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Just as a reference, 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
Re:Keep your AI claims in check on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:52AM (#34968715)
Isn't labeling still an important part of modern AI?
Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:31PM (#34132181)
Some VoIP provider may offer IVR service and one can setup similar mechanism using IVR. I know voip.ms offers IVR.
Probably because he was at one point. Even Sweeney bragged about getting around it: http://web.archive.org/web/20220204202539/https://twitter.co...
Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:44AM (#29791827)
This reminds me of the Black Mirror's "Black Museum" episode...
Zuul is great. After using it for about a year in production, I must say Zuul is everything I hoped for and more (coming from a Jenkins deployment previously.) Some of the concepts take a bit of effort to wrap my head around but once I understood them they make a lot of sense. Leveraging of Ansible is great. Making jobs cheap and inheritable is awesome.
I think we should start adopting the term 'tinnitus' when people argue with 'dogwhistle'. Just because a person calling X a dogwhistle of Y doesn't make it so.
Re:Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:26PM (#27045027)
Can you elaborate more? What are the things that are bad for general amp but good for guitar amp? Is the amplification non-linear in some specific ways and how does it help with guitar music? (I know nothing about guitar except what it looks like.)
Re:AMD to Acquire Xilinx on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:39PM (#24911613)
For those who are not familiar, AWG stands for Arbitrary Waveform Generator.
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

"Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

I don't see any mention of government there. Why limit the interpretation of free speech to the US constitution? How do you reconcile ideologically or philosophically that it is not ok for US Congress to limit speech but ok for other powerful entities?

Re:Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:58PM (#24495312)
For folks who are looking for tiling without switching the windows manager, the gTile [0] GNOME shell extension is pretty good.

[0]: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/28/gtile/

More footage about the line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2roHdZ9UB9Y

I don't speak the language but the auto transcribe and auto translate seems to work ok.

Yes, big businesses as well: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/06/03/hsbc-backs-c...

>> Last Friday Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing former leader, demanded that HSBC state its position after enjoying privileges in the territory that “should not be taken for granted”.

He also warned that it could “be replaced by banks from China or other countries overnight”.

In a Facebook post he wrote: “We need to let … British companies such as HSBC know which side of the bread is buttered.”

Re:Resignation Letter on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:47PM (#23840309)
> "Free speech" is about the government suppressing your speech.

No it's not.

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." -- United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19 https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

I second this. Flash, HyperCard, Dreamweaver, VisualBasic 6 are all the tools I (along with my classmates) played with during high school before any official cs/engineering training.
Re:De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:26AM (#23387764)
Can you elaborate on that? I can't really read the mind of either of you ("you know as well as I do"... what do you guys know?)
Re:No to Chrome on Sunday December 08, 2019 @12:40PM (#21737042)
On a super long page (like forum post or comment thread, etc.), highlighting keywords on the scroll bar shows clustering of the find target and help you jump to the relevant conversation.
Re:Eyewitnesses describe brutal beatings by HK police on Monday September 09, 2019 @01:54PM (#20920540)
Are you familiar with Hong Kong's public housing system? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Hong_Kong

This shows how little trust is left with the government (if any). Carrie Lam went from, "all works has stopped" to "the bill is dead" while refusing to follow proper process until today. Finally doing what she previously claimed to be unnecessary, after so many pain and damages.
* Updated: Office of the Chief Executive just responded to media inquiry [4] and clarified that the withdraw will be an announcement not involving vote or debate per rule 64. (I haven't found an English copy yet.)

Before update:

Today's press release [1]: "The Secretary for Security will move a motion according to the Rules of Procedure when the Legislative Council resumes."

The relevant official text of the above chinese link: Rule of Procedure of the Legislative Council (LegCo) 64(2) and (3)[2]: "(2) The Member or public officer in charge of a bill may, by an announcement made in Council at the beginning of proceedings for the resumption of the second reading debate on the bill, withdraw the bill if -

(a) the purpose of the resumption is for making such an announcement; and

(b) such purpose has been so stated in the notice of the resumption of debate given under Rule 54(5) (Second Reading). (L.N. 74 of 2005)

(3) The Member or public officer in charge of a bill may, in making an announcement for the withdrawal of the bill under subrule (2), address the Council on matters relevant to the withdrawal but no debate may arise on such an address. (L.N. 74 of 2005)"

So no motion/debate/vote is needed. People are saying the Article 23/national security bill in 2003 was withdrawn by simple gazetting, without any motion or debate. This is the equivalent press back then [3].

[1] https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201909/04/P2019090400666...

[2] https://www.legco.gov.hk/general/english/procedur/content/pa...

[3] https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200309/05/0905155.htm

[4] https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1478843-20190905.h...

That's not what you links said. Would you like to correct your assertion?
This is another fake move by Carrie Lam. A withdraw only requires a simple declaration and not a motion that require a vote.

https://thestandnews.com/politics/林鄭連扮讓步都要違反程序-仲有面講法治/

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