually people use given names and formally people use full names. Family names usually come up when referring to t
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by squaresmile 2y ago
> Nevertheless, our close examination of his publications removes the ambiguity. The cover of his dissertation clearly delineates his family name from his compound given name, and in his final publication, he listed his last name as “Bui
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by squaresmile 2y ago
I use a quick setting to quickly switch between ad blocking dns and normal dns for bad websites or captive portal. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jpwolfso.privdnsqt/
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by squaresmile 2y ago
Like others said, it's more of a hobby than a side hustle.
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by squaresmile 2y ago
Citi DC is also a mastercard world elite which charges a higher fee for merchants. Afaik most (all?) 2% card are visa signature or mc word elite.
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by squaresmile 2y ago
HN's a tech forum. It is what it is.
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by squaresmile 3y ago
And Dream of the Red Chamber to round up the four great Chinese classical novels
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by squaresmile 3y ago
Yeah, sometimes I have the realization that I don't need to open the game at all, I can just play the game in Excel.
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by squaresmile 3y ago
Yep, I've also commented on how harmful ads seem to be more common on YouTube compared to Instagram and Facebook. Maybe Facebook use more human reviewers in smaller regions compared to Google? Maybe Facebook have better data due to the
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by squaresmile 3y ago
The ads could be worse: drugs that treat cancer, diabetes in 1 month, supplements that cure Hepatitis and so on. If YouTube can show fast food and gambling ads instead, that would be a nice improvement. I assume because the ads are in langu
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by squaresmile 3y ago
Maybe manifest v2 will be removed for real soon.
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by squaresmile 3y ago
Avoid non-tech discussion here and you are almost all the way there. There's a chrome extension to block a user's comments. Probably not too hard to make one or modify it to highlight users you like.
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by squaresmile 3y ago
I think one thing that makes it IE-like is updates being tied to the OS. Asking the users to update an app is an easier sell than updating their OS.
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by squaresmile 4y ago
From here [0], 94.1% of .jp websites use UTF-8 and 6.5% use Shift-JIS. You can find a list of popular sites still using Shift-JIS here [1]. If you change your PC or your phone locale to Japanese and access mostly Japanese website, the font
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by squaresmile 4y ago
> dotnet, vscode (Microsoft), golang (Google), Oracle JDK/JRE, Nextjs (Vercel), ... I wonder if there's some trend where corporate backed, large "open source/source available" projects being more open to telemetr
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by squaresmile 4y ago
I mean, that's every non-IT topic in an IT forum. It's to be expected from all forums really. Everyone has blind spots about other professions. I think the key is to treat off-topic threads like watercooler talk, friends shooting
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by squaresmile 4y ago
gcmap can map path with etops consideration http://www.gcmap.com/mapui > pacific islands Depending on the jet streams, the flight can take the great circle route [0] or taking advantage of the jet stream [1] and flying m
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by squaresmile 4y ago
> The translations are lacking or no existent I wonder if the Windows/C#/VS ecosystem translations are actually decent leading to Japanese developers not being forced to learn English? From what I have seen, Windows and Visual
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by squaresmile 4y ago
> China is building up Yeah, you have to start building experience from somewhere. The Chinese Navy is both building many ships [0] (of which many would argue are among the most advanced in the world) and building operational experience
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by squaresmile 4y ago
Yep, b2 and cf is a great combo for hobby project. Note that you still need to pay for transactions so depending on your usage pattern, b2 might range from very cheap to a nice discount. I recommend turning on tiered cache on cf [0]. Our b2

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