Printer driver?
Readit Newsloyukfai commented on Google Chrome goes native for Windows on Arm theverge.com/2024/1/26/24... · Posted by u/doener
Which is similar to T-Money in South Korea, Octopus in Hong Kong, and later Suica in Japan. All of which if I remember correctly came before 2000.
They are still extremely popular in those region. One of the thing I dont understand is why these type of payment never took off in the West. Even things like Oyster card in the UK is only for transport but not for any other sort of payment.
Another point worth pointing out, Offline payment are much faster, with Sucia based on FeliCa capable of doing the transaction in less than 100ms. This is important in a transport system as heavily used as the Japanese transport. For people who are used to these type of payment, everything else just felt so slow.
With every iPhone now getting a Felica Chip built in, I was hoping this type of payment could take off. And yet nothing happened.
The Octopus is the de facto transport pass in Hong Kong (well, it's started by the major transport companies) and commonly used in many shops, it's also used by some for building access.
Octopus takes an 1.5% cut, I'm not sure if it applies to the founding transport companies but I assume the money will flow back to them anyway.
Recently, some transport services started incorporating Chinese e-wallets like Alipay and WeChat Pay which utilizes QR codes, and the agony of seeing people (mainly Chinese tourists) repeatedly scan and fail at the gates blocking the whole queue during rush hours is quite depressing after years of smooth access.
Cheers.
What's the best alternative?
loyukfai commented on Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter futureoflife.org/open-let... · Posted by u/frankjr
A river has no will, but it can flood and destroy. A discussion whether AI does something because it "wants" to or not, is just philosophy and semantics. But it may end up generating a series of destructive instructions anyway.
We feed these LLMs all of the Web, including instructions how to write code, and how to write exploits. They could become good at writing sandbox escapes, and one day write one when it just happens to fit some hallucinated goal.
Right, some people don't realise malicious intent is not always required to cause damage.
loyukfai commented on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon cnbc.com/2023/02/04/us-mi... · Posted by u/rntn
> If our air power becomes partly tied up defending Taiwan, dropping bombs from craft like these might be an effective strategy to demoralize the U.S. population.
No, it would have the opposite effect, like 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. They'd be starting WW3 and deciding to solo it vs NATO and friends.
> Suddenly, lots of people in the U.S. have Chinese aggression on their mind. Knowing Americans pretty well, I would expect this to actually increase public support for the defense of Taiwan.
Yeah, I think you're right.
People have started catastrophic wars over small miscalculations and misinformation.
loyukfai commented on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon cnbc.com/2023/02/04/us-mi... · Posted by u/rntn
Balloons carrying EMPs?
This came up my mind too. Have read that a high altitude EMP bomb would cause havoc on modern infrastructure.
Not sure about the details though. Hope someone knowledge can chime in.
loyukfai commented on Globalization is dead and no one is listening interconnected.blog/globa... · Posted by u/synergy20
With all respect, Chang has this exactly backward. TMSC manufacturing 100% of the world's most advanced chips in Taiwan is not "globalization." If anything, it's the opposite. Globalization is about leveling the playing field, so companies can source products & services from countries across the globe. A fab in Arizona is literally advancing globalization.
The theory of international trade is based on the principle of comparative advantages. So theoretically if Taiwan can produces chips the cheapest, including transport and other costs, they shall do just that.
The decline of globalisation is due to, IMO, risk aversion of having too much of your supply chain, especially for essential and/or not easily replaceable merchandise, tied to an antagonistic or potentially antagonistic partner.
In other words, some of these "other" costs have become too high to just buy certain things somewhere else and call it day.
loyukfai commented on Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist aljazeera.com/economy/202... · Posted by u/stardenburden
loyukfai commented on Intel's Alder Lake BIOS Source Code Reportedly Leaked Online tomshardware.com/news/int... · Posted by u/42jd
So is there any way to further improve power efficiency? Alder Lake mobile seems to be a regression across the board in terms of battery life.