Sam Lin

Genius

Am or Pm?

At least once.

Actually, recent study showed that lid up or down makes no difference. Enjoy, breathe deep. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/study-closing-toilet-lid-while-flushing-doesnt-stop-spread-of-airborne-bacteria/

That happens more frequently there than they want you to know.

Mini diabetes.

Reliability. It is still the best quality reputation in the industry, proven with about 20yrs of data now.

I can't believe there's no way to replay a YT ad. I've had ads that were funny enough that I wanted to show them to someone, and not been able to repeat or find them again. Was a hilarious Cantonese ad for State Farm years ago that still sticks in my mind. I've also had ads that actually got my attention and I wanted to click and investigate the product, but wasn't able to click through and the ad didn't have enough context for me to know wtf the company was. Total fail by the ad agency.

At this rate another 17 days and I'll reach my cost basis!

Note that this doesn't really scale as you go larger, as the cross section thickness remains the same (prime rib just gets longer in one dimension). A full 7bone rack still only takes 2.5-3.5hrs.

Saw this, thought it'd be relevant:

My kamado in Asia humidity molds regularly. Non issue, warm it up, brush it off, cook on.

Go on...

So you'll own $11 worth then?

This isn't about what the man wants, this is about what WE want!

Too bad it was 5:45 by the time you actually got a gate and deplaned, and 7:15 by the time you had your luggage and rental car and actually got on the road.

For foreign locations, Google Maps has a little speaker icon next to place name that you can tap to play the pronunciation for taxi drivers.

Palm wasn't doing OCR. It was reading touch keystrokes and correlating the desired letter. This is much easier to do because you have direction, pressure, sequence, and relative positions for each touch that you can individually teach, and actually works very well as an input method for Mandarin on smartphones (finger draw the kanji on the touchpad). Mandarin kanji is always written in a specific keystroke sequence; just teaching the sequence of stroke positions can tell you the word, or at least rule out 90% of the possibilities.

This is incorrect, there are two written forms of Chinese: traditional and simplified. As the names might hint, the more complex kanji characters are...simpler in the simplified form. Most new students are being taught simplified. Analogy: similar to the US not teaching cursive, some of the young generation cannot read all the traditional words as a result. This is only partially correct. Only some of the characters are the same. The meanings also vary in many cases, so while you could read it, you may not get the correct meaning out of it. Analogy: we as English writers can read written French as it mostly uses the Roman alphabet. We can even read some Cyrillic because of alphabet overlap. But we don't get the meaning unless we actually know the language. This isn't real different than any language. Just like in English there are a ton of words that are infrequently used or are olde Englische. We remove English words from the dictionary every year. Same goes in other languages. Likely no, depending on the type of scroll this is. If it is a calligraphy artwork, depending on the artist style, it will barely be recognizable as a specific kanji symbol. Even if it wasn't heavily stylized, there are font and structure differences in words over time (just like we have different spellings of aluminium). There is a LOT of effort going in to OCR of Chinese calligraphy. I haven't seen a really good solution yet. Look at this photo for example (sorry for picture of a screen, quickest way for me to post at moment). These are all the same kanji word. A kanji scroll is almost always some form of cursive, like the far right. And that cursive is not a standard, unlike English cursive - calligraphy cursive is an art and depends on each writer. There are very famous historical calligraphy artists who are known for a specific way they write one symbol.

You should start a thread on the entire Singer experience. Document the whole process exhaustively. I will subscribe.

No, you get a UPS or generator for your fancy bidet.

Just saw this. Resounding "meh." Wife fell asleep and I wished I was tired enough to fall asleep. Biggest complaint was how lazy the CGI was, it just felt mailed in compared to the first. Plot was a disjointed hot mess, felt like tourettes in movie form (no offense meant to actual tourettes). Anya was great.

I actually want to see a Michael Bay SW movie more. Not because it'd be good.

Remembered many airports support 3 jetbridges for the a380. One upstairs, two downstairs. Of course it isn't so much to board quicker as it is to keep riffraff away from the hoi polloi.