As a child born at the end of 1962, I caught the dying gasp of the Beatles run as a band. My family bought a copy of the 45 RPM single Let it Be, released in 1970. I suppose by that time, the band was already a thing of the past, but my older brothers (by one and two years) and I sat in front of the family hi-fi and listened to it repeatedly. The flip side was You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), which, as a music obsessed adult, now strikes me as poorly executed filler, but as a child, it was simply weird, so we never flipped the record over for a break. We just listened to Let It Be and Let It Be and Let It Be.
For the next six years. I immersed myself in popular music. I latched onto the Beach Boys’ Endless Summer, Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and much of the music that I heard on the radio, Sweet’s Ballroom Blitz, R. Dean Taylor’s Indiana Wants Me, Zeppelin’s Black Dog, etc. Like most young listeners, I gravitated towards whatever songs my preteen classmates played. During that period the Beatles music was everywhere.
For Christmas one year, my mother bought me what is colloquially known as the Beatles Red Album, the hits from 1962-1966. With that album as my launch pad, I sought out other early Beatles compilations, my favorite being Rock ‘n’ Roll Music which I listened to nonstop until my cassette tape stretched out and broke. My mother also bought my brother the Blue Album, hits from 1967-1970. This album spent as much time on the family stereo as the Red Album.
In ninth grade, I fell in with a group of stoners. We spent our afternoons smoking pot, quoting Monty Python, and listening to the Beatles. Being high, we preferred the band’s later, more psychedelic music. I purchased Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour,The White Album and Abbey Road. I spent countless hours closeted in my bedroom listening to those five albums. I can still, fifty years later, sing along with each LP from beginning to end. The songs on those five Beatles albums remain my favorite to this day.
I give this background as testimony to prove that I’m not a casual Beatles fan. By the end of high school, I identified as a Superfan. Over the decades, I’ve branched out and enjoy most musical genres, but the Beatles still show up annually on my Spotify list of top artists. So, what’s my favorite Beatles song? Don’t Pass Me By, written and sung by Ringo Starr on The White Album.
This morning, for the zillionth time, I read yet another ARTICLE trashing Ringo Starr in general and Don’t Pass Me By specifically. You might ask why Far Out Magazine, a UK pop culture website is reviewing a fifty-seven-year-old song, a song almost twice as old as half the people in the world. I’m not sure. People love to hate on this song. And it’s high time for me to speak up, cuz I’m f*cking sick of it.
Don’t Pass Me By is often cited for its simplicity, tucked in the middle of a double album exalted for its experimental tracks. But as a reminder, the Beatles made their name with simple songs like She Loves You Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Yes, Don’t Pass Me By lacks the complexity, lyricalness, and depth of many Beatles songs, but it might very well be the most fun. No other song by the Beatles, or maybe any other band I know of, makes me want to sing along like Don’t Pass Me By.
The title of the article I read: “Is ‘you were in a car crash, and you lost your hair’ the worst lyric the Beatles ever wrote?” by Reuben Cross. It’s true, the song does include this unfortunate line:
I’m sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair You were in a car crash, and you lost your hair You said that you would be late, about an hour or two I said that’s alright, I’m waiting here, just waiting to hear from you
But the line isn’t the only complaint Cross has with the song. In his article, before he starts digging into this one lyric, he slams the backing track: “The honky-tonk piano and bluegrass violins are grating to say the least.” I disagree, Mr. Cross. The bluegrass flair is what makes the song amazing. In fact, as a one-time Beatles Superfan, it’s my opinion that those violins might be the most charming aspect of the entire White Album.
In the second to last paragraph, Cross briefly addresses the lost your hair line “at no other point does (Starr) mention the person he is pining over suffering from traumatic alopecia.” I don’t know if Cross is being willfully ignorant, trying to be funny, or is just stupid, but ‘lost your hair’ is clearly an idiom that was in usage when the song was written—much like ‘lost your mind’ or ‘lost your shit.’
