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Hong Kong. I live there. There are a few of us here and there, but outside of the c/hongkong I’ve seen like 2.

Ayyy fellow Canto speaker on the same boat

I don’t really watch anime but I want to read Japanese text. I’m currently 2 months in following the Tofugu guide. I spent about a week on memorizing Hiragana and Katakana, and have been grinding Kanjis and vocabularies on Anki since then. At some point I also read the Japanese sentence structure guide from 8020japanese out of curiosity. This combination allows me to learn Japanese much faster at my own rate than pre-designed methods like Duolingo.

Since I’m a native Cantonese speaker, learning Kanji is rather trivial, so I mostly spend my time learning both Onyomi (Chinese pronunciation) and Kunyomi (Japanese pronunciation).

I am at a point where I can read some simple sentences and guess some words base on Kanji (for example はじめる means “start” on my Japanese Wii), but I definitely still have a long way to go before I can do anything fluent. If you watch a decent amount of anime, chances are you can probably learn faster than me.

CurseForge shares a slice of their ad revenue with creators, so getting money simply depends on how many people visited your page. Even if a mod is unpopular, you still get a minuscule amount of money.

I should mention that you get paid in “points”, and these points can be used to redeem money. For example, every 100 points = 5 USD.

I wrote some Minecraft mods and uploaded them to CurseForge. I still get about 5 USD every week. It used to be every 3 to 4 days but I seldomly upload new stuff now. For reference, my projects have 1.6M total downloads combined, 2k weekly.

It’s nowhere near enough for sustaining life, but it’s like pocket money for me to buy games and renew my domain.

If God can be son of himself, then Christ can be follower of Christ

Ok what do you want then? “Bitch”?

Big Rock Finish C

Or just use GitHub Gist or a repository. I have been uploading my arts to a repo for backup for a while now

I think it depends more on the intention of the murder. If the killer specifically targets a person, that’s assassination. Otherwise, it’s homicide? Maybe when it’s a specific group of people it can be called genocide instead

She definitely can cuz she’s exFAT

Superfeel. I want to feel a speck of dust and know someone farted 2 km away.

I did it in Cantonese, probably similar to the Mandarin poem.

I think my mom started making me memorize it in the last year of kindergarten (I was 5yo). By the time multiplication becomes the main topic in primary 2 (2nd grade) maths, I didn’t really have much problem doing them. It was really useful to have it recited.

Pfft. Computer Science ain’t about coding

The following are not-properly-researched theories I made up

I think x came from “unknown”. Perhaps at one point people used a cross (x) to represent something unknown. The symbol may have extended to mean “variable”. Then math advanced and people begin making graphs with variables and the logical next variable is y.

abc are used when these variables run out, because they are intuitive to pick.

ijk in programming loops came from “index”. The reason we use “index” and not “count” or “tally” is because in early computer days, someone decided to use “index”. For example, your browser still automatically fetches “index.html” if a path doesn’t return a valid response.

ijk in vectors may have come from quaternions, which in turn came from complex/imaginary numbers. Since i represents “imaginary”, that could have been carried over to vectors.

The xyz orientation in 3D program is purely a choice by the developer. It is which ever orientation they are comfortable with developing.

y is up because of it’s commonly used for graphs, but y is down for computer graphics. The top-left corner of a screen is (0, 0) and as the position moves downwards, y increases.

We do use Greek letters in other coordinate systems! For example, a spherical coordinate system often uses (r, θ, φ). I think these symbols may have already had connections with other aspects of math (like θ is commonly used for angles). They are not used generally to avoid confusion.

You already said China so I guess I’ll go Hong Kong.

Hong Kong (香港) means fragrant harbour. The origin of this name is unknown, but there are theories of it coming from a type of wood we produced, a nice river, the wife of a pirate, or some residents just pronounced it with an accent to the British soldiers.

Fast food isn’t really cheaper in HK either. Tipping culture is non-existent here so that doesn’t cause a difference.

Interesting. Fried rice is more commonly found in traditional restaurants for us. Not much in fast food.

MSG was so prevalent until people said it was bad. One of our local fast food chain restaurants still has a “No MSG” poster in some of their branches.

There are a few ways we do it in Chinese.

In mainland, people would sometimes just type the initials of the pronunciation of the character. For example, hhhhh (哈哈哈哈哈, hahahahaha), sb (傻逼 sha bi, dumbass). It can get out of hand for people who are not super familiar with their vocabularies (like me, a Hong Kong Cantonese speaker)

Alternatively, one can just use a different dialect/version of Chinese. In Hong Kong, we can have both written Chinese and spoken Cantonese mixed in the same message. We simply pick which one of them gives a shorter version of the word. For example, 回家看看有無撞其餘活動 ([Written] Go home and see [Spoken] if it conflicts with other events). Sometimes we even mix in ancient Chinese.