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ytchon Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches

Presonally I didn't like the response time. Just like the DVB-T takes more time to switch between channels.

When controlling the light, temperature or others from touch-screen, I need to wait those animations and a slight delay after touch the trigger.

ytchon Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics

Could we assume it is like executing:

    var item Item

    item = items[0]
    all = append(all, &item)

    item = items[1]
    all = append(all, &item)

    ...

ytchon Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101 Skyscraper during 6.8 earthquake [video]

https://scweb.cwb.gov.tw/en-us/earthquake/imgs/ee20220918144...

The Intensity (human feeling) at Taipei is just Lv.3 (because epicenter is almost 250km or 161 miles away), which means "Almost everyone will feel shaking, and some may experience fear"[1]. Such degree is not very rare at Taiwan, so most people will just act as "hmm", "OK fine".

Also after the 921 Earthquake[2], Taiwan raise earthquake-resistant structures standard, therefore most new buildings will be fine under 5 or 6 Intensity.

[1] https://scweb.cwb.gov.tw/en-US/Guidance/FAQdetail/182

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Jiji_earthquake

ytchon http://pn./

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479435

In 2020, someone find if you add "." in host suffix of Youtube url: http://www.youtube.com./ it will works without AD (IIRC, because AD resource file is viewed as different domain and blocked)

ytchon Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

Yeah, So I use split-tunnel. For example only route 192.168.1.0/24 via VPN, then set 192.168.1.10 as DNS server. Therefore I can use pi-hole at home and other traffic are routed by 5G directly.

ytchon Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

I use OpenVPN/Wireguard to setup split-tunnel VPN, only route DNS traffic to Pi-hole at home network. Although my connection may be leaked, I thought it's faster since 5G is faster than my home network upload speed.

ytchon Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse

I'd use VeraCrypt along with those CSAM enabled cloud, so they cannot read my files in most cases.

(unless they assume my file is so valuable that an exploit is needed to decrypt them)

ytchon Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone

I am think of the same thing. What if he type some random words, but police claim they are encrypted messages, how does he prove it is “meaningless”?

ytchon XML-RPC Specification (1999)

This reminds me that Apple's Plist[1] is similar too:

    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
            <string>ShapeEditDocument</string>
            <key>LSHandlerRank</key>
            <string>Owner</string>
            <key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
            <array>
                <string>com.example.shape-doc</string>
            </array>
        </dict>
    </array>

( Taken from[2] )

Maybe it's common to design XML schema like this at that time?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list

[2] https://github.com/robovm/apple-ios-samples/blob/1f6b14ef6e2...

ytchon Nikon to stop making SLR cameras and focus on mirrorless models?

https://www.nikon.com/news/2022/0712_01.htm

https://www.nikon.co.jp/news/2022/0712_01.htm

Nikon denies the report:

> Nikon is continuing the production, sales and service of digital SLR

ytchon Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

> he’s the exPM, so what would shooting him gain?

Abe still has important impacts on Japan politics. He leads the largest faction in the Liberal Democratic Party[1], therefore he could influence many voters during LDP President election. And LDP is the ruling party, so LDP President will be the PM.

Another example is he stated “If Taiwan has a problem, then Japan also has a problem.” last year as an ex-PM[2], although it is not official policy, this statements is still being discussed among Japanese government/people till now, it shows he still has huge influence in Japan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factions_in_the_Liberal_Democr...

[2] https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4361798

ytchon Xbox Series X|S Has Outsold PS5 in Japan Again

I guess it's like "Chicken or the egg" problem,

from Famitsu[1], all top 10 best-selling games are Switch games.

It the console don't have attractive games, Player won't buy it.But if the console doesn't sell well, game studios will hesitate to make exclusive game for it.

So yes, Currently only Switch has more "Japanese game" now.

[1] https://www.famitsu.com/news/202206/23266022.html

ytchon Where are all the crypto use cases?

Me too, I thought: " We use RSA, AES, ECDSA everyday, why is it a question" at first glance.

ytchon How do video games stay in sync?

I learned it from games that porting to newer platform with faster FPS. For example, Dark Souls II runs at 30 FPS at release. Then upgrade to 60 FPS after porting to PC, but double the FPS also doubles the weapons break pace.

ytchon Qualcomm’s M1-class laptop chips will be ready for PCs in “late 2023”

It makes sense, thanks for explanation

ytchon Qualcomm’s M1-class laptop chips will be ready for PCs in “late 2023”

M1 (or MacOS) has x64 translation at day one. I'm wondering why it takes so long for MS and QCOM to design an x64 emulator at windows on ARM.

