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by rfoo 6y ago
I agree, the system certainly encourages you to climb the political ladder, and overall this affects innovation, but things are not binary, what you described may be 100% correct in 60s and 70s, less so in 90s, and during the last 20 years
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by rfoo 6y ago
Usually no as it does not scale. They usually use several (third party) "debt collection" services which operate in a questionable way (I'd call it mafia-style). Examples of what they would usually do: - Call you 100 times pe
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by rfoo 6y ago
> If I am ambitious, why would I be an innovator in this system? Versus the person deciding who gets rich? Why would the person deciding who gets rich let someone else become such person? I mean, it's not impossible, but is certainl
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by rfoo 6y ago
An interesting fact is in China even traditional credit cards have significantly lower fee. UnionPay only charges around 0.6%. Not comparable to Alipay or WeChat Pay's effectively 0% but still.
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by rfoo 6y ago
And the "Created and mainteined by" links to maintainers' Steam profile... I'm sorry and I'm sure this is my biased view but gamers usually make very questionable choice on security stuff even they have 0 malicious
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by rfoo 6y ago
> Now developers EXPECT languages to come with a FREE suit of command line tools for linting, static analysis, formatting, package management and what not. The key selling point of Intellij IDEA is they come with semantic refactoring too
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by rfoo 6y ago
> they outright banned Facebook For a different (and more stupid) reason though. It's not like CCP banned Facebook for sending home data, they banned Facebook for not being able to comply to censorship requirements. iCloud would be
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by rfoo 6y ago
Yes. My Chinese friends are joking on this "California on Cloud" scenario. (GCBD is called "Guizhou on Cloud" in Chinese)
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by rfoo 6y ago
And you can always compile your old codes with older C++ standards, codes compiled in C++11 / C++14 / C++17 are mostly ABI compatible so they can be (relatively safely) linked together.
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by rfoo 6y ago
Yes. Also, the fact that Chromium is a high profile security critical software with occasional emergency security updates for bugs exploited in the wild, doesn't help at all when you want to maintain your own fork.
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by rfoo 6y ago
Even worse, they are talking about RetDec, which by no means is a commercial decompiler. I mean, not even Ghidra. I guess their accuracy means "the same AST", because according to Appendix F of this paper they showed at least one
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by rfoo 6y ago
The commercial decompiler they compared to is RetDec, which is not really a competent commercial decompiler. By "the commercial decompiler" I was expecting to see IDA Pro, the de-facto standard of this industry. Or at least Ghidra
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by rfoo 6y ago
> A long timeout doesn't break the application. I'm pretty sure infinite timeout also breaks the application, in a way people rarely realize that it is because of the timeout. People would rather think it "just didn't
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by rfoo 6y ago
In the article you linked, you can find mentions of QAnon near the end: > One such show is "Edge of Wonder," a verified YouTube channel that releases new NTD-produced videos twice every week and now has more than 33 million vie
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by rfoo 6y ago
> Just because something publishes conspiracy theories, doesn't mean it's always wrong. Of course. So I also mentioned the decision of Wikipedia community, at least they find the signal-to-noise ratio of The Epoch Times is low
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by rfoo 6y ago
> Google Cloud's learning resource in Chinese is fewer than AWS/Azure Yes, that's true. But it's not like there are a lot of learning resources in Chinese for AWS/Azure, either. At least compared to Aliyun (Aliba
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by rfoo 6y ago
> Epoch times Friendly reminder that The Epoch Times is not a reliable news source, it promotes far-right politics in Germany, usually publishes conspiracy theories including QAnon, and was deprecated as a source by Wikipedia in 2019 [1]
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by rfoo 6y ago
Do China imprisonment do organ harvesting?
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by rfoo 6y ago
Because the product TikTok itself, is not targeted at users in China? TikTok is more like "Douyin International", or say, there is a separate "TikTok China" named Douyin. So whether these cloud services operates in China
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by rfoo 6y ago
The thing is, all your said, applies to all NICs we used these days. There are nothing special in these NICs with advanced offload features.
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by rfoo 6y ago
> merely because the tools are primitive and unpolished Sorry, but I believe this is the evidence that it's the abstractions behind these tools being primitive and these tools can't be polished, putting more efforts on an imp
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by rfoo 6y ago
Where is the builtin git tooling for showing side by side diff with proper syntax and different parts highlighting, and make it possible to turn my review comments back to the "bottom-posting" style text emails interleaved with th
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by rfoo 6y ago
> And that's only if you already have a GitHub account. Come on, I get that you hate being locked in a proprietary service which requires an "account", but if you want to make this point then I'm sure people could say
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by rfoo 6y ago
I thought after Intel MPX we can all agree "memory safety" in modern languages is more about temporal stuff (i.e. use-after-free, etc) than bounds check, but maybe I'm wrong. How does those runtime checks kill UAF?
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by rfoo 6y ago
It's more like full-hardware-no-software work. Basically if you want to use this on your "standard" keyboards bought off the shelf, you have to either: 1. Open your keyboard, replace the keyboard controller with something tha
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by rfoo 6y ago
What if your true Internet access depends on it? Providing un-GFWed Internet access for all my devices is so much easier with the networking gears which happens to be in my homelab setup.
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by rfoo 6y ago
> the good software engineers in China (the ones who work for Google etc.) get paid just as much as their American counterparts That's not true. I can provide a data point: a Googler who works in Beijing, 3 years into his career wit
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by rfoo 6y ago
It's a little bit more complicated than "ask Taiwanese", depends on whether you ask the indigenous people or those coming from mainland ~1949 and their descendants, you may get different answers. I don't think you mean N
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by rfoo 6y ago
> hijacks requests to valid top level domains I believe the purpose of this feature is not about detecting hijack requests to valid top level domains. In other words, a well written NXDOMAIN interceptor would not cause a harm to their in
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by rfoo 6y ago
> the first word No. The answer appears to be yes if you said "the only word", though.

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