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Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there

Today rains a bit. When I went upstairs to change water, I spotted two doves came and ate there. I'm pretty surprised. Possibly because cats didn't visit my yard when it's raining.

Note: The cats need to go through the second floor to visit my yard. It's pretty hard to imagine, but imagine someone don't know how to design a house but they built their own house anyway at 25 years ago in a tight corner of a city. That's where I live.

@freemo @trinsec For domestic flight I always try to choose the business or first class when I'm flying alone, the price is not that crazy if you got the timing right. Last year I went to Yunnan and the price for round trip with business class is less than 4000 CNY (at this time the economy price is about 900 CNY for round trip). But when I went to Yunnan during the spring festival (follow my relatives), the economy class cost more than 4000 CNY.

But sadly it's getting difficult to find wide-body aircraft for domestic lines, like A350-900, where you can lie flat comfortably. For aircraft like A320, I think it's just a wider version of economy seat.

Internation one is always expensive, even during the off-season :(

Came our from bank, thinking if I wanted to take the chance to ride. Mentally I want to ride, but physically I don't, because it's windy and now catkins are filling up the air (and I'm too lazy).

So I decided to bike to a supermarket. So I did the ride, and it's not that tiring. And I picked up some yoghurt and 3 bottles of coconut water.

I don't know about coconut water until I went to Yunnan last year. I like it so much that I feel super depressed when I can't find the exact same brand in Beijing. I tried different brands but they just don't taste the same. And today I found that brand.

I'm so happy. It deserves a movie.[1]
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[1]: When watching a movie, I need the perfect environment: the mood, the snake, the drink, and the movie itself. When I say something (snake or drink) deserves a movie, that's the highest appreciation I can give. And the word "moive" is just a placeholder, it can be a movie, an episode of anime, or a enjoyable youtube video.

Also samsung:

Me: alibaba
Auto correction: Alabama
*me delete the word and try again*
Type: alibaba, then tap space
Samsung: Alabama

:AngeryCat:

Wait, I can use Singapore credit card to buy things on alibaba?

Now I'm not going to wait bank. I'm ordering my new monocular.

近日联邦宇宙(「长毛象」)和推特我都见到有网友因关注李老师推特被警察约谈,各位注意。

Although Samsung has made me feel a little good about integrating AI in this way, I still don’t like it very much.

But at least the model is offline and does not require a subscription fee. In fact, this toot was written using the translation function of Samsung input method. I type Chinese, it outputs English. I don't change the output at all.

Despite it being a Japanese word, I noticed both I and my friend were totally ok to understand it. In Chinese, "前略" can be broken down into "前" front and "略" omit, which means omit the front part of opening the letter.

However, another Japanese word used in letter is "不一", which means "Very sincerely yours (valediction in correspondence)" in Japanese, but means "varying; differing; different; not uniform" in Chinese.

I wonder what happened in the history to make the word have such a big difference in meaning.

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Despite it being a Japanese word, I noticed both I and my friend were totally ok to understand it. In Chinese, "前略" can be broken down into "前" front and "略" omit, which means omit the front part of opening the letter.

However, another Japanese word used in letter is "不一", which means "Very sincerely yours (valediction in correspondence)" in Japanese, but means "varying; differing; different; not uniform" in Chinese.

I wonder what happened in the history to make the word have such a big difference in meaning.

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Talking about writing letters, instead of using "敬启者" (To whom it may concern) or something like "尊敬的XX" (Dear XX) for a start, I like using "前略" (Dispensing with the preliminaries).

Then I just found out this "前略" is not a valid Chinese word. It's actually a Japanese word. The meaning can be extended as "Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that...".

