ACMer    Creating a GitHub Pages site is a simple process that allows you to host a personal, project, or organisation site for free. Follow this guide to get started. Step : Create a GitHub Repository Log in to your GitHub account. Click on New to create a repository. For a personal site, name it ...

ACMer    Introduction to Dogecoin Dogecoin is a decentralized digital currency based on blockchain technology, created by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer in . It was initially made to satirize Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, inspired by the popular Doge meme Shiba Inu dog with humorous text ....

ACMer    In the world of blockchain development, understanding and managing gas fees is crucial for optimizing transactions. Sui, being a relatively new but powerful blockchain platform, has its own way of handling gas prices. Let’s dive into how you can fetch the gas price for Sui using Node.js and...

ACMer    In , Bitcoin made its debut as the first decentralised cryptocurrency, but it initially attracted little attention. However, May , an otherwise ordinary day, became a milestone in Bitcoin’s history. On this day, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz used , Bitcoins to buy two pizzas, marking...

ACMer    Getting the latest block number height on a blockchain is a common task for developers working with decentralized systems. If you are working with the Sui blockchain and want to retrieve the latest block height using Node.js and JavaScript, here u s a straightforward way to achieve that. Sui...

ACMer    witnessed a sudden wildfire sweeping across California, consuming the state in flames. Even Bitcoin, hailed as digital gold, was not spared. Reports suggest that cryptocurrency holders lost access to over . million Bitcoins during the disaster though this figure may be an estimate ,...

ACMer    I occasionally receive some phishing emails, most of which Gmail automatically classifies as spam. However, I often check the spam folder to make sure I haven’t missed any legitimate emails. Nowadays, Google’s algorithms are highly advanced, and their AI model based on the Naive Bayes...

ACMer    The origin of Bitcoin can be traced back to January, , when an event known as the Genesis Block marked the beginning of the blockchain revolution. This was the first block created in the Bitcoin network, mined by the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. The Genesis Block was not...

ACMer    In Depth Look at the Sui Blockchain and Its Token Ecosystem What is the Sui Blockchain High Performance Blockchain:Sui, developed by Mysten Labs, is a next generation blockchain focused on delivering exceptional performance through parallel transaction execution and efficient data storage...

ACMer    The kids enjoy their favorite content, like gaming videos, Pokémon, and Super Mario on the newly purchased LG OLED Smart TV, which is mounted in the kitchen dining room. One day, I accidentally noticed my wife using the TV’s built in browser. She was navigating websites using the remote...

ACMer    Sometimes, we want to know if a given transaction is confirmed on the Tron Blockchain, and we can easily do this via the TronGrid API. To ensure a transaction is confirmed on Tron, the validation logic should focus on the transaction’s status, which indicates whether it has been successfully...

ACMer    I’ve heard of Pi coins long time ago, and some told me it is a shitcoin or scam . People can mine the coins by installing an App on the smartphone. Pi Network is a cryptocurrency project promoted via a mobile app. Its goal is to enable ordinary people to mine cryptocurrency through their phones....

ACMer    Four Facebook Meta Interview Experiences Over the years, I have interviewed with Facebook Meta four times. Although I wasn’t successful each time, I gained a lot of valuable insights. Facebook rebranded to Meta on October , , and from here on, I’ll refer to it as Meta. Facebook, Inc. has been...

ACMer    That day, I came across a post on LinkedIn: A person consistently purchased worth of Bitcoin every day for years. This strategy has a professional term called Dollar Cost Averaging DCA . What was the outcome A total investment of , , now worth a staggering million in Bitcoin. This...

ACMer    Crypto Bull Market Analysis Today is truly a bull market for cryptocurrencies. Not only has Bitcoin surpassed , , but various altcoins are also catching up. Among them, Justin Sun’s TRON TRX and his HTX Huobi Token have shown particularly impressive performances. TRON TRX TRON TRX has...

ACMer    I finally managed to get Adsense ads displayed on my personal site after several attempts. Initially, the site was approved automatically in the early days. However, since I removed the Adsense code for a long time, a manual review and approval process was required to reactivate it. Despite...

