美国出生的孩子证件的办理
本文总结了我给在美国出生的孩子办理各种证件的过程。
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Troubleshoot and Improve the Throughput of your NAS
Sometimes, your file transfer speed to your NAS is quite slow that your important workflow takes more time than usual. How can you figure out whether it is normal, or something is not right? Unfortunately, file transfer speed to NAS, which is populated with spinning hard drives, over your home... [Read More] -
Rental Properties: Repairs vs. Improvements
With rental properties, you always prefer to have fix-ups classified as repairs and not as improvements. The reason is that repairs are deductible now, while improvements on rental property are capital items that must be depreciated over a recovery period of 27.5 years for residential rental property. With your residence... [Read More] -
Book Notes for "The Time-Crunched Cyclist"
This is the book notes of The Time-Crunched Cyclist: Race-Winning Fitness in 6 Hours a Week, 3rd Ed. (The Time-Crunched Athlete). I find it very useful. [Read More] -
Development Environment Set Up in Windows
I have been a long-time Mac user. Mac has been by development environment for pretty much all my professional life. I like its aesetics, its Unix-like environment, its native support for many things that can greatly improve the quality of life (like preview for PDF and raw files, iMessage, and... [Read More] -
Report Children's investment Income from UTMA Account
A UTMA account allows children to receive gifts from relatives in their names without the aid of a guardian or a trustee. It is an investment account in children’s own names, managed by guardian, and transferred to children when they come to age. We Chinese have the tradition of giving... [Read More] -
Split Rental Income to Each Property from Consolidated 1099-MISC
It’s that time of year again: tax time. If you own rental properties and use a property manager, you’ll receive a form 1099-MISC that reports your total rental income for the year. It’s important to accurately attribute this income to each property, especially if you plan to claim a Qualified... [Read More] -
Distributed System Reading - Distributed Time
This is a new series of learning I took on to enhance my knowledge about distributed system. This series will focus on reading papers selected by a University of Chicago reading course. [Read More] -
How to Understand Drive's SMART Values
RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a data storage method that stores the same information on multiple hard disks to protect against drive failure. NAS drives are typically set up with redundancy, which means that they can tolerate a certain number of drive failures. However, multiple concurrent drive failures... [Read More] -
Distributed System Reading - Introduction
This is a new series of learning I took on to enhance my knowledge about distributed system. This series will focus on reading papers selected by a University of Chicago reading course. [Read More] -
Backup Synology NAS to Cloud Storage (Backblaze)
When you read the title, you might ask: “the whole point of running NAS is not to pay for Cloud storage, as you described, what is this about?” [Read More] -
NAS: Two Years Later
At the beginning of 2021, I set up my Synology NAS and wrote about it in this blog. Two years have gone by and I thought I write another update about my experience with NAS. [Read More] -
A Brief Chat about Tech in Road Cycling
I love riding a bike since I was a child. But it was not until late 2021 did I pick up my road bike and become serious about road cycling as my main form of exercise. As a competitive sport, road cyclists crave to ride faster and longer. And sport... [Read More] -
Kotlin Coroutines
Kotlin provides coroutines as a library kotlinx.coroutines. The core language provides the concept of suspending function, a safer and less error-prone abstraction for asynchronous operations than futures and promises. The rest is provided in the coroutine library. [Read More] -
The Book on Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor
It’s tax time of the year. As a new real estate investor and long-time DIY taxpayer, I’m always looking to systematically educate myself about various tax benefits I can use. I stumbled upon this book on BiggerPocket: “The Book on Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor”. It has... [Read More]