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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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September 2020

2020-09-16 17:54

也是我每次发布会后的保留娱乐环节了

Apple Event 2020 产品更新介绍页面宣传语 英中港台日 翻译对照 - Mivansaka's Blog

2020-09-16 09:08

到了这么革命的地方了 还是发挥一下革命精神 没条件跑步也要创造条件

2020-09-14 18:25

上个月 PDD 真香了一块海康威视 2T NVMe 当大号 U 盘,给自己的借口是 这下以后出差再要拷扫描版 PDF 就不用折腾我乞丐版 MBP 的 256G 硬盘了。 结果这个月就疯狂被派出差。 海康威视差评。

2020-09-13 12:07

真的非常不喜欢 Axios 为代表的这种排版/行文方式,好像读者都是阅读障碍自己看不出段落结构和主次一样 另外,为什么要把每段的前几个词都加粗?如果是因为写句子的风格就是都把重要的放在句首,那就不需要视觉上再强调一遍;如果不是 那好像更没有理由视觉上再强调一遍?

2020-09-04 13:56

HN 上难得对非技术话题比较质量比较高的讨论 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24361744

Linked post(虽然好像不能叫 post)是 Thomas Jefferson 在 1807 年批评看报纸没卵用:

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly [sic] deprive the nation of it's [sic] benefits, than is done by it's [sic] abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

以及开的脑洞:

Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into 4 chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies.

评论区:

关于为什么要看新闻:

Part of being a citizen in a (kind of) functioning democracy is understanding the nuances of the stuff that is screwed up around you to the best of your ability so that when the time comes to vote or have a meaningful discussion with others around you, you can be a voice of reason.

[…] I may not know everything, but I'm trying and putting an honest effort into learning as much as I can every single day. Reading NYT, WaPo, etc. is my version of putting an American flag out front, or a Support the Troops sticker on my car, or singing the National Anthem or whatever people do to feel like they're doing their part.

关于看新闻的用处:

It's probably not 100% a sure thing that it's going to happen, but it probably will, and it's now on my radar to keep an eye on since that might actually wind up being a big deal. That's what I want out of the news.

2020-09-03 18:12

如果原子性是数据库的设计原则,那么从法律行业做出来的表头判断,可以说到处是分子料理高手

August 2020

2020-08-31 09:20

造福人类了可以说是

dexterleng/vimac: Vimium for macOS.

2020-08-30 21:55

没啥理由 但就是每到夏天气数将尽 就会开始猛听

2020-08-30 20:18

两个角度清奇的媒体同人向推特号 一个是 The New Yorkerest,立足于「纽约客就是用来订了叠起来供着」的 meme,每周推一篇当期杂志最值得看的文章,纯主观标准,但如果正好跟自己想的一致还是会有种莫名的默契感 另外一个是 New New York Times,估计是一个 bot,纽约时报每出现一个没用过的新词,它就发一条推,看起来非常猎奇

2020-08-29 21:06

Chrome is better described as a runtime than a browser.

2020-08-25 08:51

Unity also spends a considerable amount of time discussing how any changes to how China treats intellectual property, game software, and corporate ownership might impact its business.

The Verge 看来没有意识到所有 S-1/F-1 招股书里面这些内容都是互相抄的 复制粘贴到都无法考证谁是原作者

| Unity’s IPO filing shows how big a threat it poses to Epic and the Unreal Engine - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/24/21399611/unity-ipo-game-engine-unreal-competitor-epic-app-store-revenue-profit

2020-08-22 20:53

The problem with the subscription model is that it disproportionally benefits those who could survive without it, while disproportionally burdens those who could’ve benefitted from it.

As have been widely pointed out, the subscription model is a commitment to a software’s long-term evolution and a flexible payment plan for once-in-a-while needs. Ironically, most of the air on the field of subscription is siphoned by incumbent, clumsy “professional” softwares that are carelessly maintained — Office, Adobe Suite, etc. Their adoption of the subscription pricing is but a way to tax people who are obliged to use them because they are “standards.”

