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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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July 2019
2019-07-07 06:19
2019-07-04 07:08
2019-07-03 20:04
2019-07-02 20:44
Google 把解析爬虫规则的代码公开了 看起来他们似乎发现 robot.txt 很多都是手写的 专门留了一段代码来对付 “user agent” “disallow” 和 ”sitemap” 的各种错误拼法… https://github.com/google/robotstxt/blob/59f3643d3a3ac88f613326dd4dfc8c9b9a545e45/robots.cc#L680-L704
2019-07-01 10:14
June 2019
2019-06-25 06:26
2019-06-21 12:16
How to End a Friendship - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/opinion/sunday/how-to-end-a-friendship.html
2019-06-17 08:27
“Since we don’t know what’s going to be important, we have to err on the side of inclusivity and insist that the entities that own our cultural history do the same.”
The Day the Music Burned - The New York Times http://t.cn/AiCHzCot
2019-06-12 06:41
2019-06-08 10:48
“Washing dishes, I give myself the chance to remember that ordinary isn’t the enemy but the bedrock upon which the rest of experience ebbs and flows.”
“Life hacks, multitasking, the ruthless compression of our daily routine: We still frame the ordinary as something that exists only for the thing beyond it, as a hazard to be optimized away instead of an organism to be nurtured and interacted with.”
| Letter of Recommendation: Washing Dishes - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-washing-dishes.html
2019-06-05 21:31
以前我回避用中区账号和中国特供版服务可能是考虑功能和隐私 现在我已经不这么想了 什么功能都找得到替代品 数据存在加州也一点不比存在贵州更有隐私 现在我纯粹就是觉得这些东西是 badges of inferiority
2019-06-04 05:04
看 Wirecutter 发现华硕的 AC-68U 有个 T-Mobile 的马甲版 TM-1900AC,价格是原版的腰斩还不到 就收来给 NUC 上的软路由做 AP 用了
然后想了一下,所以我为了在公寓只有 WiFi 没有网口的环境下组个内网:
WiFi — [Intel AC 9560] —> NUC — [VMnet0] —> OpenWRT x86 — [VMnet1] —> NUC — [Ethernet] —> TM-1900AC as AP —> Other Devices
上个网好难啊🤷🏿♀️
2019-06-02 20:02
2019-06-02 19:38
2019-06-01 20:44
Nowadays it’s simply impossible to use Safari for a minute without feeling insulted. Underneath the pedantic limitations is the assumption that all users are callow teenagers using the browser primarily for facebooking and need to be babysat, which is not true, and it will be unfortunate if that comes true.
May 2019
2019-05-29 09:21
David Smith 做的应用我都是很尊敬的 但就是审美实在不敢恭维 (不过 indie developer 自己做界面 另外一个容易出的问题就是盲目追设计风潮 从前几年的扁平 到之后的弥散阴影 再到这两年的卡片 能整的都给你整上 但就是怎么看怎么不对劲 反面典型:Overcast、Autosleep 相比之下我可能宁愿要 Pedometer++ 这种素面朝天的外观
2019-05-29 09:13
当时家里有电脑但是没拉网线 跑到家长办公室注册的号码(当时注册好像还经常注册不上) 然后打电话给当时的小学同学,宣布我有 QQ 号了赶紧上线跟我打字;中途网好像卡了一会,于是又打电话过去问你为什么死了 我发的你看到没有(那台电脑上装的是 QQ2004II 珊瑚虫 所以我能知道对面是真死还是装死) 现在回想起来简直魔幻。 (配图这个界面严格来说是有 bug 的,因为只有 QQ 2006 的关闭按钮是红色的)
2019-05-28 20:12
我觉得之后一段时间内我都会劝问我买什么 MacBook 好的人去买戴尔
2019-05-24 06:39
