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Comment · 4 years ago
> How do chinese people even type?

Emacs has 25 kinds of Chinese input methods.

A speaker at Stanford on the topic of early keyboards used for Chinese noted graph structure such as the one you find in Canjie input method was what they used before soundspelling. Today, hypergraphtext autocompletion influences message contruction on flatscreen devices in a kind of mind-machine blend mode on a massive scale.

Comment · 4 years ago
> internet junkies today

The American Mandarin Society has courses for Professionals. I guess they make quality judgement on what to keep or throwout in use of the Chinese language in their curated walled garden for snooty State official use.

Comment · 4 years ago
Knowledge danks fast in the techspace. Do a MOOC series guided by long standing institutes, such as, MIT. Volunteer on a codebase, such as, webrtc, GCC, Wine or SQLite. Earn your stars and make connections. Bootcamps sound like they will queue you up to be the nextgen Mailchimp coder canon fodder. Promises made. Promises broken.
Comment · 4 years ago
Two thirds underground building structures and aerodynmaic upper third exposed to the sky, those buildings connected by Boring tunnel hyperloops would be tornado proof and save lives at Amazon fullfillment centers.
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There is the "Yellow Ribbon" movement campaigning to give second chances for former prisoners to reintegrate in society. They can add to the demographic diversity under represented in the traditional professions. Tricky former criminals ought to perform well in contests of sharp thinking.
Comment · 4 years ago
> I would put most corporate programming into the bin of 'craft', much more than 'art'.

A former corporate programmer who was a highly paid corporate programmer at the time when he told me this is that all they do is very fast simple arithmetic. Add and subtract.

Great hackers on the PG spectrum may get struck by inspiration and may outperform the average corporate programmer by 10x or 100x or more and work crazy hours while the creative electricity buzzes.

Comment · 4 years ago
Terrible what the misguided policies of the past from the Communist Party did to the Chinese people.
Comment · 4 years ago
History is fiction in the not-fiction area. 95% is missing taken to the grave in silence and the 5% that is allowed to be there is embellished according to a reinforcing narrative agenda of a kind that sells enough copies to make it worthwhile.
Comment · 4 years ago
The storyline on the control plane for the Architect and Crypto is fertile field to explore for Civilization player types. Isometric hextile tabletop player map for massive multiplayer gaming with escape hatch for FPS gaming addicts covers all bases. This demo looks GTA skinjob on Hollywood themed franchise, nothing new really. Ideas about reality being a controlled hallucination as theory of mind is an intriguing plot element to expore, too.
Comment · 4 years ago
I know about virus this much:

what is a virus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tryg5UCp6fI

I know Dana White of UFC was vaxed and still he got the virus over his thanksgiving break and was cured within a week.

I didn't want to take the vax shots, travel to my doctor was too difficult to figure it out, I have had 1 of the 2 required Pfizer shots needed for access to public space. They had 3 brands available and Moderna was in the middle. The consent form detailed complications and you sign on the dotted line knowing bad things may happen to cover people's asses.

Comment · 4 years ago
I played volleyball without knowing how to execute the pancake dive and smashed my knees on the floorboards repeatedly in my 10s. I became obsessed with MMA and eventually got a bucket handle tear in my knee at athletic prime. Sometimes the knee refused to straighten and I had to get physio to hoik it back straight. Every step was a pain. Instead of surgery to staple the meniscus down or cut it out, what primitive medical procedure is that?!, I had acupuncture to treat the pain. I think I was lucky in not having the deeply inserted needle sever a controlling nerve from knee to toe. I wouldn't do that again in a do-over. I heard by word of mouth a statistic that 50% of knee surgery don't improve the knee so I didn't have that done. I swim to get exercise or walk gingerly.
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New to podcasting presenters speak headtalk. Too fast for comfy listening and digestion. Doctor Joe Rogan has the tempo about right. Do Jazz musicians operate their instruments nearest to thoughtful waveform?
Comment · 4 years ago
> If you don't already know and believe this stuff, I doubt China

This Communist Party version of China carries more weight in its words the further it goes in space technology and other domains. China's space station has half the volume of the Saturn 5 era Skylab. The last questioner at an WSJ audience of CEOs with SpaceX founder framed China as the big kid on the block with a projection to grow outsize its economy to the United States Democracy by 3.

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