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ksec
56,010karma·17,291submissions·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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And the money we are paying for it as consumer is ridiculously low. And yet all we have ever heard was they are being ripped off. Generally speaking both HN and the internet rarely appreciate hardware…
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>widely-accepted hard science, e.g. “2 + 2 = 4”. Except we live in a world where people do argue 2+2 could also be 22 ( Because they use Javascript /s ) Which is basically people believe what …
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https://archive.is/W5JMb
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Are there legitimate reasons why an App should know I have installed?
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What? Why is this Chinese market only? This is exactly what I wanted. There are Apps I simply don't want them to touch internet.
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https://xcancel.com/jeremybernier/status/2058243373161722185
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My bet is that all iPhone across the range will increase the price by $100. iPhone Ultra $1699 iPhone Pro Max $1199
iPhone Pro $1099 iPhone Air 2 $999 iPhone 18 (2027) $899 iPhone 17 …
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Ugh. CRI doesn't include R9, so CRI 100 doesn't mean 100% replicating sun light / Incandescent Light bulb? Are there any LED that actually does a decent job in colour representation?
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>(2nd largest was owned by Walmart I am late to this thread but Sainsbury is the 2nd largest supermarket in the UK and it is now owned or have any partnership with Walmart. Or are you talking about…
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From [1], >This move is part of a broader effort to modernize the organization's Standards development and publication processes. Recent initiatives include: >Adopting GitHub-based workflow…
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Somewhere along the line, especially with Internet in late 00s people understand the term Open to be the same as Free. When in reality they are not. But now it is all too late to debate and fix this.…
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I know about voting shares and shareholder actions in US stock because they are somewhat frequently sited in all press and media. I just didn't know about sub 10% float. I know there are plenty o…
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Along with a recent [1] 80K CPU per Rack. The infinite appetite for CPU Core in Server fascinate me. Another point worth noting these are 300kw per rack, and that is not accounting for network and sto…
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I had to fact check this. Turns out it is true. I was not aware on US stock exchange you can have a public company with less than 10% public float. This also makes the founder net worth of around $33B…
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>I've been so impressed with Ubiquiti that I've decided to target FreeBSD for my current side project. As much as I wish Ubnt are using BSD in their product, which they are not. I am unde…