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Hong Kong unemployment figures, Sep-Nov 2025
• Unemployment rate: 3.8% (vs 3.8% the previous month)
• Total employment: 3,669,900 ↓2,800
• Labour force: 3,814,300 ↓8,000
www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...
• Unemployment rate: 3.8% (vs 3.8% the previous month)
• Total employment: 3,669,900 ↓2,800
• Labour force: 3,814,300 ↓8,000
www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...
December 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Hong Kong unemployment figures, Sep-Nov 2025
• Unemployment rate: 3.8% (vs 3.8% the previous month)
• Total employment: 3,669,900 ↓2,800
• Labour force: 3,814,300 ↓8,000
www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...
• Unemployment rate: 3.8% (vs 3.8% the previous month)
• Total employment: 3,669,900 ↓2,800
• Labour force: 3,814,300 ↓8,000
www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...
I live in Hong Kong, I have a valid driver’s license, it has been more than a decade since I’ve driven regularly.
Unless I’m the least-bad option for taking somebody to the hospital I’m not driving.
Unless I’m the least-bad option for taking somebody to the hospital I’m not driving.
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I live in Hong Kong, I have a valid driver’s license, it has been more than a decade since I’ve driven regularly.
Unless I’m the least-bad option for taking somebody to the hospital I’m not driving.
Unless I’m the least-bad option for taking somebody to the hospital I’m not driving.
As an American Canto speaker, thank god the book isn’t going to ruin my search results when I write my own autobiography.
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
As an American Canto speaker, thank god the book isn’t going to ruin my search results when I write my own autobiography.
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Would also have accepted “Trader Ruo’s” but in Wade-Giles romanization
Broke: being mad at the Trader Joe’s “Trader Ming’s” branding because it’s racist cultural appropriation
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Would also have accepted “Trader Ruo’s” but in Wade-Giles romanization
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Broke: being mad at the Trader Joe’s “Trader Ming’s” branding because it’s racist cultural appropriation
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Broke: being mad at the Trader Joe’s “Trader Ming’s” branding because it’s racist cultural appropriation
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
I'll reiterate my position on this: I do not mind citizenship for sale as long as "renounce all other citizenship (and passports)" is a precondition.
(Note: in this proposal coming through non-golden-passport paths you can keep your other passports when you naturalize.)
(Note: in this proposal coming through non-golden-passport paths you can keep your other passports when you naturalize.)
An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.
December 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'll reiterate my position on this: I do not mind citizenship for sale as long as "renounce all other citizenship (and passports)" is a precondition.
(Note: in this proposal coming through non-golden-passport paths you can keep your other passports when you naturalize.)
(Note: in this proposal coming through non-golden-passport paths you can keep your other passports when you naturalize.)
There it is. Really hope that NY-10 sends him to Washington.
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There it is. Really hope that NY-10 sends him to Washington.
Calibri is a font that is best on the screen, designed to support subpixel aliasing.
It was designed in a world where 1024x768 was just beginning to edge out 800x600 and everybody was still using CRTs.
A technical tour de force, but to my eye, unattractive.
It was designed in a world where 1024x768 was just beginning to edge out 800x600 and everybody was still using CRTs.
A technical tour de force, but to my eye, unattractive.
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Calibri is a font that is best on the screen, designed to support subpixel aliasing.
It was designed in a world where 1024x768 was just beginning to edge out 800x600 and everybody was still using CRTs.
A technical tour de force, but to my eye, unattractive.
It was designed in a world where 1024x768 was just beginning to edge out 800x600 and everybody was still using CRTs.
A technical tour de force, but to my eye, unattractive.
Spam is above the bar and I’ll eat it without any complaint if served to me.
But there are other things that are farther above the bar for me and if I’m picking things to stock in my house or off a menu then spam never gets consumed.
It’s a “when somebody else controls the menu” food for me.
But there are other things that are farther above the bar for me and if I’m picking things to stock in my house or off a menu then spam never gets consumed.
It’s a “when somebody else controls the menu” food for me.
My unpopular opinion is that spam is good and you’re probably just a snob.
December 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Spam is above the bar and I’ll eat it without any complaint if served to me.