Soylent Squared 简易评测:比 Quest Bar 这类 artificial ingredients 的好吃,比 RX Bar/Larabar 这类 real food ingredients 的难吃;Citrus Berry (lightly sweet & crunchy, overall natural) > ;= Chocolate Brownie (sweet & dark, slightly artificial) > Salted Caramel (aggressively artificial) 饱腹感:因为很黏吃起来慢,所以对饱腹感有加成,但是会被尺寸太小造成的心理错觉抵消掉 购买建议:原价 $1/100Cal 等于抢钱,如果有八折以下的 coupon code 可以考虑 国内购买建议:国内吃的那么便宜 吃个鬼 Soylent
2019-05-23 18:33
2019-05-17 04:44
我感觉 Steve Troughton-Smith 的爆料做不久 作为一个 Apple Tipper 他太蹦哒了
2019-05-17 03:01
从法学院获得的一个意外收获:看 Times New Roman 字体基本头不晕了 但是 Arial 还是会引发生理不适 没有办法忽略 a 那个没精打采的尾巴和 R 那条打了石膏的腿
2019-05-14 22:37
一个观察:中国和美国司法考试辅导机构的男性讲师普遍都非常油腻,非常油嘴滑舌,非常容易 让人感到不适(所以我前年下了视频看了半天就全删了
2019-05-13 09:58
“At the heart of PDF is its ability to describe the appearance of sophisticated graphics and typography. This ability is achieved through the use of the Adobe imaging model, the same high-level, device-independent representation used in the PostScript page description language.” PDF Reference, 6th ed. (2006), pp. 34.
“At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.” Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833, 852 (1992).
奇妙的对称感。
2019-05-09 09:32
2019-05-08 06:39
旧版消费主义宣称可以用消费品解决你的问题 新版消费主义宣称可以用消费品解决消费品带来的问题
2019-05-07 07:46
2019-05-06 20:13
2019-05-05 19:55
发现很多媒体会在把纸版文章发到网站上的时候换一个标题 ‘The Others’ -> ‘My Childhood in A Cult’ ‘Fall Guy’ -> ‘Michael Cohen’s Last Days of Freedom’ 常见的网页标题惯例还包括 ‘How on earth…’ ‘Inside…’ 以及各种为赋新词的反问和设问句 目标显然是 clickbait,但是原本标题的简洁和戏谑也丢了 很直白 但是也很无聊 看多了甚至有点反胃
2019-05-02 20:22
“We saw an opportunity in front of us to permanently cripple IE6 that we might never get again. If this went at all wrong, a number of us would surely be fired. Our most renegade web developer, an otherwise soft-spoken Croatian guy, insisted on checking in the code under his name, as a badge of personal honor, and the rest of us leveraged our OldTuber status to approve the code review. The code merged into production and our banner went live a few days later.”
YouTube 版小岗村的故事 | A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
2019-05-02 06:48
好的 accessbility 支持真的是可以造福所有人群的 比如挤地铁的时候 手插裤兜里在屏幕上滑溜 靠耳机也能刷新闻 | How to navigate your iPhone with VoiceOver — Apple Support - YouTube https://t.cn/ESYE1ca
April 2019
2019-04-28 00:32
我用任何 RSS 软件 第一件事情就是把文章列表显示缩略图的功能关掉 因为现在绝大多数的文章题图都是为了加而加上的,是 CMS 的畸形设计倒逼内容创作的结果 比如 The Verge 出一篇关于 Uber 的报道,就会从图片库里随便抓一张手持运行 Uber 的 iPhone 照片当作题图 我不知道这种配图除了浪费流量有什么价值 另外 对于 Reeder 这类以排版和配色为卖点的应用 任何多余的图片都是一种污染
2019-04-22 04:36
“[T]his balancing act [of determining when cultural appropriation is O.K.] is worth performing. Because the bad-habit model is not only exhausting; the result is often that people are so afraid of appearing ‘bad’ that they self-censor good-faith impulses to try something new. Ironically, in doing so, they learn less about other cultures.”
