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by mrjin 6y ago
I don't see a reason why China would prefer Trump to lose. What Trump was doing for sure made China uncomfortable in short term. But in the long run, it would benefit China a lot as he was forcing China to do something it deemed unnece
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by mrjin 6y ago
Unfortunately we are not even close to getting control of fusion just like fission. And for fission, we can hardly tell whether it brings more benefit than harm as the radioactive wastes take so long to neutralize.
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by mrjin 6y ago
Google has gone rouge for a very long time... Avoid Google if you can.
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by mrjin 6y ago
Why am I not surprised?
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by mrjin 6y ago
Not only web is getting slower, it is actually everything. I've read a similar article but talking about input latency(from key stroke to displaying on screen), which is also steadily growing. The reason behind might be the same: we ha
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by mrjin 6y ago
The author obviously has no idea why email signing are there. And what he was proposing, a authorizing system, or white-list system has been there for quite a while but why it is not enabled by default? It creates more problems then the pro
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by mrjin 6y ago
It was simply arrogance and stupid: How would they know when the user is going to be inactive and the computer can be restarted? A couple of years ago, one of my colleague's computer was rebooted for updating in the middle of a importa
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by mrjin 6y ago
Nah, think again, in either the merchant's or bank's perspective: how can they tell you are really who you claimed to be? That's the core question and why all the hustle. And again, even some design can perfectly solve that p
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by mrjin 6y ago
LOL, I guess their payment processor might be able to handle AMEX but they have no idea that some cards can be 15 digits or 19 digits so... Anyway, that seems to be reasonable some how. You guess what, I encountered some POS machines allow
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by mrjin 6y ago
EMV is good, PIN is NOT
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by mrjin 6y ago
Counter intuitive, IDEAL is not protecting you but the merchant: you still need something to convince your bank that you are the account holder, and those credentials for sure can be lost for some reason and then ...
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by mrjin 6y ago
PIN is not going to help you as transactions made with PIN will be deemed made by you and you are most likely going to cover the loss if fraud did happen.
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by mrjin 6y ago
Nah, if the really card holder make a complaint to the card issuer, there will be a full charge-back by the card issuer plus a investigation fee and the store will have to cover the loss.
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by mrjin 6y ago
Nah, I guess you've over simplified things. We can take card number/account number as address but again, you will need something to identify yourself to the bank as the genuine account holder and that's exactly where all kind
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by mrjin 6y ago
Card numbers are there for a reason: transactions without presenting the card, which actually are not a big problem as there are strict rules to follow and if frauds do occur, card holders are backed by charge-back policies. I guess all you
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by mrjin 6y ago
This tool is fantastic. It saves me from writing different images to a usb stick when need different boot media, especially when working on windows as windows disk manage seems to have problems cleaning usb sticks with some particular iso i
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by mrjin 6y ago
Well, double standard obviously. Just in 2020, there are already quite a few cases that China did something deemed evil and some western country did something similar maybe almost the same but viewed as righteous. Then here comes the questi
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by mrjin 6y ago
The thing is that sugar is harmful is kinda counter-intuitive: it's tastes good and we all want it. We get overweight because of fat but sugar is not fat. And most importantly, the scientists were covering it up: blaming fat and protei
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by mrjin 6y ago
I would stay away from Kano as far as I can. Bought a Kano Pixel kit earlier which does not go with the description on official web site. Did some research my self, and it turned out I was not alone, obviously Kano changed the design after
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by mrjin 6y ago
Canada started a very bad practice: detaining foreign passenger according a 3rd county's request for his/her conduction in his/her own country for violating the 3rd country's law. If that became a common practice, then I
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by mrjin 6y ago
Well, that explains everything...
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by mrjin 6y ago
Please, the code is there, read it rather than make assumptions this might happen or that might happen. It's just plain C code all the way there was no fancy "const" stuff anywhere involved in this case. Just as claimed, CLan
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by mrjin 6y ago
Just an obvious question to ask: have we human-being ever gain immunity to common flu? Then how could those Hurd-immunity advocates be so sure it would ever work?
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by mrjin 6y ago
IMO machine learning has nothing to do with learning. It might be able to find out some patterns in the data set which can be very useful to recognize something like license plates etc. But unfortunately finding out patterns does not mean u
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by mrjin 6y ago
I've read through the article and it turns out to me that he wrote it to show he was lucky enough not to experience a multi-disk RAID failure. Personally I owned dozens of HDDs across almost all brands from desktop/laptop HDDS to
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by mrjin 7y ago
Cannot agree more. IMO, SMR based drives should be used for archiving purpose only. It does not fit for day to day usages, and not even think of using it in NAS/RAID.
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by mrjin 7y ago
It's much worse than that. For SSD, it's just the blocks need to be zeroed before being writing to, which is not even an issue if there is lot of free space. But for SMR, the reading track is narrower than writing track. For examp
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by mrjin 7y ago
That's definitely a reliability concern IMO: critical operations cannot be completed in expected time.
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by mrjin 7y ago
That's true. There would be no issue as long as the fact is clearly displayed in data sheets. The problem is not really with SMR, but with hiding the fact.