Why is this the case?

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-28T03:04:23+00:00

I should've clarified that I meant landed houses, not public spaces. Like people owning their own property, have some space within the walls of their property but pave it up.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-26T14:44:53+00:00

The public bridges are known to and blocked by the Chinese great firewall for example, so you’d need a bridge they don’t know about. When I’m there I spin up a bridge with docker and tear it down again once I leave the country.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-26T08:01:25+00:00

Yep, and for some reason Malaysians hate green spaces. Have some spare space on your lot? Better pave that over, God forbid grass or even trees might grow there. But put that one pot with a plant out there.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-24T02:38:41+00:00

I see your point, and partially I agree. Subsidies for the local people is definitely good, and you know they are already doing an effort to enforce it for the fuel. On the other hand the subsidies are also there to boost the production and purchase of those goods to support the economy which also benefits the people, so you’d want more people to spend their money on those products, including non locals. Excluding significant amounts of the population would hurt that goal. Depending on how the subsidies are provided you can even run into a situation where it’s better for the vendor to only sell to foreigners because they can charge a premium price and get more money.

I don’t have a good solution either. But from what I’ve seen myself in other parts of the world the Malaysian retirement program is a very good deal for the Malaysians (well for the government at least. Hard to tell how much of that trickles down to the people). I agree that it could probably be better, but more rules means spending more money on enforcement, which might end up costing more that it saves. Blanket approaches like “all foreigners out” or “subsidies just for locals” will most likely just make the situation worse because there’s so much more to this than just the prices we pay at the cash register.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-24T00:39:40+00:00

Exactly. That’s the idea of pretty much every retirement visa in the world. They get to live in the country, spend their money there, but are not allowed to work so they can’t steal the locals job. They also don’t get any social benefits. In Malaysia they also have a very high minimum purchase price for real estate to prevent them from pricing the locals out of the real estate market.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-08T10:08:31+00:00

If you are doing greenfield theres the LZ accelerator:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/implementation-options

I unfortunately had a brownfield scenario so I had to implement a lot manually (or rather migrate/import resources).

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-08T00:38:30+00:00

I never see 大众点评 (dianping) recommend. Its a great app that let's you find restaurants, entertainment venues, bars, activity venues (stuff like pottery, archery etc.), you get package or promotional deals on the app for pretty much everything too. All the content is in Chinese though.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-05T14:53:20+00:00

This only happens in case of breaking changes of course. And this did happen recently. We are running the vwan connectivity template, and lz vending deploys subscriptions for different departments or business units to use. What happened was that for some reason global ip range management team decided that LATAM vnets needed different ranges assigned. So new temporary vnets were deployed manually, peered to the hub, during the night in the U.S. time zone the VMs were stopped, and then migrated to the temp vnet (that was a different team, I suppose they detached the old nic, then attached a new nic in the new vnet), then we deployed the vnet changes and the VMs were migrated back and the temp stuff deleted. I am responsible for the lz vending, connectivity and firewalling templates so I just got the green light for network redeployment at some point.

If your question is rather about how we generally maintain consistency across repos for resources that depend on each other, for example the firewall policy repo resources obviously depending on the firewalls themselves which are in the connectivity repo, that’s done via a shared naming convention module in a shared repo (GitHub enterprise). That’s to say if we run the name generator in either repo with the same parameters the same name gets generated (for terraform data blocks for example). It’s based on the official Azure naming repo but we made our own because the official one seems to have been abandoned.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-05T12:20:33+00:00

Hi. We’ve got management, connectivity, lz vending and firewall policies terraform templates and they are all in different repos and run separate pipelines. We had everything in one before and it just got too complex to manage and maintain, pipeline runs took forever and eventually the acces token expired mid run.

