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Great stuff! Does it have a Session/Workspace concept? Maybe we can learn from how Alacritty does it integrating with tmux?

Isn't true that Cantonese has 9 tones?

State-wide railway system is definitely something only Fed can help on, I don't think even as big as Meta/Google can do much with them.

What's the Americans obsession with checks? I worked and lived in other countries , including Asia, Europe and Latin America. Most of them moved on to digital payment (especially C…

So what about your company's IT? I am sure they want to push every updates to you as soon as it is released.

One of my previous companies use their self-hosted Gitea. That's all good and stuff, but they don't have a dedicated DevOps person, so we actually have to spend extra maintenance o…

Jiang and Hu both stepped down after 2 terms. So yes they agreed to it.

I don't even know why would anyone "dream" or "think" they have a chance to do business with CCP after what happened in what they did to Alibaba, etc.

I realize all of their social media accounts disappear as well - FB, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Honestly I feel so bad for their employees and most HK people.

I am a football guy. Anyone said we tolerate UEFA/FIFA's corrupted system is because ESL is not any better. ESL lacks of a real relegation/promotion system with other teams, and th…

I still think the best keyboard smartphone were my BlackBerries, and I still miss typing on a HW keyboards.

I have been looking for a keyboard, but fails to find one. - ergonomics - wireless (bluetooth or a tiny USB dongle is OK) - mechanical keys - mac cmd-key - below $200 USD I am not …

Slightly off-topic: Any recommendation on a good wifi printer + scanner combo for home office? Works for macOS, Linux and Windows too.

I hated it until the day I have to go through every SaaS service vendors that I have and this is the quickest way I can actually "chat" with a real person about some questions. Hel…

Yep, absolutely. These constraints probably yield nothing in return. We have take compromise in some of these.

I did the same with two of my kids, and we have more than two languages to consider. We want something simple to write, spell, and pronounce in all 2 languages + dialects: Cantones…

Would you be OK sharing your startup journey? What makes you want to build this product? How did you meet you cofounders? What are some challenges you have faced compare with regul…

On a side note, I used to work very closely with Marty at Samsung before his retirement. He is an inspiration for me and I really loved working with him at that time. At that time,…

We often hear about the backend/frontend/full-stack or mobile engineers start their startups and be successful in running them. I am not sure whether my circle is small, or I simpl…

Engineering is always an interesting space that simplistic, lean, great documentation, easily replaceable components and simple UX win. This sounds like the book The Toyota Way des…

They just had a laid-off recently, and still not profitable given how much $$$ they have burnt over the years. I am not sure if you wanna work there. FANG such as FB and Google has…

I think that makes sense if you assume the manager were not let go. But in a layoff case, they usually chop the entire org, which is as huge as 100+ people.