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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 provider…

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 App…

Card companies _do_ charge interest if you pay in (usually) 3 or more installments, unless explicitly mentioned being interest-free.

Googler here, opinions on my own. While nothing prevents us from switching desktop environments (many of us do so), basically anything outside the default GNOME/X11 configuration i…

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 …

Current/past release schedule can be found here: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/schedule

This reminds me of the Dropbox HN submission back in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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_…

The article claims that "it is indeed a uniform distribution" so I wanted to point it out.

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 determini…

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 …

This was only active until 1979; the US currently has no military presence in Taiwan.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.co…

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 …

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.or…