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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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Unfortunately they don't last very long. Most DVDs are unreadable after 10 to 20 years.
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> this is the lack of monetization. By charging it for content. Since HN doesn't like any form of Ads. /s Sorry I have to write this out. But I am somewhat glad in the past 2 years HN has…
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>That's Micron's problem. Nobody held a gun to their heads and made them accept the prices Apple was offering. Micron willingly took those deals. Then they risk losing Apple as a customer…
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>caught price fixing Literally every other commodity market with only a few players will have price fixing by the definition of those verdict. Since there are limited customer in the market and lim…
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> Explain.... They are the largest customer. You don't annoy you largest customer. DRAM manufacture don't care whether the RAM are for Laptop or Phone. And Samsung + Apple combined is nea…
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AAC-LC is ubiquitous, the only other codec that is wider spread is MP3 and only by negligible margin. AAC-LC, the earliest version of AAC has been declared as patent free or all patents expired by Red…
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>So at higher bitrates, the benefit of choosing Opus is that encoders/decoders are royalty-free. Not only is the new AAC Encoder also royalty-free, the AAC-LC codec itself has been declared by…
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This. It was "the" reason behind 99% of forums shutting down or moving away to Discord. You have to upgrade it from time to time and upgrading is a non-trivial task. Which is why so many for…
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But in reality MicroSD card are easily to lose. And setting up an NAS is still a bag of hurt. Not to mention the lack of ZFS / BTrFS on cheaper model, and no ECC RAM your data will likely be corr…
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I quite like the idea of what Nintendo Switch 2 is doing and hopefully could take on with some guarantee. The new Switch 2 cartridge, I am buying the Key to access the media. Storing and transferring …
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LOL yes. It was a typo.
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These issues are similar to a comment below. But a lot of these are fixed in recent version of MySQL or handled with Vitess.
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>Sorry. Had to get that off my chest. I know I'm answering a question you didn't ask, Not at all. Thank You for sharing it and didn't put another morale rant about Oracle. Hopefully …
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Oh this is such a great analogy. Thank You.
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I agree. I seriously doubt making that an option would stop people moving to Apple or Linux especially with MacBook Neo and Steam Machine. Windows has much bigger problem than telemetry and advertisem…
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In the old days, these different OS would have separate teams and all trying to work on what is best for their own products. Be it mac, iPad, iPhone or what hardware it is. The foundation may share …
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It was even better before 2017. I used to describe iPhone being an Appliance, with some smart function added to it. Android was a PC trying to made into a Phone form factor and act like an appliance. …
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>I do myself a favor and always avoid Oracle and MySql/MariaDB. So what's wrong with MySQL or MariaDB?
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>I'm very far left myself, I know it is now an internet meme, but those who considered themselves far left 10 years ago would no be a moderate.
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>without being witch-hunted I still remember in 2013 to 2021 when this was happening in the US and wider internet on twitter and reddit. A lot of people in Europe / AUS / NZ thought it wa…
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Not exactly sure what point you are trying to get across.
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I am not looking a NAS replacement or NAS storage of my digital files. I am looking for replacement of Blu-Ray.
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>The most costly of the megaprojects involves a commitment by Samsung and SK Hynix of $585 billion to build new chip fabrication plants..... The government’s goal is to double South Korea’s product…
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Depends. Still bottlenecked by ASML I would assume. Otherwise the current record holder TSMC manage to bring up a Fab operation and HVM in less than 18 months. Of course that requires a lot of plannin…
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There were plenty of other DRAM manufacture before them as well. But the Boom and bust cycle wipe out those who weren't big enough or adequately prepared. Nearly every single DRAM cycle we go thr…
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We have so many of these discussions on HN already. Buy vs Rent. Digital vs Physical Ownership, Privacy etc. Yes we all have an opinion on that. I am more interested in a physical media that can keep…