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by yftsui 5y ago
Guess Google Loon is better suited for this as it can stay longer in place? 5 hours sounds extremely limited given the effort to get there in the first place.
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by yftsui 5y ago
That’s just CDN, not the real service.
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Dropbox Paper is down for most users(status.dropbox.com)
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by yftsui 5y ago
I found it funny for the “LED never die” claim. My new home’s living room has 11 Philips BR30 LED lights, within 2 years I have already replaced 4 of them, all died with a super dim glow.
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by yftsui 5y ago
What made to top 10 is the article claims the event is going viral, NOT the event itself. The exaggeration on news articles with this type of title has become a pattern.
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by yftsui 5y ago
Not sure why this title has "goes viral", it is nothing new. Almost 8 years ago, Dr. Jules White explained a simpler setup(at least IMO as less software) in very detail with a Mirror: Building a Low-cost Lightboard for Video Lect
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by yftsui 5y ago
This is great! I bought Garmin North America from App Store many years ago for $60, and they secretly removed support for it last year and it no longer runs on iOS 14.
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by yftsui 5y ago
Sony didn’t even care about iPod or MP3 for a few years after 2001, as it didn’t hit its bottom line, release of NW-E400 was the turning point, prior to that it is mostly MiniDisc.
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by yftsui 5y ago
In east Asia, it is true that it holds the high end Walkman market till at least 2003. People see MP3s as cheap plastic toys until iPod and iRiver took off.
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by yftsui 5y ago
Sony was really at its peak during early 2000s, MD was the crown of jewel, single battery supporting that kind of play back time with a spinning disc inside is really impressive. However in terms of market share, it is still behind tape an
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by yftsui 5y ago
Contra data point here, I don’t use Chrome besides at work, enjoy the simplicity
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by yftsui 5y ago
If you mean your housemate has an Echo device, you cannot setup it without using Alexa app.
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by yftsui 5y ago
about two years ago Amazon’s Sphere had a corpse flower bloom for view, there was a huge line outside at 11pm and some local university researchers cut it to take the pollen etc because it is so rare. https://www.geekwire.com&#x2
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by yftsui 5y ago
OceanBase was open sourced but they deleted everything says it will no longer be open sourced. Now in 2021 they “open source” it again? TPCC result means nothing without context, Alibaba spent 54 million USD for hardware building the system
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by yftsui 5y ago
These are just KPI projects as their performance are judged by meaningless metrics. OceanBase WAS open sourced, after the news reports and publicity, Alibaba deleted all code and replaced it with a Chinese announcement says it will no longe
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by yftsui 5y ago
Nobody use BAT anymore, Baidu has been a 2nd tier company for at least 5 years and nobody refer it in the acronyms. The top 5 are Alibaba, Tencent, Ant Financial, ByteDance, Meituan or PDD
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by yftsui 5y ago
Chinese Yuan is not a freely convertible currency, each Chinese individual can convert their CNY to a foreign currency up to 50k USD value, the conversion process is tightly reviewed. If banks start offering crypto, they are essentially of
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by yftsui 5y ago
5G is notoriously known for smaller coverage area than LTE, it made IOT impossible instead of possible.
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by yftsui 5y ago
I read the article but I believe the key point is since when 11.x.x.x stopped being dormant addresses, instead of these IPs just transferred ownership but not “dormant”. As an interesting fact, when searching “aliyun 11.0.0.0” which is the
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by yftsui 5y ago
Previous story in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006534 . This article is exaggerating by saying it happened overnight, which started actually 5 years ago.
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by yftsui 5y ago
No, those are just schematics leaked from production lines especially repairing stations inside the factory. Computers used on production lines and repairing stations sometimes doesn't even have Intranet access, they just copy those PD
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by yftsui 5y ago
These documents appears to be just PDF schematics and electrical specifications, not even the real files that can be opened by Cadence Orcad or Allegro, anybody making a minimum wage in Quanta's production line have access to some of t
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by yftsui 6y ago
Because the road and other related infrastructure may not be ready for the increased FAR ratio yet?
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by yftsui 6y ago
Zigbee smoke alarms cost is okay, but still a few bucks more and it add up if you have 10 of them. I just enable Alexa to listen for smoke alarms and send me a notification when I am away.
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by yftsui 6y ago
In China, usually you could tell a person’s age by reading the names. However, the exception would be if the family’s ancestors were literate thus made a genealogy book, where the book will tell you which character could be used for the fir
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by yftsui 6y ago
How does this has anything to do with centralization? These recent GitHub outage largely linked with Azure outages, it is either they are migrating to Azure or the migration caused Azure outages
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by yftsui 6y ago
I assume this is just calling Privacy’s APIs, privacy card transactions will go through if the zip code matches, the only thing it doesn’t verify is the name.
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by yftsui 6y ago
Ahh long press power button works! At least this would make my regular reboot for watching local channels easier.
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by yftsui 6y ago
I upgraded my TV to a Sony X950 because I cannot find a decent dumb TV, got really annoyed with the super buggy Google Android TV thing. The cold start time is absurdly high, the basic feature of a TV - built in OTA TV player has a bug that
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by yftsui 6y ago
Scanning if you have smart home devices and what the types they are. The Google Home mini does the same and even try to connect to the smart switches. Google ensures you cannot connect Google Home to a Guest Wi-Fi (where it cannot see othe

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