記得在 RSS 閱讀器，看過有人打趣地提出，水立方是不是有甚麼不尋常？為甚麼差不多天天都可以破世界紀錄？這讓我即時想起了奧運的評述員說，除了運動員的努力之外，科技也的確幫上一把。今期的《Newton》中就有介紹被稱為「
Why noting security fixes in Linux kernel changelogs doesn't really help
People periodically ask for the Linux kernel commit messages andchangelogs to mark changes that are security fixes, generally sothat they can easily know that they need to cherry-pick just thosefixes into their own kernel versions. Ignoring the higher levellevel issues with this for the moment, there are at least threepractical difficulties:
- not all security fixes are recognized as such at the time; sometimeseven the people making a change think that they are just fixingan ordinary bug, and the security implications are only recognizedlater.
不結婚的女人《An Unmarried Woman》
「She laughs, she cries, she feels angry, she feels lonely, she feels guilty, she makes breakfast, she makes love, she makes do, she is strong, she is weak, she is brave, she is scared, she is... an unmarried woman. 」
imdb 的影迷網民稱《 An Unmarried Woman 》(1978) 為70年代的《Sex and the city》, 片中女主角 Jill Clayburgh 跟三位女友
虛無飄浮
1999年，我在唸大學，學生報接近落莊，王菲婚變，推出《只愛陌生人》大碟，我們歌迷泫然欲滴，一首一首聽進耳裡。學生報會室有皮質沙發，窗外有藍到接近人造的天空，偶然會有飛機飛過，下午我們躺著就昏昏欲睡，
Watch
To go into solitude and wilderness, one needs to retire as much from the ticking of the time watch as from the society. To speak truly, few of us can stay away from the society without taking off the watch. The idea as to how I can learn to appreciate the tranquillity of nature was suggested to me during my "solo" session at the Outward Bound course ten years ago. I kept remembering everything, putting a tent up, seeing the most exquisite sunset of my life alone at a deserted island
What you select for when you make something harder
There is a general belief that when you make it harder for people to dosomething, you will get better results; better bug reports, better blogcomments, and so on. This is simplistic and, I am convinced, false inpractice.
The basic principle is simple: when you make things harder, you do notselect for quality; you select for people who care enough .
(Well, not entirely; you also select for people with lots of spare timeand for people who don't realize how
無味迷幻
（前按：誤妹為弟，人已丟盡，覆水難收，感謝指正。我自去撞牆。）
也許是學習文學時被教導過，愈平淡的敘述愈要看出味道，我常常翻來覆去地看那些清淺淡漠、幾乎沒有縐摺的話語文字，平靜地，著了魔也不知道，像某種
也許是學習文學時被教導過，愈平淡的敘述愈要看出味道，我常常翻來覆去地看那些清淺淡漠、幾乎沒有縐摺的話語文字，平靜地，著了魔也不知道，像某種
北京之旅
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day one
lunch@Lan Club in 朝陽區，環境一流，食物偏貴，水準一般，最好的是它那壺鐵觀音。
https://www.cityweekend.com.cn/beijing/listings/nightlife/nightclub/has/lan-restaurant/
推介：去飲野，不要去吃飯
afternoon activity@王府井大街，王府井書店。