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hexhuon One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm

so the claim is inaccurate by 1mm and missing precision data. I'd call it inaccurate and imprecise XD

hexhuon Access to GitHub restricted for (part of) mainland China

Will block access unless user's logged in, perhaps an anti-ai-scraper or compliance policy misconfigured?

hexhuon A map of torii around the world

1. Switch bottom tab from Explore (map pin icon) to You (bookmark icon)

2. Scroll down to the very very bottom, until a row of icons (Timeline, Following, Maps) appear

3. Click the rightmost icon, Maps, and you will find a list of maps you have opened before

4. Find the Torii map and click into it

5. Click "View map legend" at bottom of screen

6. Click "Close" in upper right

Yep that's it, just so "simple and straightforward" as most Google products have evolved to be, what a pleasant user journey! Promo-oriented product design really hurts my eyes

hexhuon TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work

There's a separate announcement showing some support and asking everyone in LA to WFH, which isn't mentioned in the article

Also not updating the RTO portal won't cause any penalty from what I've heard, and ppl can update the WFH status anytime, e.g. marking their whole month as natural disaster WFH in advance if they really care, which no one really does

hexhuon TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work

They're essentially the same from what I heard. No one's expected to work and ppl can avoid using sick days by setting their status in that portal in advance

hexhuon TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work

Right, these are additional paid sick days, just need to be manually claimed through the "My RTO" portal

There's also no penalty for forgetting to update the portal in time, from what I have heard

Update: and ppl can set their status in advance e.g. setting the whole January to "natural disaster" to avoid using personal paid sick leave

Update 2: There's a separate announcement showing some support and asking everyone in LA to WFH, which is omitted in the article

hexhuon TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work

That "my RTO" portal will automatically be updated to "on leave" status when on leave

hexhuon TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work

There's a separate short term disability (STD) benefit and ppl can still receive a certain percentage of their income when on leave. FMLA for longer absence

hexhuon If English was written like Chinese (1999)

Fun fact: Quality of Google translate and Google search in Simplified Chinese and Google maps in mainland China has plummeted over the past decade. Barely usable if at all. I would suggest avoid them at all cost for your peace of mind

hexhuon Chromium now has HEVC HW decoding support

And it's enabled by default since 107

Issue tracker for windows https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128613...

Author of this patchset described their journey all the way from understanding Chromium's decoding process to testing HDR to SDR tone mapping in their blog post https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/541082191. Too bad it's only available in Chinese though.

hexhuon “Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”

The last url has been found by lhprojects through brute-forcing Chinese eCommerce website urls. It's first 30 characters are:

`uland.taobao com/sem/tbsearch?`

Credit to lhprojects https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/lhprojects/blog/blob/mas...

hexhuon “Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”

raion on V2EX[1][2] reverse-engineered Tencent QQ's scraping code and acquired the list of URLs and keywords:

1. S.TAOBAO.COM/SEARCH?

2. LIST.TMALL.COM/SEARCH_PRODUCT.HTM?

3. (30, 0xDDA1029, 0x9E67F3BB, 0xB18ACC45, 0x597CF438): b'', # not yet decoded

4. SEARCH.JD.COM/SEARCH?

Keyword Group 1:

5. 古着 (kanji meaning old cloths)