The original poster's point is precisely that it isn't "ethnic" because it's originally in Chinese (民族) without a direct obvious translation. The linked translated text has a note on their chosen translation:

"民族- ethnic, ethnicity. Official translations are fond of translating this as nationality, which is confusing because it can confuse statehood/citizenship with ethnic identity. In most situations, we use forms of ethnic."

https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/ethnic-unity-and-progress-law/#Notes

For what it's worth, Firefox's translator (bergamot) also translates this as "National Unity". The definition on pleco seems to imply more of an ethnic nation, as in a nation of peoples as opposed to a nation state.

Translation is not a one-to-one mapping between words. The act of translating a text will always distort the meaning a bit. It's good to consider what may have been lost in the process of translation, especially when a contentious translation seems to align with a position that is geopolitically convenient.

A few often overlooked ways to contribute:

• artistic contributions: logos, banners
• user interface design (I wish more UX folks participated in OSS, many projects could use the love)
• improving documentation: as a new and/or novice user, you're probably more sensitive to jargon that developers overlook and can help make documentation more useful to others like you
• accessibility testing: testing software using accessibility settings like high contrast color schemes and screen readers. these use cases are often overlooked
• project management: participate in the issues, see if the team wants help triaging or managing a discussion/chat platform

Even if not code, some of these are quite specialized. Just be realistic about where you can add something useful.

For all of these, it is critical that you first contact the maintainers and ask what they would find useful. Be mindful that it's also work for the maintainers to manage your help. The only "wrong" way to participate in open source is to drop a bunch of work on someone unprompted.

Generally, if a project already has a clear call for contributions or a contribution guide, that is a good indicator that the maintainers are willing to do a bit of community management to bring in help. I would only suggest investing energy in those projects if you have the choice.

It’s not striped. Those are alternating regions of UTC+12 and UTC+13.

Yes, it’s excruciatingly annoying to try to get an accurate ETA when traveling through there. The research labs in that area regularly have to throw out samples because they walk them across the lab and all of the sudden they’re an hour too old.

I use a 60% for literally everything. It’s my only keyboard. If I had more keys, 99.9% of what I’m doing would be on these keys anyways.

I’m often using vim-style navigation in editors, which is designed to minimize the need to move your hands off the home row in the first place.

When I do need arrow keys, I hold a modifier key and my hjku keys become arrow keys. For gaming I can toggle the arrow keys on so I don’t need to hold another key the whole time.

I wouldn’t say I have a wildly complex setup. There are very few custom keybinds that I use regularly and need.

Okay everyone calm down. We can’t see the other side. Everyone knows that you tie one side at the top of the wheel and the other at the bottom of the wheel. When driving, the two wheels rotate at the same speed and keep the line taut.

(please don’t ever do this)

why do the kids have full body shadows but the father only has a shadow under the newspaper!?

i guess the shadow gene was from mom?

When I was interviewing (in the Bay Area initially, but the culture is similar here in TO) I was warned not to over-dress for interviews. Tech seems to foster a very meritocratic culture (for better or worse), where dressing more casually is seen as letting your work speak for itself in a way.

I’d say this outfit looks exactly right - not just “good enough”, but spot on for what is dressy enough without coming across as trying too hard or being too corporate.

The exact culture varies from company to company. As a broad stereotype, startups and burgeoning tech will lean more casual, larger companies and established tech will lean more dressy; but I think you’re in a safe place for either.

Best of luck with the interview process.

Although the immediate processing of food might occur in major digestive organs, the effect of increased or decreased nutrient availability will be felt throughout the body. One primary effect of starvation is the breaking down of cells (autophagy) in order to reuse their components for more necessary bodily functions - like the atrophying of muscles.

Naturally, your germ line cells are one of your core bodily functions, so the nutrients will necessarily need to make their way there.

One recent paper[1] hypothesized that the byproducts of this cellular breakdown can cause cells to bundle up DNA that encodes some genes, rendering them less accessible and therefore less active. This can even be passed trans-generationally (presumably by altering the tight storage of specific genes in the germ line cells).

Broadly this mechanism is called epigenetics, where specific histone protein modifications cause regions of DNA to coil up tightly, making it far less likely to be expressed, or unwind and become far more active. It’s a very neat mechanism by which many characteristics can become generational despite not having a clear genetic component.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10244352/

If you’re just looking to get started with 3d modeling, it’s hard to beat Blender. At the cost of free, it’s by far the most affordable way to dip your toes in some modeling tools.

For many workflows it’s world class. If you plan to do more organic forms or don’t need technical precision, then it’s very competitive or preferable to paid software.

You might find it lacking if you plan to do parametric or technical CAD-style modeling. Even then, I think Blender can be a low cost way to learn what you want in your software before investing in more specialized software. You’ll learn enough of the modeling basics to more fluently navigate what other software provides.

I don’t want to detract anything from this tram photo, but I also know that with all the content floating around in the internet these days it’s easy to build unrealistic tram expectations.

I think this is two trams, each on their own line. Notice how the roof line steps down and the window reflections seem to change halfway through. I think they’re just very conveniently aligned for the photo to make it look like one double length tram.

I don’t trust any graph without at least its axes and captions, so here’s the source.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/april2024

While I think the message here is important, this particular plot seems to be of “Owner Occupier’s Housing Costs” and this capture conveniently crops the frame so that you don’t see the dip just before 2019.

For those that need a translation:

“You have got to be shitting me”

“I am in fact not shitting you, my dude. It is very disappointing that this is real.”