天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

And with the power of money and technology, I'm able to get my new monocular (spotting scope) before tomorrow. (In plain English it means I paid extra for air express, so I get my package this evening.)

Did a quick test, since it's evening and the night is cloudy, the ISS and moon are not available for tonight. So I take a picture in 60x optical zoom with my phone in about 10 meters away. The circular pattern is 9 centimeters in diameter, and I'd say it's not bad! I know some brands like KOWA and Swarovski can get better image but they are expensive. Their spotting scope will cost me about 5000 USD for 82mm objective lens. And mine only cost 5000 CNY, about 700 USD. I'd say the result is pretty good.

Maybe with longer distance it will have some dispersion, and I don't have expensive accessories for the lens. For example, KOWA sells extra pieces like extender and converter for astronaut camera. Mine don't have those, but think in a good way, that's the top level gear I can get with this price. I don't need to spend more in the future. I mean, I know myself, I always want the best. So it would be a bad time for my wallet if I go kowa or Swarovski.

Mistral AI really shines a light on OpenAI.

As a cyber collector, I have LLaMa1, LLaMa2, Mistral8x7B laying in my nas. Although I don't have powerful enough hardware to run them, but it's a good thing to have. And I'm looking forward to the dolphin variant.

* Dolphin is a decensored model based on those open source models.

@fulkrum 搞好中国特色社会主义吹学新发展，必须坚持实事求是，稳中求进。坚定不移地以北宇治吹奏部全体成员的福祉出发，平稳做好新一届部长选举工作（错乱

吹学家来了，快跑啊（

https://hibikilogy.github.io/

我希望每个人都能看到这张图

太好笑了
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以及我在等蓝光发售，然后可以一口气看完。一周一集太折磨人了

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

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.

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.

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: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E7%95%A5

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.