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This section is intended for trivial amusements and ephemeral thoughts in their unorganized form — think of social media posts without interactions. Please allow for errors and imprudence. Also archived here is a selection of my older posts from Twitter and Weibo, neither of which I remain active on. Posts may be removed without notice if they are developed into formal articles or no longer reflect my current opinions.
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December 2020
2020-12-12 10:55
Spending time alone is not the same as feeling lonely. Surveys that ask people about living arrangements, time use, and feelings of loneliness find that solitude, by itself, is not a good predictor of loneliness. We often tend to look at the amount of time spent with others as a marker of social well-being; but the quality of time spent with others, and our expectations, matter even more for our feelings of connection and loneliness.
不能同意更多
Who do we spend time with across our lifetime? - Our World in Data
2020-12-11 21:01
由于睡前心理状态会影响睡眠质量和时间，「事多情况下睡过了」比「放松情况下自然醒」可能更能准确反映「维持正常精力的最小睡眠时间需求」，从为数不多几次情况看，这个值对我来说是 7 h
2020-12-10 23:57
每次遇到晚上发尽调材料的 都会选择先扔 Acrobat 里 OCR，电脑先干活，我先睡觉，起来再看能高亮复制能 grep 的，这他妈才叫基本人权
一个遗憾是 M1 在 OCR 的时候太安静了，不是很有之前那种剥削 9750H 到原地起飞的愉悦感🤷🏿♀️
2020-12-08 20:32
这插件太温暖人心了 完美解决人名脸盲问题 Firefox 打死不愿意加的 highlighting occurrences on scrollbar 也顺带补上了
http://jgoudey.free.fr/highlightall/
2020-12-05 08:38
KyBook 不更新以后，iOS 上定制性比较好的 epub 阅读器看起来是 FBReader（我对定制性的要求是能选外部安装的字体、能调整间距和边距，以及能覆盖 epub 样式表里的这些预设），免费版只限制文件库数量 <= 10 基本没影响，虽然付费功能也很便宜（Google Play 上也有，但 KOReader 在安卓上是降维打击）。毫不意外地，这又是一个来自战斗民族的 app
2020-12-05 00:19
之前几年 Apple ID 一直在港区买卡充值用，这两年淘宝管得严以后没什么稳定的卖家了，汇率也没优势，折腾了一会迁回美区了。本来比较担心会缺粤语歌（至少 2017 年是这样），但现在曲库好像基本统一了，Browse > Categories 下面也有单独的 Cantopop。如果有类似情况的可以放心换区。（但 ACG 歌还是不要做梦了）
跨区 Tips:
- 账户不能有余额，绑了支付方式的可以直接买东西用掉，超额的用信用卡付，没绑支付方式的用到零头，然后联系客服抹掉
- 订阅都要停掉，Apple Music 要等过期，等不及可以让客服把当前月份的按比例退了（但要在上一步之后做，不然退回来的零头又要浪费掉）
- iCloud Music Library 会丢，先用电脑端备份
- 联系支持建议用 Apple Support app，至少在文字聊天功能上比网页版好使太多（但并不能改善客服水平差的事实）
2020-12-03 00:43
骁龙 888，听起来像一家田园土味饭店大包间的号码
November 2020
2020-11-26 17:28
She always stopped at McDonald’s for cheeseburgers.
What a pity New Yorkers don’t have Wawa
Ivanka Trump Was My Best Friend. Now She’s MAGA Royalty | Vanity Fair https://t.cn/A6GO6do1
2020-11-25 21:37
2020-11-25 16:19
笑死，Word 的 Insider 版也开始跟风 slash commands 了，东施效颦莫过于此
（而且你们真的以为用 Word 的人会用什么正经功能做批注吗，他们只会换一种底色在正文里随地大小便
2020-11-22 19:36
发现消费降级还是要从小处着手。昨天想买个内胆包放 iPad 和电脑，搜了一圈热门品牌，隔层设计好一点的都是两三百起。 感觉没必要，就换了个思路，反正 13 寸不就是 A4 纸大小吗，就直接搜「A4 文件袋」，出来一堆便宜大碗用料足的，价格降序挑了个豪华版才四十多，隔层口袋多到令人发指。唯一缺点就是外面缝的铭牌设计太丑，但也没关系，抄起剪刀掐了几根线头就扯下来了，现在完美了。
2020-11-22 17:02
抬手看今天的活动消耗 结果正好是 996 拍桌骂了一句妈的连手表都嘲笑我 话音未落 数字变成了 997
2020-11-20 23:50
《第一生产力》
2020-11-20 20:34
‘Super Premium exclusive appearance’ 🤮
2020-11-19 20:03
感谢深圳 给我在年底强行续了三个可以短裤短袖跑步的早上👋
2020-11-19 15:59
I actually find speaking to machines using natural language quite embarrassing.
