lsc36

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by lsc36 4y ago
Exactly the same in Japan; moreover, many e-commerce sites reject foreign credit cards, even those of international brands (Visa/MasterCard). What I heard was that payment providers charge higher fees for allowing foreign cards, so web
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by lsc36 4y ago
In Japan, eSIMs are exclusive to Japanese citizen and permanent residents. Not sure about the reason behind this but I don't think they're going to change policies just because Apple is pushing.
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by lsc36 4y ago
Card companies _do_ charge interest if you pay in (usually) 3 or more installments, unless explicitly mentioned being interest-free.
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by lsc36 5y ago
I once bought a TP-Link Wifi router as it was pretty high-speced at the time and people recommended it. I was happy with it until it hijacked my HTTP connection to tell me there's a firmware update. Will never consider their products a
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by lsc36 5y ago
Current/past release schedule can be found here: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/schedule
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by lsc36 5y ago
This reminds me of the Dropbox HN submission back in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by lsc36 6y ago
That depends on the modulus being divisible by 8, which is not always the case. A common example is modulus = 2^31 - 1 [0] which is prime. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#...
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by lsc36 6y ago
The article claims that "it is indeed a uniform distribution" so I wanted to point it out.
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by lsc36 6y ago
1. You don't turn PRNG into "true" RNGs simply by picking seeds from environmental randomness. The seed is just the initial state, as long as the output is generated by a deterministic algorithm, by definition it's a PRN
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by lsc36 7y ago
But you're not forbidden from talking about what you mentioned, that's why you're posting here, no? Try to post anything about Tiananmen on any forum based in China. To me this is the key that makes CCP strictly worse than
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by lsc36 7y ago
This was only active until 1979; the US currently has no military presence in Taiwan.
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by lsc36 9y ago
Firefox will eventually follow up as well: "To continue to promote the use of HTTPS and properly convey the risks to users, Firefox will eventually display the struck-through lock icon for all pages that don’t use HTTPS, to make clear
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by lsc36 9y ago
I guess design patterns should never be applied . Those are simply optimal solutions to common design problems in OOP. When you encounter your own problem, derive your own optimal solution, and you call it some "pattern" if it ha
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by lsc36 9y ago
I've been using WSL + wsltty [1] + Xming [2] for months and didn't encounter major issues. wsltty also added support to the Microsoft Store version recently. For Xming, simply set DISPLAY in shell and local GUI programs just work,
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Please build websites for the web, not just Google Chrome(thenextweb.com)
59 points by lsc36 9y ago|25 comments
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by lsc36 9y ago
Can't agree more that URL syntax is overcomplicated. Even existing URL parsing libraries behave inconsistently and lead to security vulnerabilities [0]. [0] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us
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by lsc36 9y ago
AFAIK most Taiwanese BBSes established in the 90's already run on Telnet over TCP/IP. PTT has SSH support, smartphone clients are available as well. BBS with Internet today serves as a high-performance forum, loading boards/a
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by lsc36 9y ago
Here in Taiwan BBS is still popular, PTT [0] has ~120k avg. concurrent users every day. For those interested, their codebase is available on GitHub [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System [1]