Unfortunately, the more subscription money goes to the big techs’ pockets, the less money people are lefted with to pay indie developers who genuinely care about their software and need the stable income to make real their roadmaps. And when humbly switch to the subscription model for survival, they become the principal – if not sole — outlet for people’s malice toward the big techs’ abuse of the model.

2020-08-22 16:36

上半年平板市场这个热度,imp3.net 如果能苟到今天,也许就不会倒闭了

2020-08-22 16:30

可能我这种 anti-regulation 倾向的人根本不适合做尽调把 但凡检索法条发现可能需要办这个那个鬼证的 第一反应总是怎么论证可以说明不需要证 如果法条有什么没写清楚的 那些好学生思维的指挥者就会陷入恐慌 「怎么可能没有要求呢 怎么可能没有罚则呢 你打电话去问问这种情况会怎么处罚」在我看来这可能就是以前背书把脑子背坏了 妈的给你开绿灯让你钻空子你还不高兴吗 膝盖疼不疼啊

2020-08-19 15:59

微软为了把 Office 搬到网页上真的很努力,看起来 Word Online 显示文档(非编辑模式)的方法是先显示一张页面图片(根据惨不忍睹的文字渲染效果判断,是通过 Windows 虚拟机生成的),然后用户选中什么内容,就往 DOM 里塞一个 <p> 标签让文字可以复制。我觉得 Azure 上的每台的母鸡都有个来生不被用来运行 Office Online 的心愿吧

2020-08-16 23:21

a small dose of humbled joyfulness

2020-08-15 23:53

帮一个傻逼公司核对一千个专利和一千个商标文书以后 我快速上手并熟练使用了之前狗屁不通的 Excel 数据透视表

2020-08-15 17:28

Poolside FM 出 Mac 版了 配个壁纸就是家里蹲 summer fun

2020-08-15 13:38

The reasoning that the trailing parts of an URL don't worth being revealed to the user because they don't provide for much information is BS. The information is the resolution of uncertainty (see Shannon's information theory). The path and parameters within the URL reduces user's uncertainty about the request sent to the server by the browser, making them information equally meaningful as the hostname. Google'a promotion of the regression is understandable as it's been among top offenders of the semantics of the URL.

Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

2020-08-12 14:56

PDFs are typically large masses of text and images. The format is intended and optimized for print. It’s inherently inaccessible, unpleasant to read, and cumbersome to navigate online. Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page.

我的观点还是觉得 PDF 难用一般是因为 PDF 没有被用在正确的地方

PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later

2020-08-10 16:29

因为被车蹭到 今天获得了宝贵的人肉测试 Apple Watch 摔倒检测功能的机会 是的 你一倒它就会问是不是摔了 要不要报警

2020-08-07 09:44

Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates - The Verge

一句话:ISO8601 好

2020-08-06 14:30

Why Is the PDF Format so Well Supported on Apple Platforms?

2020-08-05 08:55

这翻译碉堡了

[OC] Fully anglicised Japan, based off actual etymologies, rendered into plausible English : Toponymy

2020-08-05 07:49

“I bleed six colors.” 小作文满分

Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow - Apple

2020-08-04 20:27

不知道李开复那个截图是不是 p 的,但里面的说法是非常荒谬的。「对于外国互联网公司需要如何符合法规,描述得非常清楚」?你作为老板看着手下整理出来的文件,可能觉得非常清楚,不就这么一二三个条件嘛。醒醒。ICP 证?你看过电信目录里的服务描述吗?就没有几句现代汉语,阅读需要的想象力学微积分都用不到那么多。内容如何合规很清楚?你是指跟平安经一样清楚?「谷歌觉得不愿意的时候它就决定退出了」?贪心如谷歌会跟随便跟钱过不去?是不愿意还是没法愿意?对 TikTok 这个搞法可能确实有点不可思议,但也不是转头对长城吹彩虹屁的理由。互联网丢不起这个人。

