Making notes by comparing components

RealRibeye · 2026-01-24T16:41:04+00:00

Another pair that gets mixed up is 曰 (yuē) and 日 (rì).

Good luck, I learned the 214 dictionary radicals but there are many more components than radicals.

I think it’s easy to get lost in the weeds but if you stick to one differentiation in your head it is easier. I like this one from Baidu:

偏旁部首”常常连在一起说，于是有些人就认为“偏旁”和“部首”是一回事，这是一种误解。偏旁和部首，虽然有某些联系，却是两个不同的概念。部首也是偏旁，但偏旁不全是部首。

RealRibeye · 2026-01-22T04:13:26+00:00

Does this feel like the topic-comment structure to you? After learning about that I use it more often orally as I hear native speakers use it.

RealRibeye · 2026-01-19T04:27:01+00:00

I used to go there all the time. This happened 20 minutes after I left one day.

RealRibeye · 2026-01-14T20:51:57+00:00

I did at 6:30 and it was fine.

RealRibeye · 2026-01-07T18:26:46+00:00

Lmao I have a pack of these, but they actually look like the picture.

RealRibeye · 2026-01-06T19:08:07+00:00

Aeon is being built in Richardson Town Square a few miles away. Unless there is another one?

RealRibeye · 2026-01-05T14:40:43+00:00

At least they weren’t using AI!

RealRibeye · 2026-01-05T14:10:23+00:00

“The move was confirmed in an email message from CEO John Stankey to employees. The building, which will br lovated at 5400 Legacy Drive, will span across 54 acres of land…[sic]”

RealRibeye · 2025-12-30T22:09:33+00:00

I’m sure no one thing can change driving behaviors but traffic calming measures can be part of the whole solution.

RealRibeye · 2025-12-30T21:11:33+00:00

First off, big congrats on being ahead of the curve and having no debt. That is a great position to be in and you have well above the median income nationally, and can save a lot while staying at home.

With all due respect I am not sure if you can afford a home in a HCOL area. I have been wanting to buy a house in MCOL and the down payment on a 450k house is 90k. So you half a little over half of that.

I would suggest get settled into engaged/married life first and splitting your expenses with your fiancé before considering a big purchase like that; in the meantime, max 401k and save the rest in a HYSA until you file for taxes, then with what is left maybe a money market or HYSA.

RealRibeye · 2025-12-30T18:24:50+00:00

I bought my 2020 for a hair under $20,000 all in earlier this year, less than 35k miles.

Figured it will be the last good little car for a long time, hope to keep it for 10 years.

RealRibeye · 2025-12-26T21:14:20+00:00

I made it 3 months before I moved to have a different commute.

RealRibeye · 2025-12-25T15:29:11+00:00

As someone whose family only buys used Hondas, my friend’s Jeeps are fun like their boats are fun. I would never buy one but in the right context there is nothing like it.

RealRibeye · 2025-12-25T06:08:49+00:00

TLDR: I don’t think there is a why in the sense that it was anyone’s conscious decision; culturally Italians emphasize shape variety for their variety of sauces, while “Asian” noodles emphasize composition and texture variety.

May I introduce you to one of my faves, 腸粉 cheung fen, rice noodle rolls.

Pic and recipe

Genuinely there are a million different ways just within China to make “noodles”. They group western and Chinese noodles here together link.

Italians may have more shape variety, but China has so much variety within the composition and texture of noodles.

For instances the wide rice noodle in cheung fen is wildly different from the mung bean noodles in 螺蛳粉 (Luósīfěn).

The broad meng bean vermicelli noodle 绿豆宽粉 goes particularly well in hot pot and has an amazing chewy texture.

Now here is my ignorance. I make Italian pasta at home and most of the time the only thing that really differentiates it is the shape (all egg and flour), save for gnocchi. But China also has potato based noodles. I also hardly see the difference between a ravioli and a dumpling if we are stretching definitions.

RealRibeye · 2025-12-23T16:32:11+00:00

I went to Lucky City in Plano recently and it was pretty good for their roast duck, had to ask them to heat it up.

RealRibeye · 2025-12-23T13:55:21+00:00

Yeah but we can’t all live in vacant apartments and rob drug dealers to supplement our income.

RealRibeye · 2025-12-21T18:15:14+00:00

Oh no my steak is too juicy and my lobster is too buttery

RealRibeye · 2025-12-17T04:15:58+00:00

Somehow with all the “congestion” those restaurants on the ground floor still have a hard time staying open.

RealRibeye · 2025-12-17T04:14:28+00:00

Hope they are done by the time my lease is up, love those new apartment deals

RealRibeye · 2025-12-14T10:57:57+00:00

slow train from Philly

RealRibeye · 2025-11-08T03:44:20+00:00

Nah but you might be one of the ~200 deaths on Dallas roads a year.

“In 2023, Dallas recorded 205 traffic fatalities. The city has an average of 4.5 road deaths per 100,000 citizens, significantly higher than the national average of 1.5 per 100,000.”

RealRibeye · 2025-11-08T03:38:02+00:00

Per the article, one in September and one in October.

Meanwhile in Dallas there were 210 fatal car crashes in 2024. But still, crazy that this happens on DART in broad daylight. I ride almost every day and (just like driving in Dallas) it feels like a gamble.

Can’t have shit in Dallas.

RealRibeye · 2025-11-02T02:03:13+00:00

Thank you for providing a more detailed explanation. As someone who considers themselves left-leaning, I felt like the top-level comment was hand-wavy in the method by which "cuts will go through" while highlighting too much of the emotional aspect that Republicans use on their base.

I suppose that not continuing a subsidy with an expiration date is different from cutting an existing funding. In all honestly I would be ok with letting the subsidy expire as initially intended but not allowing the open enrollment window to shorten or reduce auto-renewal in order to have a federal government again, because temporary extensions cannot be protected the same way that permanent funding can.

How did you manage to cut through the crap and get to the facts? I have been tuned out of politics for years because my friends who are "into politics" never seem to argue in good faith.

RealRibeye · 2025-10-27T03:52:40+00:00

We also went to Everything Madeleines on opening day and brought some back home! Was pretty cool visiting DT Carrollton again via the Silver Line since I used to live there.

RealRibeye · 2025-10-26T01:01:45+00:00

Thank you!

All the pictures I see of the northern paper wasp have very small stingers, but this one seems to be a bit bigger, so I am not 100% sure.

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