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At first glance I thought it was a far-fetched conclusion but then I read in a subsequent reply he wrote: > With your current rate, I very doubt to see 5.4.0 release this year. The…

Whether Taiwanese Mandarin is a separate language or not is a matter of opinion. Delving further into this debate will not lead to an interesting discussion as the definition of wh…

Shouldn't it be a "no.", with a period at the end? Anyway, the translation is wrong given the context as no numeral follows.

Yes, but the island of Hainan is considered part of "Mainland China," while the mainland areas of Hong Kong and Macau are not, so in this context it's a purely political term, tryi…

大陸 /dàlù/ 'mainland' is used but often pejoratively. It's a politically charged issue as this article from a pro-KMT newspaper can attest: https://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/201…

Is having "lived in Taipei for almost three years," really enough to confidently claim that "this is not a big deal at all?" Especially if you "use Google Translate every day of [y…

If, as you are claiming, the Taiwanese don't have their own Taiwanese Mandarin, with their language being just the same as the Mandarin used in China, how can it be that at the sam…

Because it's part of the cultural heritage. Very much like the weird spelling of many English words is. In particular, the phonetics of Mandarin Chinese underwent several waves of …

I'd say perhaps 5 or so of the ~100 entries on the list are somewhat debatable. The rest seems pretty obvious and indisputable, and among these I would count the "通過"/"透過" that you…

Thing is, Google forces their translations upon everyone. For example if I want to check Taipei restaurant reviews on Google Maps with my interface language set to English, each of…

> I am paywalled from the article [...] Just a technical note: by HN guidelines, the submission URL must point to the original source but I also linked to a mirror that bypasses th…

The article was not written by "HN." The author, Edward Luce, is an Oxford University graduate whose father holds the title of a baron in the UK, was at some point the Governor of …

I posted the link to bypass the paywall together with the submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36603895 It's a soft paywall anyway, there are multiple other ways to acc…

Mirror: https://archive.is/tlA8T

I was expecting this would be about the letter Ⱶ or one of the other Claudian letters of the Latin alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudian_letters

I'm not saying what they did was in any way justified, just providing context that seems to be missing from the reporting: to sideload e.g. SmartTube you need an app like this firs…

I think there might be more to this story. This app is what people generally use to sideload apps on a locked Google TV device such as the Google Chromecast. One such commonly side…

Please see my other comment before taking the above linked "list" seriously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34706914 For years there's been another ranking with much better m…

The safest carriers are those that have just been founded recently, by this logic. Since they have no incident history. According to this website, Air Asia is supposedly safer than…

Security from the user, not for the user, is an anti-feature from the user's point of view. Security features in general are not.

These defaults seem like a reasonable, pro-consumer choice. Great to know there's at least one vendor that helps to get around the restrictions Secure Boot creates for the user. Se…

The ranking should more appropriately be called "tourist passport ranking", "visitor passport ranking" or something the like. It's a misnomer to call it a "passport ranking" withou…

That or an even cheaper CH341A (which is what I use).

Being "rooted" can mean different things, so I'm answering in the broadest sense. You're right of course. You don't need actual superuser access to the live system to make it work …