也是最让我感到数字世界代差的区别之一 我（可能是顽固不化地）始终难以接受往搜索框里输入一句完整的疑问句
2020-11-19 12:07
用过的电脑屏幕上从来没有过一道划痕 直到我手滑把电源砸在了屏幕上 🕯️
2020-11-14 11:27
名词解释「手术级不锈钢」：用几天就会划得跟动过手术一样
2020-11-13 18:26
「脑子是个好东西，我竟然还长了半个」
2020-11-12 19:14
Make my house your inn—I can say that to my characters. They have all visited, sometimes staying for years, but inns are not residences.
Be kind. Keep smiling. These principles have become my default mode, but they are also effective in keeping people at a distance. Make my house your inn, and you’ll have my kindness and my smile.
The Ability to Cry by Yiyun Li https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/16/the-ability-to-cry
2020-11-11 03:02
内地文案是以为自己在卖粽子吗
2020-11-08 11:17
Merriweather and Lato have become the Times New Roman and Arial respectively of our age, not indecent in their own right, signalling less the users’ aesthetical incapacity than their indifference.
2020-11-08 00:04
开卷有益
最近遇到主动加班的同事掌握了新的嘲讽手段：「你卷到我了」。 同情被迫营业的同事也有了新的安慰话术：「我是你的卷怜人」。
2020-11-05 20:53
搞不懂代码编辑器为什么没有在法律行业成为标配？是个编辑器都有的 multi-caret、select all occurrences、symbol completion 和 jump to definition 放着不用，非要用 Word 和 Times New Roman 折腾自己，那眼瞎脖子疼不是自找的吗
2020-11-02 11:15
October 2020
2020-10-30 09:39
今日冷笑话：英国的公司名称允许包含 "<> 这样的特殊字符，结果有人注册了一个公司叫做
\" > ; <SCRIPT SRC=MJT.XSS.HT ></SCRIPT> LTD
于是在英国的公司登记网站上一访问就会执行跨站脚本
官方发现以后，把这家公司的名字强行改成了“THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD”
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12956509
2020-10-28 21:29
2020-10-28 09:55
最近应付多个项目同时处理的一个 hack：每个项目专门开一个桌面处理，同时固定在这个桌面的右上角放上项目对应文件夹的 Finder 窗口。除了区分任务，这样做的一个附加好处是，因为 Finder 会在用户试图打开已有窗口的时候激活对应窗口，这些已经打开的项目文件夹相当于变成了桌面的书签，用 Alfred/Spotlight 输入项目名称就可以切换到对应桌面。另外，第一个桌面固定用来放 Obsidian 和 Drafts 作为 dashboard，第二个桌面固定用来放 Firefox 用来临时浏览/上班摸鱼，因为位置固定，分别用 Ctrl+1/2 快速访问就可以。
2020-10-26 12:40
It's not racist to point out that Chinese industry is doing itself real harm by its flagrant and inexcusable failure to ask native speakers to check translated instructions and advertising text.
Language Log » Clipper Chinglish
2020-10-25 12:22
迫于好奇 找了一下这段万年不变的话是从哪冒出来的
(1) For subsection 102(1) of the Australian Consumer Law, the following requirements are prescribed: (c) a warranty against defects must include: (i) in relation to the supply of goods only—the text mentioned in subregulation (2) […] (2) For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(c)(i), the text is ‘Our goods come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. You are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if the goods fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure’. Competition and Consumer Regulations 2010, s 90. https://t.cn/A6brMrwH
(1) The regulations may prescribe requirements relating to the form and content of warranties against defects. Australian Consumer Law, s 102. https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2020C00264/Html/Volume_3#_Toc50464632
From 1 January 2012 if you choose to provide a warranty against defects to consumers then the warranty document you provide must comply with specific Australian Consumer Law (ACL) requirements. A warranty against defects is provided in addition to consumer guarantees and does not limit or replace them. Warranties against defects | ACCC https://www.accc.gov.au/business/treating-customers-fairly/offering-warranties/warranties-against-defects#information-that-must-be-included
2020-10-22 00:06
2020-10-20 23:27
When can we have a review of iPhone reviews? 🤷🏿♀️
2020-10-18 19:54
Excel is the proverbial hammer that makes everything look like a nail. […] The problem is that the average Excel user doesn't have the right knowledge to judge what the best solution is to their problem.
