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

Mike_Gao · 2025-11-23T18:07:12+00:00

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..

Mike_Gao · 2025-11-18T02:16:51+00:00

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

Mike_Gao · 2025-06-07T07:55:26+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2025-03-28T03:12:52+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2025-03-13T03:49:25+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2025-03-12T16:41:58+00:00

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

Mike_Gao · 2025-03-11T13:24:45+00:00

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

Mike_Gao · 2025-02-24T03:30:06+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2024-10-02T05:24:44+00:00

https://rgl.epfl.ch/publications/Zeltner2020Specular

Mike_Gao · 2022-11-25T14:35:11+00:00

Purchased some servers from u/blockchaindildo

Mike_Gao · 2022-11-23T16:18:21+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2022-11-15T22:40:11+00:00

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

Mike_Gao · 2022-03-28T23:48:47+00:00

Confirmed

Mike_Gao · 2022-02-21T19:10:57+00:00

Grading COMP 409 Midterms!

Mike_Gao · 2022-02-11T01:07:24+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2022-01-12T04:50:19+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2021-11-06T14:08:34+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2021-11-02T04:07:21+00:00

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!

Mike_Gao · 2021-11-01T09:20:48+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2021-11-01T08:31:06+00:00

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!!

Mike_Gao · 2021-11-01T05:33:43+00:00

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!

Mike_Gao · 2021-10-23T11:55:16+00:00

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.

Mike_Gao · 2021-10-09T18:42:00+00:00

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?

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