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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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It is not Apple planned. But Apple's expectation / estimated are off by a factor of two and it is unusual from a supply chain perspective when they are usually extremely well done if not the…
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And here I naively thought Texas Instruments is expensive but at least decent. Turns out no.
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That is the assumption Shopify is just software, but it is not. It is a service. And I don't see why a service can't have a choice to choose which customer it wants to serve. Especially in a…
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Well yes. But it is also a mistake that should have avoided and Apple are usually better than this. This suggest they have under estimated for one reason or another. My guess is that they were extra c…
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>occasionally $499) Only in selected store and only in US.
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All these money spent on AI is simply mind boggling. Google expect to spend $1 Trillion over next few years. And that is not counting Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla etc. I would have though…
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Since most of the R&D are done on the iPhone side, Neo's margin is actually quite good. The R&D for M5 and M5 Pro etc have to be amortised by Air and MacBook Pro. The percentage should be…
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It was not the normal Apple Mac Pricing to begin with. But let see if they will stick to $599 next year when it comes with 12GB RAM and hopefully double the SSD speed. I wouldn't be surprised it …
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>Try selling Vape products or adult products Are these legal in the place they are selling? Or is it against shopify TOS to do so? These two I am not surprised. >will unpublish products without …
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I am idly wondering, would it have made a difference if this was done over a month or two rather than say 9 days. If it was really a thought experiment, and the test suit was so good, and hopefully fu…
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>The reported gains vary depending on the test conditions, but improvements around 25% compared to AV1 are commonly seen >AV2 decoding is roughly five times more complex than AV1 decoding. For…
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You are missing Tigerbeetle.
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Thanks You. I have been saying this since the launch of AV1 on HN, Doom9 and other places. I wanted to mention even Google uses custom dedicated hardware ASIC for AV1 encode. I wish LCEVC is more wide…
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Last time I checked they do it for new videos only. Older videos with 1M views aren't even on AV1.
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> tragic H.264 isn't even that bad at all, if not the best depending on how you look at it. Our Internet bandwidth, both on the backend and front end on Mobile 5G is increasing with plenty mor…
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>........I'd say that AV2 isn't worth it. Unless they have hardware encoder and decoder design done in parallel, otherwise it would be 2028 before a hardware block design is done and 2030…
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>but I just love HDR and AVIF is the only format that I feel like really takes it seriously. JPEG XL would like a word.
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Have you said this for Audio Codec I would have agreed. I do not know a single Smartphone Video Conferencing software that uses CPU encoding rather than hardware encoding. Neither WhatsApp or FaceTime…
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This. The website, and backend code for the test. 10% of the software work. Which is what everyone seems to think. The code to managing the infrastructure, network connectivity, load balancing, and ca…
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Is it really "EU" Sovereignty? And not its member's Sovereignty?
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>they are just VPS providers Are we really bringing back this debate from 10 or may be 15 years when we started? Is Digital Ocean, Linode not a cloud provider. They were the VPS provider at the t…
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Are there any other languages that offer similar compilation performance. The only one I know of or remember is Turbo Pascal.
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Yes that is what I meant, should have worded it as tested in production. Hopefully it is no longer experimental in Ruby 4.1.
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>All of which are famously nightmarish repairs on Macbooks, Not for Neo. Which is why Neo is a much bigger deal in its design, but most are focusing on its pricing.
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WhatsApp managed both Android and iOS App along with backend serving half a billion customers with only 40 engineers. And that was at a time they had to fix a lot of things and scabbily issues by them…
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> repairability I would actually rate Neo having higher repairability. It is simply much better design and built even from a repair point of view. Speaker, Keyboard and Battery are the most common …