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571.
by pulse7 6y ago
"The way Catalina sends the hash of every binary you run to Apple." <irony> They truly care about privacy... </irony>
572.
by pulse7 6y ago
5 nm in reality is not a 5 nm, but just a marketing name suggesting further optimizations by about 20-40%.
573.
by pulse7 6y ago
Like Madoff and his financial regulation friends in the US...
574.
by pulse7 6y ago
The key information is in this sentences: "We are also pleased to share that we have identified a path forward that balances the legitimate right of all users to privacy and the safety of users on our platform ... while maintaining the
575.
by pulse7 6y ago
We are in the Zeitgeist of "...all over the news and suspect attempts to steer public opinion"... One of the reasons is newspapers fighting for survival (and therefore prioritizing "what people like to hear" to boost ad-
576.
by pulse7 6y ago
You don't "have to pay to use JDKs older than 6 months". You can "use JDKs older than 6 months", but you need to pay for updates for it!
577.
by pulse7 6y ago
Isn't the additional energy consumed also increasing the EM radiation levels?
578.
by pulse7 6y ago
Good insight! I have to agree!
579.
by pulse7 6y ago
They are powerful, but show me a x86_64 that has a decades long up-time and no failures...
580.
by pulse7 6y ago
"everybody knows that mainframes are dying" Please name a single modern machine which can reliably handle billions of financial transactions on December 31 every year, when everybody is shopping? I know you can handle this with cl
581.
by pulse7 6y ago
Serious answer: people who are still using Eclipse won't answer here because it is not popular to use Eclipse here on HN.
582.
by pulse7 6y ago
Quality was not bad, calls didn't drop, no outages, good mobile support. Because it's p2p couldn't be hacked, it was replaced.
583.
by pulse7 6y ago
So why then they are so cheap?
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Best CPUs for Workstations(anandtech.com)
163 points by pulse7 6y ago|213 comments
585.
by pulse7 6y ago
...pass-by-value is also coming and it will be called "inline objects". See: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/valhalla/sov/01-backg...
586.
by pulse7 6y ago
Java has been inspired by many other languages... and continues to take good features and ideas from other languages...
587.
by pulse7 6y ago
Absence of non-essential features doesn't put a product behind other products... If Apple skips non-essential features it is seen as advantage...
588.
by pulse7 6y ago
keystone != cornerstone
589.
by pulse7 6y ago
*Small correction: free 40 minutes
590.
by pulse7 6y ago
TL;DR: "If microservices are implemented incorrectly ... you're drowning in the complexity."
591.
by pulse7 6y ago
They should benchmark Java's implementation with different GCs...
592.
by pulse7 6y ago
How can you say "...will never be sold/rented/etc. to advertisers"? Are you the fortune teller or a prophet? In case of a new CEO or changed ownership everything can change...
593.
by pulse7 7y ago
Write a small, self-contained program from scratch...
594.
by pulse7 7y ago
Mistake: it should be "150/hr" instead of "15/hr"
595.
by pulse7 7y ago
Does this mean people eat less food? Or do restaurants throw away a lot of food?
596.
by pulse7 7y ago
Previous discussions in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134023
597.
by pulse7 7y ago
Jabra Speak 710 (speakerphone for excellent audio with great echo cancellation, can also be used as bluetooth speaker for your phone)
598.
by pulse7 7y ago
The latest ThinkPads have a physical/mechanical switch, but just for the camera... The mic can not be turned off with this switch...
599.
by pulse7 7y ago
I would rather have a physical (manual) switch to disconnect the power to the microphone and camera hardware on all my devices (laptop, phone, ...). This way there would be no need to trust the Security Chip and there would be no attack vec
600.
by pulse7 7y ago
It seems that HN is flooded with commenters trying to redefine the well-established meaning of strong E2E encryption. I ask myself if there is any motivation for such comments?

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