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btw it's tax free to invest in china stock market.

retail investors of china are so fucking maniac in startups with negative PE but making GPU, automotive chips, humanoid robots, commercial aerospace/astronomy, controlled nuclear fusion etc., that you never ever imagine could've raised such amount of capital.

there's no resistance in this trend.

welcome to the future.

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风一直都在。低调定投攒葱就行😉

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You know what would be neat? Going back and reading some of George RR Martin's pre-Game of Thrones books.

Anyway, I finished the sci fi novel Windhaven during lunch today, so here's a review.

Martin co-wrote Windhaven with Lisa Tuttle in the 1970s. It was a series of three novellas, which where combined into a completed novel in 1981.

It's a story about a woman, Maris, who is a flyer. The gravity on this world is lower, and the atmosphere thicker, and the world consists of islands separated by dangerous seas. This combo allows people to fly with specialized wings, and it's the best way to send messages, although there are limited numbers of wings (without the tech to make any more) and so flyers are in a special caste.

The initial story follows Maris as she tries to change some of the caste dynamics. Specifically, wings are passed down through bloodlines regardless of skill or desire, whereas some argue that those with greater skill and desire should get the wings instead (especially because, whenever flyer crashes at sea, the wings are lost forever, and so bad flyer skill affects the whole world over time). Maris, as one might imagine, is highly skilled but lacks the bloodline, hence the problem.

Without spoilers, the book then jumps forward in time, and looks at various ethical dilemmas. Sometimes changing one aspect of society for the better, introduces new problems people didn't expect. And then solving those problems can create other problems, and so forth. It's a really interesting set of socioeconomic dynamics to explore.

There's no combat or on-page violence in the book (very little off-page as well), and the rating for the book is middling (basically anyone expecting Martin's Grimdark Game of Thrones type of stuff will be disappointed). But I think it was a very unique and quality novel that stands out vs many others I've read. It's more like, political intrigue across this island world, and the evolution of various personal relationships.

My criticisms of the book are mainly around dialogue. Martin and Tuttle were early in their careers when this was written, and it's not as well written as later stuff. Characters, despite holding different positions on a given topic, generally all speak with the same matter-of-fact voice to each other. Higher-caliber writing tends to make character voice jump out of the page more.

In contrast, a book like The Lies of Locke Lamora is pretty far on the other end of the spectrum, with character voice that just punches you in the face from the start. Most books are somewhere in the middle of the spectrum, and I felt this was too far in the robotic/sameness end of it.

The reason I found it is because Bookborn, a reviewer on YouTube, decided to read through Martin's entire backlog and said this was her favorite one, and arguably in her top five books of all time.

While I wouldn't rank it like that personally, I definitely found it interesting, especially the second two thirds, and was curious to see the evolution of Martin's work over his career. There was also one particular sad thing in it that (the Ballad of Aron and Jeni) that made me tear up for a moment, and I was thinking about it for a while afterward.

maybe it's a off topic- can you speak of reading fictions vs non fictions? i heard a theory that a really deep profound presentation of an idea is via fictions, partially because of the nuances requires so high level of literature art that a non fiction can barely handle.

next step of human civilization is to make air controllable by governments.

a country can shutdown their air circulation with others in urgency.

Yes they can even shut down the whole fucking internet.

#yes

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gm. the world is still running without a sign of apocalypse, worth the peace of mind.

not on TestFlight and there's no option of sending crash report.

it's just like this-

open - doing nothing or anything - 15s later- crashes

that's the neat part, and it'll be a mind blowing truth-

china is neither capitalism nor capitalism, it already ditched the old school notion of -ism in the political structure and social governing. it's complicated to explain what it is exactly, but not very explainable in the context of capitalism vs communism or democracy vs autocracy, i hope people can see and feel it for themselves.

我第一个Pi的节点可能因为USB非ssd供电不稳导致直接死了,ssd也读不出来。所以这次升级两个地方我特别在意:UPS供电,ssd raid

maintaining a Node or a home media server with Raspberry Pi’s is really risky and pain in the ass, you have to worry about the sudden dead of the SSD, sudden offline of the machines, and a sudo apt upgrade will break some dependencies of even several containers. and more importantly you don’t have much better options to backup solutions not mentioning RAID settings on disks etc.

Think I’m finally going to try something with a x86 more powerful CPU, powered with UPS, multi drives with RAID and full disk backup management.

—For Node: Probably UGREEN DXP2800 with 2 HDD slots, for 2TB each as RAID mirror setting, 2 M.2 slots for OS redundancy and Intel N100 CPU with UPS power supply. OS I’m gonna try Start9 instead of currently used Umbrel, not ready for discrete Linux system yet because I’m too retarded and Start9 seems to be better at system level backing up.

—For NAS: DXP4800 with 4 HDD slots, 8TB HDDs are within affordability, that comes to easily 36 TB of storing space. I’ll go with TrueNAS Scale and every upper apps from Docker Containers like my RPi servers is doing on OpenMideaVault.

This is not an educational note, just a summary of my latest research, I’ll start doing it anyway.

Some more considerations taken into at the same time:

— Noise generated at my living room. It’s near bedroom I doubt whether wife will allow that since a RPi4 + RPi5 with all SSDs are already reaching a complaint level.

— CPU. Should I reserve some stronger computing power for locally deployed LLM, make it useful for home picture sorting like Google Photos.

— Access outside of home LAN. The home NAS will be a not ignorable investment, if I’m gonna make the best of it, it’s better for the whole family, and the risk and convenience of family member access, I doubt it so far, but let’s see.

Cost estimation:

- UGREEN DXP2800 = 2,000 CN¥ (290 US$)

- UGREEN DXP4800 16GB = 3,000 CNY (430US$)

- UGREEN UPS *2 = 720 CNY (102 US$)

- WD Red Plus NAS HDD 8TB *4 =8800 CNY (1260 US$)

- 2TB SSD *2 = 450 US$

- 1TB SSD, CAT7 Ethernet cables, and random stuff = 100US$

summed up = 1,200 US$

the biggest problem with modern music is that it keeps playing on the player forever on and on and it never fucking stops.

that's why I like playing a CD at home since a while ago

Merry Christmas

what do you mean by gm?

嗯嗯 30.0 我也先看看。等这波drama过去了再说

i love Lex Friedman, this guy is able to have a deep conversation of everyone

the fact that Saylor/Strategy is storing their bitcoin treasuries on Coinbase instead of hardware wallets is still blowing my mind

I'm not a programmer but i was shocked when DHH gave some examples of Ruby on Lex Friedman podcast

I'm forcing myself to open Damus instead of Primal recently. Only reason is that I can zap from my own node on Damus. But honestly Damus is not as good in UX with Primal.

looks like we're gonna fight for 3 generations over best consensus before bitcoin reaches everyone's daily life

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