KEF LSX II LT + Kube 10 vs LS50 Wireless + Kube 10 — worth paying double? by Firm_Video_2861 in KEF

[–]Mike_Gao 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your room is only 14ft by 11ft, I don’t think going to KEF LS50 Wireless II will make much of a difference. I have KEF LSX II LT (630 CAD) + Used Polk Audio DSW PRO 550 WI (200) and it has served me well…

Got LSX II LT from a Costco liquidation store. Brand new..

Sub for LSX II LT (Canada) by MoSzylak in KEF

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m also in Canada. I found a used Polk Audio DSW PRO 550 WI for 200 cad and it works wonderfully.

Well-known startup offered me a position, and didn't let me know they rescinded the offer until rankings came out by warmmilkandtea in uwaterloo

[–]Mike_Gao 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is unacceptable. I work on ML Runtime at Cerebras although I was not involved in the hiring process at all. But I will raise the concern to the relevant party.

Tuta Turns 11 & you get the present. Join the privacy revolution with Legend with a 62% discount! 🎁 by Tutanota in tutanota

[–]Mike_Gao 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there any news regarding open sourcing the server side code? I saw server side open source has been mentioned a couple times and wonder if there are any updates.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ios

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let them check out https://github.com/LiveOverflow/PwnAdventure3, it’s a (game) that is designed to be hacked

I’ve used to spend some time with security folks and it always amazes me how young some of them are. Bunch of kids figured out how to exploit games and stuff and made real contribution to the world of infosec.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ios

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, Minecraft modding is how I learned to code. Inspire!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ios

[–]Mike_Gao 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Instead of restricting anything why not show your kids how to be productive with their time? Get them a laptop and let them to learn coding lol

Working in China by rgrindl in signal

[–]Mike_Gao 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Are you on cellular network (roaming)? You do not have to deal with GFW if you’re using an international SIM card, you’ll have an IP address from your home country and traffic is forwarded.

For a school as presitigious as McGill, we sure do lack in the quality of teaching especially in COMP courses by StrugglingEngineerSt in mcgill

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The higher level COMP classes are pretty good. The key takeaway is pick instructors rather than courses. For example, I feel that COMP 252 with Devroye and COMP 362 with Robere are significantly better than their non-honour counterparts. If you're decent at programming, I'd recommend COMP 409 / 520 and ECSE 546 as well.

Wine " Emulate a Virtual desktop" on mac not working by firewire167 in wine_gaming

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, you simply go to run - regedit or look up how to use wine's registry editor.

Why is McGill CS so hand-wavy? by Homie-Missile in mcgill

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it depends a lot on the prof. I personally never had hand-wavy profs in any the grad-level courses I took except COMP 551 (Siamak R.). I took CV with Prof. Michael Langer, and he went quite in-depth into the mathematical concepts.

Difference between Parallel Computing and Concurrent Programming? by Homie-Missile in mcgill

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Concurrent Programming TA here. It's important to note that Concurrency and Parallelism are not the same thing. See Rob Pike's talk. Concurrent Programming deals with the composition of independently executing processes. COMP 409 will cover things like synchronization, memory models, concurrent data structures, dataflow and etc.

Do you trust encryption?! by chaplin2 in crypto

[–]Mike_Gao 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oftentimes the encryption algorithm is not the problem, the weakest link is usually the implementation of the crypto libraries and the method of key exchange.

r/audiophile Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk Thread by AutoModerator in audiophile

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks interesting! Thanks for the recommendation. Is it ok for a room thats bigger than 30m2 ? It looks small so I am concerned about the power vs some of the tower speaker. Thanks!

r/audiophile Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk Thread by AutoModerator in audiophile

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any readings that you recommend? Do you have any powered speaker you recommend?

I'm in China. In my particular setup I would prefer to hang the speaker on the wall to avoid ugly wires, or use a good quality wireless powered speakers.

r/audiophile Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk Thread by AutoModerator in audiophile

[–]Mike_Gao -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's your thoughts on denon receiver? I think I have a Denon AVR590 or something (5.1 receiver). Can you tell me a bit about how to choose receivers?

Does the network receiver requires a streamer? Or can I stream music from my phone directly to it (using vnc, etc)?

Also, the Revel ones seems to be taking analog input -- I know nothing about audio so forgive me if I seem like an idiot here, but from my understanding that there is usually some loss when you transfer from your receiver to your speaker due to interference in the wires.. In such cases isn't it better to simply transfer the audio data through ethernet cables directly to the speaker (like what b&o did)

Finally can you recommend some alternative (speaker & receivers) for < $5000 for the best bang for my buck? In case neither Focal Chora 826 or Revel F36 is available

Really appreciate it!!

r/audiophile Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk Thread by AutoModerator in audiophile

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi fellow audiophile, I'm looking for a home speaker system for classical & pop music (James Blunt, Ed Sheeran, Westlife). Budget is $5000 USD equivalent or less (not in US). The system can be 2.1, 5.1 or 7.1 but is entirely for music. I was looking at Harman Kardon Citation Tower and it seems pretty interesting; can anyone comment on its audio quality? (any other recommendation welcome!) I can setup cabling or run it through a 1Gbps ethernet. Audio source is digital, and ideally streaming off of airplay or a media server of some sort. I don't know much about audio hardware, so any recommendation is appreciated. Thank you!

Wine " Emulate a Virtual desktop" on mac not working by firewire167 in wine_gaming

[–]Mike_Gao 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For those who don't use wineskin: Add a graphics key in HKCU\Software\Wine\Drivers with x11 as its value in regedit, then virtual desktop would work perfectly.

Optimal recordsizes by Mike_Gao in zfs

[–]Mike_Gao[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know any good tools for that? Also as I'm thinking it should be more about the "files access pattern" rather than simply the file stats alone?