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by ksec 3mo ago
I don't want to say I knew it but it did happen. Slightly disappointed.
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Lexxy: A modern rich text editor for Rails(lexxy.dev)
1 points by ksec 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ksec 3mo ago
This could mean 40 years of negative earnings, near zero profits, low level profits, normal profits or high margin profits. In reality it is a mixture of everything.
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by ksec 3mo ago
I hope Zig won't do a hostile reply to this blog post. But some thoughts on Zig's future where a lot of these problems could be fixed or migrated by better tooling and compiler checking. But a lot of people have been saying this f
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by ksec 3mo ago
Not only that. I think most of us, including the author wouldn't have thought this was actually feasible. Not only is the time and dollar spent lower than a lot of people expected. We could now foresee a lot of these human interaction
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by ksec 3mo ago
Thanks I have somehow missed this. My mental model is that Go is still 1.5 to 2.5x speed of C hence I asked the question. This is likely wrong number now given so much has been happening without much fanfare. ( or may be I just missed all o
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by ksec 3mo ago
Very rare I see people supporting Nvidia in HN. Glad to see people appreciating hardware innovation and improvements. Welcome!
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by ksec 3mo ago
I am surprised that Siri has only been mentioned 5 times here, out of the current 355 comments. I am wondering if this because Siri is so bad, people think of Siri now as a voice activation method rather than an AI assistant as it was inten
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by ksec 3mo ago
So we are at a stage where AGPL 3.0 is not enough and using AI assisted coding is considered evil?
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by ksec 3mo ago
Agree and I think Server CPU segment desperately needs more competition. Pushing ahead with PCIe 6.0. They now have full stack from CPU, GPU and Networking. Working with partners that pushes Rack Improvements and Water cooling development f
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by ksec 3mo ago
I know this is about Typescript. But I am wondering if anything happening in Go that will make this even faster?
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by ksec 3mo ago
>At the core of Vera is Olympus, NVIDIA’s custom CPU core, which delivers 50% higher instructions per cycle than NVIDIA Grace It sounds exciting until you do the maths. NVIDIA Grace is based on Neoverse V2, also used by Graviton 4, it is
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AI Innovators Adopt Nvidia Vera – Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters(blogs.nvidia.com)
3 points by ksec 3mo ago|6 comments
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by ksec 3mo ago
Apple is already purchasing these Broadcom analog components that is made in the US. This isn't exactly new [1] ( Apple announces multibillion-dollar deal with Broadcom for components made in the USA ), and this was in 2023. I am not e
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by ksec 3mo ago
Some things are measured from 0, some are measured from 100. Depending on Expectation. When expectation is 100%, telling me 98% success rate isn't enough. An example where the argument happens on Reddit, Macrumours and even on HN. When
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by ksec 4mo ago
>Java is usch garbage in every stack. May be true between late 90s to late mid 10s. Both Java and JVM has had enormous of work going into it. 2026 the JVM is pretty damn good pieces of engineering.
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by ksec 4mo ago
We ( including myself ) like to shit on Apple's regression of UX and software. Which is true, on all of their OS. But every time we look into alternatives, the others are so far off that even Apple has regressed 10 - 20% they will stil
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by ksec 4mo ago
Unfortunately they don't last very long. Most DVDs are unreadable after 10 to 20 years.
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by ksec 4mo ago
> 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 returned back to discussing monetizatio
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by ksec 4mo ago
>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, with empty Fabs running which cost the
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by ksec 4mo ago
>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 limited supply. Even without the player act
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by ksec 4mo ago
> 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 nearly 50% of the phone market. The rest ar
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by ksec 4mo ago
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 Redhat for many years already. AAC-LC was a
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by ksec 4mo ago
>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 Redhat as patent free ( all patent expi
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by ksec 4mo ago
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 forums are stuck in version that is at leas
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by ksec 4mo ago
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 corrupted half way through the decade. We st
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by ksec 4mo ago
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 media cost is going down every single ye
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by ksec 4mo ago
LOL yes. It was a typo.
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by ksec 4mo ago
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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by ksec 4mo ago
>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 someone reads it and provide some intere

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