The Canto-pop comeback: Hong Kong’s beloved brand of music returns with a bang
Having languished for decades and losing out to Mandopop and K-pop, Canto-pop’s new generation of stars are relevant, collaborative and current. ⌘ Read more
Ghislaine Maxwell put on suicide watch ahead of sentencing, lawyer says
The British socialite was removed from the general population of inmates at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre and placed in solitary confinement. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong’s largest public healthcare workers union opts to dissolve as journalism group lowers vote threshold to disband
Former chairman of Hospital Authority Employees Alliance confirms group voted to disband after special general meeting. ⌘ Read more
Following Friends in Fitness Apps is Associated with Higher Levels of Physical Activity
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The past few years have seen huge growth in mobile fitness apps globally. Expecting increased revenue to be generated from this category, app designers strive to add features to enhance the user experience and motivate better performance.
Dr HUANG Guanxiong, Dr Crystal JIANG Li, and doctoral student SUN Mengru from CityU’s … ⌘ Read more
Into the World of Eileen Chang
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As one of the most perceptive authors of Chinese contemporary literature, Eileen Chang’s fictional writings are best known for her acute observation of all walks of life and the rich tapestry of human relationships in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1940s and 50s. Although it has already been 27 years since Chang’s death, her works are still loved by readers of different generations, … ⌘ Read more
Changing the World for the Better
A passionate educator in social work with profound experience in the field, there are few who are as dedicated to teaching the next generations of students in social welfare in Hong Kong as Dr Sylvia KWOK LAI Yuk-ching ⌘ Read more
EMI Research Generates Social Impacts in Healthcare and Secondary Education
As CityU’s Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Dr Jack Pun’s research into English as the medium of instruction has implications for fields such as healthcare as well as for academics ⌘ Read more
Go1.18 PR’s from Uni students: Make sync.Go generics compatible
I’m tring to make this package support generics. 1 points posted by pj ⌘ Read more
Functional options in Go with Generic.
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Senior Beijing official with over 30 years’ experience in Hong Kong affairs appointed to deputy role in nation’s top advisory body
Zhang Xiaoming, former executive deputy director of state-level Hong Kong office, made deputy secretary general of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Contract Programming an Elixir approach – Part 1
This series explores the concepts found in Contract Programming and adapts them to the Elixir language. Erlang and BEAM languages, in general, are surrounded by philosophies like “fail fast”, “defensive programming”, and “offensive programming”, and contract programming can be a nice addition. The series is also available on Github.
You will find a lot … ⌘ Read more
Myanmar minister joins Asean defence meeting as junta shifts Suu Kyi trial to prison
More than 600 civic groups appealed against inviting General Mya Tun Oo, accusing him of complicity in violence by Myanmar’s military as it seeks to crush opposition to its seizure of power last year from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. ⌘ Read more
the-spatializer/qr-code-generator
A program to create your own qr code. You can add a logo in the middle.
Language: Python
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GitHub Copilot is generally available to all developers
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects. ⌘ Read more
Three generations of Filipino-New Zealand family killed in ‘shocking’ crash
The family were travelling home to Auckland when their Toyota Hiace van hit a truck and was almost completely destroyed. Seven people, including a ‘young Taiwanese’ woman’s baby, died. ⌘ Read more
China appoints international affairs expert as new consul general in Brisbane
Ruan Zongze, 56, is the former vice-president of the CIIS, a think tank run by the foreign ministry. ⌘ Read more
Prebuilding codespaces is generally available
Teams and GHEC customers can now create blazing fast codespaces, even for your largest and most complex projects. ⌘ Read more
borisdayma/dalle-mini
DALL·E Mini - Generate images from a text prompt
Language: Python
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Dependabot Updates hit GA in GHES
Dependabot is generally available in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5. Here is how to set up Dependabot on your instance. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.5 is available now, including access to the Container registry, the addition of Dependabot, enhanced administrator capabilities, and features for GitHub Advanced Security. ⌘ Read more
A fun little game: Pocket City
I’m generally not a gamer, playing computer games has never really fascinated me, I find programming more exciting. But sometimes I don’t feel like programming or I don’t have the possibility to do it. Of course it’s important to be bored sometimes, because then you can think about things for a while. But a little entertainment in a free minute is sometimes not bad as well. ⌘ Read more
Based.Cooking has become more grandma-usable.