But there are other things that are farther above the bar for me and if I’m picking things to stock in my house or off a menu then spam never gets consumed.
It’s a “when somebody else controls the menu” food for me.
But there are other things that are farther above the bar for me and if I’m picking things to stock in my house or off a menu then spam never gets consumed.
It’s a “when somebody else controls the menu” food for me.
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Bring back the Sears catalog.
"Cookie cutter" housing is good. It's good when cities pre-approve designs, making it easier to add more housing. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/09/t...
This backyard ADU from Type Five is pre-approved by the city
Berkeley's OK means this customizable home — from a local company — can be built quickly and more easily.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Bring back the Sears catalog.
Your build infrastructure team does not have enough UI-focused engineers.
Not only because “the user interface is the product” but because the user interface is critical for being able to identify optimization opportunities and answer support questions.
Not only because “the user interface is the product” but because the user interface is critical for being able to identify optimization opportunities and answer support questions.
December 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Your build infrastructure team does not have enough UI-focused engineers.
Not only because “the user interface is the product” but because the user interface is critical for being able to identify optimization opportunities and answer support questions.
Not only because “the user interface is the product” but because the user interface is critical for being able to identify optimization opportunities and answer support questions.
There is a strictly optimal workday structure for authoring code for a large software product (2 hour full build) in a single time zone:
- Standup
- Code
- Lunch
- Meeting Slot
- Code Review
- Code
It’s an assembly line, it masks build latency, and aligns code review timing.
- Standup
- Code
- Lunch
- Meeting Slot
- Code Review
- Code
It’s an assembly line, it masks build latency, and aligns code review timing.
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
There is a strictly optimal workday structure for authoring code for a large software product (2 hour full build) in a single time zone:
- Standup
- Code
- Lunch
- Meeting Slot
- Code Review
- Code
It’s an assembly line, it masks build latency, and aligns code review timing.
- Standup
- Code
- Lunch
- Meeting Slot
- Code Review
- Code
It’s an assembly line, it masks build latency, and aligns code review timing.
This is the district I live in and you would hardly know anybody other than these two were even running.
(Exaggeration, but blanket coverage of streets.)
(Exaggeration, but blanket coverage of streets.)
2025 LegCo election: Geographical Constituency results
▶︎ Kowloon Central
Both incumbents win, including heavyweight Starry Lee
▶︎ Kowloon Central
Both incumbents win, including heavyweight Starry Lee
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This is the district I live in and you would hardly know anybody other than these two were even running.
(Exaggeration, but blanket coverage of streets.)
(Exaggeration, but blanket coverage of streets.)
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Turns out it didn't have legs
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Turns out it didn't have legs
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Setting aside fire concerns, this is good public health policy.
Adding in fire concerns, it’s a no-brainer.
Adding in fire concerns, it’s a no-brainer.
A Real Estate Developers Association spokesperson said it was currently collecting members' views whether to implement a full smoking ban at construction sites.
• REDA chairman Stewart Leung expressed full support of a smoking ban and hoped members will follow suit
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...
• REDA chairman Stewart Leung expressed full support of a smoking ban and hoped members will follow suit
news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/comp...
宏福苑五級火｜地產建設商會稱正就地盤全禁煙收集會員意見 - RTHK
地產建設商會發言人回覆本台查詢表示，正陸續收集會員就地盤全面禁煙的意見，如有進一步消息，適時會分享。今日並無會議討論這議題。 有傳媒報道地產建設商會執委會主席梁志堅指，商會如達成共識，將發指引予各發展商，他本人表明支持地盤全面禁煙，並相信會...
news.rthk.hk
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Setting aside fire concerns, this is good public health policy.
Adding in fire concerns, it’s a no-brainer.
Adding in fire concerns, it’s a no-brainer.
THIS IS WHAT I WANT.
Setting aside the specifics, I want the model of “bamboo plus netting” tested.
Setting aside the specifics, I want the model of “bamboo plus netting” tested.
