Happy Thanksgiving!
On behalf of myself and The Thought Box, I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a picture of Turkey.
Exploring common words between QWERTY and Dvorak
On my laptop, I have two keyboard layouts installed: QWERTY and Dvorak. If I want to switch between them, I simply press Win+Space. But for some reason, Windows likes to switch my keyboard layouts automatically whenever I switch windows or change tabs. It is a bizarre behavior which sometimes results in me typing text kjak pssv; pgvd kjg; (translation: that …
Implementing custom duplicate detection with LinkedHashSet
Sets in Java are a great way of automatically preventing duplicates. By offloading the overhead to a standard library, you save time by not having to remove duplicates on your own or calling a removeDuplicates() method.
China, Day 17: A Sea of Bamboo
In South Sichuan lies one of the largest concentrations of bamboo in the world. The Shunan Bamboo Sea (蜀南竹海) covers 120 square kilometers of land and contains more than 100 tourist destinations within.
China, Day 11: Jinli Historic Town
Yesterday, Day 10, was the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. Traditionally, this day is spent with family, so we didn’t go anywhere. Today, we went to the Jinli Historic Town, a site dating back to the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280). Back then, it was one of the busiest streets and an important center for commerce. The architecture of the site today closely …