一 | Beijing, Oct 21 (UNI) The world has largely moved on from Covid -- except for China, where towns and cities are still shut down overnight.
And that's unlikely to change soon, judging by President Xi Jinping's opening speech at the Communist Party Congress on Sunday, BBC reported.
China -- and even the world -- was hoping for a hint of relaxation. But Xi, who is set to be handed a historic third term to lead the Party, said that the government would not "waver" in its commitment to record zero cases.
Driven by Xi's approval, China's lockdowns have been incessant, unpredictable and hellish by most accounts.
They have sparked food shortages, crippled healthcare access, hit the economy hard and even spurred rare signs of protest, the BBC reported.
But Beijing has clung to zero-Covid, which has come to define Xi's rule and the authoritarian bureaucracy at his disposal like almost no other policy.
The BBC found that since March, China has partially or fully locked down 152 prefecture-level cities, affecting a population of more than 280 million. But 114 of those have been locked down just since August, as the Party Congress approached.
Beijing is the only major city to have avoided a full lockdown so far. Residents half-jokingly observe that the capital has managed this by locking down the rest of the country when needed.
However on Thursday some housing estates and shopping centres in Beijing were being locked down after a steep rise in cases.
China's bureaucrats have certainly found inventive new ways to describe lockdowns. The measures had become so controversial and dreaded that confusing official-speak was one way to make them more palatable, the report said.
So they used phrases like "stasis management", "at-home stillness" or to be clearer, "stillness throughout the whole region" or "stop all unnecessary movement".
Then came "temporary societal control", which authorities said was not a "lockdown" but reduced movement that somehow would not affect the "normal order of production and life". And yet "the public was asked not to go out unless necessary".
"Enclosed management" was another new phrase invented in the southern province of Guangdong. It means that the village, district or residential compound is enclosed, with checkpoints at entrances and exits. People and vehicles are allowed to enter and leave with passes, the BBC reported.
People who do not live or work in the enclosed area are not allowed to enter. But, residents were told, it's not a lockdown.
When track-and-trace methods started to grate, eager officials came up with an alternative: "temporal and spatial overlapper". The sci-fi-inspired phrase refers to someone whose location, tracked by their phone, has overlapped in time and space with someone else who is Covid-positive.
Rather than tell people not to visit their hometowns during this year's Spring Festival, the governor in Dancheng County in central Henan province warned them that "those who come home with malicious intent will first be quarantined, then be detained", the report said.
Experts also say China's bureaucracy is far more centralised under Xi - it's a reversal of the decentralisation that began after China introduced economic reforms. What that means now is that bureaucrats enforce Xi's signature policies with zeal.
UNI MR。 8月24日消息，今年以来微软对Win11系统的改进与升级是有目共睹的，但是围绕Win11的争议也没断过，现在还有很多问题没解决，微软不到庆功的时候。 Windowscentral网站前几天还写文章称Win11改动升级太大了，微软应该考虑改名为Win12，现在又写文章批Win11的问题了，他们虽然也承认现在的Win11改进确实很明显。 但是微软还有个核心问题要解决，这就是卡顿，而这个卡顿的根源在于微软并没有打造最好的Windows应用，只是把Webview2等网页打包成了程序。
了解过Webview2这种组件的玩家应该明白他们说的意思，很多时候Win11的卡顿或者内存占用过大都是这个东西导致的，微软前几年之前有个迷思，他们认为的软件发展方向就是网页化，因此开发的很多应用本质上就是把Webview2打包成软件，而不是开发出优化够好的原生应用。 他们提到的例子包括微软Outlook、Teams等应用，不过在国内很多人没怎么用过这两个，所以感受可能不深。 不过他们提出的观点还是值得思考的，微软现在也意识到了Webview2有多坑，目前正在推进用WinUI3框架替代之前的应用，后者的优化更好，更流畅，占用的内存也更低，最近改进的各种对话框、属性等都是在用WinUI3重做之前的古老应用而已。
二 | 一句话来说就是微软需要以身作则，自己就应该打造出最好的Windows应用，试想一下如果微软自己的团队开发的Windows应用表现都不太好，那其他开发者还会重视优化吗？道理就是这样的。
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