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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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I only wish UNAS support ZFS.
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Does Fastly still uses Vinyl Cache? Wondering who else is using it as well in production.
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That is why I said the 2x improvement about Webview they said earlier doesn't matter. And I believe the 10sec already accounted for the 2x improvements. >the new Outlook uses between 490 MB an…
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>UE 5.8 is the last planned major Unreal Engine 5 release on our roadmap as we ramp up work on UE6. Unreal Engine 4 was release in April 2014 and UE5 released in April 2022. That is a 8 year gap. S…
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No more "Does it Scale" question. What ever web scaling issues we have, throw in a few rack and call it a day. :) And these are Real CPU Core, i.e there are 163,840 vCPU per Rack. Oh this is…
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Thank you for the insight this actually answer a lot of questions or suspicious I had with Google. Surprised about Android and now Fuchsia makes sense. I wonder if anyone has worked in Google / …
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For may be specific professionals? For Prosumers I don't see the need even if I have access to 25Gbps Internet. For majority of home usage it will all be WiFi. WiFi 7 has gotten to the point wher…
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Turns out it is not really new but only open sourced it now. From the FQA. >Lore, formerly called Unreal Revision Control, is the built-in version control system for UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortn…
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>Technology has been evolving perfectly fine for the last 50 years. Tell that to Intel and how TSMC manage to outpace Intel. It was because Smartphone had a much bigger scale. The TAM of custom fou…
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>You cannot just let your machines run faster. You also need input materials, workers and logistics to scale accordingly, which is often not possible. It is not about getting machines to run faster…
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I have somehow completely missed Juniper Networks being acquired by HP.
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Considering Apple's support and product cycle. You are looking at a Billion devices supporting JPEG XL between now and end of next year. It might be low in percentage, but it is still a substanti…
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I wrote below in 2022 on HN [1] when everyone was panicking about AWS growth slowing down. * >>Amazon said Thursday that revenue growth in its cloud-computing unit slowed in the third quarter to…
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>Sure would be nice if we got to see any of that, We are only 1 to 2 year into a cycle and we expect a lot of things to happen. Even the business decisions of things were decided before the cycle…
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I had to double check this is the same Intercom that started with Ruby and Rails. And it is. Hopefully Salesforce won't ruin it.
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>(world's first trillionaire anyone?) With some work on crypto many people could be a trillionaire on paper. Whether it translate to actual wealth and liquidity is another matter. We are talki…
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I don't think Caddy being slower is a real problem. But Caddy, their developers and community refuse to believe Caddy is slow is a much bigger issue.
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>I think Evans is completely wrong. I wish there was a case where I find Evans is wrong. As far as my memory served me, I failed to record a single one. I disagree that Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and…
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I don't think it has to do with optimism has faded. Eternal September means Younger generation new to HN, It is highly likely if we were to do a poll, people under 40, lower age group would incre…
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I mean my electric Fan and standing lamp are both powered by USB-C. There are things that shouldn't be powered by USB-C. But there are plenty of sub 100W consumer electronics devices that really …
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>Is anyone else as stunned as I am by how many posters on tech websites have suddenly gone full anti-free-internet and embracing the police state? There is certainly an angle where people are fed u…
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Almost everything happened according to the script. Now we are just waiting for another OS fully based on browser technology or WASM OS. webOS and Firefox OS was at least 20 years ahead of its time.