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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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Arh. True i didn't notice it. But Once you click on the address bar it does show back its address. Not a bad thing i guess. Will need to use it more before i can draw conclusion.
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Even the PDF is Foxit which means it is nearly the same as Chrome except for the UI.
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Using it for a few minutes, few things i really like. 1. Someone finally put the Refresh and Stop Button where it should be. Firefox actually had it during beta testing but they somehow decide to bu…
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This is equivalent of 360 for Russia? ( 360 is a browser in China derived from Chromium as well )
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Thx, I hope this get pushed up to front page. And prove my comparative theory, Apple will know they happen to be good only because their competitors are bad. I think we need some rethinking into the w…
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Loads slow in Firefox. Sigh.....
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In my view only Route53 and DNSMadeEasy are worth looking at. Others are simply too expensive. Or in the case of CloudFlare it is very slow at times. DNSMadeEasy is one of the fastest DNS ( actually i…
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Well we needed to define what bloated means. While we have always point to its size. Most of the time it is including too many things we dont need and want while the whole thing is slow and large in s…
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Is not that DRAM is dead, it is simply Intel will be putting Memory Cube, or Stacked DRAM or TSV Memory what ever you wanted to call it in the CPU die itself. Stacked DRAM provides up to 1Tbit/s of ba…
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For a 16yrs old locally schooled HK student your English amazed me.
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"Consumers may not be happy with the yearly paid update cycles," That is one of the complain i heard most about. "But the fierce competition between Parallels and Fusion has led the market to a mature…
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Well because every site are made different, and uses different tech, with different bottleneck. But with SSD, RAM becoming a commodity, ( both prices has been dropping shapely ) I/O are much easier to…
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I think the performance gap between ARMv8 and x86 Haswell are just far too great.
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My thoughts exactly, although most of the time Space should be cheap enough where the DC are located. But you would need at least 2 - 3x the size of DC to handle that. The Oil also needs money, and th…
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As a matter of fact it is catching up quite nicely. Haswell are looking at 2.5x of current HD4000 performance. And Broadwell will do another 2x of Haswell. These performance would have been nice if no…
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I was about to write that as well, Apple are using less Apple APSL themselves and moving to wards Apache 2.0 License, and using more BSD / MIT equivalent. Since the Table only includes GPL / LGPL and …
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Well that is like a much better deal. Although it would have been much better if they have done this earlier.
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They could have just refund ALL of those money as credits for JoyentCloud. Would this be a better solution? So you essentially got "x" years of hosting plus Those money back as credits.
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Well at least this time it will be much faster then H.264, Hardware decoder are already in the work with many things could be reused fro H.264 HP Decoding. So unless there are any major changes HEVC d…
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Well they are using tricks and newer technique to make better quality pictures while still within the official specs. So it is not exactly outside to the official specs at all.
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This may be totally off topic. But Flickr? While the story may be true It seems to be another new marketing things under new management to generate more buzz.
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Well i think he is referring to Smart DataCenter, which runs on Smart OS etc.
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There is also SmartOS as well.
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What about those with non Active Facebook account? Same Treatment?
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I completely agree. I can only imagine the whole thing turns into chaos.
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True, I am hoping Ruby 2.0, and Rails 4.0 will improvement on those front.
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They tried with OpenGL 3, but then it took them years and the plan were scrapped. ( That is when Microsoft brings DirectX 9 to the table, which is well designed and much more usable then OpenGL ). The…
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On Pricing, I must be missing something because All EdgeCast, CDNetwork and Akamai Resellers are similarly priced. And unless you get to lots of traffics for the majority these Big CDN player wont eve…
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I wonder if anyone actually use the framework's built-in webserver for everything! Sounds Great and i wonder what happens in practice. Anyone know of any real world usage on this?
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Being in Patents Pools doesn't mean they dont need to pay licensing. It just means they are on both paying and receiving ends. Since there are thousands of patents on H.264, Apple are only recieiving …