Excel warriors who save governments and companies from spreadsheet errors | Hacker News
s/Excel/Word/g。知道比不得不用 Excel 更惨的是什么吗？是还得求着别人不要用 Word 做该用 Excel 做的事情
2020-10-18 16:38
这个位置站一分钟抵过做一小时的Headspace session
2020-10-15 09:02
If your sense of smell hasn’t been affected in the last few months, then what you smell in your own mask is familiar, private and monotonous — and impossible to ignore.
Building a Personal Smell Museum of Los Angeles - The New York Times
2020-10-06 21:38
发现 AirPods 只开降噪啥也不放也不太能撑得下一趟三个多小时的高铁了，想着反正有 AC+，就拿去店里看看能不能换一下 结果找的 Genius 面带难色地说，这个电池问题我们是没法测试的，但请问你还有别的故障吗？ 我一开始没听懂，正准备再据理力争一下，Genius 循循善诱地说，我们有的同事最近换了不少出现杂音的，请问你是不是感觉到有杂音？ 已经暗示到这种程度了，我也只好配合地说，那好像走路的时候是有一点杂音 Genius 如释重负地说，好哒，那我这就按杂音给你换 （好的你给我换那你说什么都对）
2020-10-04 15:36
The crucial question about a computer used to be "But can it run DOOM?". Later it became "But can it run Crysis?". These day it is "But can it run nytimes.com?".
2020-10-02 08:31
How is the rest of the world press dealing with this "spectacle of shit"?
In addition to supraliteral translations such as くその穴の国々 used by an American-born celebrity writing in Japanese in Newsweek, and the WSJ's 便所のような国, there were some more creative options such as BuzzFeed's choice of 肥溜めのような国々.
September 2020
2020-09-30 11:03
缺的课还是要补上的 以前服务器装什么都想着弄一个现成的 Docker image，现在发现想自己改点什么都不懂，还是得从头学 nginx
2020-09-27 20:00
虽然肯定不是轻芒杂志目标用户群体 但冲着设计还是装上看了眼 字体还是蛮上心 西文 Harriet [1]（之前见到主要是被 Vox 用来做 slug line） + 中文 （方正新报宋？[2] ipa 里字体文件把版权信息抹掉了）挺搭的，而且少有的知道调用系统字体的时候要用 SF 而不是苹方自带的西文（无数号称注重设计的国内 app 在这个问题上翻车） 缺点的话，衬线字体本来就细，还用 Light 字重和纯黑底色，看起来就跟刀子一样戳眼； onboarding 虽然画风很亲和，但是弹出太频繁粗暴了 当然，最本质的担忧还是国内环境下聚合类平台，以及依赖于给微信文章做 wrapper 这种模式的可持续性
2020-09-26 14:10
发现店里有用 3 号的单圈编织差点拿了就走了 幸好试了一下发现还是大了 但是 2 号没货于是又省了钱 ps 官方那个打印版尺子真的误导 pss 试表带这个消毒的阵仗让人以为是在打针
2020-09-25 11:11
2020-09-24 14:02
虽然基本没有感到换了新手表 但那是个监控洗手时间的功能 倒确实让我感到换了一双新手
2020-09-23 12:18
万万没想到家长会知道 iOS 的大版本更新并且主动问我 我妈前两天路过的时候说 「苹果是不是最近升级系统了？我们单位 IT 通知了说我们的密令 [她们内网办公系统的 2FA 应用] 在上面会崩溃 让我们都不要升级」 我当时离按下她手机上的安装按钮还有一厘米 感觉像是避免了一场核战
2020-09-22 12:47
“I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood.”
”[N]obody asks me if I can add an RSS feed to a DBMS.”
https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477
2020-09-22 00:46
DigitalOcean 上周通知要换母鸡 把我的实例给关了 之后就开不了机一直 kernel panic 发了个工单 没多久回了我长长一封邮件 一开始还一些感动 仔细一看给的参考链接 好吧 unmanaged server 果然不是随便说说的
2020-09-21 12:38
2020-09-18 18:40
Gruber 这段几个比喻也是逗
a diving board in need of repair baby’s-butt-cheek soft and supple
2020-09-18 14:55
一点联想
The DS was Nintendo at its best and weirdest - The Verge;
cf. 《大众软件》这个杂志现在还有吗？关于这本杂志你有哪些特别想说的故事？ - 殷广奇的回答 - 知乎
2020-09-17 17:19
一个到外面公司出差期间 摸鱼活动筋骨的心得 去洗手间间隙 找个消防楼梯 爬丫个五六层 爬完深呼吸几下 整整衣服走回去 深藏功与名
