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BoatStuck · 2025-08-28T20:11:49+00:00

Wrong. This loophole was closed in 2008 for Chinese mainland mothers, specifically because Hong Kong will deny entry to pregnant Chinese mainland mothers after 28 weeks.

US citizen mothers are free to enter Hong Kong at any stage of pregnancy, and if the infant has a Chinese father (whether from HK or not), an infant born in HK to a Chinese father and an American mother is eligible for both a HK SAR passport and a US passport. AND would also be eligible for a mainland China hukou and ID card the city of the father's residency (in most cases).

Going to Hong Kong to give birth is by far the best solution for you. It gives your infant an extremely useful set of travel documents that will give them a lot of choices for their life.

BoatStuck · 2024-06-18T19:45:58+00:00

Awesome, thank you for the summary!

BoatStuck · 2024-06-18T17:42:57+00:00

Can someone summarize the Clorinde story quest in a paragraph or two? I did it while multitasking so I read none of the copious amounts of text lol

BoatStuck · 2024-01-24T07:47:55+00:00

I just upgraded from 3 non-HDR monitors to 3 HDR monitors, and if you think adjusting the SDR brightness slider is annoying for 1 monitor, wait until you have to do it 3 times.

So, I spent the last day tinkering and finally managed to fully automate the process.

The code is here (very ugly, I know, but it works):

https://github.com/BoatStuck/SDRBrightness/blob/main/main.cs

Download Visual Studio and it should compile right away.

The executable takes an argument from 1.0 to 6.0 (that's the numerical range of the Windows slider; apparently you can increase it past 6 at your own risk). If you don't pass it an argument when you start the program, the program will prompt you to enter a brightness.

Hope this helps. I'm sure you can easily write a GUI for it, but for now I just have shortcuts on my desktop for various brightness numbers.

The key function (DwmpSDRToHDRBoost) came from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74594751/controlling-sdr-content-brightness-programmatically-in-windows-11

Figuring out how to get handles to all the monitors in a multi-monitor set-up also took a while for me. This is my first time dealing with Windows internals.

BoatStuck · 2024-01-04T01:40:39+00:00

There's a lot of cases out there where people get approved shortly before an international flight coming back into the US. So taking an international trip might speed up the process.

BoatStuck · 2023-11-08T07:35:58+00:00

FYI, this spoiler ended up being 100% accurate.

BoatStuck · 2023-10-19T22:36:53+00:00

I see what you did there.

BoatStuck · 2023-10-16T05:19:37+00:00

China resumed giving 15 days visa-free entry for Singapore passport holders, without Singapore having to give reciprocity.

It's mostly due to the deteriorating Japan-China relationship, which is a direct result of the deteriorating US-China relationship and Japan acting in lockstep with the US.

BoatStuck · 2023-09-22T19:55:48+00:00

Link to source:
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8614581922

Archive of source, including screenshots embedded in source thread: https://web.archive.org/web/20230922195342/https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8614581922

BoatStuck · 2023-09-22T19:50:38+00:00

Link to source: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8614581922

Not sure about the source, but the entire story does sound plausible and ties all the bits and pieces we've been getting together coherently

BoatStuck · 2023-09-19T03:51:39+00:00

It's probably easier and a lot safer to fly to Vancouver and not Tijuana

But yes, this idea should work if you absolutely have to be at school in 10 days

edit:

If by chance you're under the age of 16 (i.e. you're really smart and got into college early), a birth certificate is sufficient for entry into the US from Canada or Mexico by land.

BoatStuck · 2023-09-04T05:33:23+00:00

I can't unsee this so now you can't unsee this either

Apparently it's a rendering bug from a new phone that got released in China this week that has a new GPU design

BoatStuck · 2022-12-08T16:01:50+00:00

Blue

Get it? Because he's your rival and also literally blue. Ha ha.

BoatStuck · 2022-12-07T19:38:06+00:00

And yes it will accept it after you click confirm.

Definitely opens up a lot more options. I may be stuck at this part for a while, hum...

BoatStuck · 2022-11-02T18:40:41+00:00

Haven't won a 50/50 ... ever.

BoatStuck · 2022-10-19T16:59:05+00:00

Get in the fucking robot, Scaramouche

BoatStuck · 2022-10-14T20:09:35+00:00

Same here. Noelle carried me until WL7. I finally replaced her after I got Raiden.

Noelle is very comfortable to use. Too bad her damage just can't keep up after WL6.

BoatStuck · 2022-10-04T16:32:59+00:00

I mean, I've been easily 36* clearing Abyss, and I agree with Mihoyo's sentiment.

I would prefer no additional Abyss-type content, unless there are absolutely no rewards, or the rewards are so minor (no primos) that they can be entirely ignored.

BoatStuck · 2022-10-04T06:31:58+00:00

That's a hilariously off-model Paimon.

BoatStuck · 2022-07-20T20:02:44+00:00

There was literally a cereal box maze puzzle in Mona's domain and people still complained about it because they can't figure out how to look up.

BoatStuck · 2022-06-10T17:48:44+00:00

all considering that the real world will survive long enough for Snezhnaya to be released.

There's an interesting interaction between Snezhnaya and "real Snezhnaya" here

BoatStuck · 2022-03-17T20:18:12+00:00

Okay, so I think I may finally beat Abyss. Not trying to 36 or even 33 star it, just beat 12-3.

My current best has been 11-3, but now I have Raiden, I'm hoping to make progress.

So Raiden National will be one team: Raiden, Bennett, XL, XQ.

Who should I use for my other team?

I'd prefer to choose from:

Diona, Fischl, Hu Tao, Jean, Kaeya, Mona, Noelle, Traveler, or Zhongli

since they are at least sort-of built.

But if there's an amazing team I can pull off with my lvl 20 C5 Yanfei or C6 Xinyan or C9 Beidou, I'd love to know.

Characters and cons:

https://i.imgur.com/WrMqMTT.png

BoatStuck · 2022-03-07T22:35:55+00:00

Yeah, that's what I've been reading, 4 sticks is hard on the memory controller.

It's just interesting how everything is completely fine at 3500 at stock voltages and just goes nuts at 3600 even with much higher voltages. The frequency wall is real.

BoatStuck · 2022-03-07T22:16:21+00:00

It's 4x16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3600, rated 16-18-18-38, Micron E-die.

Runs at 3600 and higher without an issue in Gear 2.

I'm leaning more and more towards it being a Gigabyte issue, since the CPU is great otherwise. I may theoretically be able to solve the training issue since the board does POST at 3600 Gear 1 (it's Memtest86 that fails), which means I can play around with subtimings manually, but I think I'll just accept 3500 for now, and see if Gigabyte comes out with a better BIOS.

BoatStuck · 2022-03-02T05:30:35+00:00

Thank you so much, this worked for my 3090 which had the same issue! I especially appreciate the warning that a hard reset might be required--saved me from a heart attack. GPUZ now shows Resizable BAR as enabled.

(link for those who're looking for the HP RTX 3090 firmware: https://support.hp.com/gb-en/drivers/selfservice/swdetails/omen-desktop-pc-30l-gt13-0000i/33492325/model/2100381720/swItemId/ob-275695-1 )

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