It is the first time in human history for christmas to fall on Dec 25, AD 2025. It will never happen again.

Left 3 Dead

I googled her name. She seems to believe that the medicine proscribed killed her husband, and they should be using horse dewormer instead.

https://brownstone.org/articles/hospital-protocol-killed-loved-ones-they-want-justice/

https://brownstone.org/author/stella-paul/

My main concern is the kid might feel entitled to what they are provided from their parents. That is not necessarily a problem in of itself, but I would be worried if my kids are not aware of how hard it would be to get a house or a car from nothing, because they never need to work for it. And I would be very upset if they cannot empathize with people who are not provided these things by their parents, hence doesn’t support public projects that benefit the less fortunate.

I growup with my mom preping me for “moving out at 18”, in the end, they did support me during college and give me some down payment for my apartment.

I still feel quite bad asking my family for money till this day, because I was taught that way. If it isn’t my wife pushing to get an apartment, I probably will rent until I can pay for my own place. I am honestly quite grateful for them paying for my college because it is not a small expense; and I understand most people don’t have these luxuries.

I feel their teaching let me save when I can, built up a lot of tolerance towards my environments and people around me, and develop a lot more empathy. I don’t know if there is a causal link, but I find people around me who talk a lot about “everyone should bootstrap themselves” often comes from richer families and they get much more than what I got from my parents. Quite honestly, I am very grateful I do not think like them, and I prefer my kid to not think like that as well.

To be completely clear, I am not claiming I am unlucky or have bad parents. My parent, despite forcing me to be independent, are still a great safety net for me. I try my hardest to live on my own and I happens to not need anything else from them (besides enormous college tuitions and down payment 🤣), but I am sure they will provide me whatever I need if I truly needed it.

I am a Chinese guy, I do have thin eyes (they are not terribly wide either), I eat a lot of rice and msg, I played instrument when I was a kid.

Tell me a Chinese stereotype and I will tell if I fit.

(no need to Twist), Lick, and Dunk.

#NoNutNovemberGoneWild

I haven’t used or read about PHP after college, and I am quite interesred in what are the good stuffs that you like now.

It is cool to see how languages evolve.

Years of training, finally become useful.

Comprehension is functional programming too, they arise from list monad https://www.schoolofhaskell.com/school/starting-with-haskell/basics-of-haskell/13-the-list-monad And Haskell do notation indeed reads top-down, unlike Python, but I find both quite readable.

Linus have stated multiple times that he does not break user space, thus this quiet clearly cannot be real.

I heard in many large companies, they would create short artificial downtime for internal services, so that user-facing system never rely on a single internal system for resources and data. This prevents large downtime in user facing system when any internal service is down for a large amount of time.

I think a great use of interns is to make these downtime more organic.

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Engineers can laterally move to more prestigious or challenging projects if they prove worthy based on their skills and connections. One former staffer tells WIRED that this made the company feel like a meritocracy where the best people, and the best ideas, naturally rise to the top.

I am very interested in the culture and psychology of these supposed “meritocratic” companies. Personally, I don’t believe we have a reasonable approximation of the hyper-efficient merit-based resource allocation that is promoted by the ultra-rich.

Usually I find these so-called “meritocratic” policies do not encourage good ideas, but enable hyper-competitive environments.

These kind of environments likely do not support solid well-thought-out proposals; instead, pushes the quick implementation of mediocre ideas (a.k.a move fast and break things). A hyper-competitive environment can also discourage collaboration, which often can be crucial to “solve the hard problems”.

And the article mentions that this environment boosts employee retention, which I find extremely interesting. I wonder if the constant competitions can keep triggering a sense of “winning” and “accomplishment” in a perhaps mundane job.

Secureboot is a security measure to make sure the boot environment have not been tampered with. It would detect malwares that attempt to modify the boot environments. According to ArchWiki, it ensures “core boot components (boot manager, kernel, initramfs) have not been tampered with”, which would protect against initramfs-swap attacks like de-LUKS, however there are conflicting reports on the internet, and I have not tried myself.

I personally don’t find it makes Linux harder to install, like others suggested. Unless you use a surface device, it will happily accept the key for most common linux distro, including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and many more. For most custom distros, you can easily register its key via MOK (require root privilege and confirmation in the UEFI, for security purpose). In fact, Debian project is quite clear on SecureBoot not being a tool for MS to monopolize the desktop market: https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#What_is_UEFI_Secure_Boot_NOT.3F .

However, if you need to load additional kernel modules, like NVIDIA drivers, secureboot can get quite annoying. I am actually quite interested in why Windows don’t have a problem loading additional drivers, yet Linux do.

In the end, I feel if you are using a distro that works with secureboot, there is no reason to leave it off; if you find it annoying, yet okay with a downgrade in security, then you might want to leave it off.

This face is as excited as a cat can get.

I am in this picture and I don’t like it.

It seems like they have replied and said they won’t repel the act.

Unfortunately, even EU’s solution doesn’t support non-google-backed android.