Evergrande crisis: embattled developer could face liquidation as creditor files winding-up petition in Hong Kong
The embattled developer received a winding-up petition from a creditor reportedly owned by a member of Hong Kong’s leadership election committee, for failing to pay US$109.91 million. ⌘ Read more
Rent control law fails to help Hong Kong’s poorest and leaves loopholes for landlords, advocacy group says
Society for Community Organisation appeals to government to put caps on rent levels to ease the problem. ⌘ Read more
‘See you next year’: China’s ‘King of gaokao’ fails to get marks for dream university after sitting the entrance exam for 26th time
A man in China who shot to fame after repeatedly sitting the country’s university entrance exam has failed to get the score he wanted for the 26th time — but plans to try again next year. ⌘ 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
Earthquake hits Afghanistan, at least 255 dead
Local officials say the death toll could rise further if the government fails to dispatch emergency help to the affected areas quickly. ⌘ Read more
Former Hong Kong leader CY Leung says American Express apologised to wife Regina after suing her over allegedly unpaid HK$93,155 credit card bill
American Express International claimed Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee had ‘refused, failed or otherwise neglected’ to settle an outstanding bill of HK$93,155 as of April 28. ⌘ Read more
Tencent news aggregator app Kuai Bao to cease operations next month, as China’s Big Tech firms cut noncore businesses
Launched in 2015, Kuai Bao has failed to grow big enough to remain competitive against rivals led by ByteDance-owned Jinri Toutiao. ⌘ Read more
**“This decision is not only a hollow response to Covid-19, but it sends the message that intellectual property rights outweigh the rights to health and life.”
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/covid-19-wto-ministerial-decision-on-trips-agreement-fails-to-set-rules-that-could-save-lives/**
“This decision is not only a hollow response to Covid-19, but it sends the message that intellectual property rights outweigh the rights to health and life.”
[amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…](https://www.amnesty. … ⌘ Read more
Australia’s China bias and colonial blinkers mean it fails to see big picture for Pacific islands’ development
Canberra had chosen symbolic gestures and feeble investments over more practical initiatives now being offered by Beijing to Pacific island nations. Australia must shed its colonial mindset and stop claiming to always have the moral high ground over China. ⌘ Read more
‘Find a sperm donor’: Chinese doctor shocked to find failed-pregnancy patient is married to son of her paternal aunt
A video of a college-educated patient who married her cousin and telling a doctor about a string of failed pregnancies sparks online debate. ⌘ Read more
Tesla’s Elon Musk sued by investor in ‘toxic’ workplace discrimination accusation
The lawsuit accuses the defendants – Musk, 11 Tesla board members and the company – of failing to address and remedy the red flags concerning internal reports of discrimination and harassment. ⌘ Read more
WeChat suffers glitch that stopped users from paying for lunch deliveries before noon
Users of the Tencent app have been flocking online to complain that the payment function of WeChat failed to respond on Thursday morning. ⌘ Read more
Iran preparing for rocket launch, satellite images suggest amid nuclear tensions
A launch pad is visible at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport, the site of Tehran’s recent failed attempts to put a satellite into orbit. ⌘ Read more
How to debug a second test run ? #test #testing #goland href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23debugging”>#debugging**
Sometimes, tests can succeed on the first run and fail on subsequent ones, or with the -shuffle flag. But then, how can one debug them using the builtin Delve in GoLand while run configurations only run tests once ? 1 points posted by FGM ⌘ Read more
There are some Gemini feeds that Antenna is failing to connect to, and it looks like it’s clogging up the log pretty badly. I hope it’s not putting too much strain on the server.
Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2022
Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change.
While no two projects are the same, we’ve observed some common themes for using scalable futureproof technologies to build diverse fintech systems. Taking advantage of these learnings sets financial service provi … ⌘ Read more
Save time with partial re-runs in GitHub Actions
It is now possible to re-run only failed jobs or a single job in GitHub Actions workflows. ⌘ Read more
PEP 685: Comparison of extra names for optional distribution dependencies
This PEP specifies how to normalize distribution _extra_
names when performing comparisons.
This prevents tools from either failing to find an extra name or
accidentally matching against an unexpected name. ⌘ Read more
Failing at Mold Making… A guide on what not to do. ⌘ Read more
How I got Crostini to work in Chrome OS Flex
I blogged that I could not run Linux support (Crostini) on CloudReady and Chrome OS Flex. Every time I tried to enable Linux support in the settings, the activation failed with an error. ⌘ Read more
How I got Crostini to work in Chrome OS Flex
I blogged that I could not run Linux support (Crostini) on CloudReady and Chrome OS Flex. Every time I tried to enable Linux support in the settings, the activation failed with an error. ⌘ Read more
Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD
I was trying to use a V4L2 Ruby module for a project on my OpenBSD laptop but ran into a problem where sending the V4L2 ioctls from this module would fail, while other V4L2 programs on OpenBSD worked fine. ⌘ Read more
Boot drive failed on the server that hosts my Gemini capsule’s headless repo. Now there will officially be no updates until it’s fixed!
