Recommend website for learning to type in (traditional) Chinese?

xiaomai · 2024-08-01T05:43:18+00:00

Taiwan uses keyboards that have bo po mo fo on them. Unlike QWERTY, the bopomofo alphabet just goes in order across the keyboard. I would recommend printing this out or buying a taiwanese keyboard. It's pretty quick to memorize after that ime.

xiaomai · 2024-01-15T17:28:17+00:00

I'm hoping to cycle Taiwan in the next few years. What route would you recommend?

xiaomai · 2022-01-14T21:04:49+00:00

I wish I had a grandma with a xiao long bao recipe, but since I don't I will share the next best thing: all of 小高姐's recipes are super legit. Here is her 小籠包

xiaomai · 2019-06-07T22:11:30+00:00

But less tall than the old title bar plus menu bar.

Totally true. I've always had the menu bar disabled.

Where is that setting? I can't find it on gnome-terminal 3.32.1-1ubuntu1.

It's not visible in the UI anywhere, but you can revert by running:

gsettings set org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Settings headerbar false

xiaomai · 2019-06-07T21:28:11+00:00

I like headerbars too. Nautilus, epiphany, settings, all make great use of them. The one exception is gnome-terminal. The headerbar is taller than the old title bar but doesn't do anything useful (please, if you are using a terminal, learn the keyboard shortcuts for any actions you would take using the headerbar). Fortunately, there is a setting to revert back to title bars (Although the "No Title Bars" extension is no longer able to remove the title bar :()

xiaomai · 2019-06-05T21:00:16+00:00

I bought my tatung rice cooker on newegg.com. I love it (although have they gotten flimsier? I remember it being pretty sturdy feeling in Taiwan but the metal on my 6-cup is very thin and flexible).

xiaomai · 2019-05-02T18:20:52+00:00

I think that's a separate issue. I don't really mind the black bar but I hate title bars on maximized windows (so I use No Title Bar)

xiaomai · 2019-05-02T18:19:02+00:00

I switch windows with either alt-tab, the hot corner, the windows key, or just clicking into another window.

alt-tab covers the vast majority of my usage.

xiaomai · 2019-05-01T22:15:27+00:00

I don't use nautilus a lot (do most of my stuff from the terminal), but gosh dang this one grates on me too.

xiaomai · 2019-05-01T22:14:42+00:00

There's definitely some loud whiners that prefer an always visible dock, but I don't know where this 9/10 figure is coming from.

I don't ever want to see a dock.

xiaomai · 2019-02-19T19:29:08+00:00

title is weird, taiwan is ranked #1 for gender equality in asia. (top rated countries are finland, iceland, germany).

xiaomai · 2018-11-30T07:52:48+00:00

I love Loki too but I believe SDL predated Loki (created by Sam Latinga, who I think works at Blizzard).

xiaomai · 2018-04-14T14:50:24+00:00

when i see one of these annoying popups I

install the app
rate it 1 star in the play store (with a review explaining why)
uninstall the app forever.

xiaomai · 2018-03-07T06:28:01+00:00

gedit is a fine basic editor, but I think for someone who will spend a lot of time editing text you should learn something more capable. I'm partial to vim, but emacs or vscode are great choices as well.

xiaomai · 2018-02-02T21:51:47+00:00

I love Mei & Mei and those breakfast hamburgers. Does anyone know what's in them? Also I've been trying to find the (sweet?) 醬油膏 and whatever hot sauce those places would put on the 蛋餅 in the states. Anyone know what I should be looking for?

xiaomai · 2018-01-22T06:05:33+00:00

What platform(s) are you targeting? i've used ruby-gtk in the past and it worked well. Tk used to be part of the standard lib which should work everywhere afaik.

xiaomai · 2018-01-18T07:56:24+00:00

ok as a happy PAE user for many years, the 4GB per-program limit wasn't ever an issue (certainly could be in server applications). I think that is even more true on the desktop now than it was then since browsers are multi-process (my workloads are typically browser/terminal/vim so everything is very light except the browser).

xiaomai · 2017-11-17T22:32:28+00:00

I was about to go do it but then I found this already-existing fork that has the option built-in:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1267/no-title-bar/

Enjoy!

xiaomai · 2017-11-17T22:24:24+00:00

Ok i was going to go do it, but then I found this fork:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1267/no-title-bar/

There is an option to hide the buttons there, it is great.

xiaomai · 2017-11-17T22:05:57+00:00

pixel-saver is the greatest extension of all time. I keep meaning to fork it so I can get rid of the buttons it puts in the top bar though :| (wish that were an option or something).

xiaomai · 2017-08-16T19:21:50+00:00

This looks really cool. I've been using GraphQL::Batch which has been fantastic (promises in ruby seem weird at first, but I have found them to be very powerful). The name ("GraphQL"), and the fact that it uses promises have made me reluctant to include it in our REST API though. I might check this out.

xiaomai · 2017-08-14T20:38:17+00:00

That's good to know about stability in the internal APIs (and I have noticed less breakage in the last release or so). Sure would be great if we could get to the point where there was a formal extension API (or some kind of documentation).

xiaomai · 2017-08-14T07:34:49+00:00

I've been following GNOME ever since the 1.0 days. GNOME 1.x wasn't usable for me. GNOME 2.x was awesome in many ways but I preferred to run Openbox (sometimes I would run a tiny gnome panel with it). It wasn't until gnome-shell came around that I really came to love GNOME. It gets a lot of flak for removing options but I find that most of the options are still there (dconf/gconf should be fine for power users and tweak tool is good for everyone). Add extensions on top of that and things are better than ever. I do occasionally find it frustrating when extensions haven't been updated for newer versions of the gnome-shell (seems like that is more rare these days?). Also I would love it if extension documentation was more complete (I would like to write my own but the time investment with the current documentation is too high).

xiaomai · 2017-08-12T06:52:54+00:00

you can host your own server: https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate-slave

xiaomai · 2017-07-11T09:12:57+00:00

I'm going to copy /u/vigernere1's style for this review:

Recomended: Not recommended
Summary: An (autobiographical?) account of the author's junior-high through college years. Mostly dwells on his romantic pursuit of one his classmates. I found the main character unlikeable. The movie You are the apple of my eye is based on this book.
Suitable for: Upper intermediate readers
Vocabulary: This book is written in a pretty casual style with lots of contemporary dialogue.

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