donboscow

6 ms·

1.
by donboscow 2y ago
Can you explain a bit? How can they design chip based on software requirements? I mean - they can add more threading, cores, etc. to ensure that heavyweight software like gaming, photo or video editing etc. can benefit from them, but still,
2.
by donboscow 2y ago
Hmm thought so. They make hardware chips first, right, packing as many cores and transistors as possible in heat efficient manner? They make software like OS, apps, UX on top of the chips? Or is it that they plan the software first and buil
3.
by donboscow 2y ago
Oops, sorry, I meant Air. Editing the question, thanks. But the Pro also rarely seems to emit sound of fan, unlike my earlier MacBooks (pre-2016), so something's changed for sure I think.
4.
Contribution of OS to slim nature and passive fanless cooling of MacBook Airs
3 points by donboscow 2y ago|7 comments
5.
How frequently is Commoncrawl updated, and what is its coverage level
6 points by donboscow 3y ago|1 comments
6.
by donboscow 3y ago
Hmm got it. If a Linux skin is rewritten in Qt, and the SDK and tool chain are exposed through Qt, can they be as performant, smooth and give the native feel like Mac OS or iOS apps?
7.
by donboscow 3y ago
Is Xilem remotely as mature a framework as one required for writing an OS and generating a toolchain and SDK at par with Mac OS (or iOS), Cocoa/Swift/Flutter?
8.
Can a Linux derivative OS comparable to macOS be written in Rust?
3 points by donboscow 3y ago|4 comments
9.
by donboscow 4y ago
Hi, I thought so too. But then why did it not work for Cloudflare, and why did their custom solution work with Pingora?
10.
by donboscow 4y ago
Hmm I read the post. Cloudfare handles almost 1 trillion requests per day, Google does that per year. However, the request types are different, Cloudfare handles a variety of requests like caching and forwarding, while Google requests are a
11.
by donboscow 4y ago
Got it. Thanks. Which servers are best suited to handle such high levels of load, and are available for free and open usage like Nginx or Apache is? I read that Apache has even more problems than Nginx.
12.
by donboscow 4y ago
TBH, looks like Nginx has bunch of issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOAHkaFU6w&ab_channel=Husse...
13.
by donboscow 4y ago
Good to know. Any idea why Google chose to use custom servers instead of opting for Nginx or Apache? Specially when Nginx offers excellent load balancing capabilities in-built?
14.
Can Nginx servers scale to the level of Google
11 points by donboscow 4y ago|17 comments
15.
by donboscow 5y ago
I am aware that I need more learning, no need for that advice. I also know that BM25 and PageRank are different, were they the same, there wouldn't have been a need for two of them, my question was ver clear - which one in the long run
16.
by donboscow 5y ago
Yes of course. What I meant is - when I query a phrase, that phrase can be found in one million webpages, yet I get a bunch of them sorted by relevance. Surely that is a combination of two things - deep rooted crawling that gathers data fro
17.
Elasticsearch vs. Google
8 points by donboscow 5y ago|7 comments
18.
Redis vs. Cassandra for high volume database query
2 points by donboscow 5y ago|0 comments
19.
by donboscow 5y ago
Yeah, I get the R&D part, what I want to know, what specific improvement here does the R&D here contribute to?
20.
by donboscow 5y ago
So, using aluminium as body material is one of the factors why Macbooks are so slim? Why can't the bulkier laptops use the same? Price?
21.
How can MacBooks be so slim compared to others laptops
9 points by donboscow 5y ago|21 comments
22.
by donboscow 5y ago
If you observe the Ubuntu Touch videos on YouTube, you will find that the animations, the graphics are not smooth and seamless, they stall, they freeze, they lag. Do you reckon it is more due to low end hardware underlying those phones as o
23.
by donboscow 5y ago
What do you mean by rough? Not as smooth and responsive as say iPhone or iPad or Macbook?
24.
by donboscow 5y ago
Guys, I see my question greyed out. And I also see some comments greyed out. What does that mean? They are getting downvoted?
25.
by donboscow 5y ago
You mean to say Telegram is smoother than other apps? Will try it out. In general, would you say that Qt is supposed to work just as buttery smooth and native on Mac or iPhone as a native app? And will an OS built on Qt like Ubuntu Touch wi
26.
by donboscow 5y ago
Was my question not clear? If so, please tell me which part, I will be happy to clarify.
27.
Ask HN: Smoothness and performance of Qt based systems vs. native apps and OS
50 points by donboscow 5y ago|75 comments