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by tiffanyh 2y ago
IPTV A see in the comments multiple people talking about how "cable" companies who have migrated to IPTV has solved this problem. I'd disagree. I'm on IPTV and any major sporting event (World Series, Super Bowl, etc) is
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Netflix has a stellar tech track-record. One bad night and people talk crap. Now that’s not right.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Looks like I was wrong. That’s odd because the commentators said it was. Maybe first live sports event? Either way, you’re right. They’ve done several live events.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42153906
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42153906
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Your engineer comment is unwarranted. I’ll say though … Live streaming is a radically different tech challenge than serving static content. And this fight was the first live streaming event Netflix has ever done. Let’s not trash our HN frie
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
For all the talk about Bluesky adoption and use here on HN, I don’t think I’ve seen a single Bluesky thread posted here on HN. Very odd.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
What's the best alternative? (since so many people in this thread think this is the end of VMware)
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
OT: what's the current best way to run Windows (guest) on Apple Silicon (macOS as host)? VMWare, UTM, Virtual Box, etc?
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
I was expecting you to say how SF train system is still run off floppy disks. https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-floppy-disks-muni-... .
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Private Cloud Compute is essentially just that, their own silicon, but for AI-only use cases and only for Apple. https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
I just returned my Daylight. I found it: - oddly heavy , the Daylight is made of all plastic (body & screen) - yet it’s heavier than an iPad Air made from metal & glass. - handwriting lag , the input lags when I use the pen is so
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
I don't believe so. I don't think the "U" notch and pins are the same. But happy to be wrong :)
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, this appears to be a custom storage module, not available for sale. So Apple gets the best of both worlds. They can keep charging their high storage costs, but they themselves gets the flexibility of easily upgradi
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
As someone who bought a 2TB Mac mini - this is frustrating to see. Because it is in fact upgradeable, but only to Apple since this is a custom module.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
I'm always reminded of this xkcd comic about standards. https://xkcd.com/927/
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Said differently, many government programs for citizen retirement benefits (eg Social Security) are structured as Ponzi Schemes that require population increases over time so later generations can pay for earlier generations. If population
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
TIL "latchkey kid" latchkey kid is a child who is left home alone or unsupervised for a significant portion of the day, typically after school, because their parents are away at work.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
While true, also keep in mind that the iPad Pro (M4) which has no active cooling, and uses only 1/4th the power ... is still faster (single & multicore) than this 9800X3D - and it's also been on the market for 1/2 year
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Love it; though the Windows 2000 theme seems a bit off (headings to heavy/bold). Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of UI design IMO.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Officers of company's schedule the sale of their stock to signal in advance their sales to preempt insider trading concerns. And as you found, it's managed by a trust . So I don't understand the point you're trying to m
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
I think you're misinformed on how Larry handles his investments. He uses a Blind Trust. Due to how many investments he has that could create SEC insider trading issues, Larry has a Blind Trust that sells his stock as they see best fit
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Given that AWS is doing $100B in annual revenue and still growing at 17% YoY ... and they do NOT have a collaboration suite (office/gsuite) - it'd say at least for AWS it's nearly all IaaS/PaaS. https://www.th
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
OT: The publication (Spectrum by IEEE) has some really good content. It's starting to become a common destination for when I want to read about interesting things.
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
A video of Steve Jobs (and his staff) seeing what he paid $100,000 for. https://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Similarly, Mike Pall of LuaJIT fame wrote (13-years ago) about the benefits of handwriting assembly. http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Because multicore cpu's don't scale linearly due to NUMA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
That's not an accurate comparison. Base Freq Chip --------- ---- 2.4GHz EPYC 9654 4.7GHz Ryzen 7950X As a result, the SINGLE core performance difference is ~2x Geekbench Single Core - Score -------------
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
A maxed out Mac mini (M4/14-core) has more total cores than a mid-level Mac Studio (M2/12-core).
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by tiffanyh 2y ago
Like this? User-agent: * Disallow: Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

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