Osmium

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by Osmium 13y ago
Agreed: that's why I said it would be especially worrying if this "secure enclave" Apple talks about is cracked and if it's then possible to reconstruct fingerprints from the data inside. But unless that happens, the iPh
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by Osmium 13y ago
> My front door does not have a picture of my key on it. Yeah, but as every decent locksmith will attest, very-nearly-almost-all door locks can be easily opened with the right tools. Like picking a lock is a specialist skill, so is lifti
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by Osmium 13y ago
That's hyperbolic. How often can someone see your passcode over your shoulder? Or have it picked up by a security camera? Fingerprint scanning absolutely has advantages over pass codes. Security is all about trade-offs. This result was
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by Osmium 13y ago
> and we have done more work on latency on some devices than on others. Or, conversely, they had to work harder on their Android app to bring latency down to that of the iOS app. Just not enough information given to know.
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by Osmium 13y ago
At a guess, I imagine it's really difficult to rip off a chip design just by looking at raw circuit designs (unless you're copying the entire chip). Wouldn't it take a great amount of expertise to look at some plans for a chi
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by Osmium 13y ago
Since you've got some experience with it, do you have any idea how hard/easy it'd be to get an iBeacon working from a Raspberry Pi equipped with a Bluetooth dongle?
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by Osmium 13y ago
Or, you know, you could do both. If it's politically achievable to safeguard people's private data from private companies, then why not do that? This is the old "why bother with solving x when people are starving in y ?&qu
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by Osmium 13y ago
Right; that was kind of my point. Only very serious hobbyists (i.e. people who do it in their free time, who have regular jobs on the side) could possibly do it for that sort of budget...
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by Osmium 13y ago
Just playing Devil's advocate... (because I happen to agree with you that batteries should be user-replaceable, especially with phone battery life as bad as it is) > I've just replaced the battery on my Lumia 820 after 9 months
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by Osmium 13y ago
You can go a long way when you don't consider your own time an expense!
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by Osmium 13y ago
> Lets take desktops, file and folders fucking suck but everyone wants to reimplement it, when the real advantage of computers is search. But files and folders have their place: they're for collecting groups of disparate items which
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by Osmium 13y ago
Devil's advocate: there's nothing wrong with some ambition, and all the backers knew what they were buying into. That said, your broomstick idea is actually really interesting: imagine an Oculus Rift + Kinect combo. You don't
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by Osmium 13y ago
> the motion co-processor Agree with your general points but the Moto X also has a pair of interesting co-processors: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/the-iphone-5s-the-mot... Personally, I don'
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by Osmium 13y ago
On a recent flight, I noticed they were asking $10/hr on my laptop but $6/hr on my phone, but they allow you to switch devices (as long as you only use one at a time) so I just bought it on the phone and used it on the laptop (you
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by Osmium 13y ago
I always think of "golden ages" as arising naturally from a random distribution of "big breakthroughs" and similar. It's not unlikely that you'd get some clumps of many breakthroughs followed by time with very
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by Osmium 13y ago
Agreed that it's a net loss in legibility, but it does improve spatial reasoning. In a single window environment like iOS, there's a definite hierarchy: the home screen lies below apps which in turn lie below the control panel&#x2
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by Osmium 13y ago
Unless you picked 2x to start with, in which case the other envelope does contain half of what you chose... i.e. there are two envelopes, x and 2x, and you choose one. There is a 50% chance that the envelope you didn't choose is half t
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by Osmium 13y ago
In practice, it might have the opposite effect. Currently, 4-digit PINs are (presumably) brute-forceable and the alternative of entering a longer, cryptographically-secure password every time you want to use your phone is impractical, so it
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by Osmium 13y ago
Yeah; I very much admire Steve's drive and vision, but he was still responsible for brushed metal, corinthian leather, and all the rest. Not to mention (arguable) design missteps like that awful aspect ratio iPod Nano. So let's
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by Osmium 13y ago
Not only that, but the press seems to have a very myopic view on "innovation." It doesn't happen overnight. It was 6 years between the iPod and the iPhone, another 3 before the iPad, and they're still arguably refining b
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by Osmium 13y ago
If people keep making them, clearly existing solutions aren't quite getting it right, otherwise no one would bother. > and a .io domain And that's just Github's domain... Furthermore, Google is currently treating .io as a
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by Osmium 13y ago
I have no knowledge about OS X and TPMs specifically, but I do know some people have concerns about what OS X stores in the SMC: http://www.nosuchcon.org/talks/D1_02_Alex_Ninjas_and_Harry_P... I'm not remotely qua
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by Osmium 13y ago
At a guess, I'd go with: "O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!" - Miranda (Act V, Scene I, The Tempest) But th
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by Osmium 13y ago
No; that will make the sound the same through both earphones which isn't what the parent poster had in mind. iOS does solve the problem natively though (I believe): it has a left-right balance slider, so you can just push it all to one
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by Osmium 13y ago
A less than optimal exercise routine is entirely possible. Do you have any tips? Bad technique or not enough variety is certainly a concern, especially when working out on your own. The trouble is, when I try to find alternatives, they usua
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by Osmium 13y ago
> working to exhaustion in the gym I don't disagree, but when I've tried this I just find myself doubly exhausted: once (mentally) from the work, and again (physically) from the gym. Still agree that making time for the gym is
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by Osmium 13y ago
Would love to try out the beta! Thanks :) Email sent.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Love the idea, but it does precisely nothing for me at the moment. I have significant hearing loss in one ear. The app doesn't seem to distinguish between ears(?) So when I try to calibrate it, I can hear practically the lowest noises
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by Osmium 13y ago
Anecdotally (from personal experience) it's absolutely no problem at all, at least if it's tech/engineering-related. That said, picking up some German isn't too hard* and is probably recommended :) *I say this as someone
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by Osmium 13y ago
We are no where near the stage where we can judge if Hyperloop is a good or a bad idea yet. At the moment, it is just that: an idea. It needs to be refined, torn apart, put back together, and examined thoroughly and I look forward to that h

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