“Moderate to dense smoke haze was observed to emanate from clusters of hotspots detected in central and southern parts of Sumatra.”

“While some isolated showers are forecast for Sumatra in the coming days, dry weather is expected to persist in parts of central and southern Sumatra, with the prevailing winds likely to continue blowing from the southeast or southwest.

“Under these conditions, the hotspot and smoke haze situation there could worsen, with an increased risk of transboundary smoke haze occurrence,” the alert read.

“This was corroborated by Datuk Wan Abdul Latiff Wan Jaffar, the director-general of Malaysia’s Department of Environment, who said that forest fires in Indonesia had caused transboundary haze to affect East Malaysia.”

“Satellite imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration detected 52 hotspots in Sumatra, 264 hotspots in Kalimantan, and no hotspots detected within (Malaysia),” he was quoted sa saying by Free Malaysia Today.

Indon has spoken: 52 hotspots in Sumatra, 264 hotspots in Kalimantan.

A bit confused, are you ranting that the western media didn’t cover enough during the wildfire season or you are pointing out the the local media only focusing on sensitive population in Malaysia ?

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露两点 - Menonjolkan dua titik tetek

Ignore the obvious siew yok, the herbal tea is also steep, that’s the profit margin that funded the stall operators. And since it includes Service Tax, presumably their total taxable services exceeded RM1.5mil for a calendar year.

Yet, the furniture in the stall (or restaurant) are pathetic, dirty and all plastic, look at the plates, table, chairs…

The food stall / restaurant owner is a half Nigerian half Zimbabwean origin running a successful business here, making a great life here than his previous career in remote call center pretending to be Leonardo DiCaprio, or Justin Tremblay.

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, The coming land of voyeurism and lewdism [1, 2]

Long story short, tourists found homestay operator installed spycam in the room, called police, homestay owner said tourists intended to con RM400 fees of the night, police advised tourists to remove evidence and post from social media. Tourists checked out the very next day. No action taken and investigation into the homestay owner voyeur fantasy operation.

What. The. Actual. Fuck ?

We need to know which homestay to avoid it completely. Homestay, AirBnB and the like are seemingly worse than Hotel these days.

PS: the news didn’t get reported in other daily other than chinese media.

[1] Chinapress [民宿插座藏摄录头 女子吓到不敢脱衣洗澡] (https://www.chinapress.com.my/20230922/民宿插座藏摄录头-女子吓到不敢脱衣洗澡/)

[2] Sinchew [沙巴蜜月 揭民宿藏针孔镜头 “吓到洗澡都不敢脱衣] (https://www.sinchew.com.my/news/20230922/nation/5001368)

It is only the beginning, I think news have reported that more than a dozen of areas in south Kalimantan and south Sumatra having been identified as hotspots responsible for the smog, and will continue to ravage the provinces.

And if combines with low rainfalls, it is not looking good.

The new A17 Pro 3nm chip comes with hardware Ray Tracing, so we will expect the next gen Apple M3 series GPU performance boost. Hopefully, the gap with discrete GPU get closer.

State government, the current chief is Saarani Mohamad.

And if you read the history of the company that wins this case, it has been on bad financial position for a long time and has changed ownership multiple times [1].

The company’s application was dismissed in October last year by judicial commissioner Bhupindar Singh. He said the monastery had demonstrated that they were not squatters and had a strong arguable defence to the eviction.

He also said there were triable issues as to whether they had occupied the land with the acquiescence of the company and state authorities.

Then, suddenly…

The Court of Appeal overturned his judgment.

A three-member bench of the Court of Appeal said the monastery had failed to raise any triable issue to prevent the grant of order.

The bench, comprising Justices Azizah Nawawi, See Mee Chun and Zaini Mazlan, later also rejected an application by the monastery for a stay of execution pending an appeal to the Federal Court.

However, the monastery’s management contested the application, contending that the company could only occupy a small portion of the land as the monastery’s monks have resided and occupied the area for more than 100 years.

