cwizou

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by cwizou 5y ago
I'd love to hear in a few years that Intel, under the table, funded Electron. Because it was everything they could have hoped for.
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by cwizou 5y ago
One thing that "old Intel" used to do a lot was trying to find use cases for more performance. This used to be a strong fear internally, that at some point silicon would get "good enough" and you wouldn't need to bu
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by cwizou 5y ago
They definitely did, this is not a GA vs server side comparison. From the source : > I compared stats between Plausible Analytics and Google Analytics.
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by cwizou 5y ago
And same exact experience on mounting shares by the way. When setting up my new NAS last week, I ended up booting a Windows PC to check if Samba was correctly configured because macOS kept throwing weird inscrutable errors semi randomly. I
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by cwizou 5y ago
Like many here I had the exact same issue mentioned by the poster, Time Machine on Synology just kept failing, with incredibly unhelpful error messages that basically said, let's trash and backup again. I used AFP which was recommended
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by cwizou 5y ago
That took me back a bit, I still remember the speculations about what IT was. I didn't knew (or didn't remember) that a leaked book chapter proposal was what had started it all. I think the conclusion is spot on though, nowadays e
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by cwizou 5y ago
Thanks for the tip, tried a few times but no luck. I did use relay previously so could be a random bug.
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by cwizou 5y ago
Not terribly surprising as I believe WebRTC has been a known issue for leaking your IP for a long time with VPNs. With that said I confirmed it does indeed leak my IP on iPad. The surprising part is that Apple sidestepped the issue. Side no
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by cwizou 5y ago
Previously discussed here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329386 This is massively overblown, especially the comparison to what happened at other manufacturers. Samsung announced the change, changed the packaging,
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by cwizou 5y ago
In general, there are two separate components to the SLC cache strategy (which as you said, is writing only one bit instead of 3 for TLC, because it's much faster to do so). First you have some overprovisionned NAND, the size of which
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by cwizou 5y ago
I took a few shortcuts in my explanation and may have implied that the disk full case was similar to what was shown here (it's not completely related). All in all this is really controller dependant. Some controllers do the bare minimu
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by cwizou 5y ago
While this happens on TVs (and other consumer goods, mattresses is another example of different SKUs for different retailers), this is not common at all for performance sensitive components in PC hardware industry. Making different SKUs (wi
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by cwizou 5y ago
Since you are the author, there's a near duplicated paragraph below the CPU/XPU pictures, the paragraphs starts with "Besides standing out and calling themselves". Very interesting content otherwise, I remember the seal
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by cwizou 5y ago
Yep this is terrible editorialising. It's faster on every scenario but very long sequential writes where, after 115 GB your performance drops from 2.5GB/s to below 1 GB/s. The older drives dropped earlier (40 GB) from 1.75
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by cwizou 5y ago
This happens a lot with flash in general, mostly because those who manufacture the end user product don't usually make the NAND (or don't always use their own). I had the issue with "high end" USB sticks a while back dur
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by cwizou 5y ago
> A recent Typhoon (one of the half dozen that hammered China) refilled all their reservoirs about a month or so ago. Yes I should have phrased that better, sorry. The thing is, making one wafer of chips takes roughly 3 months, and every
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by cwizou 5y ago
I think you may be massively underestimating the lead times on those decisions. We're talking years. Also, you can't simply choose another node last minute, your design is intimately linked to the PDK of the node. Porting to anoth
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by cwizou 5y ago
> I don’t see much evidence that TSMC ever really slowed production, at least for their most advanced processes that are in high demand. One thing I heard is that the drought (worst one in 50 years in Taiwan) has really affected them, a
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by cwizou 5y ago
Yep, nothing to do with GateKeeper as the article imply. If I had to guess, the security framework returns that the bundled certs are invalid, and that crashes the apps in question as they can't go forward ?
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by cwizou 5y ago
Not provided by them but I don't think that was the point that parent was making. The same system is already in use for things other than NCMEC by other providers.
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by cwizou 5y ago
It's a long story but after suing for years the whole industry over DDR (they introduced in bad faith patented technology into the DDR process of JEDEC and patent trolled the industry since then with that), they have cross licensing ag
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by cwizou 5y ago
While I agree with the premise, I'm not sure moving data from the SSD to CPU is the issue here. When Intel introduced the large Skylake-X cores, scaling up to 18 cores on desktop (more on server), they had to abandon their classic ring
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by cwizou 5y ago
PhotoDNA is not exclusive to NCMEC, and has been used for about 5 years by FB, MS and Youtube on terrorist content : https://about.fb.com/news/2016/12/partnering-to-help-curb-sp...
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by cwizou 5y ago
While I broadly agree that this (and other attempts in Australia and rumblings about it in UK) may have been the impetus for developing the technology, I'm not sure it explains why they released it on Photos, where Apple holds the keys
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by cwizou 5y ago
I think they clearly didn't anticipate that people would perceive it as anything but a breach of trust, that their device was working against them (even for a good cause, against the worst people). And because of this they calibrated t
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by cwizou 5y ago
Is it ? I checked your link and they separate clearly which features comes to which OS, here's how I read it : - Communication safety in Messages > "This feature is coming in an update later this year to accounts set up as fami
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by cwizou 5y ago
My bad, I edited the previous post, thanks for this. Assuming this runs on Intel's iGPU, they would still need the ability to run on AMD's GPU for the iMac Pro and Mac Pro, so that's at least two extra separate cases.
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by cwizou 5y ago
Yes what Apple does is slightly different technically : they run a network on device, then when you upload the picture to their Cloud services, they attach the hash generated to the picture. It's only on their servers that they will do
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by cwizou 5y ago
They have been scanning Gmail for a while using this, as nearly every provider does : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
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by cwizou 5y ago
This may explain why they (weirdly), only announced it for iOS and iPadOS, as far as I can tell they didn't announce it for macOS. My first thought was that they didn't want to make the model too easily accessible by putting it on

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