ACMer    Finding the mode of data in Python The statistics.mode function in Python, part of the statistics module, returns the single most frequently occurring value mode in a dataset. Unlike multimode, mode raises an error if the dataset contains multiple modes is multimodal or if the data is...

ACMer    When optimizing MySQL performance, tailoring the configuration to the server’s available memory is critical. Two scripts one in Python and the other in Bash offer automated solutions to calculate recommended MySQL settings based on the total RAM of the server. Both scripts extract memory...

ACMer    I learned about OneKey, a cryptocurrency cash out card, a couple of years ago, but I only registered to use it at the end of last year. At that time, I paid to upgrade directly to the top tier Black Card. Over the past year, I’ve used the card sporadically, mainly for paying for VPS hosting...

ACMer    Teaching Kids Programming: Videos on Data Structures and Algorithms You are given a positive integer n. A binary string x is valid if all substrings of x of length contain at least one . Return all valid strings with length n, in any order. Example : Input: n Output: Explanation: The...

ACMer    Refunds from exchanges are usually returned to the original address rather than directly depositing the Cryptocurrency into the exchange account. The main reasons are as follows: Security Returning to the original address ensures the funds are returned to their original source wallets , preventing...

ACMer    I often receive messages like these, where someone asks for help transferring funds and provides the wallet’s seed phrase or password. It might seem tempting, but it’s too good to be true. Don’t fall for it these funds cannot actually be transferred out. They are simply trying to trick you into...

ACMer    Free Credit from X.AI Earlier this year, Elon Musk’s X.AI company open sourced the Grok large language model and provided in free credit to use it. You can register for an account on the official website x.ai and apply for an API key. The examples to invoke the Grok are given as tutorials....

ACMer    I solve problems on LeetCode every day. LeetCode has both a Chinese site and an international site, and I submit code to both sites. By checking in daily, I earn points, which can be redeemed for various rewards like T shirts, hoodies, water bottles, and even a one month membership fee. I started...

ACMer    In the past few years, I’ve been actively blogging on Steemit in addition to maintaining a few WordPress blogs. I prefer blogging on Steemit because of several unique advantages: Content Stored on Blockchain On Steemit, all posts and comments are stored immutably on the blockchain. This means the...

ACMer    Teaching Kids Programming: Videos on Data Structures and Algorithms Convex and Concave Quadrilateral A quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides and four vertices. The distinction between concave and convex quadrilaterals lies in the arrangement of their angles and vertices: Convex Quadrilateral...

ACMer    What is Impermanent Loss Impermanent Loss IL is a unique risk in the field of decentralized finance DeFi . It primarily occurs when liquidity providers LPs supply assets to automated market maker AMM platforms such as Uniswap or SushiSwap. Impermanent loss IL occurs when the relative...

ACMer    The last good response for Ionomy Crypto Exchange appears to be in June . I have some BLURT tokens on the Ionomy exchange, which I haven’t checked for a while. Recently, I wanted to log in because the bull market has arrived, and BLURT has surged significantly. However, the website is...

ACMer    The P site of the crypto world is Poloniex, which was acquired by Justin Sun a few years ago. It is an Crypto exchange. I used Poloniex long time ago, and my impression of it wasn’t very good back then. However, my opinion of it has improved now because P site provides free API endpoints Public...

ACMer    In System Design Interviews, the availability percentages are the fundamental that a software engineer should be familiar with. In the world of system reliability, availability percentages like . or . are critical benchmarks. But what do these numbers really mean, and how do they translate...

ACMer    In C, std::future and std::async are part of the C standard’s concurrency library. They allow you to run tasks asynchronously and obtain results later, making them useful for writing non blocking code and parallelizing computations. Here’s a breakdown of how they work and how they’re...

ACMer    Teaching Kids Programming: Videos on Data Structures and Algorithms You are given an array of integers nums and the head of a linked list. Return the head of the modified linked list after removing all nodes from the linked list that have a value that exists in nums. Example : Input: nums , head...

ACMer    Google is one of the world’s most famous tech giants. A few years ago, it was seen as a top destination with great benefits and relatively low pressure. In London, Google has a primary office focused on development and research. First Interview in My first Google interview was in . It...