Regardless, the White Album easily has worse lyrics. The very next song on the album goes like this (repeated three times, and that’s the whole song):
Why don’t we d-do it in the road? Why don’t we do it in the road? Why don’t we do it in the road? Hmm Why don’t we do it in the road? No one will be watching us Why don’t we do it in the road?
Much better? Absolutely, people say, because the song was written by Paul McCartney. The hate directed towards Don’t Pass Me By is part of a snobbishness against Ringo Starr so many rock critics have embraced over the decades. Three of the Beatles were touched by the divine. George Harrison, McCartney and John Lennon all channeled something otherworldly during their stint with the Beatles. Ringo Starr, critics say lucked into the mix.
That’s bullshit. Starr was a solid drummer, and the fab four finally clicked when he joined the band. He just might be the mysterious force that corralled those three supernovas together into a cohesive unit that worked. Starr only wrote a couple of songs for the Beatles, and Don’t Pass Me By is easily the best. Give my song a break, before I lose my hair.
加入微软剑桥研究院四年半了，除了今年八月因为提前订了法国行程错过了我们组的 Team Build，我印象里几乎没有缺席过任何公司级或大组级的团建活动。
我原来在 AFO，后来因为 Re-org，大概是这两年并回到 MSR，之后又调整了一下，现在则是 100% 归在 MSRC 的组里。本月有一个冬日 Party，我记得这是我第一次参加，因为此前只参加过夏日 Party 和圣诞 Party。
这次冬日 Party 是微软剑桥研究院主办的，地点在剑桥市中心一家新开的酒吧：
MSR Cambridge Staff Winter Party at Boom Battle Bar Cambridge, on Thursday 20 November 2025. Timings Start Time: 12:00 Buffet Lunch Served Between: 12:00-13:30 End Time: 16:00
很遗憾，团队决定不推进您的申请。虽然反馈是积极的，但其他候选人的技能更符合要求。
Unfortunately the team have decided not to move forward with your application. The feedback was positive however there were just other candidates whose skillset was a stronger match.
自我安慰一下：据说大厂一个职位通常会收到上百份简历，最终只会挑出大约 8 个人进入面试，每一轮还要淘汰一半。能通过简历筛选，其实已经相当不容易了。
面试从来不是输赢，而是一面镜子。它告诉我：我还可以更强。面试就是最实在的“市值检测器”。每面一次，我就知道自己哪块短板被揪出来了，然后再狠补回去。正如年中挑战 ARM principal 时让我意识到自己 C++ 生疏，又促使我在之后疯狂补课一样。
PS：我还特意问了Nvidia是不是有和其它大厂一样的冷冻期，回答是没有，可以同时申请多个职位，并且没有限制。
Q: Is there a cool down period before I can apply to another position?
A: No there isn’t, you can apply for as many roles as you wish.
第一次私校家长会: 原来家长比孩子还卷 前几天参加了娃的第一次家长会，和几位家长聊下来，真是个个都很厉害。不光孩子们卷，家长也一样卷，一眼望去基本都是 Dr/博士。娃还调侃我一句：“这有什么的，你不也是 Dr 吗？” 我心里默默想：还好没写学校名字，不然我这野鸡大学的头衔真拿不出手 😂。 私校里真是人才济济，乐器过 8 级的太常见了，卷得不得了。我还问过娃，是想当 big fish in a small pond...
