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YICHM

@ YICHM @lemmy.world

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  • The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.

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  • The first interpretation. I'm not sure whether or not it is true.

  • "Fed-iverse" can be rephrased as "Fe-diverse", which suits Lemmy more.

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  • not yet

  • Coming up with a showerthought is easy. Framing and Verifying one is hard.

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  • (Also how does a Taiwanese get their name romanized? Taiwan doesn’t use Pinyin… 🤔)

    Various flavours of Pinyin, semi-English transcription, or some random names chosen in English class. Also, an average Taiwanese would romanize 曹操 as Tsao Tsao

  • Coming up with a showerthought is easy. Framing and Verifying one is hard.

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  • Coming up with a showerthought is easy. Framing and Verifying one is hard.

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  • (1) Circuit-switched network create a dedicated connection between two nodes, and the connection is reserved for the entire session.

    (3) He's a Christian, so probably not.

    (4) Taiwan. Although the guys at the constitutional court says the criteria is more strict than the law says. https://law.moj.gov.tw/LawClass/LawSingle.aspx?pcode=C0000001&flno=140 (zh-tw)

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Coming up with a showerthought is easy. Framing and Verifying one is hard.

  • Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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  • but strive to have a good one on the table

    When the bad option is chosen, people making these options would often claim that the bad option is 'good enough' and stop improving, if not improving is more profitable to them.

  • If you think sneezing is rough, just imagine if you had anal hiccups..

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  • Searched for 'anal' and 'hiccough'. Digital insertion came up.

  • Despite having heard the phrase 'passive aggressive' several times, I still don't know what it means.

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  • Should I delete this post?

    E: seems obvious that I shouldn't

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Despite having heard the phrase 'passive aggressive' several times, I still don't know what it means.

  • A brain transplant is one of those rare cases where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient.

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  • In this case, does the body belong to the donor? Is the donor still alive? These questions have been stuck in my brain for a long time and I don't know where to start my research.

  • Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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  • I didn't say that I won't choose the better (less terrible) option.

  • Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online.

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  • Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online.

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    1. it's interesting that, for me, "中國人" is easier to read than "zhongguoren"
    2. from the use of traditional glyphs, you can assume that i don't live in the PRC
    3. you are technically correct. see also: Republic of China.

  • Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online.

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  • A water multiplexer (faucet) and a water demultiplexer (showerhead).

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online.

  • It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language.

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  • It would be even more effective if everyone carried lighter, pen and paper.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    There should exist a single-word marker on questions signifying that the person asking the question doesn't know the answer.

  • Reverse Polish Notation may be more intuitive to native speakers of a language using SOV sentence structure.

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  • They usually come in bursts. I've buffered them.

  • Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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  • The sources of this post are usually the situations where the options are artificially limited, which are infuriating.

    Maybe I should stop add 'the' into my sentence...

  • Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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  • Thank you. I misinterpreted 'post' as social media posts.

  • Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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  • I have no idea about what this means. Would you like to explain?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Reverse Polish Notation may be more intuitive to native speakers of a language using SOV sentence structure.

  • Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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  • Your thought-compressing skill is much better than mine.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    A 50/50 chance is an 100% chance.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Using dark mode might be more energy-intensive if the screen is an LCD.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    (Controversial) Political parties are like bundled sales.

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    We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    Denying uniqueness is both a compliment and an insult.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    The Westminster Chime is mostly played on crappy speakers.

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    YICHM @lemmy.world

    In natural languages¹, the word 'and' can be used to denote the union operation. The confusion over (logical) 'and' &² 'or' stems from that.