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iBug

Developer, System Administrator, Geek

study-notes

Enabling better “Related Posts” with Jekyll

1 minute read

There’s a less-known feature of Jekyll that populates related_posts correctly with “related” posts, instead of the 10 latest posts when it’s disabled by default.

Use RSA CA Certificates with OpenSSH 8.2

3 minute read

OpenSSH 8.2 is coming to the latest Long-Term Service release of Ubuntu, Focal Fossa (20.04), and has some breaking changes for users using an SSH Certificate Authority.

Converting DFA to Regular Expression

1 minute read

This post originated from Lab 1 of course Compilers: Principles that I’m currently taking, in which we were required to write a flex program to parse a subset of the C language. The multiline comment /* */ was the most troublesome to handle for most of us (excluding me, for sure).

How I saved a lost commit from GitHub

2 minute read

Earlier today I force-pushed to my repository USTC-RV-Chisel for testing purposes, without noticing that my local ref origin/master is 1 commit behind the actual master on GitHub. My friend pushed his work (1 commit) to it, and now it’s lost.

Build a minimal Linux system and run it in QEMU

6 minute read

Linux is the #1 open-source operating system nowadays, and many people are running a Linux distro, such as Ubuntu or Arch. Linux is also the most popular choice for a server OS.

Bootstrapping Make

4 minute read

Have C or C++ project to build? You may think, “Yeah this is very easy, I’ll just call the compiler to do so”, and yes, let’s take a look at an example.

Programming the On-Board SPI Flash of Digilent Nexys4 DDR

less than 1 minute read

This semester I have the course “Experiments of Digital Circuits”, the content of which is designing digital circuits using Vivado software, and writing Verilog code. Most of the lab papers require generating bitstream for the project and downloading it to Nexys4 DDR board to verify the functiona...

Alpha-Beta Pruning

4 minute read

As described in a previous article, Alpha-Beta pruning can be used to speed up minimax heuristic searching by pruning branches that will never be reached.

Making a Reversi game with Python

3 minute read

As a casual attempt to accomplish a Grand Assignment, I created a Reversi game with Python. The project is open-source on GitHub and you can view it with the link above.

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stack-overflow

Append int to std::string

1 minute read

For people new to template resolution and template type deduction in C++, they may have written this code and get confused why it doesn’t compile:

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stack-exchange

Append int to std::string

1 minute read

For people new to template resolution and template type deduction in C++, they may have written this code and get confused why it doesn’t compile:

Some ideas about multicore on Android

3 minute read

Laptops have usually at most four cores, and dualcores are probably more common. I have recently switched from quadcore to dualcore and I can confirm there is a limited number of use cases for quadcore, even with CPU intensive tasks.

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story

High-performance mass web crawling on AWS

16 minute read

The 3rd-and-last experiment of course Web Information Processing and Application required us to create a recommendation engine, and “predict” the rating (1-5 stars) for 4M user-item pairs based on the training data of 9M user-item pairs and a social network.

Joining SmokeDetector

3 minute read

After a plain request, an administrator of the SmokeDetector project added me under the Developers section of their team member list, which indicates that I am a known personnel for contributing a non-trivial amount of code to the project.

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gaming

Pairing the new Xbox One S controller (2018) with Android

1 minute read

I just bought an Xbox One S controller yesterday, expecting it would pair with my Android phone via Bluetooth. I have learned that the key mapping would be a bit messed up because it’s a Microsoft product, and have already prepared for it by downloading a key layout file and placing it in my phon...

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software

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keygen

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talk

My speech at Microsoft Summer Camp 2019

10 minute read

This is a translated version from the Chinese (original) script. The slideshow can be acquired here. For comments, please head to the Chinese version of this post.

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reviews

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lifehacks

How to change email of your Nvidia account

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I recently retired a few old email addresses, and am currently going in a row to change email for accounts associated with those emails. Everything else went smoothly, with my Nvidia account being an exception - There wasn’t an option to change it!

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