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by k_sze 4y ago
But I thought the price surge of nvidia gpus in the past few years were demand-driven because of crypto mining?
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by k_sze 4y ago
I suspect that the way we watch the Olympics pretty much implies it is a country-team event. I'm pretty sure most people have their eyes on the medal count rankings, not on who exactly wins a medal (unless you are a close friend or rel
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by k_sze 4y ago
I see two problems with the proposal 1. Part of the reason for doing e-mail verification the old way is to ensure the user can really receive messages at the particular address, for purposes such as password reset or e-mail notification
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by k_sze 4y ago
That's some scary numbers. Does anybody know how much CME mass (in tonnes or kgs) the Earch bumps into in this kind of event? How much mechanical influence does it exert on Earth?
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by k_sze 4y ago
Not a planetary/astrophysics/whatever scientist myself, but the page mentions "the arrival at or near Earth of multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that have departed the Sun since 14 Aug" Assuming the CMEs arrive arou
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by k_sze 4y ago
If you want a good theoretical foundation based on maths, Caltech's Learning From Data course is good: https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse You need to be not afraid of doing proofs of theorems (most of them have to do
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by k_sze 4y ago
I'm not familiar with goats. But this got me thinking: why would the goats even do that? Are they not well-fed? Are they hungry all the time? Do goats eat and poop 24/7 if left unchecked?
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by k_sze 4y ago
All I can say is that I'm sorry your life sucked under that particular regime. Not all communist regimes are the same, not even when you are talking about successions within the same country. Wen Jiabao, Xi Jinping, Jiang Zemin, Deng X
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by k_sze 4y ago
The title sounds like a non-question. I posit that learning anything (even fengshui or astrology), at any age, will make you smarter, as long as you bring a pair of critical eyes with you. Besides learning about the actual “thing” (which yo
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by k_sze 4y ago
LOL. Why do you need to assume that anybody who disagrees with you is paid to do so? That’s so dismissive and unproductive towards serious discourse.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Because the Western media outside the GFW is full of lies and Western propaganda. Having lived through the Hong Kong 2019 riots, I know what it’s like. The GFW is there to filter away all the distraction so that most people can stay unbothe
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by k_sze 4y ago
That's because China is a meritocracy. Everybody has to work their way up from the very bottom in order to prove their worth - even people with connections will fail if they can't prove their worth. And so you don't end up wi
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by k_sze 4y ago
Whoever wrote that on Wikipedia clearly does not understand how accountability works in China, nor follows news in China, and is only speaking from theory . If you follow the news in China, you see elected officials promptly getting fired
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by k_sze 4y ago
So what? Hong Kong and Macau also have their own currency, passport, and elections. And they are still part of China. Nobody says the PRC will just nullify Taiwan's currency, etc. upon unification. All they are asking, basically, is th
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by k_sze 4y ago
The US is literally interfering in the internal affairs of China. Taiwan is legally part of China. They never declared independence. Even the Joint Communiqué between PRC and USA explicitly says recognizes that Taiwan is part of China.
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by k_sze 4y ago
1. Taiwan never declared independence. 2. Mainland China is not a dictatorship. There *are* democratic processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_China. You just basically never hear about them in Weste
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by k_sze 4y ago
I think learning Python changed my life. Learning Groovy came close, but it wasn’t as popular as Python, and the Java ecosystem was still a drag. Python actually made programming effortless and enjoyable for me.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Years ago, I tried to teach myself Ruby because Rails was all the rage. But I could not, for the life of me, remember which symbol means private, which meant protected, which meant public. There was no affordance to the symbols, and I have
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by k_sze 4y ago
Yep. There are plenty of videos on Youtube where you can hear how some actual suppressors sound. For example, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwarGzJ9R8
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by k_sze 4y ago
There’s another tool called “clumsy” that I used some years ago.
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by k_sze 4y ago
Just a what-if thought experiment: What if BMW announced they will perpetually donate all of the proceeds to some real charity organizations? Would we still be opposed to this subscription?
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by k_sze 4y ago
Even on Windows, MS Teams is garbage in terms of core instant messaging UX: - it has a massive lag in syncing messages after your computer wakes from sleep or after re-signing in - switching accounts is, again, unreasonably slow where
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by k_sze 4y ago
Doesn’t seem to work on iOS?
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by k_sze 4y ago
And here are a few of my sources for music while programming: - kahvi collective (kahvi.org, kahvicollective.bandcamp.com) - ocremix.org (they produce some really nice albums, e.g. the gigantic 6-disc Final Fantasy VI remix album, one of my
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by k_sze 4y ago
I find that music with lyrics is ok as long as it's not in a language that I understand. So for example, these languages would destroy my cencentration: - Cantonese - Mandarin - English - French I'm still ok listening to Japanes
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by k_sze 4y ago
But then how do we explain “assass”? I can’t imagine any situation where one wants to spam “ass” repeatedly. Or maybe it’s just me not knowing Reddit.
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by k_sze 4y ago
It’s likely going to make your roof much heavier though, being made of glass. And that’s usually a bad thing. So unless they find a different lighter material with which they can create the same kind of lens, it probably won’t be suitable f
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by k_sze 4y ago
I don’t oppose giving expensive fruits as gifts, but it gets weird if it also means fruits become generally unaffordable for casual/daily consumption. If memory serves, when I stayed in Tokyo for a month some 15 or 16 years ago, I was
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by k_sze 4y ago
How about ratifying some law that says, once a company has been warned about their use of unsafe crypto for X amount of time, if they still don't fix things, then they are fair game to black hats (as in, no black hat will be prosecuted
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Hong Kong’s iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant capsizes at sea(apnews.com)
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