I saw that my Windows Update was taking an awfully long time to download and install some updates so I checked what it was downloading. That’s just insane. No wonder internet is slow today: all ...

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Life used to be so simple: you’d watch a youtube clip and as the little round thingy caught up with the end of the reddish line you knew what you were up to: press pause, wait a little while, and c...

Accessing foreign sites from Beijing is pretty slow lately. In fact, today most sites load faster through VPN than without VPN, which is odd. I’m starting to believe the explanation given here (The...

(The Pula mentioned in the movie is a city in Croatia, but also a vulgar term in Romanian) UPDATE: which reminds me… Pule Temple in ChengDe

Long time no post. My page is still being blocked (I might just as well resurrect that post about Tbet) and having to use VPN to write a post is just too much effort. So why this post? I just had ...

partial class StaticAssert { byte a = RenderQuality.Low < RenderQuality.Medium ? 0 : -1; byte b = RenderQuality.Medium < RenderQuality.High ? 0 : -1; } Apparently ?: is being folded at com...

Or actually, this year it’s Happy 牛 Year! 牛 is the character for ox/cow and is pronounced niu, yes, like new. And let me completely ruin the joke by underlining that it’s the year of the ox. Get it...

EDIT: click the thumbnail with the radicals to see the high resolution version. To be considered legally literate, one has to know at least 1500 characters. Being able to read the newspaper requir...