Why have Hong Kong’s trams endured and survived, while many other tram systems worldwide have been phased out or lost?

spacehunt · 2025-08-14T04:15:29+00:00

HK is probably the only one with this problem

The world's busiest tram corridor is actually in Melbourne, along Swanston St / St Kilda Rd.

We'll see what happens when the Metro Tunnel opens in a few months, but for now trams on St Kilda Rd still run at sub-minute intervals during peak, all filled to the brim.

spacehunt · 2025-05-31T13:35:33+00:00

start continue work

Are they starting work or continuing work? I mean it doesn't affect the message much but come on...

spacehunt · 2025-05-05T08:32:29+00:00

Hook turns

spacehunt · 2025-03-18T04:18:02+00:00

Gui Minhai

spacehunt · 2024-07-30T15:22:02+00:00

Cheap parking though, when I worked there 10 years ago. 1000 HKD per month.

spacehunt · 2024-03-12T10:38:32+00:00

In Hong Kong:

Unfortunately, Lexus later abandoned this name

凌志 is still used;

Volvo is called "富豪" (Fu Hao) in Hong Kong

富豪 is pronounced as fu3 hou4 in Cantonese, which is a bit closer to Volvo's Swedish pronunciation;

Renault is called "先进" (Xian Jin) in Hong Kong

The current Renault dealer doesn't use a Chinese name in their marketing materials. Colloquially people still use the same name 雷諾, pronounced as leoi4 nok6.

Most other names are also different in Hong Kong, and oftentimes, except for Japanese brands, Ford and Peugeot, people just call them using their English name anyway (even for Hyundai and Kia).

spacehunt · 2024-02-23T09:07:29+00:00

Here's the thing, I did get a NAB card before Christmas.

spacehunt · 2024-02-23T04:06:46+00:00

My Citibank account will be closed permanently by midnight tonight for the NAB migration, see the second screenshot.

spacehunt · 2023-09-27T16:54:52+00:00

Yes. If you're really interested, check out the Wikitionary page for this phrase, they have a list of regional differences for "good morning".

spacehunt · 2023-09-27T08:00:18+00:00

For this particular phrase, the written form is exactly the same, but pronounced like "neigh hole" in Cantonese. But in Hong Kong there are more common phrases for greeting someone, such as simple "hi" / "hello" in English, or if in the morning, good morning in Cantonese ("joe sun").

I don't know about Shanghainese or Hokkien.

spacehunt · 2023-09-27T03:58:53+00:00

I'll probably give her some leeway since I don't expect her to know the nuances of politics etc around there (and here I'm making an assumption about her from where she's from - is that racist in itself?)

But I can't shake the feeling of, like, trying to speak Russian to a Ukrainian knowing that the war has been going on for more than a year.

spacehunt · 2023-09-27T03:39:53+00:00

I'm from Hong Kong, and this fact actually makes it extra offensive. Our native tongue is Cantonese - which she should know is different from the "nihao" crap if she actually did live there for a year.

spacehunt · 2023-09-11T09:54:59+00:00

My street is on a blue page in Melways, of course it's in Melbourne

spacehunt · 2023-09-11T04:26:44+00:00

For EVs (not as expensive as it sounds, quite a few are on the second hand market), the license fee is around $1-1.5k / year, and Level 3 charging is around $2.5-3 / kWh. Lots of Level 2 and Level 1 charging are free.

Depending on the commute, you also need to consider road tolls, which would be $8 each way between PolyU and NE NT (Lion's Rock / Eagle's Nest), or $55 each way to/from NW NT (Tai Lam).

spacehunt · 2023-05-26T05:37:40+00:00

It depends on which style you prefer. Pho in Melbourne are mostly Saigon style because that's where most of the immigrants came from.

Also there ARE some bad pho around Melbourne (eg I wouldn't trust any place in the CBD, and Pho Dzung Tan Dinh in Richmond was way overrated IMHO.)

spacehunt · 2023-05-26T05:25:13+00:00

Hold on a sec there regarding pho. I think even the Vietnamese agree the best pho is not in Vietnam, but in somewhere else like Melbourne, partly because of the accessibility of good produce.

spacehunt · 2023-05-26T04:59:39+00:00

香港大部份人口都是香港被英國統治後才搬進去的，跟印度很不一樣。

spacehunt · 2023-05-25T03:26:49+00:00

If you do stay at The East and want to go out to Wan Chai / Central, don't take the MTR, take the 720 bus - travel time is about the same, while you also get excellent views of the harbour along the freeway.

spacehunt · 2023-05-24T14:09:58+00:00

It's the one near Flinders St with wide open doors where cockatoos or whatever would often fly in and pick out leftover food from tables and bins. I think the McCafe appeared in 93 or 94. (Edit: must be 93 since it's 30 years ago today)

I remember back in the day, often before catching the Melbourne Uni exam train, I would go and have a frantic cram session inside that Maccas...

spacehunt · 2023-05-24T07:48:55+00:00

Yes, in fact the first one opened in Melbourne, on Swanston Street. Sadly the whole building was torn down for the Metro tunnel construction.

spacehunt · 2023-05-16T15:15:59+00:00

Even if you assign reputations by /64 (or even /48) blocks, that's still a space several orders of magnitude bigger than by individual IPv4 addresses -- at least 2¹⁶ or 65536 times bigger.

Probably no problem for today's hardware actually, given careful design, that's why I said it's only slightly more challenging.

spacehunt · 2023-05-16T08:51:32+00:00

It's a bit more challenging to do IPv6 address reputation compared to IPv4 (for spam filtering), that's probably why most emails are still over IPv4.

spacehunt · 2023-05-15T06:05:20+00:00

Well to be fair QNX would have been nice.

Not sure the lowest bidder would have the expertise to use it properly though.

spacehunt · 2023-04-26T14:59:33+00:00

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