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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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The Safari beta is actually covering ~6 months of work in WebKit. So it isn't one release with 500 fixes. It is more of a consolidation. But yes WebKit has been getting tons of feature gap and bu…
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This is exciting for Server. For far too long the Server is only caring about throughput. And for server and PC CPU design they have been lacking behind Smartphone in IPC. This is only the start of Nv…
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I wonder what media they used for their offline copy.
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I keeping saying this, the best AI / LLM coming out isn't another question / answer chatbot or automate my email and essay. It is Robotics! Finally doing my dishes and laundry for pete …
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>I was under the impression..... Yes. But subjective testing by IgorC ( of HydrogenAudio ) shows it wasn't as good as Apple. It was a lot better than previous FFMPEG though. I believe we will …
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There is. MPEG-5 EVC Basic Profile that is Patent unencumbered, with only dozens patents that is soon to be expired, and EVC High Profile that competes with VVC in terms of quality. There is also LCEV…
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>(MP3 is in a similar place. AAC and Opus are technically superior, but everything supports MP3.) Actually MP3 is more like the H.263 / Divx here. AAC-LC is more like H.264. The difference in …
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This is 1024 AMD Zen 6c Core in a single 1 OU. I am also wondering if we are moving off standard 19" Rack in favour of Open Rack.
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Yes. And Hasn't this always been the case? Before GCC and Clang took over everything there were plenty of C / C++ compilers from Intel, Visual C++ etc.
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I somehow completely missed out the part about provisional drivers license when I first read it. I now understand what you meant. But last part of my reply was more specially on Digital ID. Which curr…
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Not everyone has a driving licenses. But the UK has a PASS scheme [1] which frankly speaking isn't very widely used or enforced. But yes, if they were to implement it, it is highly likely to be s…
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It was a PR issue more than anything else. It is also a proxy for Pro AI and Anti AI sentiment. And for most part I don't think it was communicated well apart from the last blog post.
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Slightly Off topic: For those working inside the industry, Is the professional space still dominated by 3D Studio Max and Maya? I just checked Lightwave 3D and Cinema 4D is still getting updated. Just…
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Um. I wonder if there are any export opportunities for British Bananas ?
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>I don't know why you would choose it Vitess. Also I often wonder if these system are on latest mySQL? I have read plenty of mySQL opinions that still based their experience during 5.x era.
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>hollow core fibre, First time I know this is being used and deployed.
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Except out of the top 5, UK has the lowest manufacturing basis while 80%+ of GDP are service based.
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Just reading the HN comments I found most interesting is that Rust and Zig have future improvement that related to each other's strong point. Rust will be getting faster Build time in 2026 and 20…
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Submitting this because I never thought I would see 130% BT.2020 in such short period of time. We went from not using BT.2020 because the number is low, to near 100%, and now potentially 130% all with…
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Generally speaking, I think Apple tends to win on anything related to ex-employees. I am not sure if this is normal across Big-Tech. But surely is for Apple. Depending on what is at stake. Example the…