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811.
by mrb 7y ago
« To those who say just fork Chrome adfm had a good article explaining why that doesn’t work: [Chromium, Widevine...] » To my knowledge Widevine DRM works with Chromium. You can watch DRM'd videos: https://forum.manjaro.or
812.
by mrb 7y ago
« a 1965 Mustang fastback [...] no car had less than 450 horsepower » That mustang had 200-289 horsepower. I find it hard to believe a teenager rebuilt it to 450hp.
813.
by mrb 7y ago
PCie 3 x1 is 8 gigabit/s. But yes you are right, the gigabit network should be the bottleneck either way.
814.
by mrb 7y ago
60-113Mbps is absolutely TERRIBLE performance. Now if the author means MBps (bytes not bits) it's better but still bad. Just needed to rent, sorry, but why the heck do people frequently don't know there is a difference between low
815.
The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack(medium.com)
39 points by mrb 7y ago|20 comments
816.
by mrb 7y ago
« Now the fun part, good luck getting the cash out of the exchange! » Err... There are traders easily withdrawing tens of millions of USD every single week on Bitstamp. Bitstamp isn't MtGox.
817.
by mrb 7y ago
" Testing conducted by Apple in May 2019 showed as much as a 40 percent reduction in performance with tests that include multithreaded workloads and public benchmarks. " This is worse than Spectre and Meltdown!
818.
A Note on SIMON-32/64 Security(eprint.iacr.org)
66 points by mrb 7y ago|29 comments
819.
by mrb 7y ago
And that's why we need financial alternatives. Alternatives where third-parties can't unilaterally decide to freeze your account, disrupting your professional and personal financial flows. Cryptocurrencies solve this specific prob
820.
by mrb 7y ago
The datasheet covers hardware + software (instruction encoding, I/O registers) and it's all in english here: https://datasheet.lcsc.com/szlcsc/PADAUK-Tech-PMS150C_C12912...
821.
by mrb 7y ago
It's possible to read on mobile. It may not wrap but you can scroll it horizontally (Chrome on Android)
822.
by mrb 7y ago
It's incredibly strange that this blog post doesn't even link to the bug description https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973 Imagine someone stumbling upon this post and trying to find more technical
823.
by mrb 8y ago
This is the simplest explanation, indeed. In fact UFO sightings sharply increased starting in the 1940s which corresponds exactly to the period when military aviation research and experimentation took off.
824.
by mrb 8y ago
"A Tether USD is backed by 74 cents" is a fun quote seen on twitter
825.
by mrb 8y ago
Coinbase grew from zero to an $8B valuation in just over 6 years. If that isn't "very successful", what is? ;)
826.
by mrb 8y ago
Cryptocurrencies. For example Coinbase is doing well—raised $300M on a $8B valuation: http://fortune.com/2018/10/30/coinbase-series-e-funding/
827.
by mrb 8y ago
On desktop Chrome: switch to mobile view (ctrl-shift-j then ctrl-shift-m) AND browse to https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/google... This works for me. WSJ implements a "soft
828.
by mrb 8y ago
As an angel investor, I'm curious. If you need seed funding, email me :) My contact info is on zorinaq.com
829.
by mrb 8y ago
Didn't ask for a raise right away. In general the company liked me a lot; so a few months earlier I had asked for and already obtained a +19% raise, and during perf review a few months later I got another +7% raise.
830.
by mrb 8y ago
You pasted the same link for both cases. Can't tell what's going on.
831.
by mrb 8y ago
" if the situation becomes so bad that government-issued money is worthless " For a real-world example of this, look at Venezuela now. Its inflation was recently estimated at 1,300,000%. And what do people want? Yes you guessed ri
832.
by mrb 8y ago
Bypassing the paywall on desktop worked for me using mobile view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19703810
833.
by mrb 8y ago
" On a NFS mounted on my PC your LS_COLORS tweak actually degrades the performance " Run "strace -o logfile ls --color=always" and diff the two logfiles.
834.
by mrb 8y ago
Story time. This took place around 2009. Back then I was working for Rapid7, on their network vulnerability scanner Nexpose. The codebase was mostly Java and was relatively large at 1M+ lines of code. We had many unit tests. Running the ent
835.
by mrb 8y ago
Half the comments in HN are flagged or downvoted. Is it a sign that the HN crowd feels uneasy and divided about China's rising power? Meta comment: wonder if my comment will get downvoted too when it's just asking a question meant
836.
by mrb 8y ago
> > It is long overdue. China has 1.3B people and the second largest economy in the world. It is righteous for them to be Asia's military titan. > I wonder if you meant 'right' like 'appropriate'? Clearl
837.
by mrb 8y ago
" I had read that qualcomm's trustzone has had software exploits in the past, but I didn't think it would happen again " Of course it's going to happen again, given the abysmal state of security in QSEE, Qualcom&#x2
838.
by mrb 8y ago
Ah, yes.
839.
by mrb 8y ago
But it's the reverse: they previously announced 250 kW last month. While this new drivetrain announcement says 200 kW. Why did they lower the charging rate claim?
840.
by mrb 8y ago
" Paired with the new more efficient drivetrain design, Model S and Model X are now capable of achieving 200 kW on V3 Superchargers " Not sure how this has anything to do with the new drivetrain, because last month they already an

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