Over the past month, I’ve taken some off-time to tinker with
Based.Cooking, the cooking site I/we made a year or so
ago as a proof of concept for a simple and unintrusive recipe website. There
have been over 250 recipes submitted, but the hobbled-together static site
generator originally used proved unable to keep up and with all the
submissions, there was a big issue of content organization.
There have been two big changes. Firstly, I port … ⌘ Read more
Based.Cooking has become more grandma-usable.
Over the past month, I’ve taken some off-time to tinker with
Based.Cooking, the cooking site I/we made a year or so
ago as a proof of concept for a simple and unintrusive recipe website. There
have been over 250 recipes submitted, but the hobbled-together static site
generator originally used proved unable to keep up and with all the
submissions, there was a big issue of content organization.
There have been two big changes. Firstly, I port … ⌘ Read more
Increasing Cohesion in Go with Generic Decorators
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JMP: Togethr: Soprani.ca Social
Last week we launched a sister product from the same team that brings you JMP: Togethr. Why are we launching a second product? Why now? What does this have to do with the mission of JMP in particular, or the Sopranica project in general?
Togethr is a managed hosting platform for small Fediverse instances. It is powered by the ActivityPub protocol that powers Mastodon, PeerTube, and so many others. While there are sev … ⌘ Read more
Selection Bias
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Erlang Solutions: Understanding Processes for Elixir Developers
This post is for all developers who want to try Elixir or are trying their first steps in Elixir. This content is aimed at those who already have previous experience with the language.
This will help to explain one of the most important concepts in the BEAM: processes. Although Elixir is a general-purpose programming language, you don’t need to understand how the virtual machine works, but if you want to take advantage … ⌘ Read more
I’ve noticed a gradient of skepticism about climate change, ranging from outright contradiction that it exists to debates about the specific measures needed to reverse acknowledged warming trends. Using the general term “climate change denial” to describe that entire gradient, and thus treating all forms of skepticism as equally ignorant, seems counterproductive to me.
When to use generics
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❤️ 🎶: Gee by Girls’ Generation
in general, lw feels like a place where it would be good for many people to cross-post to, a content aggregator/archiver
started using esglua, our static site generator | gemini://compudanzas.net/esglua.gmi
if you’re not special, generating passwords is like running from bears: you don’t need to be good, you just need to be better than the majority
guy who takes mdma at a techno rave and says “so this is what it’s all about”, but not just about raving culture, but, like, life in general
idea: using a #matrixmixer to generate feedback exciting membranes with a piezo. Try an irish drum #minijack #video #sound
LWave : system to generate a #1bit or #8bit audio stream with L-Systems (might have an interactive/livecoding part) #sound #coding #livecoding #nyx #halfbaked
@prologic@twtxt.net I have seen single use keys that are signed by a central PKI .. Keybase has one that uses a chatbot to generate the keys on the fly.
It just comes down to your threat model :)
Testing Generics in Go
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New repository: aquilax/sparkline-d - Library to generate sparkline string
How to Build a Bike Generator with Control Panel
We built a pedal-powered generator and controller, which is practical to use as an energy source and exercise machine in a household — and which you can integrate into a solar PV system. We provide detailed plans to build your own, using basic skills and common hand tools. ⌘ Read more
@mutefall I can’t take credit for the CSS on the site, it came from my site generator :D https://kiln.adnano.co
there was a connection between one of the guys who wrote the first pickup advice in the 70s, and general semantics. i could investigate
What you need to know about macOS X 10.14 Deprecation
Docker supports Docker Desktop on the most recent versions of macOS. That is, the current release of macOS and the previous two releases. As new major versions of macOS are made generally available, Docker stops supporting the oldest version and supports the newest version of macOS (in addition to the previous two releases). Keeping with […]
The post [What you need to know about macOS X 10.14 Deprecation](https://www.docker.com/blo … ⌘ Read more
Event: Generics in Go 1.18 - Introduced using a practical example
Go 1.18 is about to be released (or it is already depending when you’re reading this). One of the big things in it are generics. Axel Wagner will introduce us to generics using a practical example. 1 points posted by Sascha Andres ⌘ Read more
For the Sake of Simplicity
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For the Sake of Simplicity
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Generate an NFT Collection in Go
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ethanjsummers00/OutfitGen
A randomized outfit generator
Language: JavaScript
Star: 1
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CalumMcCallion/OutfitGenerator
Randomly Generates Outfit From Your Own Clothes
Language: C++
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