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While building an LLM-based application, I got frustrated with OpenAI / Claude / LangSmith Agent SDK with their numerous and ambiguous new concepts (agents / tools / skills / guard…

"Summarization of what a search engine would return" is good enough for many of my purposes though. Good for breaking into new grounds, finding unknown unknowns, brainstorming etc.…

Couldn't enjoy it at all. One of the first scenes shows MI6 officers, during WWII, making plans on a post-1991 world map, with reunified Germany and independent Baltic countries, e…

Random note: Subaru China published their new BRZ today, which is distinguished by its boxer engine, with (somewhat) symmetric pistons.

I quit a YC-funded start-up based in Shanghai in 2016 to be nomadic for nearly a year. Stayed in 10 countries around the Pacific (Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, US, Canada etc.). …

The company has an account on Bilibili[0], where its Chinese name is specified as 鲸鲮. 鲸, romanised as Jing, means "whales" (the animal). So JingOS would be "WhaleOS". (鲮, romanised…

Used to work in a newspaper in Hong Kong and we have a statue of Guan Yu as well... Anecdotally, the triad worships Guan Yu with black shoes while the police worships him with red …

Preview can modify images. There's a button with a pencil icon that toggles a toolbar for simple image editing, such as adding lines, shapes, or texts.

My parents (who grew up in rural China in 1960s) love to talk about chopping firewood or collecting mushrooms in the forests, alone or with their siblings, when they were 8 or 10 o…

French and Castilian and friends are standardized against some spoken variant. And spoken languages inevitably change over time. Latin is standardized against the writings of the c…

Caesar is dead; Romans are no more. Their opinions matter not; what matters is whether we and the future generation consider these authors to have spoken in the same tongue.

Indeed, about 29% of English vocabulary came from French; yet another 29% are directly from Latin[0]. Take your comment as example: excluding the Anglo-Saxon words, 5 are directly …

Latin is "dead" and that's its advantage. English is well "alive", and living implies mutation. In 500 years, our children would be reading our English as we read Shakespeare (that…

Superheroes are so...conservative. Nothing ever changes. If you want to change the game then you're probably the villain, who is to be stopped by the superheroes, who don't really …

Especially the "Angevin Empire"[0], when Kings of England also ruled large portions of Kingdom of France. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angevin_Empire

I am Chinese living in China. Nationalism is on the rise lately in China, not just for domestic reasons, but also as an reaction to nationalistic moves from "the West" like this on…

Went to Shanghai Expo 2010. Honestly it's a rather uninspiring event. Exhibitions were primarily organised by countries, which tend to be more particular about some specific cultur…

`zh-CN` and `zh-TW` are generally just old-school ways to say "simplified Chinese" and "Traditional Chinese" (two similar writing systems). The confusion comes in as the Chinese la…

Writing formulae are like design patterns. They give us names to think and talk about structures, but too often become dogmata.

Former journalist here. This structure is also known as "inverted pyramid"[0]. CIA has a book[1] that details the process to apply the structure recursively to build an article. Be…

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Immux | https://www.immux.com | Systems Software Engineer | Remote | Full time We are building a fast and easy-to-use immutable database engine and a computing service that provide…

Thanks. I hate to say this but I worked on my machine...

Immux | https://immux.com | Systems Software Engineer | Remote | Full time Immux is building an immutable database and a computing service that provide first-class citizen support …

By the way, Chinese "barrage" (弹幕） video/livestream sites (think YouTube, but comments fly over the pictures of the videos like bullets, hence the name), including Bilibili (listed…