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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 wonder when will Discourse move to Ember 7.0? And Apple is still using Ember? I seems to remember they moved off it some years ago.
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Yes. And this kind of mentality is a near extinct in modern software development.
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Oh that is me as well :)
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Glad to read news on Ruby ZJIT development. I wonder if ZJIT is being used in production at Shopify yet?
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I don't think it will change even with devolution. Given enough time it will certainly be back to where they were. Every single time they replace an old system with something else they all manage…
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This is promising. Finally competitive ARM design on server that can be purchased rather than renting on AWS. Although Amazon is also selling their Graviton but don't believe that would be a quic…
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Agree. Other than drivers, which Server OS will have less to deal with. I also wanted other point out GUI is the majority of the work and polish on consumer OS. Far more than what ever kernel, driver,…
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>They've definitely slowed, but they haven't stopped. Yes if you span into 40 years. But the spot price for DRAM floor was ~$2/GB in 2008 and touched that 2-3 times over the next 15 …
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I mean I am happy if they kept FreeBSD to be Server focused. I have been using a Mac / Windows and deploying on Linux and FreeBSD, i don't see why both the consumer and the server / ent…
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It is one of the thing with consumer when they remember they brought it at the absolutely lowest price point when DRAM maker were bleeding money. Those are not normal pricing. Before the pricing colla…
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>Did dhh provide a recipe to install hyprland properly without having to install a full "distribution"? (I don't know, it's a real question) I would guess in typical DHH fashion…
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Some Notes. According to Chrome Stats from Google 2019 [1], ~80% to 85% of images served are above bpp 1.0 ( Bit per Pixel ). Around ~95% are above bpp 0.5. I doubt this have changed if not gotten wor…
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>what the BD acronym in “BD rate” stands for, Bjontegaard Delta-Rate (BD Rate) metric, proposed in 2001 by Gisle Bjontegaard, is a method for calculating the average difference between two rate-di…
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Putting the human freedom issues aside, I don't see how Datacenter and Electricity production have much environmental or social concerns especially when they are built in mostly remote places. Th…
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China might not win on GPU or Software Stack, but they will definitely win on the lower end of the stack which is Datacenters and Electricity Grid infrastructure building out. And I wouldn't be s…
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This is a two part question, the system and the idolise part aren't related. You are ignoring a lot of quality Japanese product have been producing for more than 50 years, which answer partly why…
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>There are really only 2 choices. For private jets there are Gulfstream, Bombardier, Textron, Dassault, and as you said Embraer. I think there was a recent new Entry, Honda from Japan.
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This is a noob question but wondering if anyone here could answer. There are plenty of choices for Small and Medium size plane as well as private jet. Why are most commercial airline only buying Boein…
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Anandtech used to do SPEC benchmarks against all CPU from x86 Intel / AMD to Apple SoC. I don't know any site does this any more.
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At this point I am wondering if anyone will be forking the Zig Bun to something else.