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BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMFCAppDemoDlg, CDialogEx)
ON_WM_VSCROLL()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
void CMFCAppDemoDlg::OnVScroll(UINT nSBCode, UINT nPos, CScrollBar* pScrollBar)
{
CDialogEx::OnVScroll(nSBCode, nPos, pScrollBar);
//取之前的滚动条信息
SCROLLINFO si{};
GetScrollInfo(SB_VERT, &si, SIF_ALL);
//滚动条上一次的位置
int nCurPos = si.nPos;
const int FACTOR(100);
switch (nSBCode)
{
case SB_LINEUP: //Scroll one line up
nCurPos -= (si.nPage / 50); //点击一次箭头，或者按一次↑，移动页面的1/50，注意方向
break;
case SB_LINEDOWN: //Scroll one line down
nCurPos += (si.nPage / 50); //注意方向
break;
case SB_PAGEUP: //Scroll one page up
nCurPos -= (si.nPage / 50* 20); //PgUp键的处理。所有的响应要统一单位标准即可。注意方向
break;
case SB_PAGEDOWN: //Scroll one page down
nCurPos += (si.nPage / 50* 20); //注意方向
break;
case SB_THUMBPOSITION: //Scroll to the absolute position. The current position is provided in nPos
nCurPos = nPos; //从缩略图直接确认位置
break;
case SB_THUMBTRACK: //Drag scroll box to specified position. The current position is provided in nPos
nCurPos = nPos; //从滚动条直接确认位置
break;
case SB_ENDSCROLL:
break;
default:
break;
}
//确认没有超出最小值和最大值范围。最小值一般是0，最大值是nMax - nPage。
nCurPos = max(si.nMin, min(nCurPos, si.nMax - static_cast<int>(si.nPage)));
//当位置移动时，滚动窗口内容
if (nCurPos != si.nPos)
{
int nDelta = si.nPos - nCurPos; //注意方向，原始值减目标值
si.nPos = nCurPos;
si.fMask = SIF_POS;
SetScrollInfo(SB_VERT, &si, TRUE); //设滚动条
ScrollWindow(0, nDelta); //滚动窗口
UpdateWindow();
}
}
Sally Edelstein’s blog Envisioning the American Dream included a postyesterday (July third, the day the house approved the senate version of Project 2025) that mourned the loss of American exceptionalism. To her, exceptionalism meant a country striving towards the ideal stated in the last line of the original Pledge of Allegiance: One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I left a comment that I began workshopping earlier in the week on a couple of other blogs touching on the concept of American exceptionalism: American exceptionalism began its slow crawl to its grave with the U-S-A chant at the 1980 Olympics. The only exceptional part of America today is our arrogance. We are now the bullies of the world–the kid you liked in 2nd grade but became a dick long before high school. The house is about to cast the vote that will codify poverty, double-down on climate change and cast us ever closer to insolvency. The America you’re looking for is gone.
Today is the culmination of the Republican vision from my entire adult life. The rich get richer… Other benefits include more funds to deport our working class, millions of Americans losing health insurance coverage, more financial pressure on American colleges and college-bound Americans, and a last-ditch-effort to try to prove trickle-down economics can work.
A couple of populist tax cuts included in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” directly benefit my family: Susan earns tips, and both our kids earn overtime. All that income is now tax free. I suppose this should make me happy, but I’d rather see the nation pay down its debt. Donald Trump’s businesses have filed for bankruptcy six times. Is this his clever endgame for America?
On the day Trump solidified his first Republican nomination, I posted on Twitter: Today’s news seems like the last sentence in the first chapter of a dystopian novel. Using that analogy, I feel like today, Independence Day 2025, we’ve hit the cliffhanger chapter break immediately prior to Armageddon. The chaos of the past nine years was the exposition. Tomorrow, things get ugly.
Trump is often portrayed as an undisciplined megalomaniac. The undisciplined part just got harder to prove. Today, he achieved many long-held goals of the Republican party. That he did it on his self-imposed, symbolic deadline of Independence Day is icing on his cake. Well played, my nemesis, well played.
Buckle up, America. The ride gets rougher from here.
第一次私校家长会: 原来家长比孩子还卷 前几天参加了娃的第一次家长会，和几位家长聊下来，真是个个都很厉害。不光孩子们卷，家长也一样卷，一眼望去基本都是 Dr/博士。娃还调侃我一句：“这有什么的，你不也是 Dr 吗？” 我心里默默想：还好没写学校名字，不然我这野鸡大学的头衔真拿不出手 😂。 私校里真是人才济济，乐器过 8 级的太常见了，卷得不得了。我还问过娃，是想当 big fish in a small pond...