Local man switches to Arch, tells no one
Yesterday, at approximately 5:05pm, a Seattle area man installed Arch Linux on his home computer and has yet to tell anyone. “This appears to be the first occurrence of failing to tell someone that you run Arch,” stated a representative of the Seattle Sheriff’s Department. “We are actively investigating whether or not this is a crime. It definitely is a violation of norms.” ⌘ Read more
Visi On : The failed 1983 GUI that came before Windows or Macintosh
The legendary company behind VisiCalc produced a graphical desktop for PCs that shipped before Windows or the first Macintosh. ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de, is removing the hash from the body of the twt on the TODO? I read it, but I am unsure if it is there already, or not. 🙈 Sorry if it is, and I failed to spot it!
Not to boast, but jenny has never failed me 😂. It is so neat, powerful, and streamlined, not even funny! Thank you very much, @movq@www.uninformativ.de for it! 💛
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org awesome! i love failing test cases. Do you have them pushed up on a branch to check out?
In reply to: Sable: Kotaku Review, My Top Game of 2021
Sable’s world is not a broken machine, it’s doing fine. You’re not on some grand quest to save it, or return the planet to its former glory. You’re just a girl growing up in this place, and growing up means choosing a new mask.
Closing,
Sable imagines identity and growth as playful, joyous, and nearly impossible to fail. It promises you that chang … ⌘ Read more
Q1K3 – Making Of
This was my third time participating in the js13kGames contest. I won in 2018 with Underrun and utterly failed to deliver any compelling gameplay with my 2019 entry Voidcall.
This year’s theme was “Space” – I chose to completely ignore it and instead decided to pay tribute to one of my all time favorite games on its 25th birthday:
The original Quake from 1996.
Docker for Node.js Developers: 5 Things You Need to Know Not to Fail Your Security ⌘ Read more…
@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io @jlj@twt.nfld.uk in old school terminal jargon the ^H means control H or the sequence used in some terminals to indicate backspace. The “joke” is that the term failed to interpret it correctly and you can see the partially typed word before they changed it.
To paraprashe Mr. Engelbart: it’s a failed tool if you use it exactly the same way the day you bought it and a year after. Re-Thinking the Desktop OS | Hacker News
@eli_oat@txt.eli.li After failing to say that twice, I’d be reaching for… a thesaurus? Baby names?
@eli_oat@txt.eli.li After failing to say that twice, I’d be reaching for… a thesaurus? Baby names?
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net It’s seems that txtnish isn’t able to retrieve your twtxt file :/ I get the “curl: (6) getaddrinfo() thread failed to start”
My text editor failed to autocomplete like it usually does and now I’m left wondering if I introduced a syntax error or something that it can’t cope with.
@kas@enotty.dk It was released with 20191025 but 20191102 in Debian/SID seems to not be compiled with autocrypt support. Building the package myself fails and I don’t know what libs might be missing. :D
When all fails, rm ./package-lock.json and try again
Humanity is a failed alien terraforming op: Usually newly uplifted civilizations, with very little intervention after the initial seeding, reliably consume all the surface fuel and turn the place into a nice cool desert, and what’s left can be psionically reprogrammed
vat brains often philosophize over whether they’re actually brains in bodies but usually dismiss it as absurd, why should for example someone go the trouble of engineering the human body and all the world around it as opposed to vats, it just totally fails occam’s razor
I’m not sure I like how homebrew will try to build a package if the download fails. I don’t need a second go binary, really.
@tux0r@twtxt.rosaelefanten.org @gbmor@gbmor.dev So many options to increase the fail counter?
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Did you intentionally tweet a lot of one word messages or did your twtxt client fail hard?
Hot take: gopher is not a failed attempt to invent the WWW, but its own crystallization of a coherent philosophy – to present jump links between text files, without all the other bollocks. That makes it as valuable today as it was 25 years ago.
A Good Place: When Shazam fails you, this Facebook group comes through | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7282/when-you-can-t-find-the-song-on-shazam
The sample they chose to highlight here resembles the kind of paper a 14 year old would try & fail to bullshit after staying up all night partying right before the due date: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample1
Periodic reminder that the links I post here also get collected at http://www.lord-enki.net/links.html (including stuff that didn’t post because title fetching failed)
@kas@enotty.dk I should have gone for the two-hour nap (to a first approximation, I can’t powernap). Ended up going to bed at 5 without having had a two-hour nap previously. Failed experiments are the price of knowledge, I guess.
This is an interesting take, but the author fails to note that the primary result of speculation is fantasy – i.e., price deviation from ‘natural’ value: https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/