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DigitalOcean 上周通知要换母鸡 把我的实例给关了 之后就开不了机一直 kernel panic 发了个工单 没多久回了我长长一封邮件 一开始还一些感动 仔细一看给的参考链接 好吧 unmanaged server 果然不是随便说说的

有点可爱

The untold history of macOS System Preferences

Gruber 这段几个比喻也是逗

a diving board in need of repair baby’s-butt-cheek soft and supple

一点联想

The DS was Nintendo at its best and weirdest - The Verge;

cf. 《大众软件》这个杂志现在还有吗？关于这本杂志你有哪些特别想说的故事？ - 殷广奇的回答 - 知乎

一个到外面公司出差期间 摸鱼活动筋骨的心得 去洗手间间隙 找个消防楼梯 爬丫个五六层 爬完深呼吸几下 整整衣服走回去 深藏功与名

也是我每次发布会后的保留娱乐环节了

Apple Event 2020 产品更新介绍页面宣传语 英中港台日 翻译对照 - Mivansaka's Blog

到了这么革命的地方了 还是发挥一下革命精神 没条件跑步也要创造条件

上个月 PDD 真香了一块海康威视 2T NVMe 当大号 U 盘，给自己的借口是 这下以后出差再要拷扫描版 PDF 就不用折腾我乞丐版 MBP 的 256G 硬盘了。 结果这个月就疯狂被派出差。 海康威视差评。

真的非常不喜欢 Axios 为代表的这种排版/行文方式，好像读者都是阅读障碍自己看不出段落结构和主次一样 另外，为什么要把每段的前几个词都加粗？如果是因为写句子的风格就是都把重要的放在句首，那就不需要视觉上再强调一遍；如果不是 那好像更没有理由视觉上再强调一遍？

HN 上难得对非技术话题比较质量比较高的讨论 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24361744

Linked post（虽然好像不能叫 post）是 Thomas Jefferson 在 1807 年批评看报纸没卵用：

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly [sic] deprive the nation of it's [sic] benefits, than is done by it's [sic] abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

以及开的脑洞：

Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into 4 chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies.

评论区：

关于为什么要看新闻：

Part of being a citizen in a (kind of) functioning democracy is understanding the nuances of the stuff that is screwed up around you to the best of your ability so that when the time comes to vote or have a meaningful discussion with others around you, you can be a voice of reason.

[…] I may not know everything, but I'm trying and putting an honest effort into learning as much as I can every single day. Reading NYT, WaPo, etc. is my version of putting an American flag out front, or a Support the Troops sticker on my car, or singing the National Anthem or whatever people do to feel like they're doing their part.

关于看新闻的用处：

It's probably not 100% a sure thing that it's going to happen, but it probably will, and it's now on my radar to keep an eye on since that might actually wind up being a big deal. That's what I want out of the news.

如果原子性是数据库的设计原则，那么从法律行业做出来的表头判断，可以说到处是分子料理高手

造福人类了可以说是

dexterleng/vimac: Vimium for macOS.

没啥理由 但就是每到夏天气数将尽 就会开始猛听

两个角度清奇的媒体同人向推特号 一个是 The New Yorkerest，立足于「纽约客就是用来订了叠起来供着」的 meme，每周推一篇当期杂志最值得看的文章，纯主观标准，但如果正好跟自己想的一致还是会有种莫名的默契感 另外一个是 New New York Times，估计是一个 bot，纽约时报每出现一个没用过的新词，它就发一条推，看起来非常猎奇

Chrome is better described as a runtime than a browser.

Unity also spends a considerable amount of time discussing how any changes to how China treats intellectual property, game software, and corporate ownership might impact its business.

The Verge 看来没有意识到所有 S-1/F-1 招股书里面这些内容都是互相抄的 复制粘贴到都无法考证谁是原作者

| Unity’s IPO filing shows how big a threat it poses to Epic and the Unreal Engine - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/24/21399611/unity-ipo-game-engine-unreal-competitor-epic-app-store-revenue-profit

The problem with the subscription model is that it disproportionally benefits those who could survive without it, while disproportionally burdens those who could’ve benefitted from it.

As have been widely pointed out, the subscription model is a commitment to a software’s long-term evolution and a flexible payment plan for once-in-a-while needs. Ironically, most of the air on the field of subscription is siphoned by incumbent, clumsy “professional” softwares that are carelessly maintained — Office, Adobe Suite, etc. Their adoption of the subscription pricing is but a way to tax people who are obliged to use them because they are “standards.”

Unfortunately, the more subscription money goes to the big techs’ pockets, the less money people are lefted with to pay indie developers who genuinely care about their software and need the stable income to make real their roadmaps. And when humbly switch to the subscription model for survival, they become the principal – if not sole — outlet for people’s malice toward the big techs’ abuse of the model.

上半年平板市场这个热度，imp3.net 如果能苟到今天，也许就不会倒闭了

可能我这种 anti-regulation 倾向的人根本不适合做尽调把 但凡检索法条发现可能需要办这个那个鬼证的 第一反应总是怎么论证可以说明不需要证 如果法条有什么没写清楚的 那些好学生思维的指挥者就会陷入恐慌 「怎么可能没有要求呢 怎么可能没有罚则呢 你打电话去问问这种情况会怎么处罚」在我看来这可能就是以前背书把脑子背坏了 妈的给你开绿灯让你钻空子你还不高兴吗 膝盖疼不疼啊

微软为了把 Office 搬到网页上真的很努力，看起来 Word Online 显示文档（非编辑模式）的方法是先显示一张页面图片（根据惨不忍睹的文字渲染效果判断，是通过 Windows 虚拟机生成的），然后用户选中什么内容，就往 DOM 里塞一个 <p> 标签让文字可以复制。我觉得 Azure 上的每台的母鸡都有个来生不被用来运行 Office Online 的心愿吧

a small dose of humbled joyfulness

帮一个傻逼公司核对一千个专利和一千个商标文书以后 我快速上手并熟练使用了之前狗屁不通的 Excel 数据透视表

Poolside FM 出 Mac 版了 配个壁纸就是家里蹲 summer fun

The reasoning that the trailing parts of an URL don't worth being revealed to the user because they don't provide for much information is BS. The information is the resolution of uncertainty (see Shannon's information theory). The path and parameters within the URL reduces user's uncertainty about the request sent to the server by the browser, making them information equally meaningful as the hostname. Google'a promotion of the regression is understandable as it's been among top offenders of the semantics of the URL.

Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

PDFs are typically large masses of text and images. The format is intended and optimized for print. It’s inherently inaccessible, unpleasant to read, and cumbersome to navigate online. Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page.

我的观点还是觉得 PDF 难用一般是因为 PDF 没有被用在正确的地方

PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later