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New comment by tuxoko in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

tuxoko — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:40:55 +0000

> That said, it's pretty obvious that economic sanctions aren't bringing about regime change.

On the flip side, you have China, where US pretty much helped build up their economy and hoped for a peaceful and democratic outcome. How well did that go?

New comment by tuxoko in "JPEG XL against AVIF tested on ImageEngine"

tuxoko — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:43:11 +0000

Yeah, whenever I see the image comparison. I more often then not find the result of webp or avif undesirable even against a good jpeg compression. webp and avif tends to blur out detailed textures too much and just looks worse than jpeg which while looks a bit rough and has some artifact, but you can still somewhat see the detailed textures.

New comment by tuxoko in "Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy"

tuxoko — Mon, 15 May 2023 20:42:21 +0000

The modern leftism in the US hasn't been about working class for a long time. They use the same Marxist tactic of class divide but apply them to identities like race and gender to divide people in to oppressor and oppressed, and stoke up the current "culture war" to silent political opponent and gain money and power.

New comment by tuxoko in "Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling"

tuxoko — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 19:43:23 +0000

> They even agree in the 1992 consensus

This is only a "consensus" between KMT and PRC. Even then the reading is completely different between KMT and PRC. While Taiwan is still called ROC officially, there's no policy on Taiwan or DPP side that there's only one China. DPP's stance is that Taiwan is an independent sovereign nation that is called ROC right now.

> The constitution of Taiwan claims sovereignty over mainland China

The ROC(taiwan) constitution does not define it's territory. In fact, there was a supreme court case regarding this, and the judges' ruling was that this was a major political issue, and thus they could not decide on it.

It's true that there are amendments that define the "free area" for practical purposes, but they do not define what are the other areas.

> With that in mind, Taiwan and China situation is really similar to a civil war, Taiwan is just a secessionist. And until the situation is resolved, there is nothing wrong with label it “Taiwan, China”

This is complete BS propaganda language. The situation of China and Taiwan is pretty much the same as Koreas, the only difference is that the balance between NK and SK isn't that tilted. And the world have no problem labeling Nk and SK differently.

New comment by tuxoko in "Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling"

tuxoko — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 19:00:59 +0000

First, US's One China policy is US's policy. It makes no sense for Taiwanese to adheres to a US's policy.

Second, US's One China policy is only a word play. It acknowledges China's position regarding Taiwan but doesn't actually agree or disagree to it. That's why it still provide defense for Taiwan.

Third, your comment about public opinion is a complete nonsense. Taiwan is a democratic nation. If the majority prefers being a province of China, it would have already voted to do so. And the only reason people choose to "keep things as they are now" is to avoid provoking a war with China.

New comment by tuxoko in "FlightRadar24 crashes due to surge in users tracking SPAR19"

tuxoko — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 20:26:38 +0000

Did you completely ignore all the things China has done in the region to mess with the status quo? Keep appeasing to China will only make things worse until it's too late.

New comment by tuxoko in "Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs (2016)"

tuxoko — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:50:43 +0000

The suggestions here aren't really great. What you should do is already written in the fork(2) manpage https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fork.2.html

"After a fork() in a multithreaded program, the child can safely call only async-signal-safe functions (see signal-safety(7)) until such time as it calls execve(2)."

So just use only async-singal-safe function https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal-safety.7.html

I don't know why so many people still hit this issue when it already told you what you can do and not do in the document. I've done this sort of things without any issue.

New comment by tuxoko in "Adafruit requires 2FA to prevent bots buying out Raspberry Pi"

tuxoko — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:47:42 +0000

How does it change anything other than Adidas getting the profit of inflated price? And if Adidas has an idea of how the resale price would look like to price their NFT, why don't they just price that into the shoes themselves?

New comment by tuxoko in "How Does FaceTime Work?"

tuxoko — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:45:39 +0000

Why does digitization affect breathing sound? Isn't that because of the position of mic of landline phones?

New comment by tuxoko in "Economic costs of war"

tuxoko — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 23:42:16 +0000

You don't pay 37% federal. 37% is only for the top bracket.

New comment by tuxoko in "Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS"

tuxoko — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:33:06 +0000

I haven't touched C++ in forever, but as a C programmer it looks insane that you can do dot operator and -> operator on the same variable and not cause compiler error...