• Hong Kong’s fire services director suspects the blaze started on the scaffolding between the first and second floor of Wang Cheong House and wants to build replicas and computer simulations to determine the exact point of ignition
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Hong Kong blaze may have started on scaffolding between first and second floor
Life-size replica of floors at Wang Cheong House might be built to help determine exact ignition point, fire chief Andy Yeung says.
www.scmp.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
THIS IS WHAT I WANT.
Setting aside the specifics, I want the model of “bamboo plus netting” tested.
Setting aside the specifics, I want the model of “bamboo plus netting” tested.
Reposted by Nathan Hammond 張拿敦
• Hong Kong’s fire services director suspects the blaze started on the scaffolding between the first and second floor of Wang Cheong House and wants to build replicas and computer simulations to determine the exact point of ignition
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Hong Kong blaze may have started on scaffolding between first and second floor
Life-size replica of floors at Wang Cheong House might be built to help determine exact ignition point, fire chief Andy Yeung says.
www.scmp.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
• Hong Kong’s fire services director suspects the blaze started on the scaffolding between the first and second floor of Wang Cheong House and wants to build replicas and computer simulations to determine the exact point of ignition
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
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Reposted by Nathan Hammond 張拿敦
> "With AI people can code in English instead of having to learn a programming language."
> "Hmm, English is quite imprecise and the AI seem to interpret requests incorrectly. We need to refine this with a specification."
> Congratulations you've re-invented the concept of a programming language.
> "Hmm, English is quite imprecise and the AI seem to interpret requests incorrectly. We need to refine this with a specification."
> Congratulations you've re-invented the concept of a programming language.
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
> "With AI people can code in English instead of having to learn a programming language."
> "Hmm, English is quite imprecise and the AI seem to interpret requests incorrectly. We need to refine this with a specification."
> Congratulations you've re-invented the concept of a programming language.
> "Hmm, English is quite imprecise and the AI seem to interpret requests incorrectly. We need to refine this with a specification."
> Congratulations you've re-invented the concept of a programming language.
Very much agree that translating it all is the entire point.
The other direction from Cantonese to English for Chow’s 無厘頭 is also a special translation skill. I also haven’t seen it done well.
The other direction from Cantonese to English for Chow’s 無厘頭 is also a special translation skill. I also haven’t seen it done well.
Not on the Blu-ray forums anymore but people link me posts whenever they're badmouthing me. A recent post (that isn't blindly negative) questions the necessity of translating slang, malapropisms, and accents, to which I say yes, they should be. What's the point, otherwise?
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Very much agree that translating it all is the entire point.
The other direction from Cantonese to English for Chow’s 無厘頭 is also a special translation skill. I also haven’t seen it done well.
The other direction from Cantonese to English for Chow’s 無厘頭 is also a special translation skill. I also haven’t seen it done well.
Sydney’s Lau’s “A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary” becomes public domain on January 1, 2028.
I figured out how I’m going to digitize it:
I figured out how I’m going to digitize it:
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Sydney’s Lau’s “A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary” becomes public domain on January 1, 2028.
I figured out how I’m going to digitize it:
I figured out how I’m going to digitize it:
“Refuse unlawful orders” is the contrapositive of saying “follow the law.”
They’re investing time in “seditious conspiracy” for telling people to follow the law.
(To say nothing of any other defense to this nonsense.)
They’re investing time in “seditious conspiracy” for telling people to follow the law.
(To say nothing of any other defense to this nonsense.)
Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
FBI Seeks ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Probe of Democratic Lawmakers
The FBI is pressuring domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members to defy unlawful orders, according to th...
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“Refuse unlawful orders” is the contrapositive of saying “follow the law.”
They’re investing time in “seditious conspiracy” for telling people to follow the law.
(To say nothing of any other defense to this nonsense.)
They’re investing time in “seditious conspiracy” for telling people to follow the law.
(To say nothing of any other defense to this nonsense.)
Nobody has contacted me, but (gestures about) this skeet, and all other skeets about the Tai Po fire will be deleted soon.
Some bits will be replaced with new skeets.
Some bits will be replaced with new skeets.
December 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Nobody has contacted me, but (gestures about) this skeet, and all other skeets about the Tai Po fire will be deleted soon.
Some bits will be replaced with new skeets.
Some bits will be replaced with new skeets.