If they have a fast/stable emulator, it would catch up with M1 more quickly.

ytchon Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to Avira servers

I was annoyed by the Deco APP too. It provides remote management, which I believe that all data is forwarded through TP-Link's server.

My solution is running those devices as a Wi-Fi to LAN bridge, also setup my own NAT gateway (by bare-metal Linux, Openwrt... etc). Then blocking there devices from accessing Internet at gateway.

If I have more IoT devices at home, I will apply such policy to all of them.

ytchon M1 Ultra Geekbench Score

Also M1 Ultra's UMA architecture means almost 128G VRAM for GPU.

It would be interesting to see how it performed in VRAM intensive task compare to RTX 3090.

ytchon New iPhone SE

AFAIK, it is usually caused by shitty eMMC/flash storage.

If it is almost full, the performance is degraded. If it is written a lot of data over time, performance is degraded too.

ytchon Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

> NIC.RU, the state-owned registrar.

But without SWIFT, will they have trouble to pay the ICANN fee?

ytchon 5nm is only a marketing term and has no relation to any actual phyiscal feature

But in consider of time to mass production and density[1]:

TSMC 5nm: 171 MTr/mm2 in 2021 (for apple A15)

Intel 10nm: 100.76 MTr/mm2 in 2021 (for 12th core-i)

Intel keep saying they will win in the future, while they seems forget TSMC will improve too. Comparing Intel 10nm with TSMC 7nm is outdated.

Or is there any objective metrics to determine which one is better, other than MTr/mm2?

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16823/intel-accelerated-offen...

ytchon Every M1 Mac is due for a 2022 refresh with faster M2 chip, new designs

M1 pro/max has huge memory bandwidth (including L1, L2 and DDR: 102GB/s), I guess it helps compression faster than x86?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...

ytchon Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'

> was incredibly pro-KMT, which is about as anti-CCP as you can get

Here are some reference that shows how pro-CCP they are:

https://international.thenewslens.com/article/116615

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Taiwan-s-new-Kuomintang-lea...

https://frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/chus-china-tri...

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-Kuomintang-KMT-have-a-clo...

ytchon TSMC’s Arizona Culture Clash

Or: Somebody works at "Non-exist" Fab 8 hours a day, and insist that TSMC must follow such rules.

ytchon Intel claims new i9 is faster than M1 Max

But Intel also said Rocket Lake is better than M1:

https://www.laptopmag.com/news/intels-benchmarks-show-advant...

> Intel claims that an 11th gen Core i7-1185G7 CPU can match or exceed the MacBook Pro M1’s processor in both native and non-native applications based on the benchmarks released. The company also says the 11th gen Core I7 will provide better battery life.

So can we assume the leap of M1 -> M1 Max is bigger than 11th i7 -> 12th i7, therefore Intel can only beat it with i9?

But it is a little strange since M1 Max has more CPU, GPU core and memory, and CPU design is almost the same. while Intel 12th core is a new design.

ytchon Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022

China still doesn't allow eSim, so Apple made special iPhone model with dual SIM slots for them.

ytchon Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022

It is awful in Taiwan too.

As per telecom regulation, you cannot get a new eSIM online. The only way is visiting telecom service center in person, verify your ID, pay the fee (about 10 USD), finally got a printed eSIM QR code.

It implies you must pay $10 when you switch to a new phone every time. worse than Physical SIM card.

ytchon x86, X64 Instruction Latency, Memory Latency and Cpuid Dumps

There are some explanation in Comment page:

  In this dump latency means the time that it takes for the next dependent same-type instruction to start. Throughput means the time that it takes for the next independent same-type instruction to start:

ytchon MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

Correct me if I am wrong but if you want a multiple NIC bare metal device, you may consider industrial pc.

Many of them have ITX size PC or motherboard with Atom CPU and over 8 of 1G NIC plus 2 10G SFP+

ytchon ABit BP6 Dual Socket370 Motherboard (1999)

IIRC ABit is the pioneer to overclocking in BIOS, rather than adjust hardware jump manually.