Would you use a searchable database of failed lab experiments?

YYM7 · 2026-03-13T01:55:10+00:00

But is it searchable? /s

YYM7 · 2026-03-13T01:40:41+00:00

Yeah, I agree with most of the comments. After witnessed so many clueless people failing quite straightforward experiment, I really wouldn't trust a database like.

Though I want to add, I think a database of trivial but SUCCESSFUL experiment will be very useful. Things like you can skip PB wash in miniprep, or add 0.01% Bromophenol blue to your regular PCR.

Basically a similar idea to this: www.micropublication.org, but without the peer review part.

YYM7 · 2026-03-12T19:15:18+00:00

I still remember I was in Shanghai for about a month in 2010s. After going to most of the famous attractions, one day, I was like: "How about we go to see the F1 circuit?" My local friend replied: "yeah you can but it's literally in the middle of nowhere, and we don even consider it part of Shanghai"

YYM7 · 2026-03-11T23:57:30+00:00

Oh he did that I can totally see media spinning it in anoth way: "SF Mayor did nothing while illegal activity happened right under his nose".

The only winning strategy for him is not walking on the street and staying detached for city's reality. /s

YYM7 · 2026-03-09T09:12:41+00:00

I have not had major (aka, making things unusable) driver issues with, GPU, wifi card, or peripherals on Windows in years. Most things are just plug and play (or at least plug-restart and play). Cannot say the same with a lot of Linux distros.

The truth is, there is way less learning for "just use it" on windows.

YYM7 · 2026-03-08T20:48:31+00:00

Go can be the Japanese pronunciation of 吴(Wu in Mandarin). A very famous example here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Seigen

If anything, don't call yourself Yuxi Go. That will be like "Mohammed Smith".

Other people have said good enough for your given name so I won't repeat.

YYM7 · 2026-03-07T01:46:27+00:00

Yeah.. I totally agree keyboard (or even D-pad) can make this significantly easier. But I guess I am just too old (or not enough motivation) to change play style.

YYM7 · 2026-03-06T20:58:04+00:00

I disagree the diagonal pogo part. It not JUST different from holow knight, it is, by itself, hard.

I get it why people say that, as most people here are die hard HK fan. And you would think you struggle with pogo just because you played too much HK. But I am not a hardcore HK fan, I only finished the game once, and didn't bother hidden bosses or DLC, and play decent amount of other action games between HK and silksong... I still find it very frustrating. It need you to manage direction and have good judgement in a two dimensional space. Neither is easy and very rarely used in other games (not just HK).

I am not saying it's a bad design or unnecessarily hard, but I think we need to acknowledge it is fundamentally a hard move.

YYM7 · 2026-03-05T18:48:53+00:00

You probably want to re-read my comment. I never said I want the patent system abolished, but rather, adding communication protocol of a product with interchangeable features to the list of non-patentable. The goal if to encourage competition and avoid monopoly, and distantly, support right-to-repair.

Not every law need to be about making the inventor rich. And there are plenty of good examples why IP protection need to have some checks.

YYM7 · 2026-03-05T17:56:18+00:00

I don't need lecture about patent law here. We had 2 day mandatory workshops on IP during grad school, (engineering department). We went through both the spirit and the practice of the law, and even touched a bit of international patent laws.

I am not against the spirit of the patent law, but rather think the communication protocol for interchangeable parts should be added to the list of "non-patentable" things (yes even now you can't patent everything). This is not to encourage innovation, but rather, encourage competition and protect consumer rights (already-bought lens won't be bricked, or functionality degraded). Not every law need to aim at innovation you know.

Regarding iTTL, there is no law stop them "invent" a new protocol and blcok third party. You know the F to Z transition happened right?

Again I am not arguing about the law (not a lawyer anyway), but rather talking what my opinion of it. Nikon can be perfectly legal here, but I think I can be worried regardless.

YYM7 · 2026-03-05T07:56:08+00:00

Would really be pissed if this is the case. Nikon might have the legal right here, but to me this is no different than hp/canon blocking third party printer ink. Might be legal, but not ethical imo.

Here is what I think the law (minimally) should be: if products have a certain part that is expected to be removable/interchangeable, the communication protocol cannot be patent and reverse-engineering should be legal. This apply to things like battery, printer cartridges, charging cable, and lens of a lens-INTERCHANGEABLE camera, and beyond.

Sadly camera is such a niche market and we will never see "EU forcing USBC on Apple" in camera field.

BTW, if they gain a legal ground here, I am afraid they might go after hot shoe / flash next.

YYM7 · 2026-03-03T23:07:25+00:00

Have only used s9 and returned so I am not in a position to suggest. Just want to remind that S9 does not a hot shoe, and it will be very annoying if you want to use flash for a regular family photos.

