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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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The Benchmarks from Oracle on One VM to Rule it All has Topaz Numbers there. Basically MRI <JRuby <Topaz <New Oracle SVM, And the above line has roughly 20 - 50 times performance difference i…
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While i have always felt the difference. I never knew about the numbers. And while iPhone wins @ 55ms, i still think that is a very high number for input latency. Would have wanted Sub 20ms.
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Something for Mozilla to consider using inside Firefox inplace of LevelDB ( If that was ever landed )
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I rememberer long time ago when i was still in the land of Java I researched the topic there were GCJ as well. Dont know what happened to it And Something called ExcelsiorJET as well.
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I wish there are a similar effort on Ruby VM.
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"In the mean-time, the community will be wasting time and effort in trying to solve ARM 64-bit issues which Apple has already solved." Yep, Release them as early as possible so Samsung could…
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I thought they recently decide to sell those off as well.
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I am pretty sure they are not.
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I dont normally count Host with Per Minute billing and Storage in SAN a VPS.
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I am pretty sure that is 300Mbps shared. And you rarely get that even in real world best case scenario. And much worst if you live in City and High Rise Buildings with High Density population. DOCSIS …
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Still waiting for DOCSIS 3.1 to bring Cable up to speed.
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Depending on what you want for VPN. And what is Best for you. All i cared is Pricing. And I use VPN is go pass firewall. I use VPN.sh And they have a new plan where it is a Pay as You go package. No M…
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Things I really wish they could add or improve. PHPBB? What year is this? The Website design and structure seriously needs some thought and work. LongView, either have a trial only version of bump th…
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I wonder what is planned for Nginx 2.0 I read somewhere ( The it was suppose to be re-engineered.) Edit: Here http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html …
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I think the Animation timing has to do with the Apps being Ready. I.e While it is taking 0.5Sec of Animation switching, in that 0.5Sec it is trying to get the Apps Ready as if it was fully loaded. So…
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Price for Flat and Rental by income average are highest of anywhere on earth. And NO, New Territories aren't cheap either. Heck even flat in Out Skirt Island are expensive. Business Monopoly by a…
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Is this new? I though they had this for a very long time.
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Um... I dont get it. So they release a GitLab Enterprise Version. And Killed off GitLab Cloud? Well not actually killing it but offering it for free. Why? What's the business case behind it? Or G…
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You Cant Scale a Server/Desktop CPU two step down into Mobile Devices. This is what Atom is all about, the higher power/performance x86 possible. And You also cant scale a Mobile Devices up …
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I really dont get it. People have been using Nginx, saving money and time over the years. And not paying for a single dollar. And as you see from all these post, No sign, signal or movement of appreci…
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No ByteCode in between, sounds a lot like v8, and incidentally that guy works on V8 previously.
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LOL, i cant wait to see all these coming, Topaz Ruby 2.1 Rubinius 2.0 And this Ruby with SVM
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um......Its right there in the performance chart?
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First Time there is any public numbers on Topaz, the RPython / PyPy implementation of Ruby. Note: Only Two benchmarks presented in the Paper, and as with any benchmarks take it with a grain of x.…
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Well that is assuming you can peak RPS for the whole day. Which wont be. At 200 RPS Peak you are very likely only getting 1M per day instead of 17M.
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Why is this much more interesting story isn't being discussed and not on front page?
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1. Wasn't the Castle in the Sky tweet record from last year? Edit: It turns out its the same film making records this year again. 2. I remembered the China WeiBo has a way higher TPS record then …
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Um.... so GPL Code can be Patented??
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Cloud is Expensive. It is a simple Fact. The future is more about Hybrid, I dont mean Colo. More like OVH. Where you can have you baseline using Dedicated Servers and use Public Cloud to Scale up and …
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The problem is how is it sustainable.
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