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My naive implementation (as shown in the linked question) in Rust was mind boggling slow. C could do around 150MiB/s, while Rust could only do 10MiB/s. A simple `objdump -d` shows …

> Btrfs has had no real work done on it since then, and anyone that is actually serious about data storage has moved to ZFS, or has left POSIX filesystems entirely. I'm not very fa…

Source? The creator's twitter doesn't mention that at all.

Linux is well funded in the sense that corporations put big money looking after their own interest in the kernel. Anything outside of their respective areas of interest? Good luck.…

Not necessarily politics. It could be purely due to lack of interest from maintainers and reviewers.

I would cry and run for any scientists who improve the wellbeing of tens of millions of people when they pass away.

It is fine that you don't relate to or understand his contributions. I would have done the same if I were in Changsha. Feel free to believe in what you think is true. I'm done with…

I'm totally lost. Are you implying he's responsible for the great famine somehow? "Fighting famine" is a generic term. His contributions prevented future famine. That does count as…

Minor correction, his family name is Yuan. Longping is his given name.

And? Should people hate him for what he did? What is the dispute here? Would you not feel grateful for his contributions, regardless of what end of the political spectrum you're on…

Yuan Longping's breakthrough happened in the 70s. The great famine happened in early 60s. I'm not sure what your post is about.

Fun facts: 1. Mars is 火星 ("Planet of Fire") in Chinese. 2. 祝融 Zhurong, as mentioned in the article, is the god of fire in Chinese mythology.

Bad, sure, we both agree. Dystopian has a very specific meaning though. From Cambridge dictionary: relating to a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, es…

I think it is rather dumb and annoying. Dystopian? Far from it. Do you consider a plane flying by with a banner behind it dystopian? Isn't this more or less the same kind of thing?…

Your first example lost me. Are you really talking about China?

That someone is perhaps a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. I think a close equivalence is an MP in the UK or a congressman / congresswoman / senate…

Incorrect. A lot of Chinese people will see this. Chinese people know Twitter is blocked but largely don't care because Weibo is more fun. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing …

I now wonder what will happen to US Embassy's Weibo account. My impression is that their Weibo account promotes "unpopular" opinions but has mostly been left alone. But I haven't b…

> I found the greatest offenders of media that portrays China in a poor light are CCTV, xinhua, people’s daily, etc... if you consume those media, you get the impression that China…

How do you expect a Chinese to respond to this kind of "Have you stopped beating your wife" questions? Whether some of the view points are valid in the first place (at least the se…

> It's not necessarily triggered by the government. Chinese are very patriotic, if not nationalistic, and the power of social media does the rest. I can relate. I have seen people …

At least one? https://www.cnet.com/news/wwdc-2018-apple-diss-android-faceb... (Scroll down for a picture)