😧 Sorry, poor guy.
Is it too late to say thank you to those foreign journalists working in China? Nowadays to know China, you'd better read their articles rather than the state media's. That is the way.

Once upon a time, there is a lonely Chinese girl in the US, interested in the US politics, pursued her american dream by campaigning in all different kind of political events, no matter a fundraising party or a governor election. Where there is politician, there is her activity. She even fell in love with a few ambitious men, helped them build up their career. Until a secret Chinese government agent reached her...

Just another fantasy story.

This is interesting. State-sponsored hackers, red team, stolen security tools, all those combined could be a great movie.

That's nice. Why not the US first?

I wonder what's the true repercussion to those sanctioned officials, and how much power does the US really have over HK affairs.

Dictionariez Spotify Player is finally out. Please give it a try.

So I thought I have found a bug of Firefox, which treats sessionStorage differently than Google. I found on Firefox that when the page was directed to another url, the sessionStorage was freed immediately. At first I thought it was a bug of Firefox. To get around of it, I use localStorage instead, and send the author a pull request. But the original author reminded me that he hadn't found such problem on Firefox. Than it occurred to me that it might be my problem. So I looked into my code again, did find the problem. It turns out I am using sessionStorage inside an iframe, when change the url of the top window, then on Firefox the storage is freed immediately as the session is lost.

I wrote an article introducing about the history and future of Dictionariez.

https://twitter.com/pnlpal/status/1332522319185526784

For me it's kind of weird. I have never eaten turkey, nor seen a turkey before. But since the first semester of learning English, I have just been taught that turkey is for Thanksgiving.

I think in China, chicken is more precious, and more usual for festivals and hosting guests. Although pork is more common to see in every dinner, but pork is more expensive. Rural villagers usually raise pigs by themselves for the Chinese new year festival, that has become a kind of tradition now...

RIP, Maradona. One of the best players ever exist.

He won the first goal by the hand of God, which is wrong and less controversial of course. But the second goal dribbled though a team of English opponents, so called the goal of the century, is much more controversial...

So the new Cold War is based on technology. China Digital Currency is not just centralized, which is totally the opposite of block chain, but also the world's biggest surveillance tool, has the potential of competing with SWIFT. Who said China is not creative?

Nice. Reminds me of a tv series by David Schwimmer:

Intelligence

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1058323993?playlistId=tt9454736&ref_=tt_ov_vi

Highly recommend. Lost Course is a promising documentary on the crisis of Wukan, a rural fishing village of China whose villagers protested massively against the central govt.

The only film that records a chronicle about mainland China in Taiwan, something gets more and more rare to see in nowadays.

Some background info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukan

https://twitter.com/pnlpal/status/1329294776554848258

To understand it need some cultural background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

This is brilliant. Since death is uncertain, how can we predict it? We can't, but we can calculate the probability based on large data of WHO health observation and CDC's life expectation data...

Well written, both the article and the code. A little bit spoiler, I am also working on Spotify...

Although some nasty news has been traveling around apple recently, such as privacy issue and new MacOS's glitch. But this new M1 chip seems really rocking. Some even call it a revolution...

Let's watch a series of highly recommended videos:

So this shit has being going for a while now, I wonder what's happened really, and what impact will it cause. The dust has not been settled yet, let's see.

Saw this on reddit at a lonely sleepless night. It's well written, quite easy to understand. I have been using Anki for a year now, it has really helped me a lot.

Another source I would also like to recommend:
The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention