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5 years ago
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on: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
Inertia, or lack of real reason to upgrade. Personally I'm still on a CPU from 2013(Intel Core i5-4570S). Havent really felt the need to upgrade. And pretty happy that I went with 16GB ram back then, since its still enough for me today(browsing/light gaming/coding). I've probably spent 10 times what that CPU cost on SSDs since then, so its not a cost issue for me. And more recently a Geforce 1070 TI. I've been thinking about upgrading, but I really need to see significant IPC lift to bother. So maybe a Zen3 or Intel next-gen sometime in 2021. If they manage to raise IPC.
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6 years ago
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on: The Sad End of Intel Desktop Boards
I used to go for boards with a physical TPM as well(the Qxxx) and had the same driver issues you mentioned. But I've been reading recently that it might not be needed, since some of the newer intel chipsets(like z390) now have builtin Intel® Platform Trust Technology (Intel® PTT) which supposedly is a sort of firmware based TPM. I plan to give it a shot and see if it works for bitlocker hardware encryption when I buy my next motherboard.
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6 years ago
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on: Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year
Similar to the current charge in Denmark which is around 3.75 DKK(€0.5) per large plastic bag
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6 years ago
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on: Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year
I always carry an eastpak backpack when I bike to work. Those things are pretty much indestructible; on my second one since highschool. Then I usually shop on my way back from work. Obviously I probably have to shop more often than most people because of the limited capacity. I usually keep a spare plastic bag(that i re-use) in there as well if I need to buy more than can fit in the eastpak.
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7 years ago
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on: Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
Actually sony compacts were some of the phones I was considering when I upgraded from iphone 4, to iphone SE. But the iphone se was just a tad smaller and I liked the look and feel of it. Had there been no iphone SE i would most likely be an android user now. And if apple stops producing a small model like iphone SE, that will probably be the thing that pushes me towards some sort of android phone.
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8 years ago
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on: Web Authentication: Proposed API for accessing Public Key Credentials
I had a yubikey. It died after a few months of simply lying on the shelf behind me. No idea why, but havent exactly been a fan after that.
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8 years ago
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on: We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hackathon
My guess would be a dev that knew that something was wrong with the performance of their old system, but for whatever reason it wasnt something that anyone higher up prioritized. If thats the case, I can see why one might come up with an idea of trying to solve it outside the bounds of the normal production/SQL environment. At least in my company, the only time we devs ever get to specifically look at the performance of our website is when we have "hackathon" days where we choose our own projects. I often times feel like my regular time would be much better spent trying to optimize our 2 second+ initial pageload times, instead of all the other small tasks/tweaks/bugfixes that gets sent my way. But performance is something very few people higher up seems to care about. Or maybe its a case of users and managers becoming so accustomed to something being slow they dont notice anymore.
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8 years ago
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on: Run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
Hopefully that limitation can be relaxed over time. Having to stuff all my logic in one big script sounds a bit annoying. At minimum having access to a second worker script route would be welcome for testing/development purposes, so one doesn't muck up a working production script.
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8 years ago
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on: Run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
Are there any extra costs related to outbound requests one might make from a worker?
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8 years ago
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on: Run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
Will every request to a worker-enabled site, pass through the worker v8 engine and charged at the going rate, even requests for static ressources like favicons, or jpgs etc? Or is there some way to limit the worker engine request matching to a specific area of your site(like /service)?
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8 years ago
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on: Meltdown Proof-of-Concept
I'm running the same version of Chrome(with site isolation enabled), its reporting "Your browser is NOT VULNERABLE to Spectre" for me. Also in incognito mode with extensions disabled.
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
We have been using kapow robosuite for close to 10 years now. Its a commercial GUI based tool which have worked well for us, it saves us a lot of maintenance time compared to our previous hand-rolled code extraction pipeline. Only problem is that its very expensive(pricing seems catered towards very large enterprises).
So I was really hoping this this thread would have revealed some newer commercial GUI-based alternatives(on-premise, not SaaS). Because I dont really ever want to go back the maintenance hell of hand rolled robots ever again :)
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8 years ago
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on: Kids Pass Just Reminded Us How Hard Responsible Disclosure Is
Agreed. Especially considering how easy it would have been to contact them privately and directly.
A 2 second google search for kidspass uk shows a sitelink for their "Contact Us" page, listing both a phone number and email address: https://www.kidspass.co.uk/contact-us
So unless that page was added post-incident, then IMO both Alex and Troy did not do responsible disclosure.
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8 years ago
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on: Fears for tourists in London as acid attacks escalate in recent weeks
Thanks, googled those top 3 trouble spots mentioned and they all seem to be in east london.
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8 years ago
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on: Self-Driving Taxis Will Become the Most Disgusting Spaces on Earth
> how do you know when the footage needs to be reviewed?
With all the computing power and vision AI available in such a vehicle, it seems like it would be possible to perform an automated interior scan of the cabin after each ride. Detecting cleanliness issues(and forgotten baggage).
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8 years ago
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on: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world
For me its purely a noise issue. Less heat to dissipate means less fan noise(Only speaking about home use here. In an office setting the difference would be unnoticeable).
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9 years ago
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on: Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server, etc
Good that it was fixed. But now bad actors will be looking very hard for other bugs in the unsandboxed javascript interpreter. Tempting to just disable windows defender completely.
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9 years ago
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on: If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
Denmark here. November 21 2014 instant clearing 365/24/7 between danish banks via the Danish Central Bank was started. I can transfer money from bank A and have it be there on my account with bank B when I alt-tab over and refresh the browser with netbank B. Oh and its free(although a few banks have started charging a minor DKK 1 or DKK 10 fee for initiating the transfer, not mine though).
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9 years ago
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on: Nginx reaches 33.3% web server market share while Apache falls below 50%
Apache httpd "legacy"? Seems a bit exaggerated. As far as I can tell it works just fine, have plenty of very good tutorials(like those from digital ocean), performance wise no problems(at least for our usage). And seems simpler to setup.
At my work we use IIS for our main website, but I've been asked to setup and configure a few wordpress installations. I've played around with both nginx and apache, but it was much easier to find clear instructions to setup wordpress on apache, so thats what I went with. I also really like apaches .htaccess support. Easy to lock down access to wp-admin by just dropping a .htaccess file in there restricting access to local ip range, instead of having to pollute the nginx config file with that sort of thing.
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
Only the bookmarks bar at the top of the browser.
For most sites I use keyboard shortcuts + the autocomplete in chrome. Aka to visit hackernews: Ctrl+L and then "news.y" and hit enter.
