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ezconnect··on How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
In the computer world, wait a few years and things get cheaper. That was broken by an exceptional event. Who would have thought you can't afford DDR4 in 2026?
ezconnect··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Ads is just a tiny part of Marketing.
ezconnect··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
They are basically rebranding the Folding@Home idea and adding modern words to market it.
ezconnect··on Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
They are probably trying but only succeeded after many failures and fix the food supply of a long sea journey, navigation and mapping of the sea.
ezconnect··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
The washing machine is the one that needs redesign to incorporate folding.
ezconnect··on Steam Machine launches today
You see only the address when it is already paid and to be shipped. Cancelling credit card transaction is very costly to the merchant.
ezconnect··on How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
There are some section of a train line where 4 stations are owned by someone else and they change names along the same rail route. They also change the driver or whatever he is called when changing the company name of the train.
ezconnect··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
I think we are in the era we have so many CPU choices.
ezconnect··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
The West just a few years ago declared that at airport entry points, no one is including their citizen is not protected by any law when it comes to providing access to your private stuff.
ezconnect··on DeepSeek Introduces Vision
What is Parakeet?
ezconnect··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
It was probably done on a foreign language on an archived forum. Claude is the improvement of the internet search box.
ezconnect··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
For the Capitalist crowd, YES it is the biggest cost. The next is energy. Imagine a world where your research and development is all AI and the production is all automated by robots. Instant product to sell to the masses who has no money because no one is working.
ezconnect··on A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
When you use page up and page down key when reading that blog the first line on the screen is obscured by the floating bar or what ever it is. It is not even needed for reading.
ezconnect··on Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)
I reloaded my torpedoes but it is taking so long and it just keeps on blinking.
ezconnect··on Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)
The submarine don't look like a submarine.
ezconnect··on HDD Firmware Hacking
I am surprised he didn't try to lower the clock of the MCU of HDD first if he just wanted to delay the reply.
ezconnect··on Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
I don't see a future with humanoid robots inside the house. We probably will have specialized robots for certain task like the roombas.
ezconnect··on PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology
This is how the consumer Glucose meter market works. The machine is free and it only accept their rebranded sticks.
ezconnect··on Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock
There are lot cases where it is proven that you don't have any legal protection on border crossings.
ezconnect··on I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
You can use AI now to design the STL files for printing.
ezconnect··on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
So basically we just need a 1pps from a GPS chip to make the analog clocks accurate and use that to drive the motor. We set it once and it will be accurate for a long time.
ezconnect··on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
The next crash will probably be a race for assets or hard assets for the people who can afford it. It means the stock market will reach all time high, gold all time high and land prices skyrocketing as people try to escape from the dollar currency. The US President will still be proud the economy is still good because the stock market is at all time high and the people are rich because their homes are at all time high valuation but the middle class can barely afford food because there are no available jobs that pays good enough.
ezconnect··on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
I only check the US stock markets to see the health of the US Dollar. Every time it reaches new high it means dollar devalues a tiny bit more than the last stock market peak.
ezconnect··on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
Because the world trades using US dollars. Country A needs to buy something from Country B. Country A needs to buy/get dollars to buy stuff from Country B. Country B will not accept anything but dollars or gold for its products because it also needs to buy other stuff like oil in dollars from other countries.
ezconnect··on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
My 3 year old learned how to use the remote and watched by himself. We just instructed him not to watch silly stuff and he learned which show teaches him something and discovered numberblocks and alphablocks by himself on youtubekids. My other son just can't comprehend how to use the remote and learned it when he's already 4.5 years old. The main method they use for discovery is the speech search.
ezconnect··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
The problem with current naming is it now using common names like coffee and it's hard to search for them or relate to them. At least the old Unix naming are kinda unique and sometimes means something. Unlike today.
ezconnect··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
The only feature they added is you can't open other Word files so you need a new version.
ezconnect··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Licensing is really complicated and requires lot of paper work. The best example is the music soundtracks of old TV series. They even get substituted if they don't get the proper license to stream them. So some old show get new soundtrack or background music and they don't feel the same.
ezconnect··on Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
Solar flares are the best excuse. We just have to wait it out.
ezconnect··on The history of Casio watches
I had the calculator watch when I was in highschool. We competed who has the toughest watch by throwing it on the blackboard. It survived. When I got older I realize how stupid it was and how expensive it was compared to the digital watch on that era.

*It was the C-80 and it was the 80s, it was rubberized all over like the G-Shock of today.

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