They also asked for the application to be dismissed as the company had suppressed material evidence in their application by not disclosing to the court the fact that the land was occupied by the monastery.

[1] https://theedgemalaysia.com/article/newsbreak-malayan-cement-unit-apmc-closes-storied-rawang-plant-vital-upgrades

When it comes to agriculture in Malaysia, one cannot separate it from FELDA. Now, I’m lazy to dig the history of budget on just how much the government pump tax payers money into it since its’ establishment decades ago. Then, comes the promises that the government will forgo all the debt incurred by farmers who are members of the club FELDA. I don’t know the figures, but one can assume it is astronomical.

Then, another promise that RM1 Billion will be channeled to FELDA annually for the next 10 years, total RM10 Billion.

And after all the ‘milking’, this is the state of local produces, heavy dependent on imports, and now lack of clean water, what the actual fucking fuck.

It sounds like a classic ponzi scheme for never ending funding that will never yield any results, but a black hole of cronyism.

Maybe this is all in RapidKL entire workforce mind all the time, from top to bottom every single one of them that they want to raba tetek dan punggung kot…

Wake up…, don’t mental masturbate RapidKL.

This is KL problem I supposed, these type of opportunities only available in the single spot of the entire country - KL.

I believe it is the opposite. Just because more and more people dislike and despise him, he thought people are less interested in politics, people are shitting on him, he just didn’t or couldn’t comprehend the reality. Maybe his social accounts manager didn’t break it down for him and funneling the feels good content to him only.

Mahathir needs a reality check.

Persatuan Angkatan S** kot

The history on Mahathir from his Iskandar Kutty root is worth to mention that it didn’t get on mainsteam history enough.

Iskandar Kutty is such a shame for him to deny his past and he thinks it brought shame to himself, a fact that he couldn’t alter in universe, no matter which timeline he intends to put himself in, he will always be a Tamil.

The thing about Najib is he is guilty for all the allegations and money entered his account, period.

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It was discussed in Hacker News [1], I think on the contrary, it is very difficult to replicate…if it is true at all…

“Sukbae Lee and Ji-Hoon Kim hit the first sample (the prototype of LK-99) in 1999 trying to prove the theory of their professor Choi Dong-Shik. Around 2017 YoungWan Kwon joined to the team and they got investment enough for to buy an SQUID and a EPR. In 2020, L and K hit with LK99. They tried to submit a paper to Nature, but was rejected. They contacted with HyunTak Kim after read his 2021 paper (the one you point), and HyunTak Kim joined to the team.”

“By the looks of it, to me this is just the once in 5 years rumor cycle. The authors have been working on it for a long time and have been rejected by Nature. Other co-authors have said they weren’t consulted before uploading the paper. The author who uploaded had to give a talk, and for whatever reason uploaded it on Arxiv before uploading, and didn’t expect it would blow up like it has. For official confirmation of room temp superconductor, I would rather go with a big publishing journal group organising a press conference before paying any attention.”

“Been following this very closely. Seems like the one takeaway is that whatever material this is, it’s interesting. It’s also difficult to synthesize in bulk, which is a shame because superconductivity is not easy to observe in non-bulk materials (think: powder).”

“The variables that lead to its formation are not all accounted for yet. The process is understood, but it doesn’t always work. So there must be something missing every now and then.”

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940323

Since then, the experiment hasn’t been successfully replicated by others yet.

Arxiv papers aren’t peer reviewed, and if the experiment cannot be replicated, it most likely fraud, it is not uncommon in scientific communities to fabricate research results to secure funding and fame.

However, the first and second release of their publications could be the first and second draft of the paper that they intended to submit into some prestigious science journals. Usually, researchers submit the preprint version to Arxiv and at the same time to peer reviewed publication such as IEEE, ACM, however there is no guarantee for acceptance for the latter. And in this case, if it cannot be replicated, I supposed it won’t get accepted.

If the team has indeed synthesized the LK-99, maybe sending the samples to other researchers will alleviate the concern of hoax, since it is cheap and easy to synthesize ?

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