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Re:

Kai Carver — Wed, 21 May 2025 07:07:28 -0000

congrats on switching to the new site.

I tried a bunch some time (years?) ago and I couldn't resolve login issues.

So I'm regretfully staying with the "once bitten twice shy" option... until I find a better option.

What you say about "no longer saves my daily entry" is worrisome... though I have long had frequent problems with the site, sometimes forcing me to use Google Docs or iOS Notes or Emacs as a temporary backup.

And as for "feels like leaving an old friend ð±ð¥ºðð" I feel your pain. And ... messing up "special" characters is nothing new for me on 750words...

OK I'll stop complaining about this very nice site that I have been using for over 5 years :)

Re: Pronouncing Things with Amazon’s Polly

Kai Carver — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 16:16:47 -0000

Thank you. I have been wanting something like this for so long. I wish Wikipedia would incorporate it.

Re: Announcing Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0!

Kai Carver — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 04:10:57 -0000

Looking for a link to Tanmai’s excellent yesterday presentation of Hasura 2.0...

Re: Handling Authentication in Express.js

Kai Carver — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:17:32 -0000

nice tutorial so far, thank you!

small bug: should be "collected through a register.hbs page" (not "registration.hbs")

Re: Royal Kludge RK61 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard Review

Kai Carver — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:52:39 -0000

> the DELETE and question mark key also require a function key combination to work

The question mark key doesn’t require a function key if you are in the right mode.
Press Function Shift to switch modes.

I love this keyboard!

Re: The Good Patrons of 750 Words

Kai Carver — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 07:29:58 -0000

Wow I haven't tried writing my 750 words by dictating yet. That's what I might naturally try to do on my phone. I wonder if I could do better than my current 40 wpm by dictating. It might also be a bit more meditative, or differently so, and I'd certainly be less tempted to do editing while I wrote.
Re: mobile interface, I did type up one 750-word entry on the iPad one day, using the virtual keyboard. It didn't slow me down particularly (I'm a lousy typist on any platform), but I did find the interface a little screwy -- I often couldn't see the end of the current paragraph I was writing to, for some reason.

Re: Advanced Tricks With The DuckDuckGo Search Engine

Kai Carver — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:58:37 -0000

Thanks for this useful article. I am more and more enjoying Brave with DDG as default search, with the !g crutch. Was looking for more tips.

Re: How to write your own projection for Globus?

Kai Carver — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:00:21 -0000

Thanks! I think it's a slightly different problem. I posted a bit of a workaround on the GitHub issue, hope it helps.

Re: Madam Secretary Season 4 Episode 15 Review: The Unnamed

Kai Carver — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:55:38 -0000

A little odd choosing actor Bhavesh Patel, of West Indian descent, to play the president of Myanmar, whose population mostly look much more East Asian than Indian. Indeed, the only people from Myanmar who might look a bit more like Patel are... the Rohingya.
Madam Secretary made the opposite kind of miscasting in episode 1 of season 4 when they cast Chinese-American actor Tzi Ma as president of East Timor, when that country’s Chinese population is only a tiny, mostly departed minority.

Re: How to write your own projection for Globus?

Kai Carver — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:39:40 -0000

Very nice, thank you, I tested the web version and it works great. One more small request: I tested on the iPad using Google Chrome, and the image generated fine, but I couldn’t find a way to save it. Usually I can hold down the image, and save it, or open it in another tab. But in this case I couldn’t (see screenshot of page where I see the image but can’t save it). Maybe you could just add a link to the generated image so I could save it or share it easily on an iPad. Anyway, this is awesome, hope to play with it more later. Starred on Github!
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: Force YouTube videos to play full-screen in Safari on iPad

Kai Carver — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:03:56 -0000

Thank you!! YouTube’s recent interface change had me despairing of getting full screen, skip buttons, and picture in picture, which are all really nice on the iPad, among other things for multitasking. Works on Google Chrome browser too. I think YouTube would like to prevent people from using this option because it prevents them from showing ads with the current system.

Re: How Smoove Hybrid Smart Bikes Are Taking Over Paris

Kai Carver — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:28:16 -0000

So far Smoove in Paris has been a complete disaster. OK not complete, I happily used their bikes a few times. And failed to be able to use them many more times. It's currently unusable for me and many other people. It doesn't just have one problem, it has many. Crazy late to install, the few stations that are working are often permanently full for some reason, the software is buggy on the web site, in the app, in the stations, and on the cr*ppy little onboard computer on the bike, etc. It's just terrible. Maybe with time they can make it better... Not sure. Blame is to be shared with the city, which signed off on a completely different next generation system with no overlap. Shared bicycle systems remind me a lot of software systems, and have the same issues, like second system syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
This article reads like an ad or something written by a bot. Clueless.
Here's an article about this massive fail from a month ago, it's still as bad now.
https://www.reuters.com/art...
Many more negative articles in the French press
https://www.lopinion.fr/edi...