July 2020

2020-07-29 19:37

四个 big tech 老板的国会听证开场陈述排版:

Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 6: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google | U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee

2020-07-25 09:00

为什么 2011 年前后的手机都那么好看

2020-07-24 14:30

可能又是我火星了一次:PDF 的裁剪操作是假的 本质上只是设置了一个显示范围 被裁掉的部分还在 只是像折纸一样被折到背面去了

2020-07-23 18:24

北京的公证处做见证英文文件签字 要收双份的翻译费 这种骚操作的逻辑是 因为你的文件不是中文的 所以需要先英翻中 但因为我们带公证词必须是中文的 所以需要再中翻英

说了这么多 其实我就想问问有没有人知道走什么后门可以去公证处上班?

2020-07-23 18:01

用 Acrobat 裁签字页,被里面各种框框的选项搞得稀里糊涂,还是翻了一下万能的 PDF Reference 才闹明白了

----- Amateur translation alert -----

10.10.1 页面边界(Page Boundaries)

PDF 页面的准备既可能是为了用于最终介质,例如一张纸,也可能是预印流程的一部分,页面内容被放置在例如胶片或印刷拼版(imposed reproduction plate)等过渡介质上。对于后一种情况,区分过渡页面和最终页面是非常重要的。过渡页面往往可能包含与印刷相关的额外内容,例如出血线(bleeds)、打印标记(printer marks)等。为了处理这些情形,一个 PDF 页面可以定义至多五个不同的边界来控制成像流程的不同方面:

上述边界在页面对象词典中分别由 MediaBoxCropBoxBleedBoxTrimBoxArtbox 指定,都是以用户空间的默认单位表示的矩形。裁剪框、出血框、裁切框和作品框通常不应超过媒体框的边界,否则,其范围将被缩减到与媒体框的重叠部分。图 10.3 演示了上述边界的关系(裁剪框未在图中展示,因为该框与其他边界并无确定的关系)。

2020-07-23 09:22

终于又

2020-07-22 12:12

发现坚持自己带饭跟坚持运动差不多 就是提前打算 周日提前想好下周每天带什么 早上出门提前把菜洗好 晚上提前把第二天中午的做了 解决意志力问题的简单方法就是不要相信自己有意志力

2020-07-20 19:37

It’s often better to use what you have, instead of trying to find something new that might be notionally better suited, however counterintuitive that might be. While tools can be beautiful and filled with potential in the abstract, they are ultimately only a means to an end. I’m prone to fixate on the means, rather than the goal — sometimes as a way to avoid the goal. The flexibility of digital tools can be their greatest weakness, capturing too much attention with their orthogonal possibilities. Ostensibly simpler tools have only two real modes: used or not.

Tools versus work - Matt Gemmell

2020-07-20 17:34

给所有 .gov.cn 的域名加了一条 CSS 规则 * { font-family: ui-monospace, monospace !important; } 以后,幸福指数指数级增加

2020-07-20 00:26

肝了一个周末的纸片马里奥 虽然手残连第二个 World 都没过(自我开脱一下也是因为收集要素太多了)但还是感觉很划来 第一方 franchise 加成的画质 场景设计基本每个角落都是有目的的 甚至剧情都有点嚼劲不只是串起地图的胶水 唯一瑕疵就是大多数评测都提了的 战斗系统太无聊了…(同时太容易作弊了 时间不够截个图暂停慢慢品就是了

2020-07-19 21:00

惊喜不惊喜 ,在 Mac 上获得支持响应式布局的、卷动专辑视图不卡顿的、可以 Chrome Cast 的 Apple Music,方法是 使用 Chrome 登录网页版 🙃

