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"When others give you a thumbs-up, they may not be praising you, they may be aiming at you."

I check HN whenever I pretend not taking breaks.

> This entry was posted on Thursday, February 26th, 2009

30 years ago, that's when taxis appeared in China. In Tianjin a lot of Daihatsu S65 are produced and used as taxis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huali_Dafa

I thought MG and Polestar now belong to Chinese companies (SAIC and Geely), and (some models of) MG are just Roewe with its logo changed?

> If dedent is True, then common initial white space is removed from the lines in sOut before adding them to the output. If trimblanklines is True, then an initial and trailing blank line are removed from sOut before adding them to the output. Together, these option arguments make it easier to use multi-line strings, and they only are useful for multi-line strings

I've recently learnt Julia and known how multiline strings in Julia works: normal " allow multiline strings, while """ will automatically remove the first blank line and all indents.

In mainland China, when used as a verb (eg.: @ somebody on twitter/x), we use "艾特" now and a few people use "圈" or "圈儿"(quānr) which is an abbreviation of "圈(儿)A".

I think the only scenarios when we need to read @ is as a verb or read an e-mail address. When reading e-mail address, I think most people just read it as "at" because other parts contain letters or English words anyway. But "." is pronounced "点[儿]"(dian[r]) rather than "dot".

There is also "ananas" in Korean: 아나나스. And there is also "凤梨"/"鳳梨"(Fèng lí in Mandarin) in Japanese: 鳳梨(ほ ーり, hóꜜòrì)[1]. But I think neither of them are commonly used now. So maybe it is the influence of English-speaking countries that makes (at least) these two languages choose "pineapples" now rather than other possibilities.

[1] https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%B3%B3%E6%A2%A8#_note-DJR-...

Original title: Hamas is hoarding vast amounts of fuel as Gaza hospitals run low, *U.S. officials say*

On the last page of the paper [1], the runners' data are shown. Age: 73/59/45/46, weight(kg): 58/76/69/71, finish time: 345/359/440/606, heart rate: 150/145/152/NA. I wish I could sub 4 at the age of 70s.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.10.561303v1

Dear body, please try to burn my belly before burn my brain.

I feel like arguments about REST are sometimes like 4-element philosophy [1] or wuxing [2], which try to classify or decompose everything in the colorful world into a given set to prove the wiseness of the set, which seems not the case.

I know nothing about REST, so forgive me if I am wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxing_(Chinese_philosophy)

I spend 3 hours (2x(1h subway + 0.5h electric bike)) commuting and 9 hours at work everyday. Should I move to reduce my commuting time?

All examples in "Survey of Other languages" section use comments.

TLDR: Totally no information about MP3 Encoding.

Recently a Russian commander got killed because he shared his daily running route on Strava which was seen by the killer.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/europe/russian-submarine-...

> set up a VM with an ancient python version

Maybe just use virtual environment?

In the last 25 years, algorithmic advances in integer optimization coupled with hardware improvements have resulted in an astonishing 800 billion factor speedup in mixed-integer optimization (MIO).[1]

Still, it is just a constant.

[1] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/110328

Not only that, but the Chinese syllables are also easier (notice that "twelve" also has only one syllable). There is at most one consonant before the main vowel, and at most one "tail" after the main vowel which is also rather easy: -i, -u, -n, -ng.

I think it is the tones that keeps Chinese syllables easier while expressive.

Then why not recognize Ukraine as part of Russia to avoid losing lives in Ukraine? Taiwanese lives > Freedom and Democracy > Ukraine lives?

Chinese here. It is true that in some intervals every year, only locally made movies are played in cinema. I agree it is a bad move, too. But I believe the reason is to help local movie industry to grow better. In April, we are rerunning an old Conan movie, an old Slam Dunk, as well as Titanic.

We love good movies no matter who made, just like people in any countries. But western movie industry are really decreasing. The last new western movie I watched is Avatar 2, which sucks. On the other hand, local movies do improve in many aspects. The stories are good; there are some good jokes and there are always some (our) political views expressed explicitly or implicitly. Just like those good old Hollywood movies. I'm proud to see that.

We don't prefer local movies, but we also don't hate them. Most of us will choose whichever with better quality. And the most important thing is: yes, we do have the right to choose (at least most of the time). So in my opinion, stop making excuses and try hard to make better movies.

The pickup in this link is not legal (neither as automobile like normal cars/pickups nor as non-motor vehicles like bicycles/electric-bicycles) in China, too. But the BYD one is totally legal in China.

South China Sea, Taiwan, India. Which of them is located in "Western"?

CNBC declares the Global Times is "the English-language subsidiary of the government-controlled People’s Daily", while the exact source posted by the Global Times is in Chinese.

> Now, the debate over what to do with a stuck fish bone has gained renewed relevance inside China, where the scrapping of zero-Covid measures in December has prompted many to gather for big group feasts *for the first time in months or years*. On Jan. 22, Lunar New Year’s Day, searches and mentions involving the term “fish bone” *increased sixfold from the previous day* on the popular Chinese app WeChat.

Media is based.

They chopped a leg from a woman to rescue her, who eventually died [1], and left [2]. No offense to anyone, I just think it is funny.

[1] https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202302090020 [2] https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/02/16/...

If you know dx is a little bit of x, you should know a little bit of kx should be kdx.

Visually the icon is shorter, making me more anxious and get it charged earlier.

I know I shouldn't sort it in part two but it is faster to implement.

I'm trying to write program to solve it as a practice. I've almost got the algorithm part done, but I have to input the puzzle manually. I wonder if there is a way to automatically fetch and read the puzzle.