LeonM

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by LeonM 8y ago
Probably my favorite album for programming and other work that require concentration. I still haven't encountered anything like it. I wish there was more.
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by LeonM 8y ago
Well... in case of Brexit it is because people voted to leave the EU.
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by LeonM 8y ago
HL1 already has a modern remake, check out 'Black Mesa' on Steam. It's really good.
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by LeonM 8y ago
> Very dull content for anyone who has worked on anything related to mobile phone HW during the past 20 years Not just mobile phone development, any HW job or embedded engineering usually involves these proto/dev boards. It's j
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by LeonM 8y ago
> Qwest: Lets people pay money to skip lines at venues like clubs and bars. They’re currently at 10 venues in 2 cities, and say they should be at 100 venues in 6 cities this year. They aim to expand to events like music festivals and spo
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by LeonM 8y ago
I did, no worries.
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by LeonM 8y ago
I have a background in both embedded systems engineering and pentesting. I definitely know about the weak security (or complete lack thereof) of those devices. But it's hard for non-technical people to believe that, especially if the s
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by LeonM 8y ago
I applaud you. My sister had a baby last year, and she's been posting and sharing photos and videos non-stop. Recently she asked me if I knew if hackers could break into baby monitor because she was worried some hacker may spy on her s
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by LeonM 8y ago
Depends on what safety aspect you mean. If you are concerned about wireless charging causing harm to living creatures due to radiation: yes there has been countless studies on the effects of (EM) radiation. There are also strict regulations
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by LeonM 8y ago
'I started Microsoft as a weekend project and now it's making 1B/mo' 'I started Apple as a weekend project and now it's making 1B/mo' 'I started Google as a weekend project and now it's maki
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by LeonM 8y ago
> In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new world record of €275,000, including auction fees I am both amazed and disgusted.
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by LeonM 8y ago
I was just investigating this when I stumbled upon your post. It seems that the DNS server for the domain has issues. The maintainer of the site is (was?) Julian Mehnle, his personal website is also down. I've tried emailing him, but h
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by LeonM 8y ago
Well, it's a democracy, they let the people vote, and the people voted in favor of leaving the EU. It's the same for me as a non-American looking at the whole Trump situation. The people chose him as their president, yet I get the
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by LeonM 8y ago
This is known as bikeshedding. Something like turning off water is something anybody (also the campaign agency) can comprehend. Turning off water safes water, easy. Now think about trying to reduce exhaust pollution, you can't see it,
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by LeonM 8y ago
Before/after the 850k/650k hack there were numerous other hacks, the total number of stolen BTC is still not clear, new proof of other hacks is still being discovered. Apparently Karpeles also found a 'forgotten' wallet
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by LeonM 8y ago
My take on this is that they probably were insolvent for a long time already due to previous hacks/theft. The CEO just decided to lie about the supposedly 137M in funds 'safely' stored on his laptop. This is also what happene
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by LeonM 8y ago
I'd strongly recommend checking out Rich's youtube channel (0). It's a great mix of humor, geeky details and good tesla-rant every now and then. Rich is currently running a crowdfunding campaign to start his own shop, which I
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by LeonM 8y ago
I always thought that the 'W' in YC batch numbers stood for 'winter', or isn't it? Or is 'W19' in the title a typo and should it be 'W18'?
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by LeonM 8y ago
The early (first?) retina macbook pro's (sold from mid 2012 till 2013) have a design flaw on the motherboard, this causes external 4k displays to show noise, weird colors, lose sync or not turn on at all. Apple 'solved' this
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by LeonM 8y ago
I'm considering ordering the pinebook as a replacement for my rMBP too. For me, CPU power and RAM are not that important, I don't need MacOS (any unix system will do for me) and I don't play games (or at least none that would
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by LeonM 8y ago
Thanks to your comment, I discovered Ling's website, it is a work of art! I love it! [0] https://www.lingscars.com/ [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/li...
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by LeonM 8y ago
Sketchup [0] has a free version for personal use [0] https://www.sketchup.com/
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by LeonM 8y ago
My dad once told me that this was done when he was young (so I'd guess around late 60's / early 70's). He told me it wasn't received well by the public, as swimmers (especially young children and older people) can l
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by LeonM 8y ago
Oh boy, again the dolphin pufferfish article. This article has been submitted on HN 10 times [0] in the past 5 years. Linked from various websites. This seems one of those articles that does really well on algorithms. https://hn.
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by LeonM 8y ago
Be very aware that most popular CSS-in-JS libraries (such as JSS) will completely break CSP (Content Security Policy). The default reaction is usually "Just allow unsafe-inline in your CSP header", but this is dangerous advise as
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by LeonM 8y ago
I do have an nvidia card, but since MacOS 10.14 the nvidia driver manager reports that my driver (387.10.10.10.40.105) is not compatible with my OS, and it also reports that there are no newer drivers available when using the update functio
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by LeonM 8y ago
I tried opening the image, but it made my entire laptop unresponsive[1]. So let's hope the graphics manufacturers catch up with the pixel trent before those 8K monitors become mainstream. [1] On Chrome for MacOS. Granted my macbook is
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by LeonM 8y ago
This reminds me of the Vtech hacker story. Darknet diaries did an excellent podcast on it [0]. As someone having worked in pentesting, I have mixed feelings about this situation. Whitehat or not, the hacker knew that what he was doing was i
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by LeonM 8y ago
> You used a framework that specifically uses CSS in JS and tried to use it as a server-side rendered website. No, I DONT want server side rendering. That's the whole point. I want an application that renders client side, but with
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by LeonM 8y ago
> How much time have you invested? I usually invest about a month full-time, get more and more frustrated and eventually hire someone else to do it for me. Just about every year I think that 'by now they should have worked out most

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