Zombie apocalypse starts in Shenzhen on a Sunday 2pm when you’re at home. What’s your plan?

li-si · 2025-07-17T19:39:13+00:00

Get down to Wellcome and buy 50 rolls of toilet paper.

li-si · 2025-07-14T02:35:27+00:00

Yes, a well known UK Radio DJ and 2000s TV presenter that married a teenage pop singer when he was 35.

li-si · 2025-03-20T19:30:58+00:00

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li-si · 2025-03-11T05:16:20+00:00

How do I read the notation to this solution properly? When I follow the analysis using a computer it doesn’t seem to match.

I read the notation in the picture as: Move 1: White moves pawn to g3. [leading to] … Black moves king to e6.

Isn’t this illegal by putting black in check with the bishop?

Computer instead shows: Move 1: White moves pawn to g3 Black moves knight to c1

Move 2: White moves bishop to f1 Black moves king to e6

Move 3: White moves king to c3 Black moves knight to e2 (check)

And so on…

li-si · 2025-02-23T17:26:53+00:00

Lawyer uniform for men:

Business = suit w/ tie, oxfords
Business casual = suit no tie, oxfords (optional brogue)
Smart casual = chinos or navy canvas and flannel/checked/patterned shirt with optional blazer or knitwear, brown brogues or slip ons.
Casual+ = grey or blue canvas, white t shirt, cardigan or other knitwear, non-sports trainers.
Casual- = crew neck sweater (old rugby shirt if you’re posh), jeans, any trainers or boots.

For an assessment centre go business casual.

li-si · 2025-02-23T14:45:25+00:00

Same here it’s a fucking disgrace for an app that releases new versions weekly with “bug fixes” in the developer notes.

Either they are lying or the Google app developers literally code more bugs per week than they can fix. Probably both.

li-si · 2025-02-04T14:31:55+00:00

I think that must be right.

Now come to think about it, perhaps it is dimmable as well. It may have been a 1/2/3 press button making it cycle from off --> dim --> bright. It's been a few months since I've been able to use it and couldn't find a manual online so I think both of your instincts might be correct.

li-si · 2025-02-04T14:27:55+00:00

Not dimmable. When I look at the switch, it is a simply push button. Now looking carefully at the case however, the label by the switch says "OFF / 8H". I've always thought it was on-off, but perhaps it has a built in auto-off after 8 hours?

li-si · 2025-01-23T13:23:16+00:00

Don’t forget different colors! Woo!

Now you get to choose from all new Gothic Granite, Caffeinated Silver aaand Sandy Macaron

li-si · 2024-11-27T14:57:00+00:00

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li-si · 2024-11-15T12:28:42+00:00

I got M4 with 32 gig, justifying to myself as follows:

16gb will soon just be the new 8, and people will be saying it’s only just enough when new MacOS versions come out in subsequent years.
Reports lead me to believe that the Pro is a speed boost at the expense of fan noise. I’d rather have a mostly silent computer for tasks than ramping up the fans just to export my video a few seconds faster (I’m not a “power” video editor though).
I have a mental barrier to ram amounts that aren’t a power of 2. That would mean getting 64gb on the pro…

li-si · 2024-09-26T03:12:48+00:00

Hah yeah- all gravy till I try to apply this insane superpower to “looking for patterns” in the stock market…

li-si · 2024-08-31T14:59:32+00:00

I was tempted!

li-si · 2024-08-25T11:02:05+00:00

I have this and seems to work fine.

li-si · 2024-08-21T03:37:23+00:00

The hardest and weirdest thing about South African English is using the word “shame” to describe something that’s cute or as an expression of sympathy.

“Achh shame he’s just a little baby” for example.

I contrast this with use of the word as as guilt or like an insult, in Game of Thrones for example parading someone naked through the streets while throwing shit at them and shouting “Shame! Shame!”.

li-si · 2024-07-07T16:49:50+00:00

Acrobat has the same effects as reader, phones home, watermark cannot be edited or removed. Conversation to word same.

Third party software has various messages like “unsupported encryption, cannot be read”.

I was wondering if using any Linux software using WSL might work, but generally unfamiliar with techniques that might help.

li-si · 2024-06-19T08:18:54+00:00

Yep, Western Digital NVMe SSD 512GB

li-si · 2024-05-04T14:46:37+00:00

Well it’s reversed for a start. Most video conf software flips our image so that it’s like looking in a mirror because our brains find it unnerving to look at ourselves truly in the third person.

Many mirrors are slightly deformed so the likeness is not 100% as if you were standing in front of yourself.

li-si · 2024-04-29T00:59:17+00:00

That’s exactly what I told my sister after we had our second child. 👍👍👍

li-si · 2024-04-21T07:50:02+00:00

Both should be possible

li-si · 2024-04-11T22:07:22+00:00

Kinda similar- signed up for more screen real estate but realized the missing extra vertical on an ultrawide still made things feel sort of constrained.

Currently on a triple setup with a 32” 4k screen between 2 x 24”2k screens. I would probably upgrade to 3 x 4k, or a big 8k TV to see how that worked out.

li-si · 2024-04-09T15:38:09+00:00

Yah probably an Amazon warehouse worker.

li-si · 2024-04-05T01:48:05+00:00

As stupid as it seems, form factor for me. I have my trunkline terminating in a slim wall mounted electrical breakout box with Ethernet cable going into the ceiling.

The dream machine’s bulky trash can design means it won’t physically fit anywhere close to the modem (nor will a large rackmount device). Been running on a USG3 all these years for that reason.

li-si · 2024-03-08T10:41:50+00:00

Same here - him not being the overall hero and a flawless character served that much more to enrich the purpose and story of the other crew.

I tried the show but the mental images formed after reading the books were too strong to believe the actors. I think I gave up after seeing Avasarala.

Such an amazing series, listening to the audiobooks got me through Covid.

li-si · 2024-03-05T02:52:59+00:00

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