StringyBob

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1. 91.▲
   by StringyBob 7y ago

   Google have no choice but to comply with US law. This is now going to make a load of existing US owned (Huawei manufactured) devices less secure unless an exemption is agreed for things like software security updates. Not only that, the ban
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   by StringyBob 7y ago

   I’ve found this page https://www.adfontesmedia.com/ an interesting starting point to judge relative bias and accuracy of publications - although I’m sure even that site will be accused of bias.
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   by StringyBob 8y ago

   It’s actually working well to curb my reddit addiction by making it harder to idly browse on the phone.
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   by StringyBob 8y ago

   And the latest generation of high end mobile phone system-on-chip is up in the 6-7 billion transistor range, so we can double that size again from 20 to 40 acres for whatever apple are in the middle of announcing for a new phone right about
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   by StringyBob 8y ago

   I'd assumed much better bandwidth is available for the a certain class of satellite (gbits a second via laser to downlink) [1], but for cost effective surveillance high altitude drones [2] would be the tool of choice to monitor cities,
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   by StringyBob 8y ago

   and sadly the UK government is doing it again via brexit - not just via the loss of input to galileo, but killing UK based space companies and research. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/23/uk_lords_tell_u
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   by StringyBob 8y ago

   'just' in title means Nov 2017.
8. 98.▲
   by StringyBob 8y ago

   Heading the opposite direction - at least for the bleeding edge 7nm/5nm/3nm ASICs you want in your next computer or smartphone. Manufacturing costs (particularly fixed costs) are going up exponentially. We're getting stuck on
9. 99.▲
   by StringyBob 8y ago

   It's based on the Konami code [0] a version of which made it into a mouldy peaches song [1] [0] - http://contra.wikia.com/wiki/Konami_Code [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceV62E-c86g&t=92
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    by StringyBob 8y ago

    I've seen the 'USB ports get taped up for a visiting engineers computer' thing before - so I wonder what they do with a MacBookPro nowadays (there is no separate display or power connector!)
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    by StringyBob 8y ago

    Used to be the case that if a mac or Linux user connected, the call quality degraded for everyone on the call. Don't know if improved... http://blog.schertz.name/2016/06/skype-for-business-vbss-upd...
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    by StringyBob 8y ago

    Yes SfB's biggest problem is that it has skype in the name so people try to use it as an instant messenger. It's ok for audio/video, but an abomination for instant messages - almost spitefully bad for text based communication
13. 103.▲
    by StringyBob 8y ago

    I assume lots of chefs (in high end restaurants) use MSG, but rightly think it could scare off some of their clientele.
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    So, could this kind of thing have caused the MH370 disappearance? It's a stretch, but perhaps similar cockpit confusion caused by oxygen deprivation or ToCP poisoning (from a gas leak) could have been a reason to change direction (befo
15. 105.▲
    by StringyBob 9y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    > The team now are forecasting a window centred around 23:25 UTC on 1 April (01:25 CEST 2 April), and running from the afternoon of 1 April to the early morning on 2 April. This remains highly variable. Potential ground tracks here: htt
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    Tiangong-1 Reentry (now likely for April 1st)(blogs.esa.int)

    4 points by StringyBob 9y ago|1 comments
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    I like that analogy. I'll make it more tenuous with - "I took a copy of your album collection without your permission, ripped them to MP3, played them so much everyone is sick of them. but you've still got all the original CD
19. 109.▲
    by StringyBob 9y ago

    There's always https://www.tomscott.com/infinite-adam-curtis/ too
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    Well I think the heatmap is the best thing from strava. I wish it was embedded/viewable in the strava ios app to to browse running routes - particularly when I'm in a new place. I've also discovered a load of footpaths near m
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    And it would seem it is integrated into an online viewer/editor at https://strava.github.io/iD/#background=MAPNIK&map=2.00/0.0/...
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    Found it! https://strava.github.io/iD/#background=MAPNIK&map=2.00/0.0/... zoom in a lot to enable the strava heatmap, and you can edit openstreetmap if you know what you are doing.
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    I wonder if the raw data can show any paths/areas missing from openstreetmap - would be interesting to align the datasets
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    Is it possible that this benchmark has coincided with a battery that's just crossing the threshold of battery-throttling induced slowdown? The low scores in the article are in a similar ballpark to my (slow) iphone 6 on ios 10.3.3 with
25. 115.▲
    by StringyBob 9y ago

    Just that I could be looking at a > 75% performance reduction on the same phone compared to when it was new due to the combo of battery degradation, security fixes and ios9 to ios11 general slow down. I think that if they've disable
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    Wow. After ios 10.2.1 halved performance on my iphone 6 due to the battery issues, I next avoided 11.0 as I accepted responsiveness would be slower on the older iphone6 model. Now if we want these security fixes that's another -40%...
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    That's kinda why I used the phrase 'my perception' - I don't want to make statements of fact about something this vague and political (I'm not in the US before anyone gets upset about my biases, and as for the stoog
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    I've no idea of the truth of the original allegations, or his claims that he was set up, but since then it's quite impressive how he's managed to change my perception of him and wikileaks from 'champions of freedom-of-in
29. 119.▲
    by StringyBob 9y ago

    And for further context, the arm cortex A9 is what was in an apple A5...
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    by StringyBob 9y ago

    I still use a 6, and have a replacement OEM battery on the shelf in front of me. I'll get apple to do it instead, just as long as they don't upgrade my phone to ios 11 at the same time... I don't want a slower OS just to gain