ACMer    A few days ago, I was having lunch with a colleague, and we started discussing AI artificial intelligence , especially the recent popularity of large language models like ChatGPT over the past two or three years. He shared a story: once, while at the train station trying to get to the airport, the...

ACMer    To test the disk speed with the dd command, you can use it to write a temporary file and measure the write and read speeds. Here are examples: Test Write Speed This command writes a GB file to your disk, providing the write speed: dd if dev zero of testfile bs G count oflag dsync if dev zero...

ACMer    The post shows a different ways to test if your hard drives on the servers are SSD or NVMe. Another one would be to use the dd command to test the read write speed, which should give you a rough idea. Check Disk Type: SSD Solid State Driver To check if the disk on your VPN server is an SSD, you...

ACMer    In a Facebook Meta interview Software Engineering Roles including Site Reliability Engineers and Enterprise Engineers , the Product Design and System Design interviews serve distinct purposes and require different approaches: Usually, the coding interviews and behaviour interviews culture fits ...

ACMer    The DirectX Diagnostic Tool dxdiag is a built in utility in Windows that provides detailed information about a computer’s hardware components and DirectX settings, which are essential for running multimedia applications. By typing dxdiag into the Run dialog, users can access system details such...

ACMer    The halloween is approaching. Mathworks presents the following Matlab code to draw a Pumpkin. Pumpkin sphere ; R mod :. :, . ; x R. X; y R. Y; z Z. R; c hypot hypot x,y ,z randn . ; surf x,y, . : . : ’. . . z,c, ’FaceColor’, ’interp’, ’EdgeColor’, ’none’ ...

ACMer    The Enable debug console option in Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL settings allows you to access detailed debugging information directly from the WSL environment. This feature is helpful for troubleshooting issues with WSL processes, providing insights into system calls, kernel interactions,...

ACMer    Teaching Kids Programming: Videos on Data Structures and Algorithms You are given an array of positive integers nums. Alice and Bob are playing a game. In the game, Alice can choose either all single digit numbers or all double digit numbers from nums, and the rest of the numbers are given to Bob....

ACMer    In recent years, many Big Companies have job openings for Site Reliability Engineer SRE . For example, Google, Facebook Meta or Bytedance Tiktok. Please note that Software Engineer is the same as Software Development Engineer which is called by Amazon. A Site Reliability Engineer SRE is a role...

ACMer    What is Tetration Operator in Math Tetration is an operation in mathematics that involves iterated exponentiation. It is part of the sequence of hyperoperations that extend beyond addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. In tetration, a number is raised to the power of itself repeatedly a...

ACMer    Teaching Kids Programming: Videos on Data Structures and Algorithms Here’s a step by step tutorial on how to convert an array to a linked list and vice versa in Python. This can be useful for different scenarios where you need to change data structures based on specific use cases, such as memory...

ACMer    The Matthew Effect is a sociological and economic phenomenon that describes how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This concept originates from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament: For to everyone who has, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but...

ACMer    First TikTok London Interview Four years ago, in December , I applied for the System Engineer position at TikTok London. At that time, the TikTok team in London was being established, and the engineer who interviewed me was from Beijing. The first round was mainly a background check. They went...

ACMer    Docker vs. Virtual Machines VMs Overview: Both Docker and VMs are used for deploying and running applications in isolated environments, but they do so differently. Docker Containers Lightweight: Containers share the host OS kernel, making them more lightweight and faster to start up than VMs....

ACMer    One interesting use case for ChatGPT is its ability to assist in reviewing code in a Pull Request, which can be incredibly beneficial. By pasting the code into ChatGPT and asking for a review, it can identify potential issues and offer suggestions to enhance the overall quality of the code. However...

ACMer    I’ve recently got an invitation email from a Meta Recruiter about a Staff Enterprise Engineer role in Meta London: What is Enterprise Engineer in Meta An Enterprise Engineer at Meta focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining the internal tools and systems that help the company’s employees...

ACMer    Note: recently this has been asked in the first round of the technical interviews by Tiktok Bytedance for a Site Reliable Engineer role in London. TCP IP Protocols is a fundamental concept in Computer Networking Computer Science , which every Software Engineer should be faimilar with. TCP IP ...