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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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October 2019
2019-10-29 15:47
说实话，StackOverflow 这种「你想得到和想不到的问题都有人问过并且被回答过」的能力每次都让我很惊讶 当然，Word 这种「你想得到和想不到的问题都会出现」的体质更让我惊讶 请问你们的用户上辈子做错了什么 要动不动考虑「怎么在两个表格之间插入空行」这种沙雕问题？
2019-10-28 21:48
2019-10-27 16:00
寻找适合 e-ink 屏幕字体的一种（不太厚道）的思路：打开 APKPure 下载各类新闻媒体/阅读类 app 的安装包，从里面（一般是 /assets/fonts）扒出来它们的定制字体，一般都比较适合长文阅读。示例：Imperial (NYTimes), Exchange (WSJ), Milo (Economist), Blanco (Pocket), Tisa (Instapaper), Literata (Play Books)
2019-10-23 21:23
surreal
2019-10-23 11:47
今天也是邮件合并救了需要插入一百多张截图的民工
2019-10-21 15:57
之前经常周日早上去星巴克吃早饭，主要是顺便蹭一眼周末版 NYTimes 看，不然单买一份 $6 感觉划不来 这都不算只喝咖啡了，还是能收获很多注目礼
在星巴克可以做任何事，除了喝咖啡[喵喵]
2019-10-18 14:35
中午去索尼店里看了一下新的 A100 系 Walkman，主要是想偷偷跑下 CPUZ 看下硬件信息：
- 型号识别不出来（正常的）
- 四核 1.8G（meh）
- Vivante GC7000 GPU（sucks）
- 4GB RAM（decent） 我（瞎）猜 SoC 是某种 i.MX8 的四核 A53，理论上凑合用用可以了，但为什么我打开个系统设置就觉得开始卡卡的了
2019-10-17 07:41
忽然想到 LaunchBar 的 Instant Send 其实差不多就是图形界面版的 xargs
2019-10-15 06:38
“A member of Parliament was ceremonially held hostage in Buckingham Palace while the queen visits Westminster, just in case the lawmakers decided not to return her. This is rooted in the 1600s, when the relationship between Parliament and the monarchy was particularly fraught under Charles I.”
| A Guide to the Queen’s Speech: Crown Jewels, Black Rod and a Mace - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/world/europe/britain-parliament-queen-speech.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20191014§ion=whatElse?campaign_id=9&instance_id=13056&segment_id=17862&user_id=f595535cce9222e1770107fb8e8f0cc1®i_id=86923769ion=whatElse
2019-10-13 23:09
这一个多月一直没想明白的两个问题：(1) 律所什么时候能想明白雇哪怕几个兼职程序员专门负责爬数据都比增加人手更划算；(2) 律所什么时候能想明白 PDF 处理就只有订 Acrobat 这一条正路别的都是歪门邪道 虽然如果它们都想明白了，我这种滥竽充数的懒鬼可能就没有活路了
2019-10-11 15:23
“But we don’t need a secret police to turn us into atomized, isolated souls. All it takes is for us to stand by while unbridled capitalism rips apart the temporal preserves that used to let us cultivate the seeds of civil society and nurture the sadly fragile shoots of affection, affinity, and solidarity.”
| Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/why-dont-i-see-you-anymore/598336/
2019-10-10 08:36
“Mr. Connare said he’s used the font he created once in the last two decades, to write a letter of complaint about his broadband. The company gave him a £10 refund.”
| Hating Comic Sans Is Not a Personality - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/style/comic-sans-font.html
2019-10-09 11:51
10 years ago I would die for a computer that could nail these options effortlessly. Today I turn these off moments after I get my hands on every another PC since they are so badly implemented that disabling them drastically make my eyes and life easier.
2019-10-02 20:26
哦
2019-10-02 17:20
see also 劳力士 1941 年的专利 | CH221643A - Cadran de pièce d'horlogerie. - Google Patents https://patents.google.com/patent/CH221643A
watchOS 6 里 California 表盘的来源：
In the 1970s, when the vintage watch boom started, a LA based dial refinisher, Kirk Rich, did some dials with this design. They became popular & many vintage watch stores in California sent their dials to KR. So dealers in the rest of the US & the rest of the world began to call them the 'California' dial.