第一次私校家长会: 原来家长比孩子还卷 前几天参加了娃的第一次家长会，和几位家长聊下来，真是个个都很厉害。不光孩子们卷，家长也一样卷，一眼望去基本都是 Dr/博士。娃还调侃我一句：“这有什么的，你不也是 Dr 吗？” 我心里默默想：还好没写学校名字，不然我这野鸡大学的头衔真拿不出手 😂。 私校里真是人才济济，乐器过 8 级的太常见了，卷得不得了。我还问过娃，是想当 big fish in a small pond...
只要不加杠杆，你就是安全的：除非你有能力承担损失，否则任何人都不应该使用杠杆。即使没有杠杆，加密货币的波动性也已经足够大了。
You are safe as long as you don't do leveraging: No one should be using leverage unless they can afford to lose that money. Crypto is already volatile enough without leverage.
我就玩现货/Spot，以前有段时间玩短期，折腾亏了不少，这两年一直是长期持有HODL。买了就不看了。
Decrypt 报道中写道：
“Bitcoin had been sitting above the $121,000 mark on Friday morning, but ultimately dipped below $106,000 … Ethereum went from $4,300 in the morning to under $3,600 in the afternoon … assets like Dogecoin and Cardano briefly showed 40% daily dips before recovering some of the losses.”
Decrypt
第一次私校家长会: 原来家长比孩子还卷 前几天参加了娃的第一次家长会，和几位家长聊下来，真是个个都很厉害。不光孩子们卷，家长也一样卷，一眼望去基本都是 Dr/博士。娃还调侃我一句：“这有什么的，你不也是 Dr 吗？” 我心里默默想：还好没写学校名字，不然我这野鸡大学的头衔真拿不出手 😂。 私校里真是人才济济，乐器过 8 级的太常见了，卷得不得了。我还问过娃，是想当 big fish in a small pond...
最后一天在谢大工作 2013年10月,我开始在谢大,也就是 University of Sheffield 工作. 这是个两年的合同, 是在一个欧盟项目下,公司暂时把我借调给大学.我的工作标题 是 Marie Curie Experienced Researcher 简单来说也就是研究员,也就是相当于国内说的 博士后(不是学位,只是份工作). 两年,...
第一次私校家长会: 原来家长比孩子还卷 前几天参加了娃的第一次家长会，和几位家长聊下来，真是个个都很厉害。不光孩子们卷，家长也一样卷，一眼望去基本都是 Dr/博士。娃还调侃我一句：“这有什么的，你不也是 Dr 吗？” 我心里默默想：还好没写学校名字，不然我这野鸡大学的头衔真拿不出手 😂。 私校里真是人才济济，乐器过 8 级的太常见了，卷得不得了。我还问过娃，是想当 big fish in a small pond...
第一次私校家长会: 原来家长比孩子还卷 前几天参加了娃的第一次家长会，和几位家长聊下来，真是个个都很厉害。不光孩子们卷，家长也一样卷，一眼望去基本都是 Dr/博士。娃还调侃我一句：“这有什么的，你不也是 Dr 吗？” 我心里默默想：还好没写学校名字，不然我这野鸡大学的头衔真拿不出手 😂。 私校里真是人才济济，乐器过 8 级的太常见了，卷得不得了。我还问过娃，是想当 big fish in a small pond...
Build in Public 中文意思是“公开构建”，即将构建产品的过程公开。初次听说时，略显得反商业直觉。但近 10 多年，每年都有采用此策略成功的公司。比如 2014 年的 Ghost，2018 年 Nomad List，Fast、Blogging for Devs、CopyAI、TailwindCSS、Vim.so、Affilimate 等。
In this guide, we’ll show you how to add shaders and mods to Minecraft on a Mac using the Iris Shaders mod. This approach enhances Minecraft’s visuals and gameplay on Macs, including those with Apple Silicon chips. We’ll cover the installation process, ensuring a visually stunning and smoothly running Minecraft experience. Whether you’re new to mods and shaders or looking to upgrade your Minecraft setup, this concise guide has you covered.
