November 6, 2024 at 1:54 AM, "Yuqian Yang" <crup...@crupest.life mailto:crup...@crupest.life?to=%22Yuqian%20Yang%22%20%3Ccrupest%40crupest.life%3E > wrote:
> > On 2024-11-06 03:15, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: > > > > > I accept your apology. No harm done. :) > > > You are really nice people. It is always hard to forgive someone especially > when being misunderstood. > > I just haven't join one party like this. I used to contribute some open > source software. Maybe the community is small compared to Hurd one. But I > don't think this is good excuse for my rudeness. > > Actually I highly respect people like you striving to give us spiritual > energy. I think most people code for open source but seldom ones talking > about emotions. Because most programmer enjoy solving actual software > problems. But the left brain and the right brain are both important to > compose a full human brain. No one's perfect. :) It's good to have lots of communities! It's really fine. I guess I am trying to build a Hurd community. The recent game jam discussion and subsequent actual game jam lead us to discovering a recent regression in many of the games that compile on the Hurd but are failing to launch. So there is some value in it. > > > > If you search the bug-hurd archives, you'll see a very angry email from > > me to Samuel back in the day. It's really ok. > > > Let the past be past. Good friends always argue and then reconcile. > > > > > You all have a New Year's party right? Do you celebrate it on January > > > 1st? Or some other day? > > Are there good Chinese holidays that are celebrated at a similar time > as > > our Western holidays? > > > That's also a long story. :) I can tell you if you want to listen. > > Note that most of these are not limit to China but also most east Asia > countries and districts. > > Chinese celebrate TWO New Year. One is January 1st in Gregorian calendar, > which is used all over the world, like Christmas is December 25. The other is > on January 1st in Lunisolar calendar[1], aka Chinese New Year. On that day, > families and friends reunite together back in hometown and celebrate it just > like Christmas. This calendar has been used for a long time in ancient China. > It is not sync with Gregorian calendar, so the actual date shifts in it. > After the old dynasty died, for communication with the world, we then change > to use Gregorian calendar but preserve most traditional festivals based on > Lunisolar calendar. > > I hope talking too much on this does not bother you too much. > > Anyway, we also celebrate January 1st in Gregorian calendar and have holiday > on it. I think this is a very good day. Both Chinese and celebrate it. New > year, new plan, new energy! I am game for a Hurd New Year's party! We should do it! Joshua > > > > > We did have a hackathon not too long ago. I could certainly put a > little > > more effort into > > making our Hurd hackathons a little more fun. > > > That sounds kind of difficult. But I believe in you. :) > > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar Hmmm solar calendars sound pretty cool!
