Part 12: Spam: Take an Orbital Selfie!
Take an Orbital Selfie! Trips Start at Just R89,999!
Even in our modern age, no matter how good Bayesian analysis gets, no matter how much machine learning we throw at the problem, it looks like a few spam emails will always get through.
Might as well answer reader questions while I have the time.
Carbon dioxide posted:
In your solitaire post there's a line that ends abruptly:
"• Onto a card of the next number up (but not of the same color) to make a stack - you can repeat this to build up a "
@Carbon dioxide - ...aaaa bigger stack of cards. Whoops. I've fixed my earlier post - thanks for catching that!
Aesculus posted:
On that note, where did Carl manage to find a decent dumpling shop in Shenzhen? Last time I was there the street stalls were usually all corn juice and steamed buns or Chinese barbecue meats, with some assorted other restaurants. The craziest I've seen was a noodle shop that had a giant pot with a radius of at least a meter that I swear they stuffed an entire cow carcass into and kept boiling 24/7, with a combination hot pot/sushi restaurant being a close second. They were pretty good, actually.
@Aesculus - Holy moly, the cow thing sounds amazing.
Anyway, the dumpling shop turned out to be a dumpling stall, actually. The vendor guy was also selling (imitation?) shark fin soup, too (we never got whether it was real shark or not made clear). Everything was delicious.
5 stars, would eat there again.
NGDBSS posted:
It sounds like [Jie's] taking a page out of Edsger Dijkstra's book about avoiding goto as much as possible.
@NGDBSS - You're probably right. I get the feeling Jie's been mostly throwing me easy jobs to get me ready to work on more complex projects - and sending the job back was his way of making sure I'd get introduced to MC conditionals properly.
ally_1986 posted:
I think you need to learn around 3000 - 4000 characters to read a newspaper.
Carbon dioxide posted:
Now, these are Mandarin pronounciations. In Shenzhen most people will be speaking Cantonese. They will probably understand you if you say simple things in Mandarin, [...] but they might give you strange looks, and once you get better at Chinese and start using more complicated phrases the difference might get difficult.
Oh, and the language tones. [...]
Don't accidentally call someone's mother a horse, that's rude.
I feel a lot better about not knowing Chinese.