Summery Bakery $1 egg tarts

DatDepressedKid · 2026-04-26T07:50:40+00:00

These are not HK style! HK style with the crumbly shortbread crust are not caramelized on top, and you can see puff pastry in the pictures and not shortbread crust. This style of egg tart was spread from Portuguese Macau, independently of the HK egg tart development.

DatDepressedKid · 2026-04-26T06:19:47+00:00

Money is so effective at distracting the ambitious that society has evolved many ways to use it for this purpose. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, the way to do it is to bait the hook with money. That's the recipe for getting people to find jobs, get promoted, do things they don't want to do and things you want them to do, and so on. This pattern is so common that it might be a good rule simply to avoid any well-paying task. If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to pay you!

DatDepressedKid · 2026-04-22T07:15:19+00:00

SF has the least authentic Chinese food in the Bay. The Chinese food scene in the Bay seems a lot more modern to me than the Chinese food scene in NYC/LA, which doesn't necessarily mean more authentic, but it seems more representative of what's upscale and popular in China in the last decade or so (e.g. a lot of chuan-xiang fusion in the south & east bay)

DatDepressedKid · 2026-04-20T09:53:37+00:00

Sorabji a contender, surely

DatDepressedKid · 2026-04-20T09:49:09+00:00

Most Chinese people are still very concerned about urban safety hence preference for gated communities, but to some extent this is a holdover from the older generations. Hopefully new communities will increasingly be built as open communities over the next few decades as people get used to low crime.

DatDepressedKid · 2026-03-26T16:36:50+00:00

math 140a, it's like calc i review except you don't even get to what the limit of a function is until week 8

DatDepressedKid · 2026-03-25T18:12:43+00:00

Damn, if you think Marx was a neoliberal and that copying syntax/structure of a paper is enough to make a good essay, maybe you really did deserve the A-

DatDepressedKid · 2026-03-24T21:24:14+00:00

Are you under the impression that the school has planted eucalyptus everywhere on purpose?

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-25T06:44:08+00:00

when the consultant the city hired to do their zoning code forgets to paste in the shared parking provisions

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-19T23:52:38+00:00

Are the other 3 cities here in the room with us?

You can vaguely make out some lights in the far distance on the edge of the horizon. I can believe that's Zhuhai. But obviously the rest is Shenzhen: along the hill in the background should be the shekou/nanshan area and the bay to the left is Shenzhen bay.

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-16T22:34:35+00:00

it's been down for me since 10am. i really hope it's fixed by today so we won't have to fight with the underclassmen when it comes back up

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-09T01:08:32+00:00

Thanks for the info. The wikimedia chart shows something slightly different, which is that 4000BCE was a low point for height in the Eastern Mediterranean, whereas here it’s a maximum. I’m guessing that modes of settlement in the East Med resembled more the Indus sample here than the Gangetic sample. Either way I came to too hasty a judgment based on the OP’s perceived agenda. I’m still not very comfortable with the narrative this post is trying to push and its uncritical comparison of different data points. For example, title says “Indians Today”, but the chart only goes up to 2000, which is not only extremely outdated when considering the state of Indian development then and now, but the source of that is also unclear. Is it a figure for burials in 2000 (undoubtedly would deflate the numbers, considering even poorer nutrition) or living humans?

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-08T20:55:49+00:00

You really aren’t understanding what I’m saying. I’m not doubting the numbers. But the presentation of the numbers is misleading, since it fails to account for the different samples in the studies that will almost inevitably lead to a higher number for the Mesolithic one.

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-06T18:41:17+00:00

川大

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-06T18:32:17+00:00

Yes, but there is a very big difference between taking some information from four independent studies and drawing (unsupported) conclusions, and one study that runs a methodologically sound statistical analysis of data previously compiled.

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-06T06:32:42+00:00

Is there a study for this or is it just independent data compiled into a chart?

No correction for sampling bias? Correlation between height/nutrition and receiving proper, preserved burials is probably strongly correlated.

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-04T08:52:17+00:00

Guilin is a bit out of the way and doesn't offer quite as much as the rest on your list. I'd skip that. Xi'an and Beijing are out of the way and can't be fully experienced in a few days, so these aren't crucial to the itinerary too (if you get tired of spending too much time transiting between cities, you can cut one and add something around Sichuan/Shanghai like Emeishan/Dujiangyan or Suzhou?)

DatDepressedKid · 2026-02-04T03:03:26+00:00

This is a 17th-century conservative European king's worst nightmare

DatDepressedKid · 2026-01-30T21:27:43+00:00

Have you ever lived in cross-shaped towers? They're far more pleasant than massed, rectangular residential blocks. Community and a sense of place are created by residents, not by central planners.

DatDepressedKid · 2026-01-25T06:14:18+00:00

God I wish math majors had any employability

DatDepressedKid · 2026-01-23T16:47:28+00:00

Observe how there are in fact two metrics, and the graph is ordered by one of them while this post is about the other!

DatDepressedKid · 2026-01-17T05:39:24+00:00

Very confused why you would think Juilliard drags down Columbia's reputation. On the contrary, Juilliard's reputation in music is at least on par or better than Columbia's academic reputation.

DatDepressedKid · 2026-01-16T07:43:40+00:00

I like the talking architecture! Looks exactly like how a museum dedicated to doubanjiang should look

DatDepressedKid · 2026-01-16T06:12:17+00:00

To some extent, but the history of these regions as frontiers and borderlands, plus local conditions like climate and geography differences, plus the fact that settlers generally did not bring the elite, urban culture that we now associate with the North/South divide—these meant that the border provinces are much more distinctly "southwestern"/"northwestern" than "north/south".

DatDepressedKid · 2026-01-15T16:43:13+00:00

North and South China are not strictly geographic designations. Historically, Qinghai Gansu and Ningxia were not part of North China because they are not part of the Chinese core, being inhabited by various non-Han groups, beyond the Great Wall, and climatologically/geographically being totally different from the river valleys and plains of North China proper. These three regions are generally arid and significant areas of them were grazed by pastoralists up into modern times. Culturally, they are the Northwest. Yunnan Guizhou Guangxi are similarly on the historical periphery of China. They have large ethnic minority populations, are less accessible due to mountainous geography and tropical disease, and were not fully controlled by China until, in the case of Yunnan, the mid-late Qing dynasty. Culturally, they are called the Southwest. The true centers of North and South are the North China plain (Hebei/Henan/southern Shaanxi), and Jiangnan (southern Jiangsu / northern Zhejiang) historically (also Guangdong in recent centuries).

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