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ksec
56,009karma·17,289submissions·February 1, 2012
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Edksec @ protonmail . com
https://ksec.mataroa.blog
London, Hong Kong and somehow California*.
Often a Contrarian.
The unwritten rule of HN: You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.
Interest: JPEG-XL, AAC-LC, VVC / LCEVC, Patent Free AVC, FreeBSD, TigerBeetle, ZFS, DTrace, Vitess, Vespa, Objective-C, Java, Zig, Odin, Crystal, Ada, Ruby, Graal, Rails, 5G/6G, OpenPOWER, Apple/China, Supply Chain / Manufacturing, Retail.
@Google: Why No Pixel Phone in Hong Kong?
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I don't think the Author disagree with what the original article wrote. If anything everything he said seems to reassert what the original article intended to state. And while things has died dow…
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> Request Limit: 500 per minute I mean that is not even 10 page view per second. We are not living in 2006. Actually even in 2006 Apache with static page would have been able to handle that on a sm…
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Thank you for the submission. I have long wondered if in the old days we had weekend off, and did we just work continuously 365 days? It is not that working 365 days is hard. It is the job in today&#x…
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And butterfly keyboard.......
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>The missing Escape was a hardware disaster, They actually have ESC key with a later update. Although I thought it was too late. They should have done it the next year after first Touch Bar was int…
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I remember they did 32 x 32TB with 1U design many years ago. That is 1PB in 1U. Now we are at 20PB in 4U. Or 5PB in 1U. This is using Solidigm D5-P5336 122TB drive which was announced in 2024. We expe…
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This and exactly this. If there is anything I learned in the past 15 to 20 years, I doubt it will be any different. The mentality of development is just different. I want the iteration of the product …
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You might want to try Odin.
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Because they are regional specifics, twitter or X is only big in some countries like US and Japan. Threads is doing what twitter should have done but for the rest of the world who didn't jump ont…
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The most important thing I bought it for was Health Tracking. Although I still don't understand why it ask me to do tacking sessions when I am simply walking faster. 2nd most useful feature is vi…
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It may be easy to install battery for house, but I wonder about apartments?
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Every time there is a discussion about Optane on HN I have always said a properly tuned SLC SSD would have provided 80-90% of the performance without the cost associated with it. And the question were…
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Getting those done in 12 to 15 years is not exactly a high achievement by Apple's standards. I have long thought and written on HN how Apple Pay, Wallet, Apple Cash, Apple Card is under developed…
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I have been calling for the roughly same rate reduction since 2014, apart from the small business programme because 5% would essentially be free once you factor in fraud protection and credit card cha…
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May be your cafeteria was doing offline processing, while other were doing it online? But even offline there are huge differences, say Visa / Mastercard EMV and Suicia's Felica in Japan, whe…