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ksec
56,011karma·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 ram is currently so insane it saves you a decade of memory price gouging in a single year, the math changes quickly. Apple is not paying the same insane price most people / other players …
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> This does affect us more than we think as operators. I hope this is true but as other comments have suggested, Juniper and TrueNAS are moving or no longer on FreeBSD. I am now wondering if Netfli…
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$20B a single Fab. And you don't just have one Fab. You need multiple. And again I have to state this every time, the most expensive Fab is empty Fab. You need to fill it, and you need to fill …
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If we substituted war with COVID we aren't that far off as both happened in 2020. We still have to wait till 2035 to see if true.
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And they do it with products on relatively small volume. A lot of these used to happen on Apple Watch. And at one point I thought Apple Watch would be the place to do a lot of testing work. Until Appl…
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I keep thinking they turn off certain optimisation for older model in the name of security.
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It is not simply just born like that. Even though he was extremely talented. Steve practice his speech and keynote way more than any others. Once you have talent + hardwork it is hard to replicate. Bu…
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>we have $300/day token quota. Unless other FAANG have the exact amount this is going to be Apple. And no wonder why the quality of Apple software has gone downhill. Apple in software developm…
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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more l…
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Yes but Only when power is a factor. Nearline Cold Storage is not the case here. And after nearly 6 years we still haven't have a solid contender to drive NAND BOM further down. So the news of co…
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Sigh. Just when I was cheering Safari, finally both on Desktop and on Mobile have gotten to the point of good enough. And then to find out the list don't work on Safari iOS.
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This is one of the case limited by PCIe speed, sharing it with SSD so Network could only do 5x400Gbps Network. This is on PCIe 5.0, luckily we have 7.0 spec ready and 8.0 is even in 0.5 draft status. …
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I don't think we ever got an actual figure but I often wonder how many of those 30 engineers were actually using Erlang, i expect most of them are iOS and Android engineers.
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Does anyone knows if WhatsApp is still based on Erlang?
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>Apple doesn’t need to buy them just need to continue to partner with TSMC, So why would Apple need to make their own memory? The theory is exactly the same. They just need to continue to partner w…
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>WinUI 3 is currently measurably slower than both WPF and UWP. WPF is 20+ years old and even it is not native!!!. It is similar everywhere, they put out figures, like Teams rewritten from Electron …
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What I would like to see, is Bun to even further improve all the test that was missing during this Bun Zig to Rust code translation. ( I wouldn't even call it a rewrite ). And additional test dur…
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I am wondering if anyone is going to fork Bun because of this.
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May be Apple should purchase Intel or TSMC first? So they could be their own Foundry? What about ASML so they could produce the machine that fabs requires? And the current memory crisis? There is no c…
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I am just sadden to see this question constantly being floated. Someday Apple will make their own memory, own chip, own Fab. It makes zero sense for them to do so. People don't seems to realise h…
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>The demographics of this site have changed so much that people here are applauding I don't think it has. Meta has been pretty much hated on HN since the beginning. And has only gotten worse a…
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I am rather hoping they put vapour chamber tech in the next MacBook Air. And just give even a metal plate on top of Neo SoC would have increased its thermal capacity.
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Why announce it now without spec and so far away from shipping date?
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I have said it numerous times in the past 3-4 years. I believe robotics ( not just humanoids ) will be a bigger thing / threat than AI. And currently China is at least 5 years ahead of rest of th…