Opinion | Finding the Beauty in Cultural Appropriation - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/opinion/cultural-appropriation-coachella.html
2019-04-21 08:32
NYT Mag 这个叫「推荐信」的专栏真的是名字和角度都很有意思了 自己说是“celebrations of objects and experiences that have been overlooked or underappreciated” 实际上是“celebrations of unspeakable experiences by appreciating objects”
2019-04-20 05:26
意识到 party 很多时候无法让我感兴趣的主要原因在于 我很始终难理解为什么晚上八九点以后在没有重大体力消耗的情况下还需要吃东西 以及如何做到在十二点以后八九点以前不吃东西
2019-04-19 10:02
我第一次玩 Game Boy 是找小学同桌借的 当时玩的是口袋妖怪水晶 借口是帮他刷等级 但是因为过于兴奋 不仅没有帮他刷等级 还重新开始游戏把他的存档覆盖了 他非常生气 以至于在当天下午语文考试的作文部分写了一篇檄文宣布跟我绝交 但是我后来用口袋妖怪水晶版的 bug 同时搞到了三只初始宠 他看到以后破涕为笑 宣布跟我复交并且撕掉了发下来的那张语文试卷(实际上他是很命大的 因为语文老师正好没空改那次作文) | The Game Boy turns 30 - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/18311479/nintendo-game-boy-30th-anniversary-switch-gaming
2019-04-17 09:05
先不说手机能不能在没有软件 buff 的情况下拍出来清楚的月亮,即使可以,为什么非要用手机拍月亮?为什么能拍月亮应该成为衡量手机拍照能力的尺度?拍得再清楚,能有天文望远镜和卫星上的相机拍得清楚吗?网上有那么多震撼的月亮照片,就差一张颤抖双手仰断脖子才勉强拍出来的低画质版本吗?用手机拍月亮,有多少是出于妄图用相机记录一切的贪心、和发朋友圈炫耀自己换了手机的虚荣?如果纯粹是出于对景色的赞美,最自然的反应不是应该仰头安静地看一会、感叹一句「真 tm 好看」、然后心情愉悦地走开吗?关手机什么事?
2019-04-15 08:16
“Powershell cmdlets are different(ly named) than executables/commands because they don‘t preferentially emit text: they emit .NET object streams.” 今天份的一句话恍然大悟
2019-04-14 07:01
2019-04-13 09:11
2019-04-07 21:50
“The silliness or even sometimes the offensiveness of what appears on the fashion pages is offered so solemnly to readers it would seem that some editors have failed at birth to pick up the usual allocation of critical faculties.”
2019-04-01 20:07
macOS 设置开机自动挂载远程驱动器的方法竟然是把图标从 Finder 拖进系统设置的 Login Items 列表 感到意外之后仔细一想似乎很有道理 再仔细一想又觉得很智障
2019-04-01 11:29
NUC 目前的用法:
- Win 10,三个虚拟机:macOS、OpenWRT、Synology(为什么不用 ESXi:WiFi 没驱动;懒)
- OpenWRT 当软路由、端口转发(SSH 和 VNC)、(SS 回国听 QQ 音乐)
- macOS:装 Hazel 监控 iCloud Drive(e.g. Safari Reading List — Pinboard)
- 组网:每个虚拟机两张网卡,vmnet0 桥接到无线网卡,vmnet1 桥接到网口组局域网
- Know issue:NUC 开着 WiFi 的时候没找到办法让流量从软路由走
- 效果:出门真的可以只带 iPad 了
March 2019
2019-03-29 10:22
2019-03-28 09:36
2019-03-26 02:10
在挖来了编辑、开发者、导演以后 苹果现在最需要的是再从微软挖些人过来帮他们
起名字🙃
2019-03-24 11:05
2019-03-24 07:20
“You are on vacation, you probably want to close the curtains and sleep and sleep, wake up and eat and then go and take another nap, it’s O.K., that’s why you are on vacation.” | There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html
2019-03-23 04:25
2019-03-22 22:55
Office 2008 看起来还是一个 OS X 好公民的:非常 Aqua 的外观、漂浮的 palette、菜单栏里甚至还默认有 Script,除了隐约已经能看到一点 Ribbon 的歪风,并没有什么违和感
不知道怎么后来就变成现在这种德行了[摊手]