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These are not 1000 page books (but combined they can be): - God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (more about the Taiping and their leader) - Autumn in th…

> higher-passenger-capacity trains Length is limited by platform length and width is limited by tunnel loading gauge and platform sizes. To increase the platform length, you have t…

There are problems with rail privatization but I don't think this is one. > Privatization results in requiring riders to sometimes exit a station of one company, go all the way up …

Same, ClaudeBot makes a stupid amount of requests on my git storage. I just blocked them all on Cloudflare.

I find Accuweather MinutecastTM quite good for the Northeast. I'm using Breezy Weather with them as the data source. Sometimes, I found their API data was not as updated as their w…

Yep, it's a straight up safety issue with all the scam ads. I pay for YouTube premium but sometimes my parents and grandparents don't log in, accidentally sign out, watch it on the…

The translation should be "Under the glorious flag of the Party, the people of Nghệ An Soviet are heros/will heroically do something..." Soviet refers to this one https://en.m.wiki…

Yes you can

If self-host is your thing, there are blocky [0] or Adguard Home [1]. I self-host DOH using blocky so my Android devices can use it via "Private DNS" that is active on both wifi an…

> thanks to that universal language, I can express my thoughts to most people in India, China, Japan, South America, etc due to having 1 common language. My lazy ass wishes that En…

Yes, it's one of the reason. As a result, it's super rare to refer to someone by their family name in Vietnamese. Casually people use given names and formally people use full names…

> Nevertheless, our close examination of his publications removes the ambiguity. The cover of his dissertation clearly delineates his family name from his compound given name, and …

I use a quick setting to quickly switch between ad blocking dns and normal dns for bad websites or captive portal. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jpwolfso.privdnsqt/

Like others said, it's more of a hobby than a side hustle.

Citi DC is also a mastercard world elite which charges a higher fee for merchants. Afaik most (all?) 2% card are visa signature or mc word elite.

HN's a tech forum. It is what it is.

And Dream of the Red Chamber to round up the four great Chinese classical novels

Yeah, sometimes I have the realization that I don't need to open the game at all, I can just play the game in Excel.

Yep, I've also commented on how harmful ads seem to be more common on YouTube compared to Instagram and Facebook. Maybe Facebook use more human reviewers in smaller regions compare…

The ads could be worse: drugs that treat cancer, diabetes in 1 month, supplements that cure Hepatitis and so on. If YouTube can show fast food and gambling ads instead, that would …

Maybe manifest v2 will be removed for real soon.

Avoid non-tech discussion here and you are almost all the way there. There's a chrome extension to block a user's comments. Probably not too hard to make one or modify it to highli…

I think one thing that makes it IE-like is updates being tied to the OS. Asking the users to update an app is an easier sell than updating their OS.

From here [0], 94.1% of .jp websites use UTF-8 and 6.5% use Shift-JIS. You can find a list of popular sites still using Shift-JIS here [1]. If you change your PC or your phone loca…