“Around the late 70's early 80's customers would ask us for the ‘California dial’ when requesting a refinish. Basically it was because it was easier than saying "Roman Arabic" when describing the mixed number printing. Roman numerals on top with Arabic at bottom. We were pushing a lot of these so much that people from all around would just ask for the California dial when sending us work.”
| A Brief History of the California Dial — Timepiece Chronicle https://www.timepiecechronicle.com/features/2017/1/4/a-brief-history-of-the-california-dial
2019-10-01 15:23
Dive in to get out of a narrative.
September 2019
2019-09-26 09:46
其实早上起床游泳跟接着睡觉没什么差别 反正都是爬起来记忆就开始蒸发 我现在已经不是很确定自己三个小时前是在水下的
2019-09-21 18:04
今天也解锁了一些边缘场景的知识： (1) 如果你预约了自提但没有按时去，这个被自动取消的预约是不会从你的 2 台限额里被去掉的；所以如果你约了两台都没去，接下来用同一个身份再预约就会报错。但是这并不意味着就买不成了，因为 (2) 你还可以换个账号换个手机然后证件填上护照号码。当然他名义上写的护照预约是针对外国国籍，但是验证可以通过而且实测也没人管你怎么约上的。如果你就此咨询为什么这个系统这么智障，客服会迂回地告诉你 (3) 先生，我们抢钱是不分国籍的。
2019-09-17 15:53
PowerShell 那种把一切当作对象的思路，是不是一定比 shell 先进不好说，能少写不少废话倒是真的。刚才要把一个文件夹里所有的 docx 改成 zip（因为这样可以直接把 Word 文档里面的附件拆出来），用 bash 的话我没想到不用循环怎么做，用 PowerShell 就一行 dir | rename-item -NewName {$_.name -replace ".docx", ".zip"} 就完事了
2019-09-15 21:53
Idk, but the curfew on the outside of my window and the crowd wandering and peeping behind the barricades invoke immediately from my mind this still frame from “Chernobyl.” It’s at the same time awesome and unnerving to witness how a jammed main road can be choked within momen
2019-09-14 23:35
I’m far less annoyed by working overtime than being required to look at the display of ThinkPad for even one more second. Every time my eyesight meets the screen I feel like my eyes being fucked; being Full HD or sRGB helps little to make the display more acceptable — the display of my X390 is as atrocious as the one on a lesser E series model I used years ago, and both look as pale as just salvaged from urine.
2019-09-13 18:09
还有一部分吸引力来自于，只凭自己意志就可以左右的事情不多了
昨夜打球卖力，起来浑身酸疼，膝盖灼热。想到，体力运动，比如慢跑，会让人既煎熬又着迷，除去多巴胺发挥作用，也是一种对于病痛衰老的在安全边界内的模拟。这是一种你确定过几天就会消退，完全可以凭意志克服的折磨。生命在于运动，因为可以通过运动窥见死亡。
2019-09-13 07:50
？？？我对 VSCO 作为性冷淡风格神器的认识受到了暴击
| What Is a VSCO Girl, Anyway? https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/what-is-a-vsco-girl-anyway.html
| VSCO girls explained by teens: what the trend is, and why you don’t want to be one. https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/09/vsco-girls-explained-by-teens.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
2019-09-10 23:00
用 Mac 的时候最大的愿望就是一个网页应用有原生客户端，因为性能好、长得好看、还能自动化 用 Windows 的时候最大的愿望就是一个原生应用有网页版，因为这样就可以一直躲在永远同步、能随便缩放、写个 CSS 就能改字体的浏览器环境里不出来
2019-09-09 16:06
因为实在找不到合适的小尺寸 4K 显示器 最后又跑去捡了一台旧版的 UltraFine 4K… （亮度自然是调不了的 所以我决定以后每天背着 iPad 专门用来调亮度🙃
2019-09-05 22:51
每次被迫主力使用 Windows 都会同时对两点感到惊讶 一是这个平台怎么有这么多功能强到不行还不要钱的良心软件 二是为什么这个平台的软件对于丑陋永远有一种宗教般的执着
2019-09-03 20:12
我就想用个 Ubuntu 你为什么要骂我
2019-09-03 08:55
为什么酒店里的游泳池水温都这么高 还是因为考虑到大多数人是去泡澡的
2019-09-02 20:50
“I can't give too much away but we had to top selling in China as we had too many problems with customs etc.”
