- The NDP is a centre-right party. Don't apply the USA's very very right-shifted political spectrum to Canada. The American Democrats and Republicans both would be parts of the Conservative Party. The Democrats are closest to the Red Tory wing and Republicans to the Blue Tory wing of the Conservative Party. It's just there is very little difference between the USA's two conservative parties.
- It was the mouth piece of the Progressive Conservative Party before the merger. It's been a conservative newspaper since it's founding. Historically most of it's ownership has been directly involved, sometimes in a leadership capacity, of the current iteration of the conservatives. Yes, the National Post is now the mouth piece the current Conservatives, but it still has a very conservative byline by Canadian standard.
- This is a bit wrong for Thailand as it doesn't mention nicknames. Or rules for using the given name vs. nicknames. Unless in very formal context it's normal to use nicknames not given names. In day to day life nicknames are by far more commonly used than given names.
Family names are almost never used expect in legal documents or formal setting. It's common for people who have been friends for years to not know each other's family names as they are so rarely used in day to day life.
It's also common also for friends/coworkers to not know each other's given names -- though less so than family names. Especially as you would never call someone you're friends with by their given name as it would be a bit rude. Usually in offices (unless very old fashioned) or with friends and family you'd use nicknames exclusively.
- Protected from what? This a legal action being brought by X, not by the ADL. X is not the defendant so it's not really about X's protection.
The ADL hasn't taken any legal action against X; it's just made some statements and maybe, if you believe Musk, lobbied advertisers. Which really doesn't have anything to do with section 230.
- > I thought the primary cause was the demographics changes which is creating knock on effects
Not really. Yes, China is starting to experience demographic decline but it will be a long long time before it affects them economically. They could still absorb every North American job and still have people left over. That's just how big China's population is. Demographic decline will eventually bite them but they have a very long runway. China is very different from Japan's case.
As for policies, again, not really. It's more that about 10 years ago most low cost manufacturing shifted out of China because cheaper regions caught up and were able to provide better value. China has been been talking about this trend since before Xi and a big focus has be shifting to a service economy built on internal demand. This is the part where policies come into play. The shift has not gone as well as they hoped. And again, it's not really about Xi messing up Deng's work. The world, and China, is different from Deng's world. Deng's approach would not work in a world where low cost manufacturing has moved overseas. If anything, it's more of an issue that Xi has stuck to closely to Deng's approach and not adapted to the changing world.
- > why have kitchens traditionally been separated from dining areas in the first place?
Smell. To keep the smells of cooking from overwhelming the rest of the house. In the process of building a new house and it will be a separate kitchen. Well, technically, a wet kitchen that is closed off and a small dry kitchen connected to the dining area for dealing with things that aren't strong smelling. This setup is pretty standard in here in Asia.
- I've used Perforce before moving to Git (and used rc and svn before that), everyone has had the same issues with one team member knowing it better and being to go to person for resolving issue. With Perforce the GUI is okay, or at least it was 10 years ago when I was using it, but we always went to the cli interface for many things not supported in the GUI. A GUI can't cover every option and be usable. Visual metaphors are more accessible initially but eventually they become overwhelmed and you need to move to linguistic metaphors like the cli and code.
- The problem is DuckDuckGo is very USA and English focused. I've switched to it myself long ago, but it's very frustrating when I search for things and it brings up American shops higher than anything else. I'm not going to 5,000km to go shopping. You move out of English it's even worse. For general tech searching it's on par with Google. But if you are looking for things locally I often find the need to switch back to Google.
- Well written. But not surprising. Gitpod's quality and customer support have really gone since they started to receive funding and shifted from customer focused growth to VC focused growth. Before they were a joy to deal with. That combined with the failure to deliver on the 2 year old promise of an Asian cluster means me and my team are in the process of moving away. Since the shift to VSCode, the latency issue is even worse. Gitpod was amazing. I wish the got back to building the best in breed web based IDE instead of trying to be the cloud backend for existing IDEs.
- > There are actually two timezones that are canonically named "CST", and they're 14 hours apart!
Yup. If you say CST do you mean China Standard Time or Central Standard Time? The answer will depend on where you live in the world. There are others that share the same abbreviation as well. But CST is the one that constantly causes trouble in daily life. Just say no.
- Yes, my experience is the same. Grab is my go to "taxi" app when I'm in SEA. I've always found it's drivers to be more reliable and more professional than Uber's. And the app is no where as confusing as Uber's. The big problem with Uber is that it's all tied to your phone number. But the first thing you do when travelling is pick up a SIM card for the country you're in. Grab is tied to either FB or Google login so you can just easily log in and update your phone number.
(I haven't been to Manila, so I'm not sure what it's like there.)
- Arrest and jail. Like what Xi did to Zhou Yongkang.
- Can it really be called a "power grab" when he already had all the power? This is more fait accompli.
A lot of speculation is that Xi is doing this because it's now basically impossible for him to retire now. Through the anti-corruption campaigns, the taking down of so many tigers, and pushing out vested interests as China tries to avoid the middle income trap, Xi has made too many enemies. If he were to retire as planned, there are too many in the party who would then move on him.
This matches my experience. When ChatGPT started going viral, I started getting a lot of PRs from juniors who where trying it out. Pretty much every single one was using depreciated API calls or best practices from 5-10 years ago. I'd ask why they chose to use an API that is scheduled to be removed in the next release of whatever library or system we are using.
ChatGPT does have it's place. But you need to understand the tools you're using. It can't be great for a first spike or just getting something working. But then you have to go and look at what it's doing and make sure you understand it.