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this morning's news seems to indicate that the virus entered body via eyes according to expert. wearing mask alone probably won't be enough to prevent infection.
Re:FreeBSD 11.3 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @05:39PM (#20416145)
freebsd numbering scheme is confusing, when i read the headline, i was 'eoh? didn't i just upgrade to ver 12 last month?'
I was shocked a couple years ago when I drove a rental car and the engine turned off/stalled during stop at traffic lights, I took the car back to the AVIS and was told this is a feature of the car - a Malibu I think.

if it works, don't change it - sadly nowadays that's not true anymore for tech industry, they change things for the sake of change.

Re:YC China and Qi Lu on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:43AM (#17765938)
is this the guy that served as former senior VP of Microsoft and later CEO of Baidu?
Re:The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:54PM (#17759595)
my favorite game of all time is Activision's Battlezone. everything was near perfection, just wish to see a better AI
Re:Apple was overtaken by Huawei in global smartphone sales on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:50PM (#17664972)
i bought my mom a Huawei Mate SE a couple months ago and she loves it.

I also read that Huawei's new Mate Pro notebook is getting rave reviews, it comes with a 3:2 ratio screen, hate the wide screen format most manufactures use nowadays

Re:Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:24AM (#17653913)
i have the exact same thought from reading this
correct, that's 'WuBi' stroke input method. for a trained typist, stoke input is much faster than latin-letter based input method such as 'pinyin' since chinese character is structure-based.