August 2019
2019-08-29 10:08
怎么说，我四舍五入一下、这跟 Pelaton 也差不多嘛（大概）
2019-08-27 22:04
闲鱼上收一个充新椭圆机的正常价格是原价的 1/3 表示惋惜但愉快地三位数捡了一个大衣架
2019-08-25 17:16
中国和美国的购物/生活服务类 app，共同点是都不要脸，区别在于美国 app 对外貌还有点起码的追求，真不行还能用网页版，而国内 app 都丑到惨不忍睹，而且网页版还都不能用
2019-08-21 08:38
最近各处都能看到一种新的狗屁逻辑，「现在这个节点上，怎么还_____」 首先我不知道现在是什么节点，其次我不知道现在的节点和后半句有什么必然关系；最后，既然是现在这个节点上，怎么还没有发育出自己的脑子？
2019-08-12 07:05
倒时差对我来说最大的困难是每天早上起床发现报纸都是昨天的 感觉起了个假床
2019-08-08 06:33
苹果博主们像看到什么新奇的东西一样新奇地讨论 Apple Card 条款里的仲裁条款 这让我感到非常新奇
2019-08-06 05:33
这么看来，UltraFine 4K 显示器还是比我以为的要小那么一点😐
2019-08-05 23:06
“Of patience there is this to be said. To be patient is to suffer. By their fruits men know one another, but by their sufferings they are what they are. And suffering is not merely the endurance of physical or mental anguish, but of joy also. A rabbit caught in a trap may be supposed to suffer physical anguish: but it suffers nothing else. The man crucified may be supposed to suffer physical & mental anguish, but he suffers also intense happiness and joy. The industrialist workman is often simply as a rabbit in a trap; the artist is often as a man nailed to a cross. In patience souls are possessed. ”
Eric Gill 的这本《An Essay on Typography》感觉像是《论摄影》在字体排印领域的 equivalence 一样，都是可以不管里面的专业内容光当成哲学讨论看
July 2019
2019-07-28 06:50
其实我看到百度网盘开始推单次收费觉得没什么违和的 因为这个产品本来对标的就不是网盘（我佩服每一个真的把百度网盘当网盘用的人） 它对标的是 warez scene 里面的 leech sites，Mediafire、Icerbox 这种，一开始就是靠付费加速创收的
2019-07-26 22:58
Excel 真的很适合用来当土法炮制的做题工具 #贫穷拓宽的想象力
2019-07-24 07:50
真他妈庆幸自己在家长群这种恶臭的东西普及之前逃离了基础教育阶段
2019-07-19 11:28
最近听的节目里觉得最好的 关注点足够发散 但是又都很切题
2019-07-18 23:29
我的学习时间是怎么浪费掉的 看到一个句子突然想，intent 和 intention 的用法有什么区别？顺便，act 和 action 用法有什么区别？再顺便，substantial 和 substantive 有什么区别？ 好了，关掉浏览器就是一个小时过去了😀
2019-07-16 20:27
HackerNews 上有人转发图灵要被印在欧元上的新闻 排名第一的评论：「庄子曰：『往矣，吾将曳尾于涂中。』」
2019-07-15 07:29
- 星巴克的美式是「精致生活」
- 「坐下来细品」是常见的画面
- 美国星巴克里的报纸有人买
#张开想象的翅膀
2019-07-14 07:53
今天份的笑点
Lonely Hearts - Personal ads from the past two hundred years. | Lapham’s Quarterly https://t.cn/AiWaqZ1m List of single-letter abbreviations | Personal advertisement - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_advertisement
2019-07-13 05:50
排版练习🤷🏿♀️（我才发现 EB Garamond 还有 small caps、oldstyle figures 和两种视觉字号 作为开源字体真是天地良心
2019-07-11 22:55
迫于闪存过于便宜…
2019-07-10 10:21
对耳机始终还是偏好入耳多过头戴不少 虽然（类似价格下）头戴在表现力方面肯定有优势 但是对于特定类型的歌 作为耳塞劣势的声场小反而是一种 feature 而且，入耳这种物理形态本身就有加强存在感和拉近距离的效果 Intimacy derives from intrusion.
2019-07-10 07:16
“‘Change is something the American people identify with,’ the Coke executive boasted. But not everyone. Change was that nagging itch some people just couldn’t scratch.”
| New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered. – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/07/what-if-weve-all-been-wrong-about-what-killed-new-coke/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
2019-07-08 10:02
Apple Music 最近是集中招了一波插画师吗 播放列表封面设计水平提升明显