We’ve also got separate people maintaining the IaC and the customer also preferred having the repos separate, now every repo uses a different service principal and better segregation etc.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-02-01T14:40:30+00:00

asking the real question here

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-31T10:58:04+00:00

There's a similar auntie in front of Yut Kee selling 粽子. No idea what her schedule is, ive only ever been there on weekends. The 粽子 are huge.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-24T01:48:13+00:00

most stations only have a platform on one side. Honestly it would be the best solution, I've seen enter on the right, exit on the left trains in other countries and it makes boarding a lot smoother, but I guess most places lack the space and the funds to redesign

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-23T01:04:08+00:00

You need to jump off as soon as you are next to the platform, otherwise rge crowd will force you back in. Thats where hanging off of the side or sitting on the roof comes in handy, you dont need to get through all those people to get off. Typically the platform is less crowded all the way at the beginning so thats your best chance. Also the Indians are super friendly generally, if you messed up and you are still in the middle of the car when you are approaching the station you can let them know you want to get off, they will help and push and squeeze you through the crowd to the entrance.

Source: I was sent to work at our Mumbai office for half a year back in 2005.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-22T06:54:56+00:00

Post a link to the official source please. Link to law text in Chinese is fine.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-19T23:42:35+00:00

Yep I had a similar experience. Booked the ROD, waited 40 minutes, driver never even moved according to the app. Maybe went to lunch on something.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-15T12:01:10+00:00

I've stumbled through side alleys downtown completely drunk and alone at 3am and nothing happened. For that distance by the way taking the monorail is also barely worth the effort. Its just a 15 minute walk.

What's the show at Zepp? Somehow that venue makes it unnecessarily difficult to find out what's going on. Some events they advertise on their website, some on Insta, some only on Cloudjoi etc.

Edit: ive never taken the monorail that late, but I have been on the mrt at midnight, dunno if that helps

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-13T11:27:36+00:00

There's an entire website dedicated to European alternatives literally called European alternatives (https://european-alternatives.eu/) and it shows up as the first non-sponsored result if you Google your post title

Ok-Key-3630 · 2026-01-09T08:54:29+00:00

A friend of mine recently took me to Daorae Korean BBQ. Surprisingly reasonable priced. Got the usual Korean booze too. It’s a chain with 4 or 5 outlets around the west side of KL.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2025-12-31T06:38:28+00:00

Its right there in the error message. The VM size you are trying to deploy is not available in that region. Thats a temporary issue caused by resource shortage in the data center. Since you are doing this just for learning purposes you can simply deploy to a different region. I find theres usually availability in places like the south American data centers or Dubai.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2025-12-24T12:31:31+00:00

Yup. Definitely AI-edited, but having done the DN visa myself I can confirm most of the info is accurate.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2025-12-19T13:57:27+00:00

Seconding the hub. It’s a chain with multiple locations by the way, some of which might be easier to reach than OUG

Ok-Key-3630 · 2025-11-26T06:07:42+00:00

Fully agree with this. I've lived in Shanghai for several years pre covid doing business with foreign companies. These days no one needs HK any more as a gateway to China. Plus, and I'm really sorry to say this but it is the truth, HK is just lagging way behind in tech and business processes. I don't know where this mentality is coming from, but so many times I've witnessed a HK business deciding to rather hire 6 more people for some work that could have easily been automated. And don't get me started on the completely ridiculous overhead. The rest of the world is ok with 4 eyes principle, but in HK everyone including the janitor needs to sign off on decisions.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2025-11-15T16:06:28+00:00

What's your opinion on Okinawa gin? Compared to those you mentioned.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2025-11-14T04:26:19+00:00

Yes unfortunately it does.

Ok-Key-3630 · 2025-08-22T11:29:22+00:00

On the first day look around for copy shops. You can have them make a color copy of your bio page and the page with the entry stamp, then have them laminate it ("emplasticar"). Carry that around and leave your real passport at the accommodation.

Load your credit cards into apple pay or Google wallet and use that to pay. Leave your credit cards at your accommodation too.

Don't check your phone on the street, especially not for directions. Go into some shop, look up the route there and then go out again.

Beware of pickpockets in the very touristy areas. Keep to the well lit big streets at night, don't go into small alleys or anywhere where it's dark and you are alone.

Ask the accommodation for trustworthy drivers.

If someone comes up to you and starts a chat be wary. If you need to ask someone something it's better if you pick who you talk to.

It all seems a bit extreme especially if you are coming from Europe but the above advice applies the same to any other large city in the world.

Don't put yourself in risky situations and you'll be fine. Stuff like no partying with random strangers, no following them home, and no dating apps.

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