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dafrankenstein2on Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs

My observation is so far, LLMs are not good at scientific computing.

dafrankenstein2on When Lightning Strikes Thrice: Breaking Thunderbolt 3 Security

Easy read on the Wired magazine: https://www.wired.com/story/thunderspy-thunderbolt-evil-maid...

dafrankenstein2on When Lightning Strikes Thrice: Breaking Thunderbolt 3 Security

This video shows the POC demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uvSZA1F9os

dafrankenstein2on TensorFlow can now run on £12 edge hardware

"the model takes up only 20KB of flash storage space, the footprint of the TensorFlow Lite code just 25KB, and the app itself only 30KB of RAM."

Those guys on google and outside google surely worked hard to achieve this level of benchmark!

dafrankenstein2on Intel Management Engine JTAG Proof of Concept

is there any specific reason for using python 2 instead of 3 or it is just how you guys do it

dafrankenstein2on Jobs at Google (1999)

"The only Chef job with stock options!"

wow who was that chef?

dafrankenstein2on Android Studio 3.2

well can anyone clarify what's the difference/relation between intel haxm and microsoft hyper-v

dafrankenstein2on AIM will shut down after 20 years

not that but used Yahoo! messanger in the past. it was cool in those days too.

dafrankenstein2on Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need to know

"The app/OS identifier is chosen so that it does not contain the string “Edge.” This is to avoid triggering any existing UA detection logic that might accidentally decide that these browsers are Microsoft Edge for Windows 10, resulting in a desktop site or something equally confusing."

So this is the reason behind "EdgiOS" and "EdgA"

dafrankenstein2on Show HN: An Interactive Explanation of the Trie Data Structure

thats cool

dafrankenstein2on Performance Improvements in .NET Core

but i have found driver development docs appealing. also its good if u allow to download offline version of the docs.

dafrankenstein2on The Judy Malware: Possibly the largest malware campaign found on Google Play

agree

dafrankenstein2on Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

c# for unity, asp and xamarian. wow.

dafrankenstein2on How many To-do apps do we need?

OneNote, Google Keep, Evernote, Wunderlist...the list goes on

dafrankenstein2on Kotlin is the hero Android needs

    Lambdas
    Data classes
    Function literals & inline functions
    Extension functions
    Null safety
    Smart casts
    String templates
    Properties
    Primary constructors
    Class delegation
    Type inference
    Singletons
    Declaration-site variance
    Range expressions

dafrankenstein2on WannaCry in-memory key recovery for Windows XP

.NET

dafrankenstein2on Kotlin is the hero Android needs

correct

dafrankenstein2on WannaCry – The largest ransom-ware infection in history

does this affect the google drive sync folder on windows machines?

dafrankenstein2on A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017

my first experience was with python tools for visual studio 2012. i still use vs2012. its a charm.

dafrankenstein2on The 10x developer is not a myth (2013)

thoughtful explaination

dafrankenstein2on Show HN: Shortern URIs using Huffman Coding, not a database

an analysis can be done on that

dafrankenstein2on Show HN: Shortern URIs using Huffman Coding, not a database

nice entertainment

dafrankenstein2on India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste

then finally its happening? once we heard that India has more phone users than toilet users.

dafrankenstein2on Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

https://chorki.com/ This is a search engine for Bangla language serving more than 1milion informations, a startup from Bangladesh.

dafrankenstein2on First Map-Based Car Navigation System Debuted 14 Years Before GPS

cool

dafrankenstein2on The way people tilt their smartphone 'can give away passwords and pins'

this may work for ATM because you are not using it several times a day, even in a week. but scrambling will make bad UX in smartphones.

dafrankenstein2on Google is acquiring Kaggle

I can ping bing.com, but does that mean bing is not hosted on Azure? [Though it redirects to pinging something like a-0001.a-msedge.net]

dafrankenstein2on The Story of Firefox OS

A heavy fork of Android by Mozilla might be a better solution..