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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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Similar thoughts as well. But also want to add Rust being a complex language is now greatly helped by AI as well. I think there still a long way to go before the final version of Zig. I am increasingl…
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On a similar scale, if I am paying 35% more for the plus on music, I expect the same for movies around $15 or up to $18.
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If history is any guidelines that would be how World War III starts. There is nothing that stops US from building their own Memory Fabs, or asking / funding Micron building more US Fabs. It will …
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>It’s made outside of the US using non-American tooling. Depends if US can demand ASML which uses plenty of US tech inside. In reality even the DRAM and NAND supply chain has plenty of US technolog…
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It isn't like OPEC and oil where you can turn on and off bumping out from the ground. The most expensive foundry / fab isn't the leading edge, it is the "empty" ones. You can&…
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There is a minimum amount of production volume for it to fit the price equation. If the market doesn't have that demand, it is fundamentally no different to CRT. Otherwise they could continue to …
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This is a typical guardian writing which does not actually reflect the business of restaurants. Rent and Staffing cost are fixed / operational, and half of the energy cost as well since you will …
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> I suspect that Samsung,TSMC have something similar and doesn't talk about it. They do, just not as hyped up as Intel. TSMC will have it after 20A. Either 18A or 14A. GAA was supposed to be i…
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>AND basically no play I'm the hyperscalar market. I do wish they have Xserve back, or a Mac Pro that is Rack Based and support multiple node with M6 Ultra. The Hyperscaler market is so large …
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I am so glad this finally get mentioned and at least upvoted on HN. Many are taking hardware improvements and cheap pricing as granted. Not to mention a lot of these price hikes will need to major imp…
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>I own that copy regardless of the studio and the distributor being in legal trouble or not. You also get the play the same version stored on DVD regardless where you are. You are limited by locati…
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https://archive.ph/w2ssJ ( Edit Sorry archive didn't work )
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I didn't know they started shipping Zen 5 already. Hopefully they will be on Zen6 soon after its launch. The Computer Sled is an 2U unit. I am wondering if they could further shrink it to 1U to f…
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The are at least 5 people on the initial USB-C design team on HN. They certainly tell a different story.
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And I said MacBook Neo was wrongly priced since the beginning. I don't even remember how many sticks I got from it. >Just yesterday I saw people saying that Apple wouldn't increase prices…
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The Server CPU space is going to become so interesting. These Qualcomm DragonFly CPU cores are based on Oryon, which is the 2nd fastest CPU core per watt only lose out to Apple M5. And the M5 CPU isn&…
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The best path and most likely path will be Apple stop the 256GB price point. Customers will be forced to buy the higher capacity iPhone. So iPhone 17 512GB start at $999. Effectively Apple hasn't…