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xamlhacker··on Make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions
This talks about performance. What about security? Many newer routers come with WPA3. Does it offer substantial benefits over WPA2?
xamlhacker··on Purelymail: Cheap email with custom domains, 2FA
No affiliation with the service. Just a happy user. Great UI. 2FA implementation with TOTP, app passwords and backup codes. Custom domains support SPF and DKIM. Very cheap pricing at $10/year for "all-you-can-eat" with some soft limits. Looks like a one-person project but developer has been active with regular updates on the both the service status and issue tracker.
xamlhacker··on Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
For the SSL part , I have been looking at Caddy as it seems to have pretty simple reverse proxy over SSL setup.
xamlhacker··on Release Keras 2.3.0 · Keras-team/Keras
Keras still has CNTK and Theano backends in addition to Tensorflow. Given that both frameworks are not being developed anymore, is there any point in maintaining those backends in the future?
xamlhacker··on Expressing Business Flows Using an F# DSL
F# language has a concept called "computation expressions" which are related to monads. They are also sometimes called workflows. But the article is using "workflow" in the more common language way which was confusing to me at first.
xamlhacker··on Goodbye Big Five: Google
For maps, I use HERE maps on Android and it works great. Offline capability is particularly good. I am not sure if it is available on iOS.
xamlhacker··on The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores
How is this better? I need to give out my address and my credit card information.
xamlhacker··on Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden
So is the Monty Python reference.
xamlhacker··on Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break the Trust Tech Depends On
I use Runbox. Interface is not as slick but service is excellent.
xamlhacker··on Introduction to OCaml
I loved OCaml as well but the lack of libraries pushed me to another ML variant: F# on .net platform. With .net core and F# tooling around it gradually maturing, it is a solid cross-platform functional language.
xamlhacker··on [dead]
Unclear if uploaded legally.
xamlhacker··on TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds
Well I run a TP-link repeater and now thinking of getting something better. Someone know any routers or repeaters with reputation for good firmware?
xamlhacker··on Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows
DirectX, Cuda and OpenCL are not supported. Only OpenGL 3.3 supported. Makes this very limited for now.
xamlhacker··on A hardware-accelerated machine intelligence library for the web
"Currently our demos do not support Mobile, Firefox, and Safari. Please view them on desktop Chrome for now." That's a bummer.
xamlhacker··on Overlay.NET: An easy-to-use overlay library written in C#
On a reddit thread, author had stated preference for MIT but I don't think he has added the license file yet which is unfortunate.
xamlhacker··on Stateless 3.0 – A State Machine Library for .NET Core
While the title of the blog post says "for .net core", it is much more than that. The blog post clarifies it is actually targeting the new .net standard so it works on all platforms including .net core (Windows, Mac, Linux), .net framework on Windows, Windows UWP and Xamarin (iOS, Android).
xamlhacker··on Some thoughts on asynchronous Python API design in a post-async/await world
Try await/async in F#.
xamlhacker··on Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Preview 1
Wait a few months. Then target your library development at .net standard 2.0. It will work across the classic .net framework (Windows), the new cross-platform .net core (Windows, Linux, OSX) as well as the Xamarin (iOS, Android, Windows UWP).
xamlhacker··on Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
Ocaml, F# for programming languages and ZeroMQ in terms of libraries. And recently HTC Vive in terms of hardware.
xamlhacker··on AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B
Time Warner Cable is not involved. AT&T is buying Time Warner (the content company) and not TWC.
xamlhacker··on Final – A credit card built for the 21st century
Virtual card numbers are not a new thing. For example, some Citibank cards allow you to create separate virtual numbers for different merchants. However, it looks like Final makes the process much easier.
xamlhacker··on Win32 and .NET desktop apps can now be published in the Windows Store
Tiles and notifications might be the most obvious ones.
xamlhacker··on Details Emerge on China's 64-Core ARM Chip
Atheros was acquired by Qualcomm, not Mediatek.
xamlhacker··on Compile OCaml to JavaScript, use ReactJS, bindings to ReactJS, several examples
In the same vein, there are also some F# to JS compiler projects such as Funscript (http://funscript.info/) and Fable (https://github.com/fsprojects/Fable). F# is an open-source Ocaml inspired language for .net.
xamlhacker··on Microsoft reports $22.6B in Q4 revenue
Cortana isn't a Windows help client, rather it is an intelligent assistant and search engine. To give you a very common example, you can ask Cortana about today's weather. So not sure how that is related to "things aren't quite obvious".
xamlhacker··on ClojureCL – Parallel computations with OpenCL 2.0 in Clojure
They recently updated their drivers and now support OpenCL 1.2 on recent GPUs.
xamlhacker··on Microsoft Cloud Growth Drives Strong Fourth-Quarter Results
Lumia device sales for the period of April 26 to June 30 was 5.8m. Doing a simple extrapolation to full 3 months gives an estimate of 8m Lumia smartphones in the quarter.
xamlhacker··on The Modern C++ Library for a Modern Windows
This is just an announcement. The actual library is not available yet.
xamlhacker··on AMD HSA kernel driver
HSA's requirements are far broader than those provided in Metal. A7's shared memory implementation appears to be far too basic to be able to implement HSA-type API. For example, on-demand paging, user-mode queueing and ability for GPU to do CPU callbacks. Many systems can have shared memory but are not HSA compliant.
xamlhacker··on Beginner's guide to OCaml beginner's guides
OCaml is a very nice language, and the compiler is pretty good but the only issue is that the implementation doesn't allow you to use more than one CPU core because of some issue with the GC design. F#, which is heavily OCaml inspired, has good parallel support.
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