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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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Paypal was worth near $50 when it IPO again in 2015, and it is still worth $50B today? And this isn't some inflated market cap either, apart from 2021 and 2022 they have been making $5B+ Net inco…
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It is great that you post and quoted this. In which I suggest you reread the page yourself. It make the case very clear. There are literally 4 - 5 paragraphs on the whole thing with examples what is c…
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>Pretty sad from the free software movement's perspectice. That somehow implies or suggest BSD is not free software.
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>People criticise them all the time That is a very recent thing. And I have done enough of mine to push against the tide.
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>ten years is a very long time in technology, 10 years is relatively short time in hardware, that is only at best 4 cycles. In today's world it is only 3 cycles. The amount of time, energy and…
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I wonder if UK will follow as well.
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Had it not been Braun insisting not making a USB-C shaver I wouldn't have brought a Panasonic Lamdash Pro. But also thanks to that I discover Panasonic being better shaver overall. The next phase…
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>Ultimately I ended up making a PWA that does nothing except act as a bookmark. Which is exactly what I was going to reply to your original post. I am willing to bet 80-90% of user don't want …
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I believe Master at Cambridge is harder to get accepted again than at Amazon. There are plenty of opportunities other than Amazon, I am not sure if the same could be said for Cambridge. That is assumi…
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I assume Zen 6 won't support these, so we are looking Zen 7 at the earliest, which is 2028 earliest. In the meantime x86 don't have much in the roadmap that compete well with ARM vendor'…
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The platform owner themselves. Obviously it wouldn't be an idea for startup. But OpenAI, Meta, or Tesla could have enough leverage to do so. Or even Amazon.
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And may be a some other context. Steve Jobs initially only wanted 1% of the mobile phone market. Nokia wasn't at all worried, they still have a few Smartphone 1.0 design ready to deploy. Remember…
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>Judging from internet posts and HN comments, many do. Judging from the HN comments in the past on Bun's rewrite. I wouldn't even use the word "many". It was literally all Anti-…
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- When they rewrote the project to Rust, and described Zig as poor choice, there has been a negative fallout for Zig - The ZSF is obviously upset because of the poor publicity No where did they descri…
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>like linus lol I am not even sure if that is an insult. Linus attack on " things " he dislike and call the person out on it. I don't believe Linus has ever call out on that person&#…
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I am struggling to even understand what are they trying to achieve? Or do they need a dozens of lessons on basic PR. Especially this is coming from VP of community. As of this moment, even with all t…
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No where did they show it makes Zig looks bad. And neither did any Reddit, HN, Twitter thread by a large have anyone said anything like that.
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>What Bun did here is basically a sabotage of Zig's reputation. No a single soul thought Bun was doing anything against Zig's reputation apart from a few people in Zig. They are the one b…
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>I don't think Zig community should get triggered on any of this. As far as I can tell No one from Zig community got triggered by this other than the Zig team. People were angry about Bun swit…
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>I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photos…
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From the Video in [1], 100 Kwh that last 30 years compared to $70 Kwh that last 15 years. Correct me if I am wrong. It seems to me Sodium is still cheaper if I am not mistaken. At this rate and future…
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Ignoring the taxes part. Some of the assumption seems valid such as additional infrastructure cost. But I wonder if that is much of anything. I would assume the DC actually paying for the connection. …