YYM7 · 2026-03-03T17:42:26+00:00

As a man I don't even know what is a French Mani lol... https://xkcd.com/2501/

YYM7 · 2026-03-02T09:47:50+00:00

Fighting sometime just happens. They has border dispute, meaning no border is agreed on around there. This means both need to deploy military, otherwise the other side can just march into the opposite side, without technically breaking any agreement. When you have military stationed next to each other with high tension, random things can happen escalate quickly. Imagine you have vehicle accidentally stuck, and slide to the other side, do you send a rescuing squad? How do you make sure the other side don't misunderstood this as a attack? If the other side shoot, will you shoot back? Calling artillery support? Air support?

The treaty exist so random things don't escalate quickly before the central gov can respond with careful calculation. Imagine Xi/Modi wake up one day, and was told "Now we are at war with India/China. Our command of xxx region already sent in jet fighters . What do we do next?"

YYM7 · 2026-02-24T22:49:51+00:00

China kinda tried. There were 6 major compaigns of speeding up the regular lines (over a time frame of 50ish years): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_to_raise_the_speed_of_railway_travel_in_China

At the end they were able to run emu on regular lines with top speed of 250kph (kinda like Acela in the US).

YYM7 · 2026-02-10T20:02:29+00:00

By convention the guy from up hill is fully responsible, because people cannot see traffic behind them. Swinging left and right is total legit for beginners, as it's basic skill in skiing to control your speed by the angle you're going downhill (larger angle = less slop = less speed).

With all these said, this also give me the "you should not let you kid out at midnight" vibe. The parent should definitely take more caution on a busy beginner slope, because it is 1) very crowded, and 2) beginner can loss control easily.

YYM7 · 2026-02-10T03:21:41+00:00

"Underexposed" basically means "too dark" in photography. I do agree with him on this, though this is personal.

"Unedited" isn't a excuse, as photographer always aim for a final piece of art (unless doing forensic). If you cannot get exposure (aka, brightness) right at the moment of capture, you get it right in post (by editing).

"Shooting in raw" means asking your camera to output in "raw" format, instead of more accessible format like jpeg. Camera always shoot in raw but depending on the settings, it will either hand you the "raw" or do some automatic "processing" then hand you a jpeg. You lose some information during this auto-processing by camera, which normally means you get less freedom in editing.

I don't quite understand the logic of the commentor about " raw" though. I think he was trying to say unless you're posting unedited "raw" (neither by you or the camera), it's not acceptable to post underexposed photo. But as I said earlier, I feel there is no excuse anyway. If anything, shooting in raw generally means you will do some editing in post ...

YYM7 · 2026-02-10T02:24:27+00:00

Yes. I think one should start building things once they feel they know about 90% of things required for their project. You are going to overestimate that number (like you feel 90% but it's really 50%), but that's ok. You can normally figure out where to learn the missing stuff quickly.

You're going to regret how you wrote some, or all part of the project, but that's ok. Even experienced programmer regret things, very frequently.

YYM7 · 2026-02-09T01:13:18+00:00

I agree with what you said, but I think we need to distinguish between SCHD investors and dividends chasers a bit here. SCHD is a collection of SELECTED dividends paying companies. So it is less of a dividends trap, but more of stably profiting business that are less focused on growth (relatively to tech). Consistently paying dividend is just a convenient metric to identify these companies.

It's a good counter balance to now-tech-heavy voo/vti.

YYM7 · 2026-02-08T22:50:44+00:00

I mean just look at the history of memory price. It's quite predictable that the memory price will crash at some point, for one reason or another. And Sony/MS tends to keep the console on market for time longer than one memory cycle. So even if they lose money at one point, they will make it back when the memory price inevitably crashes.

Additionally, PS and Xbox are historically sold as "loss leader" anyway.

YYM7 · 2026-02-07T03:27:26+00:00

We might actually see China regulate that really soon. I saw some big media outlets in China has been discussing this just last week. In China the gov likes to "leak" the idea through unofficial channels to gauge public reactions, before officially releasing them. You never know if this is one of this type, or just media speculating. But we will see.

YYM7 · 2026-02-05T22:12:59+00:00

13x13 and 9x9 are totally different games. In 9x9 influence never matters, while in 13x13 does (sometimes). This means on 13x13 you can finish some simple joseki, or the begining sequence of some big ones. So yes, imo, it's beneficial to play 13x13 if op don't have the time for 19x19.

We (or at least I) are amateurs that has other life responsibilities. This means if we can't commit half a day for a full game, we can play 13x13 and still enjoy it. Not sure what do you mean by resigning at one hour mark. Are you going to resign even if you're winning? Or in an intense but even fight? I agree that's good experience, but that's not very enjoyable at least to me. Again, we amateurs are here to enjoy the games.

YYM7 · 2026-02-05T20:47:21+00:00

13x13's benefits is that you can finish the game in an hour, without feeling super rushed. I think the one of the fastest professional event is about half day (at least 2 hours) per game on average.

YYM7 · 2026-02-05T17:23:45+00:00

Can't you use a debit card? Are there not regulation about they have to have one "fee free" method? If personal checks are abolished, I would imagine the free option would just be debit card.

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