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Comment · 4 months ago
Now that Words/Excel are losing their battles against online documents, gaming is the only thing that's keeping me on Windows. Though I honestly enjoy using Windows 10, no way in hell will I upgrade my OS to Windows 11.
Comment · 8 months ago
The story smells like bullshit to me.
Comment · 10 months ago
I was tasked to add OpenOffice's hyphenation lib to our software at work back in 2010 when I was a junior dev. I had to read the paper and the C code/documentation to understand how it works but got stuck in one particular function.

It was such an obscure thing (compare to web dev stuffs) that I couldn't find anything on Google.

Had no choice but to ask on Stackoverflow and expected no answers. To my surprise, I got a legit answer from someone knowledgable, and it absolutely solve my problem at the time. (The function has to do with the German language, which was why I didn't understand the documentation)

It was a fond memory of the site for me.

Comment · 1 year ago
They did have a plan. Temu/Shein used to ship directly from China, handling the shipping themselves for the sellers on their platforms.

Since a year or two ago (or even earlier), they started accepting (and encouraging) sellers to handle the shipping themselves (while still maintaining a fast shipping time) by giving those sellers more traffic.

In order to have fast shipping time, it basically mean the sellers need to have warehouses (or 3rd party warehouses) in the USA. It's easier for the sellers to workaround the tariffs when they are shipping in bulk to the USA.

The prices will be higher for sure, but it will be a lot lower than people are expecting.

Not sure how well the plan will work. Just what I heard from people working in the industry.

Comment · 2 years ago
None of the people I know uses iMessage in Canada. In fact, majority of the people I know uses Android.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are quite a few VPN providers I know that work reliably in China.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have always heard that but I never understood how that's possible. I filled a rice bowl with water and reuse that same water to wet all the dirty dishes before rubbing, then rinse with cold running water from the tap.

The majority of the energy used in dishwasher is from heating up the water. If you wash with cold water, you are using less energy than the dish washer.

Comment · 3 years ago
I love the backup camera, especially since I moved to a city with tiny parking space, which always trigers the beeping sounds left and right (literally). It's so annoying I wish I could disable them.
Comment · 4 years ago
A can of soft drink every two days seems highly unhealthy to me.
Comment · 6 years ago
I actually think hey are too sour most of the time. That's one of the reasons I don't like eating fruits much.
Comment · 6 years ago
> unless you're willing to live with your parents until you're at least 30.

Which is considered normal in many non-US cultures.

Comment · 8 years ago
If they are struggling to meet 13 miles per "intervention", how was the "safety driver" not paying full attention on the road at night? That's baffling.
Comment · 10 years ago
Sure Tesla could've named it better, but anyone who put their life on the hand of an immature technology is beyond my comprehension. News of crashes from people using Auto Pilot comes up here and there, why are people still willing to risk their life on trusting it?

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