Ref: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%89%

涂着涂着把颜色涂错地方了 :0170: 如果是在板绘里这完全不是事,但作为水彩要怎么办呢……既不想放弃原有的配色更不想重画,最终选择水洗然后用纸巾把颜色沾掉了。但由于不是阿诗那种耐折腾纸,沾得十分不均匀,留下了痕迹。重新涂色后竟然有种仿佛故意做旧的肌理感……是意外发现的技法呢,赶紧记录在小本本上 :ablobjoy:

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Maybe using the internation code (the 3-letter combination for each character) is better in terms of less character I need to write.

But I didn't find any good digital source for that. I download the 4 digits codes from wikipedia.

天空вℓσи∂  
本周末的小项目:https://github.com/hurui200320/utf8-ctc Side project for this weekend: https://github.com/hurui200320/utf8-ctc 使用中文电报码编码文字,并使用UTF-8作为回退,同时...

本周末的小项目:github.com/hurui200320/utf8-ct

Side project for this weekend: github.com/hurui200320/utf8-ct

使用中文电报码编码文字,并使用UTF-8作为回退,同时还有加密功能(使用置换密码)。

Encode text using Chinese telegraph code, but with UTF-8 as a fallback, also with encryption (Transposition Cipher).

这个项目是和朋友聊到寄信的时候催生的。明信片8毛钱,平信1块2,我就不想多花4毛钱。于是便有了这个项目。你所需要的只是抄写并敲打一系列数字。

This project was built when my friend talked about sending postcards. The postcard costs 0.8CNY to send (proper mail starts with 1.2CNY, in contract, a big mac costs 22 CNY). Anyway, we don't want to spend the extra 0.4 CNY, but we also want privacy using post-services. So I came up with a solution to encode and possibly encrypt the text. All you need is to write and type a bunch of numbers.

完全不需要Base64或者Base58。从我过去的经验来看,这些编码不好写,也不好敲。

No base64 or base58. From my previous experience, they are terrible to write and type.

如果你想了解更多,我还有一篇博客来详细阐述我的思路(不过GitHub的readme应该就足够了):skyblond.info/archives/1062.ht

If you want to know more, I also have a blog to descibe my idea (which I think GitHub's readme is good enough). Anyway, if you want to read, here is the google translated version: skyblond-info.translate.goog/a

What?

AI suggest I do a human robot for a weekend project?

日星铸字行 

台湾朋友推荐的!看象友之前也来过好喜欢。
日星铸字行在台北车站附近,从青旅走5分钟就能到很方便。开门时间比较少要注意时间。
一进门就是铅字陈列区,可以自己挑选想要的字排列组合成独特的印章。除了普通的汉字还有一些可爱的符号图形生肖星座什么的,看到猫猫的我狂喜哈哈哈哈。自己挑的话一旦从架子上拿下就不能放回去了哦,怕出错可以让店员帮忙找字。买完后不要错过楼下也有一层可以参观,是真正的活版印刷工作场所很有意思。
关于最后的印章成品”饭否🐱”的由来。我想了几天要做什么字的印章头好痛,不喜欢自己的名字我也已经有一个台湾印章了,喜欢的诗词像古剑三的梦付千秋星垂野,关于山海的诗词也没有喜欢到刻印章的程度。问家属家属拍大腿说我有!翻出了辛弃疾的词。然后我一眼看到了尚能饭否哈哈哈哈哈,感觉摘出来还有点搞笑的意味。在铸字行看到猫猫铅字的时候觉得好像Mona!圆滚滚毛茸茸,Mona还特别贪吃,跟饭否一起不能再搭。最后就从一首严肃的诗词变成了搞笑的猫猫要饭印章 :blobcatgooglytrash:

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NOTE TO LITERALLY THE ENTIRE INTERNET:

No thought is ever complete. There will always be holes to fill!

RESIST THE URGE TO FILL THOSE HOLES

If someone has said something which you largely agree with, especially if what they said aligns with your understanding of and goals towards an issue, then the LAST thing they need from you is someone playing devil's advocate. Nitpicking is annoying at best and, in a world where people are looking to drive wedges between allies, dangerous at worst.

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