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ksec

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About ksec

Edksec @ protonmail . com

https://ksec.mataroa.blog

London, Hong Kong and somehow California*.

Often a Contrarian.

The unwritten rule of HN: You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.

Interest: JPEG-XL, AAC-LC, VVC / LCEVC, Patent Free AVC, FreeBSD, TigerBeetle, ZFS, DTrace, Vitess, Vespa, Objective-C, Java, Zig, Odin, Crystal, Ada, Ruby, Graal, Rails, 5G/6G, OpenPOWER, Apple/China, Supply Chain / Manufacturing, Retail.

@Google: Why No Pixel Phone in Hong Kong?

Recent public activity

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    May be your cafeteria was doing offline processing, while other were doing it online? But even offline there are huge differences, say Visa / Mastercard EMV and Suicia's Felica in …

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    Comment #49172248

    >- LCEVC track muxing support in MP4 muxer I guess I am the only one excited to see this.

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    Comment #49171980

    >It’s like claiming that a company that goes from making $1 to $1k to $100k to $1mm in a 4 year period has decelerating growth. Because it is decelerating growth. There is a reason…

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    Comment #49171918

    >when a 1t param model runs off a $200 SSD instead of a $50k rack of Nvidia chips. I am 100% sure this won't happen in 10 years time. At least not on a $200 SSD. But I wouldn't be …

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    Again. We need a storage medium that is reliable, has roughly 200GB of capacity, small in size, relatively affordable to press. Otherwise, there is only one option left, make it il…

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    Comment #49168415

    I was just talking about I have high hopes for John Ternus yesterday [1] and today we have great news. Laura Legros is good! There was another guy from supply chain and operations …

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    Comment #49158901

    I was hoping for some benchmarks. Performance of CPU Core in the past 30 years.

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    Comment #49156950

    I am wondering if anyone on HN is familiar or an expert on Material Science and offer any insight or educated guess as to why acquire this company, Edit: 9to5mac has a piece on it …

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    Comment #49155309

    I think the Github link [1] does a much better job at explaining what it is. [1] https://github.com/octanejs/octane

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    Comment #49152224

    While reading this comment, two of Steve Job's line pops up in my head. I think it was the Apple Park opening, and Steve response to insult in WWDC 199x. > "We need to be true to o…

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    Comment #49152026

    For those of us who don't have the time to follow closely, Qwen3.6-27B being Open Source and Open Weight, what level is this compared to other Western paid version? Just so that we…

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    Comment #49151180

    7 Years of release on Swift UI, 12 years for Swift. This isn't 7 years of development, but 7 - 12 years after release . And to most these past 7 - 12 years are an ongoing beta deve…

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    Comment #49147071

    They are doing both landlocked and mobile deep-sea methods farming with success. In typical Chinese fashion as they have done with Fruit and other food productions, I wouldn't be s…

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    Comment #49146561

    So WMF and Wiki was pro union for all of their information and reporting but Anti union when it is for themselves.

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    Comment #49146497

    >Some claim the do not use them at all. It is against the law in most if not all EU countries. It is also the dispute between US and EU agriculture trade.

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    Comment #49146445

    1. The Title should be "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences". It fits the character limit, why change it? 2. A lot of the conditions for Salmon…

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    I mean the subject is interesting but I have the say the design of the page is not only janky and needlessly complicated with animations.