3 ways to use MySQL / MariaDB CLI without password

For all of us who are learning to use or developing with MySQL or MariaDB, it’s a common task to manually log in to the database for inspection. This is usually done with the mysql command line cli...

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High-performance mass web crawling on AWS

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 ...

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Managing servers with OpenSSH Certificate Authority

Since the addition of the website server for an external corporation, I now have 5 Linux servers to manage on my own. I also have 4 terminal devices that I use to connect to those servers: two of m...

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How to change email of your Nvidia account

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 ...

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Make your GitHub Pages website faster with Cloudflare

This September I employed Cloudflare to optimize my website (https://ibugone.com) in various aspects. It turned out to be a brilliant move and Cloudflare has proved to be a great service to have.

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Converting DFA to Regular Expression

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 comme...

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My speech at Microsoft Summer Camp 2019

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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