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Here is a video produced by MillMILK, which is IMO one of the best Hong Kong YouTube channels. They documented how giant bamboo scaffoldings are built on the cliff. I have verified…

You said there are better channels, please suggest a few.

DBeaver is an amazing gui. It works with Postgres, MySQL and many more. MySQL WorkBench was always crashing on my Windows machine. That was some years ago so it may have improved.

The definition of value may includes many things beside money. A nicely written review on Google Maps brings fulfillment to the writer, the subject (e.g. business) may find the rev…

I found that my fdroid has not been updated to the latest release mentioned in this post (1.16). I opened it and pulled down to refresh, but it didn't show any available updates to…

There are libraries of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Things

It's a common argument of computers getting powerful so we don't need to care that much for performance and/or efficiency regarding to cpu/memory/storage etc. In some limited cases…

What I'm more interested in is the comparison between the cases of Go and Dart, which both are languages developed by Google. Why Go is so much more successful (in the system progr…

It's interesting how a map design can have an influence on social behaviour and city development. > Beck’s design may have helped persuade city dwellers to make the leap to suburbs…

Wait, but the other image file is named fox.png? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...

The required build arg and env var names are already listed in the Earthfile as `ARG` and `RUN --secret ...`. So I think specifying it in the commandline is redundant.

That's my biggest complain about earthly as well. There is `.env` support that ease the problem a bit: https://docs.earthly.dev/docs/earthly-command#environment-va... Worth watchin…

VS Code Remote - Containers [1] is a game changer. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

Usually the verification is as simple as taking a look at the key owner's ID card (Social Security card) or driver license, or any similar legal doc, just to make sure the key owne…

> It makes hard things easy and easy things hard. People also say it for k8s. And it kind of explains why k8s is creating so many jobs.

There is a Linux distro that builds packages with newer instruction sets and compiler flags for performance reasons. It's Clear Linux: https://clearlinux.org/

I am not saying ALL protest objectives are right. I have no idea why you would generalize that. In this particular event, don't you think what the HK protesters ask for are just?

This. I have no idea why people thought it's a dilemma of choosing either send forces or wait out protests, but not consider the ethical, correct, and right option of giving what t…