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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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May be your cafeteria was doing offline processing, while other were doing it online? But even offline there are huge differences, say Visa / Mastercard EMV and Suicia's Felica in Japan, whe…
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>- LCEVC track muxing support in MP4 muxer I guess I am the only one excited to see this.
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>It’s like claiming that a company that goes from making $1 to $1k to $100k to $1mm in a 4 year period has decelerating growth. Because it is decelerating growth. There is a reason why we use YoY…
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>when a 1t param model runs off a $200 SSD instead of a $50k rack of Nvidia chips. I am 100% sure this won't happen in 10 years time. At least not on a $200 SSD. But I wouldn't be surpr…
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Again. We need a storage medium that is reliable, has roughly 200GB of capacity, small in size, relatively affordable to press. Otherwise, there is only one option left, make it illegal to do certain …
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I was just talking about I have high hopes for John Ternus yesterday [1] and today we have great news. Laura Legros is good! There was another guy from supply chain and operations that got canceled du…
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I was hoping for some benchmarks. Performance of CPU Core in the past 30 years.
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I am wondering if anyone on HN is familiar or an expert on Material Science and offer any insight or educated guess as to why acquire this company, Edit: 9to5mac has a piece on it but it is still no…
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I think the Github link [1] does a much better job at explaining what it is. [1] https://github.com/octanejs/octane …
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While reading this comment, two of Steve Job's line pops up in my head. I think it was the Apple Park opening, and Steve response to insult in WWDC 199x. > "We need to be true to ourselve…
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For those of us who don't have the time to follow closely, Qwen3.6-27B being Open Source and Open Weight, what level is this compared to other Western paid version? Just so that we know what 3.8 …
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7 Years of release on Swift UI, 12 years for Swift. This isn't 7 years of development, but 7 - 12 years after release . And to most these past 7 - 12 years are an ongoing beta development. It is…
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They are doing both landlocked and mobile deep-sea methods farming with success. In typical Chinese fashion as they have done with Fruit and other food productions, I wouldn't be surprised if the…
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So WMF and Wiki was pro union for all of their information and reporting but Anti union when it is for themselves.
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>Some claim the do not use them at all. It is against the law in most if not all EU countries. It is also the dispute between US and EU agriculture trade.
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1. The Title should be "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences". It fits the character limit, why change it? 2. A lot of the conditions for Salmon farm…
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I mean the subject is interesting but I have the say the design of the page is not only janky and needlessly complicated with animations.
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You will literally have to have a specific HBF controller on the GPU which I doubt would be any smaller than current state of the art SSD controller. I am not entirely sure it is a Win Win situation.…
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I remember ( I may be very wrong ) eventually RSS and Atom became one and the same thing for consumer and that all RSS reader would parse Atom feed, RSS became the logo and the name people know, atom …
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>A lot of people do use RSS without realizing it, via podcasts. A lot of people were using Google Reader without ever knowing what RSS was all about. And when Google reader was gone, they stopped u…
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>As someone who was a big fan of Reader and worked at Google at the time (not on G+): I never understood why they didn’t try to put Reader into G+. Oh there were many post on HN about the politics …