2020-07-17 17:37

Wired 这篇 Twitter Is at Its Best When Verified Accounts Can’t Tweet | WIRED 的角度蛮有意思的,大概是说 Twitter 昨天为了止损,对蓝 V 号禁止发推,实际上是一个取消等级秩序、「拉下神坛」的操作,短时间内强制恢复了一种人人平等的初始状态,某种意义上让 Twitter 变得更「好」了。问题是,如果一个平台可以因为取消等级秩序变得更好,那么这个平台可能本身就不是太好了。等级在哪里都是存在的,但是可以选择不关注等级;在网上这么做比在现实里还要容易不少

2020-07-12 19:06

给甲方们介绍一个节约律师成本的技巧 如果法律服务涉及任何跟核对信息有关的任务 从你们技术部门抓一个人 给律师上一节 Excel crush course 不然你就可以观赏到一群当代西绪福斯literally 在那里用Word 做表格统计 并且依赖高亮这种功能做筛选 而你就像围观跳楼的群众一样毫无办法 同时为他们小学电脑老师的错误买单

2020-07-10 21:15

发现一个怀旧浓度超高的文档库

MSDN Magazine Issues | Microsoft Docs

Windows 2000 UI Innovations: Enhance Your User's Experience with New Infotip and Icon Overlay Shell Extensions

Beyond Windows XP: Get Ready Now for the Upcoming 64-Bit Version of Windows

太古典了 我需要缓一缓

2020-07-10 16:28

实名 diss 一下联想企业网盘 浏览器不支持上传文件夹必须用客户端 上传文件路径最长支持 255 个字符(还 tm 不仅仅是文件名最长支持 255 个字符) 请问你们是面向 Windows 98 开发的吗

2020-07-10 10:51

关于 macOS 和 iOS 的 version number 和 build number 信息量很大的一篇了

How to Decode Apple Version and Build Numbers - TidBITS

2020-07-10 08:30

一觉醒来发现 SCOTUSblog 疯狂发推怼人 结果发现是很多不明真相的群众把它们当成 SCOTUS 的官方博客 对昨天的判决破口大骂 编辑们现在估计心里草泥马呼啸而过吧

2020-07-09 19:54

The employees knew videos of some of the heavier women violated a TikTok rule against showing more than two inches of cleavage, but let the videos remain in a silent rebellion against rules they believed punished large women and didn’t fit with American culture, according to one employee.

TikTok, Once an Oasis of Inoffensive Fun, Ventures Warily Into Politics - WSJ

2020-07-08 23:31

PDF Viewer/PSPDFKit 开发商的博客蛮好的,虽然主要是在写自己产品用法,但是也有不少比较适合快速了解 PDF 格式

随便挑几个:

2020-07-07 21:37

New Yorker 的帆布袋真的超级能装 今天试了电脑 iPad 加饭盒放进去还有空间 以后上班就背这个了 土就土吧

2020-07-05 23:18

我觉得现在流行的那种一两句话就换行的分段方式,本质上是在偷懒,因为决定哪些句子能够组合成段实际上是整理逻辑的过程,不仅没法跳过,反而应该是写文章最重要的环节之一。刻薄一点说,不停换行的文本都不能算文章,只能算发育不良的文章,或者直接叫大纲

2020-07-03 12:37

而我学会的是「报复性早起」——虽然无法控制那些仿佛活在美国时区的人会加班到什么时候,但你知道早上六点到十点这段时间是很平静的,因为他们都起不来

2020-07-03 11:29

Wikimedia 公布了一个通过「语言无关」方式建立词条的计划 Abstract Wikipedia。(看起来似乎是用标记语法分解自然语言中的句子成分,从而实现自动翻译的效果。)

从一个语言学外行的朴素理解,我对这项技术推广到汉语的前景表示 hmmmm

(引用的 paper 里主要是通过英语和德语举例的,但英语和德语相互机翻的效果都可能好过费这个功夫造轮子了)

2020-07-02 14:41

Siri 现在会在节假日之前提示关掉闹钟了

…可惜我并没有这个节假日