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Air quality in Cheras, Nilai and Shah Alam hits unhealthy levels as of 9am today
  • "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.

  • "I Can't Afford Chicken Rice Anymore": Netizens Horrified That 2 Plates Of Chicken Rice Cost RM81
  • 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.

  • /c/café daily chat thread for 22 September 2023
  • 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)

  • /c/café daily chat thread for 17 September 2023
  • 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.

  • Shortage of local rice in Malaysia due to diseases and lack of clean water
  • 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.

  • /c/café daily chat thread for 14 August 2023
  • 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 vague Apple Neural Engine, what does it do with the premium we paid for ?

    I found this on reddit which I reluctantly to cite it here [1], anyway the comments and the findings were as vague as Apple claiming they beat Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU with that fancy chart.

    Regardless, all Apple current lineups, incl. Macbooks, Mac mini, Mac Studio Max come with 16-core Neural Engine, and the Ultra comes with 32-core Neural Engine.

    What does it actually do despite all the marketing claims that none other than BS vague stuffs that only accessible to Apple proprietary apps, Finder, FaceTime, Final Cut Pro...

    And from the schematic diagram of Apple M series SoC, the Neural Engine used significant space of the SoC.

    Does Pytorch and other ML frameworks actually utilize that 16/32-core ?

    [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/122iqf4/everything_we_actually_know_about_the_apple/

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