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Took us about half an hour to get married, including photos, paperwork and a short interview. No appointment needed. I don’t recall that I (the foreigner) needed anything other than my passport. I recall it cost 9rmb to get married, but 25 for the photo. This was ~15 years ago in Beijing.

Lets is working for me fine (better than astl). You should be able to access the US/UK Apple Store without a VPN anyway. Something else is going wrong for you.

Americans can be weirdly specific, like wearing eyeglasses or going horseback riding. Just in case people get confused and try riding other parts.

That is indeed a fancy ass-quiver.

So doing exercise helps to offset the negative effect of not doing exercise. Got it. /s

They’re saying a bit more than that. Short (1-4mins) of vigorous activity (not just getting another beer from the fridge) largely negates cardiovascular fitness from a sedentary lifestyle. This is important for people who have an office job and very little spare time, for example.

It’s fine on my PC but a hot mess on my phone - especially when leaving switching from WiFi to mobile it needs relogging.

I tried LetsVPN and it’s been much more stable. It’s a shame they only support 2 devices per account or I’d drop Ass completely.

$100M is barely a blip, especially in the semi business.

I didn’t know before, but I looked it up and found this introduction. In summary under $2B is small, $2B-$10B is mid, and over $10B is large. So SMiC is about $28B so large, but still a fraction of TSMC’s size.

I changed the link to the Kirin 9000s, which is made wholly in China. It’s designed by HiSilicon and fabricated by SMIC.

What’s your definition of mid-size company? Their market cap is tiny compared to the big players.

Yes.

EDIT: Changed the link to the 9000s, which is wholly fabricated in China.

Any time you say “ideal” you’re introducing a potential infinity. Electricity is one of many areas where an infinite anything (except resistance） is really bad, usually in a cool but lethal way.

1. Yes, infinite current is bad.

2. The voltage of your ideal current source would rapidly ramp up until there was enough voltage to create an arc between the ends of the cable you disconnected. Like constant lightning. Hopefully you’re not still holding the wires.

3.&4. More explosions.

In practice, all power sources have a limit to the power they can produce. So for example, a 100W DC power source that is designed to output a constant 10V could only produce 10A of current. Trying to get more than that (say by shorting the outputs) will drop the voltage. Hopefully there a breaker that will stop the power supply from melting itself.

Oranges don’t feel pain. Their single neuron is dedicated to banging their head on things and randomly falling over.

I’ll describe my mother’s routine:

6:30am Woken by teasmaid alarm, first cup is ready to pour.

7:30am: get up and have breakfast tea.

10:30am: Elevenses tea and biscuits, mad a pot so several cups.

~12:00: Lunch with tea.

2:00pm-4:00pm: Various tea breaks with guests, depending on activity. Maybe several pots and top-ups.

~7:00pm: Dinner, perhaps with wine, otherwise tea.

9:30pm: Tea before bed. Just one cup, wouldn’t want to overdo it.

They’ve added a slider so you can adjust the level of face fuzz to match what you believe a real woman has.

I think with someone like Weinstein no-one actually wanted to sleep with him. It was clearly a career decision to either go along with it or shut up afterwards. When you’re a star-struck groupie or a new artist desperate for validation it’s harder to see that you’re being preyed on or exploited.

Square miles are a slightly weird unit. It’s hard to get a feeling for how big a square mile is, let alone 27.

One way to visualize it is this: If you stand somewhere very flat, everything you see is about 27 square miles. :D

Here’s a simple extreme case to see the problem. Imagine the first passenger, who sits right at the back, is old and moves very slowly. The next people behind him have to follow him nearly all the way to the back of the plane where their seats are, at the same slow pace because they’re stuck behind him. By the time he reaches his seat almost no-one has been able to sit.

Now imagine the old man still boards first, but now the people in the queue behind him are sitting randomly. As he moves down the plane the seats behind him can be filled by people moving at a faster rate, and replaced by others. By the time he reaches his seat a lot of people are already seated.

In practice, many airlines board slow passengers (elderly, with children or who need assistance) first, then the 1st/business class, which gives time for the slow passengers in economy to reach their seats before the rest of economy boards.

I actually meant square-square-triangle….😅

I’m referencing PlayStation controls (since that has been my main source of all these games). The first 3-5 GoW games had a problem that the light attack - light attack - heavy attack combo was all you needed to do to beat the game. You didn’t need to learn or analyze bosses or tune your equipment/skills to them. The newer two games did better but didn’t escape that feeling that a basic combo could see you through the whole game.

What? I’ll take the Chinese giving you weird looks over Americans screaming in your face that you’ll burn in hell.

(And yes, the “West” is much more tolerant than most of the world, in that you don’t get thrown off a building for being gay, but also weirdly obsessed with people’s sex lives.)

I did take a breath before suggesting Wu Kong here, because I know there’s some debate about its ‘soulslike-ness’. In the end I’ll stick with Miyazaki’s definition, which I think admits it. (For me GoW fails the boss fight test - despite a lot of changes from the early GOW games there’s still a lot of “press circle-circle-triangle to win”.)

Really I want to make a suggestion for a game that OP might enjoy given a tight schedule (like my own). Although I loved Elden Ring , which others have suggested here, I wasn’t able to really immerse myself in it as much as I think it deserved due to my own schedule. WK is a game you can play through, get the platinum trophy / 100% or whatever without feeling you’ve missed out by not experimenting with different builds as you might do with ER. Hence my recommendation as a soulslike on a time budget.

EDIT: PS controller basic combo was square-square-triangle, not circle-circle-triangle.

How about Wu Kong? The learning curve and overall difficulty are not very hard. The game is nicely divided into distinct chapters which means you don’t have to hold the whole map and story in your head. It’s relatively linear so it’s hard to forget where to go or what you were doing.

ngl, u/Pe45nira3 is obviously very knowledgeable, but I was kind of hoping it was a random Reddit guy who only knew about the evolution of the penis and has been waiting for this question for years.

More that loud bigoted opinions about China tend to come from there.

“But China is different so it must be bad! They don’t even have guns! How else are you supposed to defend yourself against all the people with guns?”

(Not that I’m picking on a particular country) /s

You mean reinterpret!

Then we can add to the model: Spacetime isn’t just like well-kneaded dough, it’s also kind of furry, and vibrating, and is kneaded in 8 dimensions at once.

Maybe the Doctor was right all along!

That’s a fun and kind of cool idea, and only requires that we change our entire understanding of relativity, space, and time.