Re: Fixing a headphone jack - Taipei Hackerspace

Kai Carver — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 09:42:40 -0000

Excellent instructions. What do you think of adding shrink wrap housing to secure the wires?

Re: Tone Pair Drills: The Single Best Method for Learning Chinese Tones

Kai Carver — Fri, 26 May 2017 20:51:34 -0000

is there a link for the exercise book based on the tone pair drills?

Re: Free Speech, Not Hate Speech | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Kai Carver — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:40:20 -0000

As I recall Derek Book proudly went on about "diversity" to our incoming freshman class. Given that we would "learn more from our fellow students than from our professors", this was presented as a rare and precious gift. It vaguely sounded like bs to me at the time, a cop-out. Little did I know that it would become the foundation of the mountain of bs that passes for enlightened civil society now. Sad!

Re: Free Speech, Not Hate Speech | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Kai Carver — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:56:00 -0000

Perhaps your readers would enjoy reading this infamous article co-authored by Yiannopoulos so they can make up their own mind. It describes some of the political and intellectual topics he is interested in discussing. Your refusal to allow these ideas an unmediated forum is, I believe, shameful, detrimental to the institution you claim to defend, and goes against all principles of free and open discussion of ideas. Why do you support totalitarian behavior? It's shameful. Let people discuss ideas, let people make up their own minds. This is freedom, this is democracy, this is progress.
http://www.breitbart.com/te...

Re: WhenHub - 2016 Election Events V2.0

Kai Carver — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:18:23 -0000

Please give the option of displaying a more traditional view of all the information on a single web page.

The current visualization interface may be neat in some use cases, but honestly feels more like those Flash-based abominations the web has thankfully gotten away from. And it kinda hides the content, making it nearly unusable.

Re: Solar powered Tibetan prayer wheel circuit

Kai Carver — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 02:30:56 -0000

nice! I chanced upon this looking for your football device (I forget exactly what it did... Can we resurrect it for the Euro 2016?) (was thinking of watching France-Ireland on the big screen at the hackerspace this evening haha)... Our household also has a broken solar-powered religious device, a waving/rocking money tree. No one seems to mind that it stopped rocking, and I couldn't see anything obviously wrong with it last time I checked, but this will maybe give me courage to disassemble it when no one is looking

Re: How to write your own projection for Globus?

Kai Carver — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:46:21 -0000

Thank you for fixing that! It's almost perfect, but there is still a slight artifact, see attached image: a thin horizontal white line through the middle of the image. which disappears at the poles. But it's already quite good.

Re: How to write your own projection for Globus?

Kai Carver — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:47:06 -0000

Hi, nice page, but your USGS daisy-petal creator at

http://www.winski.net/wp-co...

produces gore maps, not daisy-petal maps.

Re: The Occupation - Taki's Magazine

Kai Carver — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:26:07 -0000

The Telegraph link didn't work for me. This one works:

"foreigners in the lands their fathers had fought for"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

Re: Taiwan Maker Gettogether - Taipei Hackerspace

Kai Carver — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:25:32 -0000

What happened to the timelapse? It says "video does not exist"

Re: The Chinese Blogger Round-Up (Part 2)

Kai Carver — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:40:40 -0000

Very nice!

Re: http://blog.pin1yin1.com/post/28891912284

Kai Carver — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:47:25 -0000

Hi, the system seems to work fine, thank you for doing this!
I have a question: would it be possible to specify via URL parameter simplified/traditional, pinyin/zhuyin, and translation/no translation? Oh, and while I'm asking for stuff, how about a printable version? Anyway, thanks again for a great tool.

Re: Language Typology: Principle Branching Directions

Kai Carver — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:38:27 -0000

(hope it's ok to add to this old post)

Today a Chinese colleague wrote to me:
"One question : GPS data should I search for you ?"

This immediately made me wonder whether Yoda was Chinese.

Language Log's Geoffrey Pullum says object-initial structures are linguistically quite rare:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~...

http://articles.chicagotrib...

I'll just conclude that I find linguistics confusing!