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I'm still using uTorrent 1.8.4 inside WinXP VM. It's what I use for past 10 or so years because it works and still works.

I felt your comment off topic. But I do somewhat agree with sentiment of having immutable news archive as the present Internet is more 'what we can see' oppose to 'what we can know…

I actually remember this show. This was prior to reality TV shows and arguably before movie 'The Truman Show'. I did not had the honor to see this on TV, but I was been told and th…

My forecast for near future geopolitics is grim as collateral damages will happen in most countries, first world or not, west or not. I am also pessimistic about open initiatives (…

Planet money has a podcast episode on WeWork and Masayoshi: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767379358/episode-943-unicorn...

Anyone else felt disconcerting about the reoccurring theme of platform attracts communicated generated content, only to shift interest/motive once critical mass is achieved?

I'm curious, in practical term (not throttle emulator via browser's developer tool), does single page app 'works' in location of low speed internet? By 'works', I mean not just con…

> Japanese If you want to learn Japanese casually, especially through pop culture like watching anime, I think you can start by proficient Katakana. Been an English speaker, you ha…

As simple as it sound, I feel there's need to stress on how important it is for users to find what they seeks without going through maze of hyperlinks and visual fluffs. * If I'm s…

Slack allows 2-tier conversation (and IIRC, you cannot share code snippet in 2nd tier). Reddit and HackerNews allows n-tier conversation where you can branch a thread to heart's co…

I consider Google Wave closer to reddit for real time chat.

Personally, it become very disappointing when multiplayer games become less and less interesting for players who seeks for challenges and problem solving. I like to think today's g…

> type guard Thanks for the link, I am currently doing something similar without knowing TS implicit behavior. With 1st given example in the link, I forced on a style to such: ``` …

Thanks for pointing this out. It's simply a matter of time of phasing into preferable setup, consider the current setup is 'not yet broken'.

I've done 2 commercial Typescript + React projects so far (along with few side projects using what I knew that time + what I want to try). My experience been: - Discourage 'any' bu…

I think you may have got better at managing both your tasks and time :) Very possible that been a father cornered you to think more pragmatically in daily life, and that translates…

Do you mean like parental instinct? When you are in 'father mode', you physically and mentally geared up and ready to take up the role.

> ...but the current presidential administration is enacting tariffs on many other countries... I'm quite curious to know possible rationals behind that? To layman like myself, it …

> This is the same argument cake shops make against taking order from gay people. I've always avoid getting involved in (semi-)political discussions but I'm very curious here: It i…

Ditto, getting `Error 1016` from CloudFlare. Have to resort with using web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190714180208/http://docs.hylan...

short video explanation on said china map topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Di-UVC-_4

I'm having trouble understanding implications to answers of these 2 questions when deciding legitimacy of Libra. To elaborate my confusion: * Why does choice of a programming langu…

Real Engineering made a video on this exact topic, explaining the essence in less than 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXGRPMD-GQ He went through bit more details said …

And is it just me, or hopping on OpenOffice Calc or Google Sheet felt like a different device altogether: They all look like bikes, but accelerate differently, change gears differe…

Is it tho? or is the OS just too relaxed on security? Think old Windows that people always ridicule, the publicity was rare on calling out bad practice/intentions, it has always be…