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541.
by gok 6y ago
> 22.82 Mbps will reliably download very complex web pages nearly instantaneously. The author may be unaware of how ridiculously huge web pages have gotten. I just loaded Wired.com, scrolled down and let it sit for a few seconds. It down
542.
by gok 6y ago
It's startling how much software "validates" SSH keys by seeing if it starts with "ssh-rsa"
543.
by gok 6y ago
There's some insane shit happening in Minneapolis but using an unarmed drone to get a better picture of an unfolding riot doesn't seem...that weird?
544.
by gok 6y ago
The nice thing about Trump having the emotional self control of a toddler is that we don't have to wonder if this was really part of some larger plan. We know without a doubt that this was because Twitter subtly showed him an ounce of
545.
Cross origin access with exception object and full exploit(bugs.chromium.org)
2 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
546.
by gok 6y ago
It would be interesting to actually see how Anycast is finding the Cloudflare edge location, and how the traffic is getting routed.
547.
by gok 6y ago
...which, to reiterate, just means it's not extremely dangerous to healthy people.
548.
by gok 6y ago
Arm and RISC-V are both getting scalable vector compute support. Could lead to GPU-like compute capabilities without all the goofiness of GPUs. The H.266 / VVC video compression standard will be finalized in a few months. Ignoring lice
549.
by gok 6y ago
> Try searching for “dog” and you’ll see all of the photos you’ve taken of dogs! Photos also can differentiate between breeds of dogs
550.
by gok 6y ago
The first paragraph for the ABI non-goal section attacks a bunch of straw men about why a stable ABI is bad, then the second paragraph says they would actually be ok with doing what people actually want when they say they want a stable ABI.
551.
by gok 6y ago
iPhones are used by >80% of US teens. It's unfathomable that who ever wrote the College Board software thought it was acceptable to have this defect. What were they testing it against?
552.
by gok 6y ago
The writing was on the wall once it became clear that the West isn't going to do anything about it.
553.
by gok 6y ago
Not entirely coincidentally, Telsa's current factory in California is a former Toyota plant.
554.
by gok 6y ago
> we could tax something like 5% of stock buybacks and completely rebuild our entire society from the ground up. In 2018, there were a total of $800 billion of stock buybacks, and this was an utterly exceptional moment when corporations
555.
NASA lays out 'Artemis Accords' for responsible moon exploration(space.com)
2 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
556.
by gok 6y ago
Actually, TSMC has operated a fab in Camas, Washington for many years.
557.
by gok 6y ago
> [China] also has made statements that Taiwan is part of China since then. Since 1949, you mean?
558.
by gok 6y ago
The TensorFloat-32 results look really impressive, but yikes that is not a good name. "TensorFloat" is extremely confusable with "TensorFlow," and it would really more accurately be called a 19 bit format.
559.
by gok 6y ago
Demos are always beautiful but how about fixing some of the stuff that makes playing UE games unpleasant? The ridiculous load times, the random stutters and pop-ins, crazy high memory usage...
560.
by gok 6y ago
Original DP paper remains a great read: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/differe...
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We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology(saagarjha.com)
1224 points by gok 6y ago|200 comments
562.
by gok 6y ago
> On the other hand, the average cost for a studio in a “normal” neighborhood in Seoul is only 537 dollars. From the link, that's a 480 sqft studio with no parking, which is essentially illegal to build in any "normal" LA
563.
by gok 6y ago
This is a really weird article. It's dated today but seems to contain information from 2010 or so.
564.
by gok 6y ago
"reading the SMS database of an iOS device to which you have full unlocked physical access"
565.
by gok 6y ago
It was adopted by the EEC in 1985 when there were 10 members.
566.
by gok 6y ago
I think the question is: given that you're going to be performing pretty heavy symmetric encryption on every byte anyway, how much can TCP offload really help when all it's handling is the relatively trivial checksum and sliding w
567.
by gok 6y ago
I'm kind of surprised at this point that Intel didn't just bite the bullet and go with TSMC or Samsung for fabrication for a year or two until they figured their in-house sub-14nm story out.
568.
NASA selects HLS lunar lander teams Blue Origin, SpaceX, Dynetics(cnbc.com)
4 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
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Open multiple documents in Word, PowerPoint on iPadOS(blog-insider.office.com)
1 points by gok 6y ago|0 comments
570.
by gok 7y ago
Mass probably doesn't scale linearly with mirror area. Moreover it's increasingly unclear how much space-based astrophotography matter given recent advances in adaptive optics.

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