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Beijing locals have adapted to the proliferation of rules not with complete obedience, but discernment of which can be safely ignored. Northerners are thus often unruly.

2021 Letter | Dan Wang

danwang.co

A more interesting and visually rich digital space would mean more than coming up with a new illustration style – it would require a change in how the tech economy is run.

Why Does Every Advert Look the Same? Blame Corporate Memphis

wired.co.uk

The UNIX way is undeniably more flexible since it isn't a virtual filesystem, it is just a filesystem. The problem is that everyone invented their own configuration format to store configuration data in /etc and there's no format agnostic API to access that information (you can open it, but can you understand it?).

Why the Windows Registry Sucks Technically (2010) | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

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